Shovel

A shovel was a digging tool that had a curved blade on its end. "With a shovel I can dig a grave; Give me a lantern too, and I'll dig a home."

- An old dwarf expression.

Description
Shovels had long wooden handles and solid metal heads. These digging and shovelling tools were used by workers and miners across Faerun, Kara-Tur, and Zakhara. Instead of just being used as a tool, a shovel could be used as a weapon.

Shovels could be found on a robe of useful items.

A miniature version of such a tool was a required material component in casting the dig spell.

The symbol of Fireshear was that of a crossed pickaxe, blade, and a shovel.

In Zakhara, the Pick and Shovel Corps was a group of ex-slaves that won their freedom. The "shovels" indicated the dwarf members of the corps.

Powers
There were several magical shovels known around the multiverse.

A mysterious shovel was kept in a chamber of the Hordelands. When touched, the shovel would disappear, having teleported to another chamber and leaving a fireball in its place.

Notable Producers of Shovels
"A farmer's main weapon in battling the land, shovels come in as many varieties as do swords."

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 * Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue sold generic shovels, and specific types. Basic coal shovels cost 2 gp, gardening and snow shovels cost 3 gp, whilst postholers cost 4 gp each.