Posted by Meg

Tait Stevens has been hard at work on something really special: this beautiful warded axe that will be available for bidding via this year’s auctions on Worldbuilders. The auction is live now and will end on February 2, 2014.

For those of you not familiar with Worldbuilders, it is a charity founded by fantasy author Patrick Rothfuss that supports Heifer International. You can read more about Worldbuilders and what they do here.

Also be sure to check the other amazing auctions happening right now. There are lots of signed books and manuscript consultations with loved fantasy authors and awesome editors. At the end of 2013, we ran auction for the final seat in the Author D&D game, which took place this past January at Legendary ConFusion.

This axe is gorgeous, and the perfect weapon to have at your ready when night falls and the demons rise.

The first ward (pictured above) is a impact ward, designed to give corelings a hefty shove back to the Core. On the alternate side (not pictured), you will find a cutting ward, perfect for slicing through demon armor.

The axe is in the style of a brush hatchet, but scaled up to just over 30″ in length and weighs several pounds.

Be sure to check out Tait’s other creative metalwork on his blog.