Staff of Texcoco

The Staff of Texcoco is a powerful cursed voodoo staff with mysterious and evil properties that has been encountered multiple times by the Spanish.

About
The Staff of Texcoco was created in 1521, in the city of Tenochtitlan, during Spain's conquest of Mexico, by a powerful Aztec shaman, and is named for the lake the city was built on. As his people died around them, the shaman cursed the staff with the souls of the dead and the dying, vowing that the staff would be used as an instrument against the evil imperialists who were causing the deaths of so many Aztecs. However, the shaman was not blameless himself. Years of aiding in the performance of human sacrifice had tainted his supernatural abilities, and, rather than being the instrument of justice that its creator had envisioned, the staff was evil and corrupted. Its user would become possessed by the eternally tortured and enraged souls bound to it, causing them to lash out, specifically against Spaniards. The staff was used by the few remaining Aztec resistors in their fight against Spain, but ultimately, they were defeated, and the artifact was lost to history.

In 1750, the Staff of Texcoco was rediscovered by Pirate Captain Leonhard Bosch, and possessed him, causing him to spiral downward into a temporary state of insanity. Driven by the anti-Spanish rage the staff instilled within him, he attacked a vessel of the Spanish Expeditionary Armada, but was eventually chased down and apprehended by the Spanish on Raven's Cove, after providing them a significant deal of trouble. The staff was briefly taken up by King Ferdinand Clemente VI, who was overcome by its evil power for a brief few moments, before his strong connection to the Lord allowed him to overcome it, and he cast it down. Duke Guillermo Ortez, a holy man who held a dagger blessed by the pope that made him immune to the staff, took up the accursed weapon up and later buried it on the beach of Cutthroat Isle, praying that none would ever find it and use its power for evil again.