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[D&D] If a mace (the weapon) were to brought to life and then be destroyed would it have an after life?

A drunk half Orc was telling me of his adventure into a volcano and said one of his party's mace was alive at one time then tossed into lava. I asked him him he he thought it went to a better place. All he said was 'Thok not know'
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Depends on how it was "brought to life". If it was simply the Bestow Sentience spell, then no, as that spell basically is only good for golem level intelligence, and shouldn't have any personality beyond servitude, which means making another mace with basic intelligence would be a trifle for any level 9 sorceror.


From there it gets... iffy (read: Depends on DM/story). If a soul was bound to the thing, by some sort of binding, I'd assume it would either finally escape into the mortal realm if it was bound there due to being very powerful, or be free to die properly if they were being forced to serve. In the case of the latter, you could probably find it in the underworld, just probably not very happy to see you and be a mace again. Or maybe the spirit has to fly off to join to the first host it sees. Or it may rejoin the powers of whoever summoned it. Spirits are usually somewhat immune to the physical side of this world, so presumably the lava would do little to that part of it.


All that aside, to properly answer the question. No, the mace wouldn't have an afterlife, unless there was some hitherto unknown species of sentient weaponry hanging around, but it's very likely the spirit that (presumably) lived IN the mace has had something happen to it since then.