Does the spell Shatter destroy a weapon or Sunder (i.e., break) a weapon?

[Lurzmog]

Looking for clarification on the spell Shatter . The language as written indicates it "sunders a single solid, nonmagical object." Is "sunder" here just being used as a synonym for "destroys" or does it mean the object is sundered as per the Sunder combat maneuver? I've searched the message boards and found answers that say both.

[Emmanuel Nouvellon-Pugh]

the first one

[blahpers]

It's plain-English sunder. There wouldn't be any consistent way to adjudicate an actual sunder maneuver using the text as written.

[Lurzmog]

blahpers wrote:

It's plain-English sunder. There wouldn't be any consistent way to adjudicate an actual sunder maneuver using the text as written.

Thanks. After thinking about it, I realized there's no damage specified for a CM-style sunder. Poor word choice, IMHO, but maybe it's just me.

Follow up question: can a weapon that's been destroyed by shatter be repaired with Mending? The text does differentiate between "destroys" crystal, glass, ceramic or porcelain and "sunders" a single non-magical item. The definition of sunder is "divide, split, cleave, separate," which leads me to believe it would just break it in two. Am I being overly pedantic?

[SlimGauge]

Lurzmog wrote:

Follow up question: can a weapon that's been destroyed by shatter be repaired with Mending?

Sure, why not ? All the pieces are present.

[KestrelZ]

Mending can be used, so long as it is light enough (1 pound per level), fragile enough (will 1d4 points be enough to bring it to half the original points?), all pieces are present, and is not magical.

Make whole spell tends to be a lot more able in such an event.