Hey everyone! This is the history of the sword that is currently the main topic (sort of) in the thread "The Barracks" in the RPG forum. I hope you like the history behind it! I might revise it and add more details one of these days, but this will do for now, I believe.

~ Lupin Drake: Head Diplomat



Many years ago in the northeastern lands of the world, there was a warlord who was bent on becoming one of the most powerful lords ever written in history. Prideful, he taxed his country and all that he conquered to great extents in all forms – land, money, food, slave labor, and soldiers – in order to do so. Obviously, he was a very cruel king.

He was also a prideful king, and with that, came vanity.

So, to satisfy his faults, he had a sword to be made for him – it was to be like no other sword that was ever made. And he then captured and forced the best sword smiths around to work at their forges until they made one that pleased him. For every sword that displeased him, he took it and somehow wounded the sword smith with it. Of course, he made sure that the wounds were not disabling – he needed them to make weapons and armor after all. Finally, there was only one old sword smith left…

And the sword he presented to the warlord was truly magnificent… The blade was made of strong pure iron, and then coated in silver, and he furnished the hilt and guard out of iron as well, but not before coating that with gold, and placing the warlord's emblem in black onyx on it as well. The scabbard was made out of his finest leather as well.

But even with this sword, the warlord was not pleased.

And tired of being displeased, he mad the sword smith make him a new one, and then killed him just as he was about to place the sword into water to cool it for the last time. Blood thirsty by this time as well, the warlord had his soldiers drain the sword smith and cool the sword in his own blood.

For a long time, the new sword – made completely of silver and iron alloy with a snowy wolf engraved on the hilt – served him well. Whenever in battle, he did not seem to be able to be hurt in any way, and it always killed his enemies successfully. But his victories soon became fewer and fewer, and his losses greater with each one.

Suddenly, some of his knights found him in his room, dead. With the wounds all across his body and the way he was laying, it was obvious that he had fought someone and had bleed to death if not killed on the spot.

Due to this, the war stopped and all conquered lands went back to their rightful rulers before they were conquered.

However, some decades after the warlord's death, a rumor about his sword rose up. Some recalled that there was a search for it, but it had disappeared.

As time went on, stories of various people buying a new sword much like the sword that the warlord was said to have had and becoming insane with sudden blood lust rose as well. All of the stories were the same: people died by the person with the sword, and they either were killed so they could not kill any one else, or they went insane and committed suicide by their own sword.

But if the sword that caused all of this was the same sword, no one was sure. And if it was – then more questions about it arose. What could have possibly possessed the sword to continue killing? If the sword smith's spirit was lingering in this world via the sword, why would he continue the killing – the warlord was dead. What other purpose did he have to not pass on? What would the murder of innocents accomplish for him?

No one really wanted to find out.