Sharpe’s Bizarre Blade Bazaar Item #172: “Slayer, the Black Blade of the Filicide”
Price: 15,361 sols

Legend has it that Atri Cellon, the legendary Bloody Baron, first invoked the dark powers when he was confronted with a powerful foe that he could not defeat in the person of the Graf von Dohm and his army. The nightmare court answered, but in a missive writ in blood upon anthropodermic bibliopegy, the Grim Jester stated its price–the Baron’s son. No details survive, but given the slaughter of the von Dohm army that followed, and the lightless blade that chroniclers put in Cellon’s hand, it seems clear that he accepted. He carved a great and terrible fief with that weapon, and whenever its powers began to wane, another note accompanied it with the name of another victim who was dear to Cellon’s heart. It’s said that he drove his family tree to extinction and laid low all his principal friends and confidants before a final note arrived, blank–there was no one left he cared for, and thus no one left to power the blade. His fall was not long after. And now, the very blade he carried can hang on your wall!

Flyssa’s Note:
Uh, I’m pretty sure you have to, like, murder your children for this to work? We didn’t murder any children to test it, so uh, caveat emptor.

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