Sharpe’s Bizarre Blade Bazaar Item #288: “Killcount Katal”
Price: 150 sols

A boastful noble, the Yohoz of Sibit, continually claimed that he had killed dozens of men in single combat despite his family and courtiers seeing no evidence of such battles. In collaboration with his court mage, they decided to humble him by presenting a katal punch-dagger with a kill counter on it; for every person he killed, it would increment by one, topping out at 999 kills, at which time it would reset to 000. What better measure could there be of a warrior’s prowess? Buy today!

Billao’s Note:
One version of the legend says that the Yohoz, ashamed, killed himself the next night. Another version says that the Yohoz, enraged, murdered his family and every last one of his palace staff. With the thing stuck at 001, I guess we’ll never know. Than again, they probably did need to test it…

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