The sword of a warlord
Smith’s Sword: This sword was forged to be the prize of the sword-fighting competition held during the Picori festival, which was ultimately interrupted by Vaati’s evil schemes. Link is given the sword by his grandfather, the greatest Hylian smith, and tasked to take it to the King. We covered the Smith’s sword as a functional item at the start of this set. This represents the smith’s sword as a quest item.
After the empire abandoned the Isles, warlords began to carve the land into small feuding fiefdoms. A particularly well-provisioned warlord, known for carrying the sword of an imperial governor, established a small but bountiful fief during the chaotic post-imperial years. It was from that strong core that the young warlord would steadily expand their sphere of influence until they controlled enough of the Isles to be considered its first true king.
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King Arthur was almost assuredly not a real person in the way we think of him. While the Arthur we all imagine is probably a myth, there may have been a charismatic and influential leader in Britain in the post-Roman period who was known for his amazing sword and the forging of a fledgling British kingdom.
Maybe that leader used an awe-inspiring Roman Spatha that was cast using a stone mold and polished to a mirror sheen. It might take the magic out of the story a little bit, but I personally love seeing the mundane, plausible side of mythic tales. It makes the mythic tales all that much more grand.
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