Grandad's Old Sword | A 5e Magic Sword from an Old Adventurer

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When I told my grandfather I intended to leave to find my fortune on the road, I expected him to be angry. Instead, he just sat there for a long moment. His wrinkled face stared at me with an intensity that I had never seen from him before.

"It is dangerous to go alone," he said. His voice rasping with pipe smoke and a kind of sad resignation.

He stood and walked to the locked closet. The one I had never been allowed into. Fishing a key from a thong around his neck, he opened the door and took something from inside.

Turning to me, he held it out. A long, thin bundle wrapped in canvas. Taking the bundle, I sat on the floor and carefully untied the canvas knots. Inside was a short sword made of dull grey steel.

"Every adventurer needs a sword," said my grandfather. "Something to start off with. Something the protect 'em against the dangers of the road. Take this."

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Basket Hilt | Protect your Hands with this 5e Magic Sword!

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The day my father died, my mother hired his killer to teach us to use a sword. He was an odd man with short legs and long arms that, to a child's eyes, seemed to extend well past his knees as he paced back and forth in front of a line of children.

Most instructors would begin a pupil with a wooden stick or, perhaps, a small, dulled sword. Not my instructor. He taught us with real swords. They were heavy in my small hands and I was clumsy with the weight. My instructor said that if I ever intended to avenge my father, I would need to be strong and that wielding a too-heavy blade would bring about that day much faster.

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Ironbane | A 5e Magic Sword That Destroys Armor

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On Tuesday, the hunters dragged the corpse of a large red insect through the town and into the yard of the forge. They were a strange group, clad in odd leather armor with solid gold rivets and armed with the glass-like blades that were sometimes seen on the belts of mercenaries from the north guarding Hatzi Merchant trains.

"Keep that thing well away from the iron stocks!" shouted the smith.

Quickly, he removed the iron studs from his lip and ears and detached the gleaming metal arm he had installed himself just below his left shoulder.

Awkwardly, as though it had been a long time since he operated with only two hands, he donned a thick cloth robe and gloves and approached the corpse. Reaching it, he grasped one of the feather-like antennae in his hands and heaved. With a crunch like a lobster under a cartwheel and the smell of a dark forge, the antenna came away in the smith's hands.

"Oh yes," said the smith with a smile. "This will do nicely."

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