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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 7536601" data-attributes="member: 12388">The Broken Blade (continued)The Broken Blade takes out a noble family.1. Stories of the Broken Blade describe the sword flying to pieces unpredictably, then disappearing. If you get hit with a piece of the sword before it translocates to somewhere else in Cormyr, you get the privilege of coming along for the ride.2. Or a part of you rides along, which was a painful experience according to the writings of a Halaunt family servant who, circa 1250 DR, lost a chunk of flesh to the Broken Blade when it flew apart unexpectedly after crossing the threshold of Oldspires—the ancestral home of the Halaunt noble family in Cormyr—peppering the assembled staff, furniture and decorations in the Great Entry Hall with pieces of sword. (If you own the hard copy edition of Ed Greenwood’s novel Spellstorm, you can find a map of Oldspires in the front of the book along with a map key detailing all 69 ground floor rooms—the Great Entry Hall is #2 on the key.)3. Pieces of the blade don’t automatically teleport when they hit something; sometimes they fly right through objects and people like shrapnel, then teleport. The leader of the Bold Reavers learned this fact the hard way. The other Reavers knew the danger of the Broken Blade, but as one they regarded its dismantling as deliberate, and they took their revenge on the surviving Halaunt lords for the crime of causing the blade to slay their leader. 4. The Halaunt line might have ended then and there, but a Halaunt son and daughter were hit by pieces of the blade and whisked away. These wounded scions arrived separately, each in the middle of nowhere. 5. The daughter had a difficult journey. Finding her way back home hardened her into a capable survivor. She claimed the House of Halaunt as her own. In time she took a husband from among the crofters that worked the family lands. She resisted the inevitable suitors from other noble houses, for each sought to fold the Halaunt lands and riches into their own in lieu of seeing the House of Halaunt thrive. 6. Her brother—older than she—arrive in the Dragon Sea within sight of Marsember. He swam for the docks, then found passage on a boat to Westgate, and a life beyond Cormyr. The tip of the Blade had left a wicked scar on his body, and he kept this piece of the sword. His was the life of an explorer, his time as a crewman sailing the Sea of Fallen Stars filled with long stretches of boredom interrupted by harrowing attacks from pirates, sea monsters and treachery aboard ship. 7. He returned to Cormyr only once, the ship he’d served on now under his capable command. The Captain had heard the story of the butchering of house Halaunt, and rejoiced at word of his sister’s return and her efforts to renew the House. He took a berth in Suzail and made for the temple of Mystra, where he turned over his piece of the Broken Blade along with a sizeable donation, saying only that the blade tip was property of the Halaunt family, and that an altar sworn priest must deliver it to Oldspires. 8. The Captain’s sister grew old as her sons grew up. Now “Lady Oldspires” quietly ruled a revitalized House, trusting more in the decisions of her children as the years went by, her beloved husband having passed away.9. A tired and wounded priestess of Mystra collapsed at the Front Entrance (#1 on the Spellstorm map key) to Oldspires, a handful of corpses left in her wake from the two attempts on her life made during her journey. She was taken in and looked after until her health returned. She refused to speak of her purpose until she could stand again on her own.10. Lady Oldspires met with the priestess in the Receiving Room (#3 on map key). The Lady was not surprised to see the piece of the sword that was given over to her that day. For years pieces of the Blade had found their way back to Oldspires. Now, for the second time in the life of the Lady, all the pieces were under one roof.Below is a map showing the location of Oldspires in Cormyr. Each hex is 6 miles. [ATTACH]103693[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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