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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4085055" data-attributes="member: 19675">Some other options:1) Perhaps the history given to the players now is not the true history, but is merely being told to the PCs in order to motivate them...In reality, it is a Weapon of Legacy (or your personal variation thereof) which will grow in power with its user dependent upon the user's adventures.2) The metal used to make the rapier was a shard from some greater artifact- a chip from a blade carried by a god, or from the chains that once bound a demon.Perhaps the rapier's blade is just a sewing needle from the kit of some being of immense size and power...3) The blade is not what it seems at all- it is in reality a powerfully disguised artifact (or part thereof) that only acts like a weapon until its true nature is revealed.  (See the Rod of Many Parts from D&D, or the Rod of Rassilon from Dr Who.)4) Like Stormbringer and its kin (see Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion cycle books, like the Elric, Corum and Hawkmoon books), the rapier is in reality a powerful being bound & shaped into a weapon.</blockquote>