Help my Fachion stand out

[was]

Some cultures use resins from certain plants to harden wooden and bone weapons. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch for a world like Athas to have a rare, but hardy, plant which produces such a resin. It might actually accomplish the color change too without painting the blade.

 

[underfoot007ct]

I'm thinking something like the azec macahuitl, although that usually is made with obsidian. small bone bladed weapons have been made and used, so that should work in a macahuitl-like falchion.

Ancient Aztec Weapon

How about not bone, but a curved wooden shaft with animal teeth protruding (like the macahutil). Maybe shark teeth, which I am unsure if that makes sense in DS. Shark teeth might be very rare items to acquire.

 

[zoroaster100]

If a player wants his ancestral weapon to be an important part of his character's identify, a good DM will work with that and not destroy the weapon or offer a powerful other weapon as reward. Instead the DM can offer some ritual or magic that improves the existing ancestral weapon, etc.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

There are enough carnivores on Athas that an appropriate substitute for shark's teeth should be easy to find.