Weapon name: Epiphany
Description: A silver greatsword with decorations that could be writing. To some, they're a protective spell, for others, they're the key to some old secret. The truth is, they're just decorations.
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Weapon special abilities: Epiphany is one of its kind, extremely sharp while being extremely strong as well. It's said that it never rusts. That's not true, it just rusts extremely slowly. It's also not unbreakable, just so hard that it's close to being just that. The stone in its handle is sapphire, said to be a mythical stone in some areas of North Blue,but much more dangerous is actually the stone at the core of its blade. Solid seastone, and the only recorded case of someone beind able to forge a blade of an alloy that needs to be heated up to such high temperatures to be forgable around it. The seastone core is strong enough to cause devil fruit users smaller problems, but not strong enough to take their powers away completely. Seastone isn't cheap, you know?
It only melts at insanely high temperatures (levels the commoner calls “fires of hell“), and thus, swords like this were believed to be impossible to make for a long time. This sword proves that belief wrong, but is still the only of its kind, since the secret to making it vanished with its maker.
History: There are many rumors about this greatsword, some are true, others are just fantasies of drunken storytellers or little boys, or exaggerations by soldiers who had to explain their losses to their commander.
A rather small rumor is undeniably true: Epiphany is the last work, and masterpiece, of Eklund, arguably the most brilliant blacksmith in all of North Blue.
The man was old when he forged it, that's for sure, even though no one knew just how old. Eklund was a hermit ever since his wife died, and his whereabouts were and are unknown. For a long time, he was believed to be dead, but experts who lay eyes on Epiphany notice his technique right away, and so rumors about him being alive spread.
The truth is that Eklund is dead, and the sword his last work. He died shortly after finishing it, a peaceful dead. He was, after all, really old. The sword fell into the hands of a girl named Althea De Vries, who was the one indirectly pushing him to do it. It was a feared weapon in her hands.
When she was transferred to Impel Down, the weapon was, at first, confiscated and kept safely in the vaults of the marine. Until, one day, it was stolen. No one knows by who, or why, though power could be a good guess. The marine kept this piece of news a secret, and officially, they still have it.
(Lalala, putting too much work into unimportant details...)
Thu Jan 06, 2011 10:14 am
