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Ancelot, the Ancient Cross of War
A greatsword shaped like a cross of war — a relic the old tellings tie to the Last Guest of the Sworn Gods, whose name is never said aloud for fear of calling it. Lifted overhead it casts a long cross-shadow, and a line of men who see it tends to remember somewhere else to be.
Every old telling keeps the Sworn Gods sure, and one of them is never named — to say its name is to call it to your door, and its door, on a battlefield, opens on war. Ancelot is what was left of that dread after the gods went quiet: a cruciform greatblade, taller than a tall man, its quillons crossing the grip in a hard right cross so the whole sword is an oath stood on its point. It is heavier than its iron should be, as if it remembers every weight it was ever sworn upon. A blow from it lands with the flat authority of a sentence passed — the steel bites and the wound will not knit, because what the Last Guest's dread does to a body is refuse it a clean ending: the cut stays open the way an unclosed death stays open, and it will not shut on its own — and the dread that comes off the raised cross can break a wavering line outright, men remembering, all at once, that they are not ready to meet the Guest today. Soldiers carried crosses to the field for a thousand years and never once admitted what they were carrying.
KIND
relic
RARITY
legendary
FOUND AT
The Unhushed Tower
ITEM TYPE
weapon
Connected
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All Relationships (3)
hidden_in
- →The Unhushed Tower — Ancelot was stood point-down in an unnamed oath-reliquary in the Unhushed Tower — left, the way you leave a thing you do not want to count aloud.
references
- →The Sworn Gods — The cruciform greatsword is the war-relic of the Unnamed Third of the Sworn Gods, whom it is bad luck to count aloud — an oath stood on its point.
- →The Sundering — Ancelot is what was left of the Third's worship after the gods went silent at the Sundering — a cross soldiers carried for a thousand years and never admitted what they carried.
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