The Salamander's Tongue

The Salamander's Tongue was a unique enchanted dagger that possessed several powerful enchantments and a colorful history.

Description
The Salamander's Tongue was an exotic grim-looking kris with a wavy blade that split at the end into two ends akin to a reptile's tongue. At the center of the blade, near its grip, a small living part of a salamander's tongue was grafted to the dagger with some sinister magics. The tongue was of bright red color. It pulsed and wriggled around independent from the blade's owner.

History
The true origins of the Tongue were shrouded in mystery, however it was believed that the dagger's first wielder was the infamous gnome assassin from Westgate named Turlam Shallowhill. After he was killed by a rival scoundrel, a halfling Deder Seven Fingers, the dagger swapped owners. Deder was not aware of the dagger's enchantments and kept it as a trophy until it was stolen by his flunkey, a fellow halfling, Kreshinal Blackhound. Kreshinal fled from departed Westgate for Selgaunt, moving the dagger with him, staying there for five years that followed. Blackhound discovered one of the Salamander's Tongue's enchantments that allowed him to stay hidden, being undetectable by divinations. Subsequently, Kreshinal lost the Tongue in a derailed gambling scam and later was assassinated by Deder's thugs. Sembian criminal underbelly was in possession of the dagger while Seven Fingers attempted to reclaim his lost treasure. Deder successfully eliminate many of the rival faction of Selgaunt and reclaimed what was his.

While Deder Seven Fingers was pouring all of his attention into routing the thieves of Selgaunt and returning the Salamander's Tongue, Sembian criminals hired Pieter the Feeble, a priest of Mask, to infiltrate and undermine Deder's operations. The priest successfully manipulated Westgate and Selgaunt thieves into crippling each other's organizations. Pieter became the Tongue's next master and took the dagger with him to Hillsfar.

Appearances

 * Video Games
 * Icewind Dale