Ilbratha

Ilbratha (the Mistress of Battles, Haalorth, or the Warrior's Fang) was a bronze short sword and one of the Cormyrean Swords of State. It was commissioned by Azoun I of Cormyr and was seen as a symbol of Azoun's victory over the armies of Shoon. It was forged in 375 DR.

Appearance
It was inlaid with six matching bloodstones in its helve, on the left face, and could communicate its powers to its wielder, provided that wielder was a fighter. The sword did not glow and was not sentient.

Powers
The sword would enable its wielder to blink, jump three times a day, and create a mirror image of itself and its wielder, once a day. When coming into contact with magic or magical effects, it would make a chiming sound like a bell.

History
Azoun I carried the sword into battle in 375 DR against Prince Ashar Tornamn, to defend against the Prince's attempt to expand the Shoon Imperium north to the High Moor.

In 389 DR, Azoun had taken the sword on a trade mission to the Vilhon Reach, where he killed Dima, the Djinni-Lord of the Chondalwood. The sword was lost when Azoun's ship, Valashar's Bane, sank in a storm on the Sea of Fallen Stars.

The sword was recovered by two fishermen from Teziir, and it was purchased by the merchant Sevan of Amnwater, who took it on a trade caravan to Scornubel. In Scornubel he sold Ilbratha to Phelas Urm, who was a merchant from Thentia.

When Cormyrean agents came across the sword in 392 DR, they killed Phelas Urm in an attempt to retrieve it, but the sword went missing again, either due to the confusion of the situation, or due to a corrupt agent.

The sword later turned up in the Vast, in the hands of a peddler from a town near Procampur who appeared ignorant of the sword's powers and origins. It was purchased for 1500 gold pieces by the sage Thallastam of Procampur, who brought it to Elminster Aumar in Shadowdale in the Year of the Zealous, 550 DR in an attempt to identify it. Although Elminster was able to identify the sword from Azoun I's writings, Thallastam never made it back to Procampur. His bones and belongings were found several years later in the Pool of Yeven in Battledale, but the sword was not there. Elminster believed that the sword fell into the hands of bandits or mercenaries, but its whereabouts remained a mystery to Faerûn. In fact, it became better known beneath the Sea of Fallen Stars.

In 582 DR the sword was in the possession of Tarag, a merrow chieftain, where it remained until the fall of the merrow in 655 DR. It was then claimed by a merman of the Homurr clan.

When the kingdom of Eadraal formed in 735 DR, it became the Heir's Blade of this kingdom, and gained the names "Haalorth" and "Warrior's Fang".

It was then lost in the Twelfth Serôs War of 1369 DR, during a battle at Myth Nantar. It was wielded by Princess Jian when she was slain by Iakhovas, and the sword was lost in the confusion. Popular rumours of the time included that the sword was taken by the merfolk traitors of Thruridru, or the morkoth of Olleth.

When the Spellplague struck, the Sea of Fallen Stars disappeared, diminishing the chances of the weapon being recovered.