Hekedder

Hekedder was an infamous barbarian shaman from the Frozen North, the creator of the Blood Iron short sword, active many years before the late 13 century DR.

History
Hekedder was a man of wicked morals who created the crude enchanted blade imbued with necromantic magics. He gifted the sword to his cousin and in the years that followed, the cousin and all subsequent wielders of the blade found themselves hated because of the Blood Iron's necromantic taint, much hated by the barbarian tribes of the north. Hekedder's creation became infamous long before the among his people, thinking even uttering the sword's name to be a curse.