Angul

Angul was a soul shard in the shape of a longsword.

Creation (ca. 1364 DR)
The weapon was created around the year, during an escape attempt by the Traitor in Stardeep. The Keeper of the Cerulean Sign Nangulis sacrificed himself to power the artifact; the weapon was created with the aid of Cynosure, a constructed intelligence that oversaw the fortress. The weapon was in turn wielded by Nangulis' fiancee, Kiril Duskmourn, who managed to weaken and subdue the Traitor, then return him to his prison.

Kiril Duskmourn (1364-1386 DR)
Kiril kept the weapon afterwards. Its influence eventually drove her to slay a number of young elves who had become too curious about the gates of Stardeep in violation of the Compact of Yuireshanyaar. After she realized what she did under its influence, she fled Stardeep, and became a brigand. She kept the weapon throughout this period, using alcohol and protective gloves to dull its influence. She bore the weapon throughout the year, when she became involved in the battle against Pandorym: she often disregarded the weapon's tactical advice, but foes of overwhelming power eventually forced her to resort to the artifact multiple times.

After Pandorym was sealed again, she resolved to return to Stardeep. While lingering at Laothkund, her weapon was stolen by the Shadow Tongue crime ring. It was retrieved from the lair by her friend Gage; he too was forced to resort to Angul during his escape from the Shadow Tongue lair, and in the process became overwhelmed by the weapon. Kiril relieved him of the weapon at the Green Man Inn and Tavern, relating to him afterwards the story of Angul.

Raidon Kane (1396 DR)
Kiril kept the new Angul until one point after the Spellplague, when she traded it away to the Chalk Destrier at the Plaguewrought Lands of the Vilhon Reach in exchange for passage to Returned Abeir. It remained there until it was retrieved by Raidon Kane and Cynosure in 1396 DR. Though the weapon was at first intent on abandoning its own existence, Raidon managed to reawaken its lust for destruction. The monk then teleported to Taunissik on Cynosure's advice, looking to slay the kraken Gethshemeth, who wielded the Dreamheart, an aberrant artifact of the Abolethic Sovereignty. At the island, Angul battled several kuo-toa and a dragon, Scathrys, before its wielder decided to go straight for Gethshemeth. The blade later inflicted severe damage on the kraken, disarming it of the artifact and forcing it to flee.

Before Angul could sunder that artifact, it was stolen by the warlock Japheth Donard who used it to teleport away. Some tendays later, Raidon caught up to Japheth, and attempted to run him through with the weapon; Japheth managed to escape at the last minute again. Raidon made his next target the Eldest in Xxiphu, an abomination he glimpsed in the Dreamheart just before Japheth took it. Once in the underground city, Angul wounded the kraken Gethshemeth again, slew a guardian aboleth, and fought against the strange silver grass of the city.

Unfortunately for the sword, Raidon became disabled when the Eldest employed phantom children to attack his mind, which was still reeling from the loss of his daughter; disturbed almost to the point of catatonia, Angul took full control of Raidon's body and slew the phantoms. Wielding Raidon Kane, Angul proceeded along the way to the top of the city of Xxiphu, where aboleth were attempting a ritual to awaken the Eldest. The sheer number of aboleths in the area forced it, however, to attempt to empathize with Raidon Kane, so as to be able to call on the power of his sign. Angul eventually managed to rouse Raidon from his hopelessness; with his power and that of the Sign, the weapon managed to destroy scores of aboleths and scribe a sign of Sealing that completely thwarted the ritual. Unfortunately, the sign's power fell short of actually killing the antediluvian horror, perhaps due to Japheth's meddling again.