Albruin

Albruin was an intelligent, +1 enchanted broadsword that was particularly destructive to undead creatures.

Description
The sword was forged from an alloy of steel, electrum and silver. When drawn from its scabbard, the blade emitted an eerie blue glow 10' (3m) out from the wielder.

Powers
Due to the silver within the blade, Albruin was particularly damaging to undead, lycanthropes and other creatures vulnerable to that substance.

It was an intelligent blade. In addition to possession the power of speech in a number of languages, it could understand both the mundane and magically written word.

The wielder of Albruin was able to, at will, concentrate the blade's power and continuously detect invisible objects 10' (3m) out. This power also allowed Albruin's bearer to neutralize poison once per day and heal themselves, once every 12 days. If Albruin's bearer was unconscious, or otherwise incapacitated, it could decide use these powers so long as it was still in contact with them.

History
Albruin was forged generations ago by a famous smithee named Surdee of the small town of Glister within the Great Gray Land of Thar. Despite the power of this unique sword, Surdee left no forge markings, or details that would identify his craftsmanship. In fact, Albruin resisted any queries into its origin. Its history since then, has been long, storied and spanned much of Faerûn.

For many years, Albruin rested in the royal treasury of the kingdom of Cormyr. It was seldom carried, let alone used, by the lineage of kings however. It was stolen from Castle Obarskyr in the mid-13 century DR by the halfling thief Nypan, who managed to pass or sell it off before being captured and killed by Cormyrian soldiers in Wheloon. Rumors of the blade's whereabouts circled around a fence by the name of Blusken Shult, who may have transported it to a buyer located along some shore of the Wyvernwater, but this was never reliably confirmed. Albruin remained unaccounted for, for another 24 years.

The next known location of Albruin was in the bedchambers of a noblewoman of Selgaunt by the name of Shamur. She discovered its presence after some foreign visitor had left it behind after charging through her quarters on the run from the city guard. She kept the sword for some time, but after getting married, sold it to a passing adventurer who was in town hiring some mercenaries. Unfortunately, the hired help and new broadsword was not enough for the adventurer to survive an ambush that overtook him in the Easting Reach. This assault was the work of the notable adventuring prince, Thaum of Telflamm, whose exact motives were not completely clear. Thaum bore Albruin in his campaign to wrestle Impiltur from the control of his father, the crown prince Kuskur Heltharn, and seize the thrown as his own. Although this endeavor caused many royal Impilturan deaths in 1294 DR, Prince Thaum managed reign of his own part of the kingdom before succumbing to a magically-caused death two years later.

After Thaum's death, Albruin was seized by one of his warriors, a man named Adjuz, who traveled the roads of northern Faerûn towards the Dalelands. The soldier sought out a sage in Shadowdale in order to learn the true nature of his unique sword, but died en route at the hands of brigands. Some time in the next eight years, Albruin came into the possession of the banelich Stallac Benadi of Zhentil Keep. When Stallac recruited the mercenary general Malakar to aid in his battles with Chrinson of the Blazing Sun, his payment included an immodest amount of material wealth and the famous broadsword. Albruin's identity was authenticated, at Malakar's behest, around a year later when the two arranged a meeting in Sarbeen, the settlement that would come to be known as Ravens Bluff.

14 century DR
Sometime before the year 1368 DR, Albruin came into the possession of Simmeon, a former adventuring companion of Kryll. Around a year later, it was being carried a wizard named Raevilin Strathi, who had gone temporarily mad while imprisoned in the Underdark below Amn.