5/13/2023 0 Comments The deed of paksenarrion![]() ![]() The children of that place look at both swords with awe, and on some long winter nights old Dorthan, grandfather of fathers and graybeard now, takes from its carved chest the scroll that came with the sword and reads aloud to his family. Gird the cross-hilts are gracefully shaped and chased in gold. The pommel’s knot design is centered with the deeply graven seal of St. The other is a very different matter: long and straight, keen-edged, of the finest sword-steel, silvery and glinting blue even in yellow firelight. One is very old and slightly bent, a sword more iron than steel, dark as a pot: forged, so the tale runs, by the smith in Rocky Ford – yet it is a sword, for all that, and belonged to Kanas once, and tasted orcs’ blood and robbers’ blood in its time. In a sheepfarmer’s low stone house, high in the hills above Three Firs, two swords hang now above the mantelpiece. ![]()
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