Items:Weapons:Ynar's Dagger

Ynar's Dagger has a unique history. It has been in the Hammerhand family for four centuries and has survived three noteable battles. After each battle, it was runemarked by the wielder to commemorate its service to its owner.

The first runemark was made 350 years ago, on the hilts and handguard of the dagger after Kors Hammerhand nearly lost his right hand. His family was ambushed by brigands on the shores of the Galorean Sea. The hilts of the dagger deflected and caught the blade long enough for Kors to assault the attacker with the only weapon he had to hand - a pair of heavy-duty forge tongs, which Kors opened and rammed into the brigand's eyes. Kors finished the battle armed only with the tongs and the dagger. After the battle, he marked his weapon with the Rune of Stone and Hammer.

A century or so later, the dagger was carried into battle against trolls high on the slopes of the Uzdun'kal Mountains. Ykorm Hammerhand was a young member of the Zhotul'Uzdun troop that was sent to defeat the trolls before they brought into the upper mines. The trolls, hard as stone and strong as mountains, were no easy prey, even for the Zhotul'Uzdun. Ykorm's shield and axe were both broken and his captain had been badly fallen when he remembered the dagger. He drew it and his father's favorite forgehammer, then rushed to his captain's aid. Somehow, though trolls were attacking him from all sides, they could not strike him with enough force to knock him down or halt his rush into the fray. He felled one troll with the dagger that day and wounded a few others, then helped his fellows keep the trolls at bay until the second troop of Zhotul entered the fight and routed the monsters. His captain, a Bellowsmaster in the Hall of Armorers, did not survive the fight, so Ykorm marked the edge of the blade in his honor with the Rune of Bellows.

Finally, the dagger was used one-hundred and ten years ago on a mission to find and recover what remained of the Mine of the Sea. In a dark glade well south of the Elenstroem, Anrok's scout party was attacked by bonewolves. Though many of the foul things were already more bone than flesh, he found that the dagger still served him. Many of the bonewolves fell beneath his axe and dagger. At last, only the leader of the pack remained. The dark magick that had first created the bonewolves robbed the fallen wolves of their last breaths. Before the scout's eyes, th bonewolf grew until armor appeared on the outside of its body. It seemed almost to be wearing the bones of its fallen comrades. It rushed Anrok and his fellows, knocking two off them out of the way and pouncing on Anrok. His axe was knocked from his hand by the force of the collision. The bonewolf bared its bloodless teeth for the kill. Anrok thrust his dagger toward where he thought the wolf's heart might be and called to the Axelord for his aid. The tip of the dagger found what remained of the wolf's heart and broke the magick that held his bones together.

Anrok collected what remained of his band and continued to the Mine of the Sea, where he runemarked the blade just below the tip. He gave it the Rune of Forgefire because it melted armor and darkness.

Legend in Ynar's family now holds that the dagger Battleforge serves its owner best when need is greatest. There are also whispers that there is some unknown rune, or power, on the bead of amber that adorns the dagger's pommel. The dagger has never been inspected by a Syulvan weaponsmiths or Master Singer, so no one knows for certain whether the amber carries power or not.

It confers +1 Hardness and +1 Agility on the wielder, as well as doing 2 points of fire damage with every hit.