The story about the sword.
( backround of the Castle Bloodshore campaign)
The sword that one of the PC´s have holds more powers than he knows of. The sword is over a 1000 years old. It was forged before the time of Elminster and Halaster Blackcloack. It´s a sword that even a god would be proud to have. It was even made for a god! A weaponsmithy forged it for the great and good Aton. The smithy forged it as a weddinggift for him becouse Aton was going to marrie the his daugther. And the smithy (yes his name is unknown), who was the most trusted mamber of king Kilms court and a close friend of the king, made the most beautyful, graceful and the most powerful sword ever forged.
Aton and Senite, the smithy´s daughter, were truely in love. But the evil goddess, Shar, was insanely in love with Aton! Aton knew of this, and he had told her that he didn´t want anything to do with her. Shar was very jelius for Senite becouse of this, and she was also furius at Aton for rather having a mortal as a wife than an imortal goddess. At the day of Aton´s and Senite´s wedding, Shar summoned the demon prince of war, Azazel, to kill Senite. Azazel sneaked into the castle where Senite lived with her father (in the Kilms throne castle). He cought her alone in the main castles lower levels where she was praiing to Ao. It was there where he killed her.
When Aton found out about Shar´s evil plan, the skies turned black with his anger. He summoned all his army, that was made of allkind of celestial creatures, inculding a number of Solar´s. Atons most trusted assosiate, more to say his right hand, was a Solar named Caristal.
Aton enchanted his new sword (the wedding present) with powers a mortal can only dream of. One of those powers was the power to slay gods.
In all his angar and fury, Aton and his army attacked the evil empire that Shar was. His army fought Shar army well, and killed a big part of her demonic army, that big a number that she never had a big as army as she had here. Aton battled Shar hand to hand for a long time, and the end Aton cut Shar very badly. In secret, Shar summoned Azazel again. As Aton was going to give Shar her final “blow”, Azazel came up behind him and stabed him in the back (with is +4 vorpal long sword). Shar, who was near death, took Atons sword and kill Aton with it.
Shar then orderd Azazel to take Atons body to a secret ancient temple of Shar and burry it there, and most of all, desrtoy the sword. After that Shar went of to heal herself.
After all this was over, Caristal to the place of Atons death and he saw what had happend. He, and some other solars, followed Azazel to the acient temple. Azazel had already put Atons body in a great coffin and warded the temple (with magic´s that would only fade and dissapier if Azazel would die). Not until long Caristal, Azazel and the solars were fighting a brutal war. Azazel was carrying his favured weapon, a +4 vorpal long sword in the left hand, and Atons sword in the right hand. Caristal was vielding his +5 vopal greatsword. There battle seemd to go on forever and the earth became as blood. But out of there battle emerged a huge and powerful red dragon. The dragon, named Burastor, flew to Caristal, but in his way he knocked Atons sword out of Azazels hans, and the sword has never been found again.
One of Atons soldiers finaly imprisond Azazel in one of the planes in the Abyss, more like a plane of dessert. In the following event, Caristal was slain be the great wyrm, Burastor.
Some say the Atons sword is very unholy, because it has gut Shar´s skin and has her blood on it. But it is also said that the sword is very sought after by evil deitys who seek its evil powers, and it is also sought after by good deity´s whom want to destroy it. There is believed that the sword will in the future couse unthinkable war against good and evil, with catastrofig events, like the destruction of the prime material plane, or even more planes.
In fact is Atons soul hidden with in the sword, but Shars blood is so strong that it holds it inside the weapon until Shar has been slain! The sword has many extraordinary ability´s, but the most powerful is the one to permanently put gods to rest, like a vorpal weapon does (but with more chances, 30%).
The sword is somewhat cursed, but the one how wields it will be hunted down by evil forces everywhere his/she is. Even if he/she is 13 levels down in a dungeon, the evil forces will find him. To begin with, the hunters are not very tough and hard to kill, but longer he survives, the harder it gets to live. The only way to make this end is to kill Shar, Azazel and resurect Aton, so Aton can reclaim his name, heratige and existance.
Atons love, Senite, was burried under Kilms throne. Kilm was a human king, and Senites father, the smithy, was Kilms most trusted member of the court and the castle was later known as Castle Bloodshore. There she was but to rest in a secret and hidden tomb. (there are also burried two of Kilms best guard, to guard her soul for eternaty.) After she died, she was worshipped by many, and later was made a goddess. (but as the memory of Aton was being vanquist by Shar, so was the memory of Senite. After awile, almost nothing was left to indicate they´re existance, and no followers of them were alive, for they and all been killed by the growing forces of Shar.
The castle was later named castle bloodshore after the battles that Aton and shar, and Azazel and Caristal fought.
After a long time had past, after the story behind the castle and its former inhabitants had for long been forgotten and the castle had stood empty for hundred of years, a young elf came apon the castle. The elf, who´s name was Roondar, crownd himself king of the castle. After some time a small community had started there again, and the lived in peace. But Roondar had some small secrets. He was evil, and was using his court to find the sword of Aton for him self, for he had found a book, book of Kilms throne, and there stood all about the castles history. This knowlege he kept to himself, and himself alone. He did not even mention this to his brother, that was his right and man, and a cleric. Roondar had another secret. He was not a true elf, but a half-elf! In panic of is dark secret he and his brother, Ilave, to preform a dark ridiual that would make him an undead. Ilave put Roondar an a table, slit his throat and droped few drops of a magic potion into the wound. Then he praid, to Shar. After the ridiual was finished was Roondar an undead elven king. To make sure that Roondar would never die (or so the thought) the took his heart and put it in a book, that was more like a box, and they closed with a key. And the key is now hanging around Roondars neck.
Together they made a plot to make Ilave also an undead, and to kill every other inhabitant of the castle, so no one would know they´re secret. But the transformed some of them into trolls, ghouls, zombies, ghasts and other creatures like that by magic.
Today they still “life” within the castle with they´re mosterus minions.
In the castle there is still to find Kilms throne (his royal seet) and also his crown, cloak and armor and more small things that are burried with him in his hidden cuffin behind the big statue of Senite in the secret graveyard in the dungeon. In the dungeon is a great statue of Aton in large hall. When Roondar came here he did not know who this was, so he change the face of the statue to resemble himself. In the secret graveyard behind the statue of Senite are two unmarked and unfound graves, of King Kilm and his smithy, Senites father.
Nafn: Knotania