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== Notable Weapons ==


=== Maraim ===

Brekhan obtained this weapon fighting as a mercenary in one of the many wars of conquest in the Freedlands. While scouting for his employers he and his unit were discovered by the enemy vanguard led by a particularly viscous dwarf barbarian named Arakh the Manslayer. Brekhan was an outcast but even so Arakh was still an abomination in his eyes: wild, uncouth, and rumored to be a cannibal who dined on the heart and brains of his enemies in order to obtain their strength and cunning. The two dwarves fought an intense battle, which Brekhan finally won by planting a quarrel into the other’s head. At first he kept the weapon as a trophy, not realizing that the sloppily scrawled runes actually marked the weapon as magical.

It was quite by accident that he discovered this when his unit was later attacked by more barbarians, mostly human this time. Brekhan was asleep when the attack began and in his haste to get into the battle he grabbed the wrong waraxe. He could tell as soon as he began fighting that the axe was more than a match for the weapon he’d previously wielded and when it glowed and nearly eviscerated a human he was engaged with, he realized its potential. 

When the battle was over, he took it to the unit’s bard, [[Conric Planter| Conric Planter]], (the wizard assigned with them had been killed) and asked him to identify it. After some careful examinations and an identify spell, the bard informed him that the weapon had been subjected to a particularly savage ritual and anointed with the blood of multiple humans to awaken a dark hunger in the blade that matched its former wielder’s hatred against them. Brekhan renamed the weapon inscribing the dwarf script for Maraim, a woman he had loved long ago.
In the years since acquiring the weapon Brekhan has had it enhanced and it has become an easily recognized symbol to many soldiers that he’s fought for and against.



=== Torzha ===

Brekhan didn’t win this weapon in battle, though he still endured a great ordeal to get it, almost more than it was worth.
While travelling with his old acquaintance Conric Planter newly trained pup, Dazheah (or Daisy as Conric had nicknamed her), through Lattanis, Brekhan became aware of a novel new weapon that was starting to sweep through the southern part of Antanides, the repeating crossbow. Having used a crossbow for more than a century he was intent on gaining one of these new contraptions. He commissioned to have one built by a fairly well respected weapons smith, and then contracted a wizard to enhance even further. The weapon took nearly three weeks in its making and another two in its enchanting.

However, on the night before Brekhan was to claim it from the wizard, a local gang broke into the man’s shop and stole most of his merchandise, including the crossbow. When Brekhan came in the next morning, rather than getting his weapon, he instead found an unexpected and unwanted job. The wizard offered him his crossbow at a fraction of the cost if he could track down the gang and return what they stole. Breakhan knew a few people in the district and with their help and Conric’s they managed to take out the men who stole the crossbow.
This however attracted the attention of Antonias DeFerrenti, a man who had been organizing the local gangs and had essentially become a local kingpin for the district. He sent some of his best slayers after Brekhan.

No sooner had Brekhan returned the stolen merchandise and claimed his new crossbow when he found himself using it for the first time in combat. He was still unaccustomed to how it worked but he managed a few lucky shots before he drew Maraim and cut the last of them down.
Because of the trouble he had faced for the weapon he named it Torzha after his younger sister, who had also caused him a great deal of trouble throughout his childhood and whose stormy personality matched the magic set in the crossbow.