Editing Brekhan (section)

=== 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.