Scein Dubh
| Type | Weapon |
|---|---|
| Discovered By | Scein Dubhaine |
| Discovery Date | 20-10-1021 |
| Discovery Location | Ikalak, |
| Abilities | Prestige +9 |
| Current Owner | Scein Dubhaine |
The namesake blade of Scein Dubhaine, the deathless ruler of Taselak Undivided. A slender, hooked knife seemingly forged from black meteoric iron, pitted and etched and matt as night. Suitable for skinning, for flensing, for filleting, and for dismembering. Mere sight of the blade evokes the fear of Scein's deathless fury.
Some historians speculate that this is the very same blade with which her mother Moira Dubhaine fought Haktoo and that somehow remnants of the Beppo's soul are trapped within, ever hungering for the souls of the living. This camp favour the theory that the Beppo is somehow connected to or synonymous with the Zuma Haktoo.
A second camp claim that Venienti forged the blade from the same black steel as Scein's iconic armour, infusing it with her cooling blood as her corpse lay motionless upon her funeral bier, a superlative exemplar of that fabled smith's high art.
Whilst supporters of these views disagree as to the source of the Scein Dubh's peculiar nature they agree that it is deeply connected somehow to the Beppo.
A third group dispute the need for any such mythologising and instead appeal to well-known scientific principles such as the imbalance of humours, unfavourable alignments of the stars, and the infamous deranging miasmas which arise from the Southern Oceans and make travel too and from the South Isle so perilous. The point to the lack of mention of the blade by name prior to the defeat of the Beppo as proof that the blade is a later creation.
However all agree that the blade does indeed exist and that it has a peculiar efficacy. No matter the wounds the blade inflicts, or so the legend goes, not a single drop of blood is ever seen upon it.
Eye witness reports claim that in battle the Scein Dubh may grow or shrink in size from that of a small knife to that of a massive broadsword too great for any man to wield. Such wild accounts obviously cannot be taken at face value.
