Soargar's Legacy
The archmage Soargar, last Mage Royal of Old Impiltur, witnessed the plague in 922 DR that decimated the royal family and the disappearance at sea of Princess Aliia in the Year of the Cracked Turtle (924 DR). Two years after that, Soargar watched the realm fracture into a mass of warring conspiracies, as each noble family attempted to place one of its own on the vacant throne. In the hope that the glory of Old Impiltur could one day be restored, he saw to the safeguarding of many of Impiltur’s treasures until the day the kingdom would once again stand united.
Just before Soargar breathed his last in the Year of the Dawndance (1095 DR), he bade Imphras, War Captain of Lyrabar, to go his tower and claim the legacy of Old Impiltur. There, New Impiltur’s first king discovered the wondrous Crown of Narfell and more than five score magic blades long thought lost. The swords were given to Imphras’s loyal battle companions, who became his Royal Guard in time, and were subsequently lost with King Imbrar and his warriors in the Year of the Luminar Procession (1127 DR).
The sage Othiiyr Velthrann of Tsurlagol has made the study of the swords of Imbrar’s Royal Guard his life’s work. Othiiyr has recorded the rumors and tales surrounding the lost blades of Imbrar, and specifically noted the histories and last known whereabouts of at least a dozen blades known to have been brought out of the Giantspires by diverse means. With Othiiyr’s help, the Knights of Imphras II have made it an ongoing quest for the entire order to recover the lost swords of Soargar’s Legacy. At present, seven of the blades have been recovered and are wielded by the Lords. Most young Knights of Imphras II dream of finding their own sword of legacy and thereby demonstrate their fitness to join the Lords of Imphras II.
The seven swords currently held by the Knights of Imphras II are named Caercailyss (the Elftear), Heilean (o’ the hills), Jiirnysyn (the Thorned), Melyntaan (Wyrmtongue), Orindaarag (the Ironstar Blade), Velswyryn (the Chimera), and Xinylnik (the Bone-eye). Othiiyr is familiar with the histories of nearly a dozen others, including Ashram, Dornavver (also known as Demonbane), Ellendrin (the Weeping Blade), Felthann (Liluth’s Summertongue), Galathos, Iltornar (the Goretooth), Malagar (the Burnfang), Palreth, Sarghathuld (Orcbane), Tendar (the Wailer), and Ulfindos (the Corsair Scourge). Efforts are under way to recover them all.