The Blades of Ashelorn

The Blades of Ashelorn are artifacts created by decendants of Grand Magus Ashelorn the World-Walker.

History
Ashelorn moved from plane to plane and through alternative material planes studying how the worlds worked and the inhabitants. His constant traveling had left him without a place of his own and he felt a longing to establish a lineage, a bloodline that could carry on when he was gone. He decided that the Faerun of the Prime Material Plane was the best option. The plane was similar in magic to his home plane but the freedom of possiblity was unmatched on any other plane he had explored. One's own destiny was decided by the individual and even a lowly blacksmith's apprentice could claim godhood given the right amount of determination. He gathered powerful beings of the plane; dragons, kings, chosens, highmages, and many others for his ritual. With their lives he filled his unborn daughter with powerful magics that would last for hundreds of generations.

The Ritual
The magics claimed from the lives of Ashelorn's victims is found in the blood of all of his decendants. The ritual causes all first born children of the bloodline to be born female to ensure that the blood is passed down. The second born will always be a male. The first male child will have a chance that the magics in his blood will use his body to grow a sword inside of him, using his own skills to influence the blade's properties. The blade will eventually become to large and kill it's father, leaving it to be claimed when the body decomposes or if it is taken out forcefully. When the time comes that enough blades have been made, a ruling blade will be made by a decendent who is able to locate the other blades. This ruling blade is known as the Sovereign Blade.

The Blades
The Sovereign Blade

The Fighter's Blade

The Nature's Blade

The Faithful's Blade

The Rogue's Blade

The Mage's Blade