Ambriel: The selkie capital, now taken over by the sahuagin; an undersea city made entirely of shell-shaped glassteel and mother of pearl that will someday shatter when the right note is played on the right magical flute.Azaer-Jalil: This ancient kevalinu city lies deep within the Icewind Mountain range, carved from solid stone. Although several explorers have found it, they invariably vanish soon after.
Balefire Roses: There are roses that burn with a dark red-black flame even when plucked, that will grant immortality to any who bears one; however, whoever plucks one will die.
Banter & The Onieromancer: Before the Onieromancer became the Onieromancer, he was trapped within his own Suspiro Keep by a rival mage named Pyr Rheid. Rheid used a demongem to put the Onieromancer into a deep, comatose sleep. However, he soon began to suffer terrible nightmares, and became a haunted man, jumping at shadows and doing everything possible to remain awake. Eventually, however, he nodded off, and died in his sleep. The Onieromancer himself, however, was not awakened for another ten years. One day a strange man who looked almost exactly like the Onieromancer entered Suspiro Keep with another demoneye gem and awakened him. This twin called himself Banter, but many say he is a dream-creation brought to life.
Blazefire: A tall walking staff, black and carved with malevolant designs. Intelligent and liable to take over its owner to wreak havoc. Known to create a black flame and make the bearer toxic to plants and wood. Once owned by the drow mage Gremoric of the Hellions, whereabouts currently unknown.
The Bloodscream: There is a valley in the Shadowpoint Mountains littered with bones, where travellers hear a scream of hunger so great that they kill themselves to satiate the starving spirit.
Cimmaron: This ornate brass and lapis lazuli city of the lamia was once the capital of Bahr al'Raml. However, when lamia priestesses began seeking the true nature of magic, they unleashed an uncontrollable energy that caused the entire city to sink into the sand, lost forever under a sheer wall of glass.
Cinnaph Coins: These coins were used by the kevalinu, and are made of a dark, blood-red metal that is poisonous; anyone who holds such a coin for a long time, or tastes the metal, will die in great agony.
Coron: A flambeau bastard sword, gifted to Darion Sun-Blazoned by a mendicant of Bel after Darion won a chariot race with him. Buried in the Necropolis with Darion. All other flambeau swords have been modeled after Coron, but none have had such power.
The Destined King: At the end of the world will arise a person called the Destined King, who will usher in the new age. Some believe the Destined King will be Dominarch Darion reborn.
Dirge: A black spear that sucks the blood of its victims, causing extra damage. Moreover, any living creature slain by the spear becomes undead in control of the spear's wielder.
The Forever Hunt: The anti-paladin Dakron Avis who killed Darion Sun-Blazoned, is cursed to travel the planes, hunted by Darion's squire, grey-elven White Michael. Over 7 centuries have passed, and the Hunt still continues.
The Four Swords of the Troubadour: The Four Swords of the Troubadour were created in DR 1 as a coronation gift from Dake Half-Masked to Dominarch Darion. Three swords were forged by the smith Cathador from chromium, mohain and avasiva. One was carved by Saradial from pure crystal. Mendall fashioned hilts of black iron for them all, and Findoc designed crafted leather scabbards for each. The fire for their forging was lit from a phoenix' funeral pyre and Cer Oristial enchanted each blade.
The two-handed swords were carried by Dominarch Darion's four commanders of the Heliochrys, but after his death the swords disappeared. It is said that they are hidden until champions arise who will wield them in defense of the Dominarchy once more.
Palladios: A white blade of avasiva an ell in length, softly sheathed in a scabbard of white leather reinforced with avasiva, hilted in unadorned black iron. This blade routs what is evil.
Pavonine: An irridescent blade of chromium an ell in length, softly sheathed in a scabbard of saffian reinforced with chromium, hilted in unadorned black iron. This blade dazzles what attacks.
Nyctor: A black blade of mohain an ell in length, softly sheathed in a scabbard of black leather reinforced with mohain, hilted in unadorned black iron. This blade hides what is hunted.
Viris: A clear blade of crystal an ell in length, softly sheathed in a scabbard of grey leather reinforced with glass, hilted in unadorned black iron. This blade purifies what is profaned.
The blades are all 45" in length, double-edged, with a blood groove running their length. Within the groove are runes giving the sword's name, visible only when the blade has been drenched with the blood of a creature devoted to evil, at which they glow golden until the blood has run off or been cleaned away. The swords can be used by any good person without restriction, as if the bearer had been trained from birth as a warrior with the blade.
Harad's Fault (The Scorch) : The great chasm that gapes from Bahr al'Raml to the Icewind Mts. in Empyrias has never been fully explored; it is claimed to pierce to the center of the earth, and be inhabited by creatures that have never seen the light of the sun.
Hero Row: When the Dominarchy is in its greatest time of peril, the stone statues along Hero Row will awaken to serve the empire again.
Hurak: A two-handed sword forged by the Spoff magus Torrin Chal Shadowclaw, intelligent and very evil. Stolen from the Spoff by thief Kirith Vaur Klesa and currently said to be owned by the hierodule Black Death.
Imago: Many centuries ago an archmage created an iron golem and gave it free will and consciousness, and sent it to kill his enemies. The golem committed many murders before the archmage died, and now wanders through the lands offering its services for hire. It flays humanoids and wears their skins to pass unnoticed.
Jubilante: A double-bitted battleaxe etched with designs of stars and crescent moons. Jubilante keeps all who grasp its haft alive without need of air, heat, food or water. Jubilante was created by priests of the Elder Gods and was last carried by the paladin Alons Merdain; its whereabouts are currently unknown.
Matrixgate: The ancient kevalinu had a method of travelling instantaneously around the world using a gatestone Matrixgate. However, nobody has been able to discover where the gates are located.
Mirablis Lake: At midnight on Wraithwalk Eve, the mists rise from this lake to form a phantom castle wherein dwells a fiend of shadow and mist who guards an immense treasure; but travellers who do not manage to escape the castle by dawn vanish with it until the next year.
Necroarch: A staff with a large gem fastened to one end by starsteel and dragon claws. Acts as an iron flask, except that imprisoned souls may speak to the bearer. Once carried by the renegade asura-kevalin Tocair; now nobody knows where it may be.
Pactblades: Pactblades are long, thin daggers carved out of avertiis stone by the Nefelim assassin cult. The blades are used to kill supernatural creatures, left plunged in the hearts of vampires and liches, in the mouths of mendicants, and so on. It is said that leaving a pactblade in the heart of a satamharanthu will kill it. Pactblades are typically carried in boxes or insulated sheaths, to protect the bearers from their heat absorption.
Phantom: A thin-bladed scimitar that normally appears only as a jade-and-silver hilt; when named, a ghost-blade appears that can by wielded physically or mentally as the seventh-level evocation Mordenkainen's Sword. Only mages can use this blade. Owned by the researcher Chalcedon Mistweaver until she disappeared in the Icewind Mountaind during the opening of the Rift.
Reaver: A double-bitted battleaxe carried by the traitor Dakrion Avis and of unknown origin (probably fashioned by a member of the Dark Alliance). Causes wounds that do not heal and can devour souls.
The Salt Alliance: A group of pirates so offended the gods that they are geased to endlessly travel the seas ensuring travellers' safety. Trained killers, they are the bane of pirates and sea-monsters everywhere.
Shrike: A barbed scimitar with a curiously formed, spiked hilt. Can change shape, although it is always metal and barbed, and can move by itself. Once owned by hadjjin priest Hothar Ishil until it killed him; now thought lost in Bahr al'Raml.
Soulripper: Deep in the windswept wastes of Donweyr huddles the ruins of a mighty castle, haunted by restless souls imprisoned there by something called Soulripper.
The Arrows of Sunblood: Crimson arrows, their hollow hafts and points forged from frajhail. Sunblood arrows kill or destroy whatever they are shot at by bursting into blinding white flames that will cause permanent eye damage to any watchers within a quarter-mile, and immolate anything within 20 cubic feet of the point of impact. The arrows themselves are not harmed by this immolation. There are said to be 9 of these arrows, and the aseku believe they were forged by the kevalinu during the ancient wars.
Verminaarch: The master of all wyrm is called Verminaarch, and dwells in caverns deep beneath the earth. The Scorch awoke him, and now he is sending his wyrm out to prepare for his coming.
Vortex: A longsword hilted in white gold, its blade forged of starry darkness. This sword was forged by the mage Ercule d'Avolant, and can be used to see and transmit images. It was owned by the Onieromancer, and nobody knows where it went after he was driven off the plane during the Domination War.
Witnesses: There are beings who look just like everyone else, but their eyes have been removed and replaced with tiny crystal balls through which their masters can spy. This effect is only noticeable in bright light, which reflects oddly off the pupil. Witnesses cannot speak of their state or of their master; attempts to do so results in their self-destruction. The eyes shatter, driving shards of crystal into their brains.
(Imago from Grimjack, Salt Alliance from Moorcock?, Shrike loosely based on Shrike in Simmons' Hyperion novels)
