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Bladestar
Alzar arrives in the city near where Bladestar should be. He begins to talk with people, and the scuttlebutt today is that a town guard committed suicide just a few blocks away. This is a day after a thief stabbed himself in the same vicinity. Both stabbed themselves in the neck with a dagger.
Clued in to what is happening, Alzar moves to investigate. The town guard found a young thief who slew himself with a dagger two nights ago, and that dagger was confiscated, and the one who had it killed himself with it last night, and was found early in the morning.
Alzar casts Speak with Dead with the town guard, and he tells Alzar that the dagger took over his body. That sounds like an intelligent weapon, which makes sense. The book says that this used to be the Dagger of a thief named Aliar Daraan. He was slain by another thief and he cursed his dagger as he died.
Alzar asks to see the dagger and it is in hiding, but a Charm spell allows two guard to let him see it. Bladestar is ornate, with several rubies and sapphires in the hilt. The Gem shows it as magical, evil, and chaotic evil in alignment. An identify spell fails and the dagger cannot be identified, and that’s interesting.
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