Ask and ye shall receive, so everyone is curious about the sword and dagger yes? Well originally I had no intention of putting anything of this sort into my story but everyone has been like I wonder what the dagger does/is for/etc. I answer this now after the post of chapter 13 because I didn't want to give anything away. Only the dagger was my idea and how this whole thing started. I thought well the vorpal sword has fulfilled its purpose so Alice was going to need a new weapon and really what better weapon can you think than this. It just screams RAWR!
The Sword of Attila was the legendary weapon carried by Attila the Hun. The Roman historian Jordanes, quoting the work of the historian Priscus, gave the story of its origin:
"When a certain shepherd beheld one heifer of his flock limping and could find no cause for this wound, he anxiously followed the trail of blood and at length came to a sword it had unwittingly trampled while nibbling the grass. He dug it up and took it straight to Attila. He rejoiced at this gift and, being ambitious, thought he had been appointed ruler of the whole world, and that through the sword of Mars supremacy in all wars was assured to him."[1]
The use of "Mars" here is due to the interpretatio romana of Priscus, however, as the Huns would not have adopted the names of Roman deities; the more likely name used by the Huns would have been the more generic "sword of the war god;" Hungarian legends refer to it simply as "az Isten kardja," the sword of God. Priscus's description is also notable for describing how Attila used it as both a military weapon and a symbol of divine favor, which may have contributed to his reputation as "the Scourge of God," a divinely-appointed punisher. As historian Edward Gibbon elaborated, "the vigour with which Attila wielded the sword of Mars, convinced the world that it had been reserved alone for his invincible arm."[2] In this way it became somewhat of a sceptre as well, representing Attila's right to rulership.
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