Half a millennium ago in the distant land of Qu’arahm there was a great High priest. His name was Shal’al Amon.

Magic is deemed illegal in Qu’arahm and when Shal’al Amon  was appointed chief-inquisitor he embarked on a quest to root out all evil that was in the land. And evil was the sorcerers. Most of the sorcerers’ powers came from the distant province of Jubayl where the sorcerous Malik Ravi al’Gamidh lived. The Malik (king/ruler) of Jubayl was rumored to practice foul and dark rituals to enslave his population.

Soon there was open conflict between Shal’al and Ravi, but the matter would not resolve easily. Jubayl was a distant province and it remained loyal to the caliph of Qu’arahm.  So there was never a jihad formed against the  Malik of Jubayl.

Furious, the High Iman Shal’al Amon forged a sword to defeat the arch-sorcerer of Jubayl. The sword was given to the First Faris (Paladin in western terms), Dargonech.

Dargonech fought vigilantly to root out the evil  sorcerous magics and when he died he was laid to rest with the sword that had served him so well.

The First Faris was not to remain in peace for long,
 only a few moons after his burial he rose as an undead, controlled by the sorcerers. The sorcerers took the sword from the undead shadow of Dargonech anddismantled it.

The sword could not, however, be destroyed by the  killers of the First Faris, so they removed the three 
stones in the pommel and sold the sword to a mercantyler from Kyreos.

Dargonech was left with a purpose and started a quest
 to find peace in what remained of his twisted and torn soul. Soon civil war erupted in Qu’arahm and 
Dargonech was lost in history.

The whereabouts of the sword was also lost and remained unknown until an adventuring nobleman
 unveiled its secrets on the island of Tharnor. 
When Derin embarked on a quest to find the lost stones, another chapter was revealed.

Back in Qu’arahm, the arch-sorcerer had a trusted
 servant, a dwarf by the name of Tarrfos. When the civil war erupted in Qu’arahm, Tarrfos took the three stones and fled. After many adventures he finally sat foot on Tharnor and there he settled in Parton.
Tarrfos had desperately searched for the sword and
finally  he gave up and looked deep into the firewater
 that gives  relief and loss of memory. On aparticularly
drunken  night he sold the three stones to someone and forgot about them.

Derin would, however, not rest until he had found the
missing stones. And so his quest led him to Parton,
where he discovered the identity and history of Tarrfos. As it happened, Tarrfos did dome work for a guild in Parton. This was the very same guild Derin had joined only months earlier, so finally they met and withinformation from Tarrfos, Derin and his adventuring friends retrieved the stones from the Temple of Qu’arahm in Parton.
 At last the sword was whole again!

Angadel (IronHorror)
          Crossbow of Speed

The Angadel was forged during the great wars between the elves and the dwarves. 
The great warrior-mage Gil-Gandel set out on a quest
 to find what was to be the killer of the dwarven lord
Norim Gilkinter.

During a particularly vivid reverie he saw  the “Iron horror” or the Angadel. Gil-Gandel spent the next seven moons in his forge, working only in moonlight. After seven moons he spoke:

“Kindred, what was is no more,
Angadel will strike the core.
To free our land,
aim with this in hand.”

Gil-Gandel then handed the Angadel to the Minya Kano (the “first commander”). The first commander
 entrusted Siomir of Legowyn with the deadly weapon.

Records show that Norim Gilkinter was actually killed by an elf fitting the description of Siomir, but it is not known if the Angadel was ever used.

Many years later the Angadel appears in history again, this time in the hands of a vicious human warlord, by the name of Rheon. Lord Rheon believed thecrossbow to be an evil artifact, sent to help him in his quest to dominate the humanoids on Tharnor. 
Legend has it that he was struck by a lightning for his
 transgressions and that the Angadel was “hidden from the world” by loyal servants of Ahru.

History shows no records of the whereabouts of the crossbow until it was found by a noble bard/thief
 adventurer, by the name of Sir Derin of the Tobelia.