Lance of Sigvening

The Lance of Sigvening is the mythic weapon used by Queen Imogen Wilem II of Flowers in the slaying of the dragon Ob while performing her Nine Feats. It is currently destroyed.
== History ==
Queen Imogen Wilem II of Flowers received a series of visions from a heavenly entity she called the Lord of the Pierced Breast which commanded her to perform a series of nine feats to attain a heavenly kingdom. The Seventh Feat involved the retrieving of the Lance of Sigvening, a weapon once used by the ancient Norduren king of legend, Sigvening the Navigator. According to tradition, the king had the created the weapon when he expelled the wyrms from the coast of Higd. As the story goes, the king took up two serpents and commanded them to service with his voice, turning the two intertwined snakes into one lance with which he was able to pierce the skins of wyrms and dragons alike. Imogen found it clutched in the hands of a statue of the king hidden in a tomb on the tiny island Ynirgos. When she pulled it from his hands, the stone king returned to life and fought for the weapon, though Imogen was victorious and she fled the island to perform her next task.
Imogen carried the lance with her during her Eighth Feat, the taming of Hyperbolia, but left it at the pond while she bathed. She retrieved it to use in her most famous feat, the slaying of the dragon Ob. No one knows for certain what happened in the dragon's layer, only that Imogen emerged victorious and without the entire lance. Instead, she carried only its splintered hilt, which had broken like wood when she had turned it on Ob. Some explorers who have entered the layer, swear that the lance is still visible lying among the bones of the great dragon, though these rumors are not to be taken as fact. 
The fragments of the lance's hilt are housed in Evermere, the seat of the Queens of Flowers. Several splinters claiming to be of the lance are housed in cathedrals and churches across Fleur and occasionally these fakes are even sold to pilgrims for protection against the poisonous snakes that dwell southward in the Riverlands and Palus.
== Appearance ==
The Lance of Sigvening was nine feet long, made of a dark metal of unknown origin. It shape was that of two twisting serpents and ended in a point with their heads and tongues. Its hilt was wrapped in dark cloth. In art, the lance sometimes carries Imogen's banner, a dark blue field with a single shining star in its center.
Category:Fleur
Category:Nordures
Category:Weapons