Black Thorne

The Black Thorne is a legendary sword and the ancestral weapon of House Rhosyn.
== History ==
=== A Beast Pricked By A Thorn ===
Alayas Rhosyn had the Black Thorne created by a Catarinian blacksmith who was located in Ashrune and specialised in the uses of Catarinian Silver. Specifically asking for there to be silver barbs protruding from the blade to inflict maximum damage against his enemies, which at the time were the hollowed undead. Due to its shape however, it became very impractical and difficult to carry around as it could not be sheathed, though it came off as a very formidable looking weapon.
As they were travelling around the island, Alayas and his son were attacked by the Abyssal Beast, Makkow, which had been causing chaos across Ashrune Island during the time of the Era of Healing, but managed to fend it off and the beast fled. The following night, they ventured out to slay the beast, meeting it in the marshlands on the south of the island and defeating the beast upon realising that it had a weakness to silver weaponry, which in turn was quite the revelation as people believed that the Abyssal Beasts were effectively invulnerable. With the slaying of this great beast, the Ashen One, King of Lorithia rewarded Alayas with his own noble house, pronouncing him as Lord and giving him a fief to run for his new house.
== Appearance ==
The Black Thorne is a type of longsword with a wide cross guard and relatively small hilt. The blade is made from a special version of Catarinian Silver, with dye to make the blade look completely black in colour. Alayas requested that the blade from the cross guard to the tip of the sword have randomly placed barbs built into it to give it a thorny appearance, much like that of a fully grown and bloomed black rose.