Albatross (Knife)

**Lucy Bluecrowne**: Because they might do good things or bad, depending on how they are used, just as an albatross might be good luck or bad, depending upon how the wind blows?

— *Bluecrowne*, pg. 179 |  | ”

The ****A******lbatross** was a knife created by the Ironmonger. Many wished to own it, including Morvengarde, but the Ironmonger gave it to the Jumper Simon Coffrett.

## History

### *Bluecrowne*

Simon Coffrett made an offer for the Albatross, which Christopher Swifte, the Ironmonger, said he would consider. Trigemine then approached the Ironmonger and tried to make a deal with him for the Albatross, because he had been sent from Morvengarde to get it. The Ironmonger showed him the blade, which was disturbing and beautiful at the same time. He wanted the Ironmonger to give him the blade and make twenty more, which he Ironmonger thought would take twenty years if Morvengarde wanted them all to have the same properties. The Ironmonger said he would consider this offer.

Trigemine later told Blister about Jack Hellcoal and how a city could be claimed, which could be helped by properties Morvengarde believed the Albatross had, and Blister wondered if Morvengarde would use the blade and the piece of coal he would get from Jack to start his own hell too. The Ironmonger told Trigemine that he had decided to keep the Albatross and not accept either offer, as he was done making weapons and wanted to keep what he'd made.

Trigemine and Blister kidnapped Liao Bluecrowne. Trigemine told Liao's sister Lucy that the price to get Liao back was the Albatross, and gave her directions to find the Ironmonger. She did, and after breaking into where he was staying, she was caught. The Ironmonger knew that she'd come from Trigemine for the Albatross, and sent her away, but she explained that she couldn't leave without it, because they had taken Liao. Cerrajero and Forgeron speculated over what had happened, then declared that Trigemine had lied to her; he wouldn't let Liao go. Swifte shared how the first person he'd showed it to, Morvengarde, had thought it would do well for tearing out throats, and that he wanted it to go to someone who wanted to do good things with it. He offered it to Lucy, since she thought it might do good, but Lucy decided that they were right, it wouldn't help her, and Morvengarde would do something terrible with it. Lucy realized that Trigemine had known that the Ironmonger would make this offer, and she left without the knife. Swifte then gave the knife to Simon Coffrett and accepted the Jumper's offer. When Lucy showed up to recover her brother, Trigemine was furious that she hadn't taken it. He later explained to Seleucia Deacon that the Ironmonger had stopped making weapons and given the Albatross to a Jumper.

## Physical characteristics

The Albatross is about a foot long and made entirely of metal. The blade is shiny watered steel, and the grip is black iron. The handle has a pattern of feathers, the knob is in the shape of two webbed feet, and there is a bird's skull shape instead of a hilt. The blade has waves of different shades of metal and looks like a beak.

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