Jotunsunder

The legendary weapon of Maygar Wayfinder, **Jotunsunder** was by all accounts instrumental in the defeat of Knothling and his hill giants.

In 1487 DR Jotunsunder was located buried beneath Maygar's Hill and is now wielded by Guard Captain Clerebold Quentin. He became attuned to the weapon with the defeat of the oni known most recently as Carolyn Bearskin.

It is generally accepted that the weapon was gifted to Maygar Wayfinder, but there are multiple accounts as to how it came into his possession.

## Origin tale

### Patron of rage

Larid Prisgard writes in the traditional and most acceptant variant of the fable that Maygar, finding no succour from traditional gods made a deal with Kostchtchie, the Demon Prince of Wrath and patron of frost giants, who had grown jealous of Knothling forming a frost giant militia to enact his will.

As an evil demon lord, his gifts were of course poisoned, forcing Maygar to slay a giant with his new sword before his duel with Knothling to activate its power. This so happened to be his wife who had been transformed into a hideous oni and was about to eat their child.

Prisgard says that after defeating Knothling, Maygar went on a rampage for months slaying frost giants and other giantkin until they fled north. The last remnants of a land known as "Ostoria" scattered to the wind.

The hill giants, too stupid to organise or find a route to flee, were brought into forced labour to "repay their debt to humanity". This was deemed as necessary and just reparations for the oppression of "small-folk".

Jotunsunder then became a symbol of Waycrest might and rule over giants - far from the tool of tainted liberation it once was. Maygar went on to have several children, it passed to his first son, Cressus Wayfinder, then his son, Goran Wayfinder. However when Goran died without heir an argument over cadet branches ensued over who would inherit the symbol of Waycrest.

Rather than fight among themselves, an agreement was made that the weapon would be stored until such that it was needed should the giants ever forget the fury of the small-folk.

### The Old and Sunken One

The second account by Marketh Zondaris agrees with Prisgard's assertion that a deal was struck to obtain Jotunsunder, however he claims this was achieved by Maygar wading into the waters of the coast, realising there were not enough ships to allow the people to flee Knothling's rule, and instead to make a pact with an entity referred only to as "The Old and Sunken One".

Zondaris also claims that the slaying of the giant to activate Jotunsunder was achieved through killing Knothling's Oni consort, not Maygar's wife.

The subject of passing on the blade mirror each other aside from it is claimed that two cadet families, the Quellers and the Reavemonts were the two that suggested the blade be hidden to avoid bloodshed.

### Gift of Tempus

The last account by Usher Wanwright flies in the face of both accounts, stating that the sword was gifted by Tempus to a paladin of vengence. It fails to mention whether this was Maygar yet confirms it found its way into the hand of the champion of Knothling.

The sword was gifted after Maygar renounced his firbolg bride he had taken to gain influence in Knothling's court. By shaking off the yolk of submission and slaying what bound him to Knothling's rule, the god was pleased to even the odds and create the stage for a great battle that would shape the land.

Wanwright goes on to state that no such agreement was made on where the sword would be stored following Goran's death and was in fact stolen by the Reavemonts who found themselves either unworthy or unable to retrieve the weapon in later years.