Excalibur's Scabbard

**Excalibur's Scabbard** is the sheath of the legendary holy sword Excalibur. It is currently wielded by Shiro Yukihira of the Grigori.

## Summary

Excalibur's Scabbard is a faerie-crafted artifact created by the Seelie Lady Arvyrne, more commonly known in Arthurian legends as **Queen Igraine**. When Gorlois de Bois married her, he gained control of the sheath and used it to rise above the ranks and became one of Ambrosius Aurelianus' most trusted vassals, eventually becoming the Duke of Cornwall.

After she met with Uther Pendragon, the two began a secret relationship with each other and sired three daughters together, Morgan, Morgause, and Elaine, who they passed off as Gorlois' trueborn daughters. Because of this, during Gorlois and Uther's final confrontation, she switched the faerie scabbard with a fake on, resulting in Gorlois' death and her becoming Uther's new wife and their daughters legitimized.

Many years later, her daughter Morgause employed the same thing to her younger brother Arthur and switched the scabbard, which was in his possession, with a fake one, resulting in his death under Mordred's hands during the Battle of Camlann.

The scabbard went missing for hundreds of years after King Arthur's death until the 12th-century, when it was excavated by King Richard I in Cornwall. He gifted this to the Ambrosius family for safe-keeping, which they did until their extinction in the 16th-century, but not before their last descendant sealed the scabbard in an underground ruin beneath one of the Three Factions' former battlegrounds.

In the late 1990s, it was found by Kiyoko Saiba, a Japanese archaeologist and former member of the Shinra Clan, who switched the scabbard with another historical artifact and brought it back with her to Japan. She later used it to save the life of her grandson Shirou Yukihira who had just recently been in a tragic car accident, not knowing about his own powers as a special child.

## Appearance

Excalibur's Scabbard is a luxurious piece of equipment made of gold and decorated with blue enamel that seems more like a treasure to show dignity and nobility like a crown or staff than an actual equipment. An inscription written in Fairy Letters is engraved on its center to show that it is not the work of man.

## Abilities

Excalibur Scabbard bequeaths its user limited immortality through constant regeneration, as well as preventing physical deterioration caused by aging. It possesses potent Healing Magic, allowing for critical and fatal wounds to be rapidly healed to restore the user's health, with minor injuries being restored instantly and even larger missing portions of the body and destroyed vital organs like the heart can be quickly restored at the critical moment before death.

Targeting anything other than the user's head in order to destroy their brain is futile, requiring for a decisive strike to be landed in order to cause any true damage. It does have its limits in repairing the body, as counteracting curses and poisons take a great deal of time, not to mention that it couldn't restore the user's stamina or take away the pain they would feel from the opponent's attacks.

It also functions as an "absolute defense" that goes beyond defending or reflecting, as it can dissipates into countless tiny particles in the air and engulfs the user to become a "portable fortress", completely isolating its user in an alternate dimension completely separated from the regular world that shuts out all destructive interference from the outside world. According to Sirzechs, in order to break through the magical barrier, it would require the opponent to perform a reality-shattering attack, which is something only gods or Ultimate-class beings can do.

## Limitations

Excalibur's Scabbard will only reveal its true power to those who either carry King Arthur's bloodline or embody King Arthur's ideas of justice. The current user, Shirou Yukihira, appears to qualify both categories, as he is descended from the Pendragon family through his father, Jouichirou Yukihira - the grandson of a Pendragon bastard, he also possesses a strong and unwavering sense of justice.

## Trivia

* It is rumored that Elaine, King Arthur's sister, was the one who hid it after he died.
* A copy of the fake scabbard Morgause used is displayed in London's Museum of Magical History.
* While it is known as Excalibur's sheath, it was created long before Excalibur did and was a shield before Gorlois had Igraine reforged it into a sheath after their marriage.