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Inothar's Blade of Correct Enumeration (The Miscounted Sworde)

This exquisitely crafted purple tinged blade has a handle bound with vampiric puppet felt. This felt embues the blade with a power that allows the user to identify the number of enemies that approach. The blade emits a thunderclap for each enemy and was even able to detect assassins from the Unseen Ones. While a useful trait, the sword was unusable by assassins and could never be taken out for a quiet dinner alone with the wife.

After King Selent lost track of it, one of the earliest owners of the Miscounted Sworde was a Count Heinrich Roland Blocke, who was charged with implementing the tax laws for his uncle, the King. King Sam Appreil XV was reknowned for instituting THE most obscure, esoteric, and downright madness-inpsiring system of taxation laws ever seen in the entire history of government in the world of Battal.

H.R. strived for five years trying to complete his task. Surrounded by the constant palace intruigue, jealous friends, fawning pretenders, political machinations, and other "not-quite" enemies, the enchantment on the sword began to waver. Occasionally the blade would sound thrice when a pair of enemies approached, or sometimes not at all like on a night when Count Blocke narrowly escaped his ex-mistress.

In the 6th year he was a broken man and even stopped eating to devote more of his time to taxes. This final step was still not enough to solve his dilemma, for he slowly went mad from the hunger. By the end, delirious from the taxes and hunger he attempted to eat the sword, believing it was a sausage. With his nephew dead, King Appreil was unable to complete his tax code and died penniless. The peasantry (who didn't have any money to be taxed in the first place) left without a ruler, banded together to form a socialist parliament.

From there the sword's history is clouded, for Count Blocke's heirs sold the sword to merchants. Enamored by the thought of owning one of the 100 Legendary swords, merchants eagerly bought the sword, one after another. Each successively losing their fortunes as their inventory of merchandise would never quite add up. This trend continued for years until the sword faded into the mists of time.

Eventually, Sepathok simply found it in a ditch and tossed it into his bag with all the other swords, not really bothering to count at all by that point.