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Maxwell Edison
Maxwell Edison was one of the most successful non-MLB Manslaughtering players in history, which is odd considering he was at one point studying to become a Doctor. Or perhaps not very odd, considering he was expelled from medical school when it became clear that he wanted to be an evil doctor.
Maxwell has the distinct honor of having not one but two famous weapons named for him. What they were called originally is anyone's guess, but Maxwell's notoriety (and creative implementation of his weapon's respective powers) affixed his appellation to both Maxwell's Silver Hammer and Maxwell's Blade of Treachery.
Maxwell went on his infamous killing spree in year 22,532 (TRotE). In spite of the apparent unwieldiness of a giant hammer made out of silver, Maxwell was able to murder four hundred and ninety-nine people with it. He fell one short all-time record for serial-killing held by renowned MLB player Jorge 'The Slavering Creature of Pure Evil' Jorgeson when, after deciding that slaying with a hammer was getting repetitive, and that he'd rather try using a butter knife instead.
Ironically, it was not the butter knife so much as a little-known flaw in Maxwell's Blade of Treachery that prevented Maxwell from hitting his record. His giant, unwieldy hammer was special only in that it had absolutely no enchantment on it at all. He would drag people into the Maiming Arena and allow them to choose one of his weapons--the unwieldy and plainly unenchanted hammer, or one of Sepathok's legendary 100 Swords. The sword would handicap his opponents, and Maxwell would finish them off with a ponderous blow with his hammer.
No one could figure out his trick, and naturally everyone wanted a chance to wield one of Sepathok's swords, even if it was obviously some kind of trap. The reasoning went something like this:
All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of man who would want his enemy to wield one of Sepathok's swords? Now, a clever man would offer his enemy such a blade, because he would know that only a great fool would reach for what he was given. I am not a great fool, so I can clearly not take the enchanted blade. But you must have known I was not a great fool, you would have counted on it, so I can clearly not choose the unenchanted hammer.
At any rate, Maxwell's Blade of Treachery is truly treacherous in its enchantment: every so often, the sword works like any other sword.
It did. Maxwell died.
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