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Card #c271IR // #c271Verbatim excerpt
It was an ancient sword, made with the One Power before the Breaking of the World, during the War of the Shadow, when the Dark One had touched the world for a time.

— Source: New Spring (Robert Jordan)

[Use when]

Use when an object needs to carry cosmological backstory without a lecture.

[Why it matters]

Artifact as proof of a prior Age — technology from a war that still stains the present.

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