Last Word

Appearance
The handguard is of equally fine material and forging to the Valyrian steel with which the blade proper of the Last Word is created, wound tightly with engraved Valyrian lettering around one of the tapering tiers of metal down to the blade. The letters are inlaid slightly with silver, making them pop from the dark metal they're engraved within.

The hilt itself, at 8.75 inches, is made of fused dragonbone wrapped in dark leather, the material wound securely in silver wire that glitters in low light. A close eye would note that bone ash is worked indelibly into the gaps of these substances, sealing them together with the remains of the dragonlord who once bore it along with the pervasive corruption of the Doom.

On the other hand, the blade is remarkably long and sharp at thirty-eight inches in length and one and a half in width, paired with a slightly shorter hilt than average and thereby seemingly designed to be used as a slashing single-handed blade on most occasions -- where normally, given the weight of the weapon were it not Valyrian steel, it would require both hands to heft. Overall, the blade geometry is highly complex, a double-edged design with a highly sharp apple-seed cross-section that bites just as deeply no matter which never-dulling edge makes contact.

With the Valyrian steel of the Last Word, marked by the metal's characteristic rippling along the long blade, armor parts before it like silk whether used in a swift piercing strike or in the heavy-handed blows its single-edged design lends itself to.

The pommel is carved in the shape of a simple teardrop past the tiered design which ends off the hilt, seeming to possess a unique, reflective sheen.

History
Its history before its discovery in the Doom remains shrouded in mystery, though Erasmus Rykker has worked adroitly to attempt to discover the tale of this blade. After it was reclaimed, a small reforging of the hilt was done to replace the Valyrian House crest over the handguard with the sigil of House Rykker, two hammers of onyx set in an X of ivory upon an apatite field.