2025 Apr 7: Spellcutter Blades

 Made from the blackest obsidian, spellcutter blades are as strange as they are fragile. Using the strange magic of faraway lands, they react curiously to any spells thrown at them. Not only can they parry a spell, as if it was a sword blow, but they can, as the name suggest, cut spells apart as well. The exact form this takes can vary, but usually this manifests as the spell's effect parting before the blade, potentially letting the wielder escape it unharmed. Indeed, there are records of heroes using these blades to survive blazing infernoes conjured up by their opponents, cutting through magically summoned stone like butter, and even slicing magical fog as if it was a curtain.

The most common form these blades take are of course daggers, but there are a few surviving swords and axes as well. Unfortunately the blades are easy to break, especially if used against metal weapons or armor, so their numbers are dwindling, as very few in the known world know the secret to making them. Still, these weapons fascinate sorcerers, with many sorcerer-kings offering substantial rewards for any information on them, and unimaginable wealth for the actual secrets of their manufacture. Even if they had to forcefully extract said secrets from an uncooperative prisoner dragged in front of them by dubious mercenaries.