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Troga sword of truth1/7/2024 ![]() “To purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledges’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to All rights reserved. Ltd Sixth edition 1958 First published as a University Paperback in 1964 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. If any other picks up the Sword of Truth, they will soon find that Heaven has cursed them with very bad luck indeed.By the same author OUTLINES OF CLASSICAL LITERATURE A HANDBOOK OF GREEK LITERATURE A HANDBOOK OF LATIN LITERATURE GODS AND HEROES OF THE GREEKSĪ Handbook of Greek Mythology INCLUDING ITS EXTENSION TO ROMEįirst published 1928 by Methuen & Co. Elenus can also be called upon to give advice on any situation or subject with which it has experience, and, after hundreds of years of being wielded by kings, its experiences are many.Įlenus will only bear the hand of one who has the blood of the Marcosian royal family in their veins. If a lie is told within the sensory range of the one who bears Elenus, the bearer will hear the Sword of Truth speak to it, saying 'There is falseness in the heart.' It will then proceed to tell of the lie, who told it and its nature. Its blade can cut a lock of wet wool and never needs to be sharpened. Its handle is wrapped in silk, with a hemispherical pommel set with a small diamond. Its hilt is made from gold with a great ruby set in the center. The Sword of Truth is said to be magical, and with its judgement, the Kings of Marcosia are said always to make the right decision.Įlenus is a small shortsword with a leaf-shaped blade made from a silvery metal as hard as fine steel. Marco and his Cascabori went on to conquer, and with the Sword of Justice before them, drove back the tyrant Arcturans, cementing the tribes together to form Marcosia, the nation that stands now tall and proud in the north.Įlenus has been passed down through the royal family with every generation, from King Marco himself. With this, the man called the Answer vanished. Bear it with you always, for it will tell you truth where others reveal only lies.' The Answer said to him 'That is Elenus, the Sword of Truth. Marco accepted it with wonder in his eyes. Marco looked to his tribesmen and looked back to the mysterious man, the Answer, and said 'Indeed, it is so.'Īnd the Answer said 'Then to you, Chieftan Marco, I present this.'Īnd from his voluminous robes he produced a silver shortsword, keen of edge and well balanced. Do you not hate the Eagle-men,' for this was what the Marcosians called the Arcturans, 'with all your hearts?' All of the tribesmen drew their swords, with shouts of sorcery, and the chieftan Marco proclaimed 'Who art thee, sorceror or demon, who appears from darkness and walks through fire?'Īnd the mysterious man, who wore an enveloping robe of black, said to him 'I am the Answer. ![]() The stranger appeared in the center of the camp at midnight during a great feast, walking from the bonfire unscathed. It is said that, in the ancient days of yore, when the peoples of Marcosia were merely barbarians under the fist of mighty Imperial Arcturus, a man came from the south, a mysterious stranger, and he went to the leader of one of the wild tribes, the chieftan Marco, a strong and fierce chieftan who ruled the Cascabori tribe.
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