...any theories? The wondrous axe is never mentioned again in the GPC after the defeat at Lincoln, as far as I can tell. I know the Octa and Eosa escape, but surely they don't regain the axe back...


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Maybe the axe is destroyed by some Christian knights, in a "Take that, Woden!" manner.

Someone used it, rolled a fumble.

My players obtained this axe and handed it to Uther as a spoil of war. I dunno if they'd ransom it back with Octa or, as Merlyn suggests, destroy and desecrate it..

I would probably say it goes walkies during the anarchy - it's either hidden by Uther and no-one knows where it is, or it's stolen in an early Anarchy-era incident and falls off the radar. Might make a good later adventure to try and hunt it down - either to use or destroy it - and a nice way to bring another cyclical element to the campaign. "Your father brought my father, King Uther, this axe - thank you for returning it to my hands".

A player knight in my game captured this axe at Lindsey. He had no axe skill but kept it and planned to make it a family heirloom.

In 493 he accidentally fell in love with the Duchess of Gloucester (App 32) after she nursed him back to health following a hunting accident. At 31 it was the biggest amor I've ever seen in Pendragon. He had been knighted by the Duke of Gloucester some years previously and his loyalty passion could not compete. To make matters worse he was a christian knight and already married. He began to romance her chastely (lancelot-style) but it could not last. He acted like an idiot for two solid years.

Luckily (?) the Duke died at St. Alban's but when Sir Lupus next visited Gloucester on the flimsy pretext of a diplomatic mission he found that the Red banneret (now the Duke) had basically sold his own stepmother to one of his recalcitrant vassals, a hill chieftain from near the Forest of Dean. Her great beauty was the price to bring this savage back into the fold. Sir Lupus managed to restrain himself from killing the new Duke where he stood but resolved to rescue this fine roman lady from such a barbarian.

He used Octa's axe as a gift to the chieftain. When the tribal leader asked him to name a gift he would have in return for such a kingly present he asked only for an audience with the lady. At this point he was unable to conceal his emotions and it nearly came to blows. Luckily the hill chieftan was not too attached to his new bride. He understood Sir Lupus' position and offered to divorce her for 500 cattle or the treasure of the Red Dragon of the Forest of Dean.

Sir Lupus did not have 500 cattle. Luckily he had a band of loyal player knights who were up for a Dragon-hunt.

So the axe of Octa is now on the belt of the richest hill chieftain in all of Britain.

Unfortunately Sir Lupus is still married and so the Duchess is in Amesbury Abbey with Ygraine and Morgan. If she returned to Gloucester there is no guarantee the Red banneret will not simply auction her off again.

Someone used it, rolled a fumble.


They just need to stick a new handle on it. £2 should be enought to get it fixed going by how magic weapon heirlooms work in the book of Knights and Ladies.