The age thing would be even more of a headache when you consider how many of its wielders over time have probably been living embodiments of evil, chaos, law, good, and whatever the hell else the sword managed to do between being wielded by naturally psychic magic-knights and causing trouble on the Prime Material. Or that, at one point, [i]Kerri counted as part of the sword[/i]. Thing's past is a glorious headache for Ilya. :P