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Having recently returned from the first of his mysterious sojourns into the realms of the gods, Able sat alone on a beach, contemplating the meaning of Divinity.  Wishing(as gods do) to exert his will on the world, he stretched out his hand, and called for something long forgotten to reveal itself to him.  In its turn, the sea roiled before him and spat upon the sand a length of old, bleached wood.  It was a mast to a ship, long lost to the sea, but preserved through the Song that Able could wield at his will.  It still held the old iron fittings for the sail and the ropes that it once held.  

Able considered the unusual gift, and decided to exert his will again, though this time he chose to do so through another.  With his great might, he lifted the mast onto his shoulder, and carried it with him.  In this strange manner, he traveled from town to town, until he found an artisan whose work satisfied him.  Able dropped the mast on the artisan's doorstep, and bade him craft great weapons from it.  The artisan inspected the mast, and the iron fittings, and set to work.  

From the wood, he made a haft to a spear, as well as a hammer.  Also, he made a two bows, one an ordinary long bow, and the other a strange curved thing that he made upon Able's description.  The iron, imbued with the bones of great animals, was reforged into a spear head, a hammer head, and a short sword.  Lastly, what wood remained was rendered into planks, and formed into twelve round shields.  

Able, unknown to the artisan, composed a great ballad for each of the weapons, and a single such song for the shields as a whole.  In this way, he imbued them with power, and by spreading the songs he wrote, he also helped to preserve them all.  

The hammer stayed with the artisan, who used it to create still more wonders.  The sword was given to Elga, the Jarl with whom Able fought to kill the invading god Seig.  The bows were given to a pair of brothers who Able met in his travels(a story for another time), and Able kept the spear himself.  The shields were scattered around Heimark, where their legends grow to this day.  

As a whole, the weapons are called the Unterax. 
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