Forging the Blackblade

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Forging the Blackblade
Event Information
Era	Time of Legends
Date	Between -1840 and -540 AR
Location	Corondor, Dominaria
Sets	Legends
Characters	Geyadrone Dihada, Dakkon Blackblade
Outcome	The Blackblade is forged, fueled by countless souls. Dakkon Blackblade becomes a planeswalker, but loses his soul and his shadow
Storyline sources	Dakkon Blackblade (comic)
Timeline
Sivitri's War Forging the Blackblade Enslavement of Trine

Forging the Blackblade was an event that occurred during the Time of Legends.

History

As a mortal, Dakkon was a master blacksmith and a warrior. Shortly after Sivitri's War, he was visited by the planeswalker Geyadrone Dihada, who offered to make him a planeswalker if he would make her the most powerful blade in existence, the Blackblade. He agreed and she shared with him the secret sorceries required to make the sword a "soul-drinker", a blade capable of stealing the energy of those it killed. Dakkon claimed to have stood at his anvil every day for ten years, cooling the blade by killing a slave with it each time he heated it. Dakkon was willing to sacrifice even his son to the blade in his quest for power. Finally, the blade was completed, and Dakkon could not help but test it.

With each kill, Dakkon waded into battle and felt his strength grow. So ferocious was his assault that as tales spread of his slaughter, his name became "Dakkon Blackblade". Dihada returned when she heard these stories and did make him a planeswalker, having sensed the spark within him when they first met but immediately afterward she stabbed the sword into Dakkon's shadow and absorbed his soul but not his life. Plunging the Blackblade into Dakkon's shadow, she bound his soul into the blade as his planeswalker spark ignited. Dakkon was left wandering the plane, wondering why Dihada would grant him so much power, only to make him her enemy.

During the Enslavement of Trine, Dihada spent three centuries conquering southern Corondor while Dakkon wandered the planes searching for her.