Gece

Gece ("Night") is an enchanted short sword in the campaign Raphael Efsanesi ("The Legend of Raphael"). Raphael took it from the Kalel master Naros. Gece was the name it already bore, though the name is not written on it, and Raphael chose to keep it.¹

Nature

The blade carries the sign of a full moon. It makes no sound itself, and whoever it strikes cannot cry out; its wounds also carry a deathly, withering harm.¹

When the blade was examined for registration, the officials found traces of magic that might be forbidden. Such a weapon, they said, could be used to kill in secret and hide the crime from the authorities, and it bore the mark of a school of magic viewed with suspicion. Siyah, head of the Archon embassy in White City, recognised that school as his own field.^{2 3}

Sale to Sirius

Short of money, Raphael offered to leave the silent blade as a pledge, but Picolo told him the maker he needed to pay wanted coin, not goods, and advised him to sell it to Sirius, keeper of a shop of wonders in the inner ring of the capital. Sirius studied the blade through his monocle. He called it a strong, fine and rare piece but hard to sell because of its ill luck, and after some bargaining he bought it.^{4 5 6}

Sirius did not like to leave his shop, so he paid Raphael extra to have the blade registered for him: first at the office by the city gate, and at the Archon if the office sent him there. The blade went back into Raphael's keeping for this, though it now belonged to Sirius.⁷

Registration

Two large offices stand side by side at the entrance of White City, one recording magic items and the other mages. At the item office Raphael presented himself as the owner of an inn and claimed that a customer had left the blade behind and never returned. As a citizen he was charged nothing, and after an hour's testing the official sent him on to the Archon for approval, asking for a written statement about the earlier customer within fifteen days.^{8 9 10}

At the embassy Siyah judged that possessing the blade was lawful and gave Raphael a sealed approval in an envelope, advising him above all not to carry it outside White City. An attendant then handed the blade back to Raphael.^{3 11}