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Ataraxia is a magic sword created by Nesta Archeron. One out of the three objects Nesta produced with her power; a dagger, another sword, and Ataraxia.
Description[]
The sword is simple and made of steel that crackled with pure magic and glowed like moonlight. Nesta often channels her magic into the sword causing it to glow and blaze with her silver flames .[1]
History[]
A Court of Silver Flames[]
Cassian had taken Nesta to a blacksmith in Velaris so she could learn how weapons were made, the hard work that came with creating them, and thus appreciate them before actually wielding them. Nesta created the magic sword unknowingly while practicing hammering at the metal for a while infusing it with her power of silver flames while she made them.
Later on, the sword was used to slay Lanthys, a creature that was truly immortal.[1]
House of Flame and Shadow[]
Nesta used the sword to kill the Middengard Wyrm when Bryce Quinlan set a trap for Azriel and Nesta. She then uses it again to kill the Asteri Vesperus by beheading her after amplifying Ataraxia’s own magic by imbuing it with her own silver flames, killing yet again a truly immortal being.
Trivia[]
- The name Ataraxia means "Inner Peace" in the Old Language, a language no one has spoken in fifteen thousand years in Prythian.[1]