"Ragnarok": A call for information!

Good people,

This will be where we all compile information on the weapon known as "Ragnarok" or any other weapons of a power sufficient enough to be comparable.

Please make yourself known and offer any information you can. Even if you feel it may be redundant or basic in its content, we will need any clues or resources that can be found. Our lives and our souls will depend on the success or failure of this research effort and the following quest to recover the "Clean" option for destroying Balfurous.

We need not become the enemy in order to defeat him.

Wotcher Mister Belfast,

Here follows what information I've been able to bring together thus far:

As far as I've been able to discern, legend tells that the weapon was formerly wielded by a revered warrior from the Northern Wastes. A number of ancient poems and songs feature both he and the blade, and while I haven't been able to ascertain precisely where the weapon came from or how it entered his possession, from studying these, it seems that swinging the weapon brings about some sort of great traumatic force - there are numerous mentions of great numbers of opponents being flung through the air, or knocked to the ground.

Perhaps most heartening of all: by performing an analysis of the foes Ragnarok is told to have slain, I believe we can claim that the weapon will prove effective against Mister Balfurous with approximately 90-95 parts certainty. What precisely will happen when we apply an unstoppable force to an immovable object remains to be observed.

Count Winterdark has ordered that I assemble a small expedition to retrieve the weapon from its resting place - once we've finished preparations, we hope to leave in just over a week's time. There is no indication that any organs will need to be sacrificed during the process.

I hope this information will be of use to all who read it.

If you're needing of my help, it is yours on this expedition.

Bran

While the need to find Ragnarok is great it will not be a replacement for Bloodtide. We need something more than legendary weapons. The reason for Bloodtide was a weapon that could prevent Balfurous from turning into a block of ice and using his incredible healing powers. Ever bleeding wounds would prevent that. The powerful blows from Ragnarok would matter little when Balfurous can simply stop and heal himself.

Do not take this as me condoning the use of Bloodtide, even with my sacrifices to make it. I'm simply pointing out what an alternative would need to accomplish: make it so Balfurous can't stop and heal.

If what is needed is to halt healing and regenerative effects, perhaps one might look to the records of those who hunt lycanthropes. One would think that those used to combating regeneration would have some form or technique towards doing so.

In addition, I have been working towards something that may well prove of use in such an endeavor. One merely hopes that I shall be able to complete my research in time.

In science and progress,
Nigel Whitworth, Gentleman Apothecary

Goggins,

I wish I could help with this expedition. I wish you the best of luck and pray for your success.

A student of the world,
Seeker of the Lost Word,
Illyrin Soral