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Author: Hertzyscowicz

Jun 1st 2012 at 4:23:07 AM

The following should go to HungrySword:

* Kin-Slayer in Chronicles Of The Kencyrath is portrayed as a weapon which doesn't want to be put in the scabbard without having killed someone first.
* In the Ethshar novel The Misenchanted Sword, the eponymous sword literally could not be resheathed until it had been used to kill somebody.
* Lawrence Watt-Evans' The Misenchanted Sword. When the title sword is drawn, it must be used to kill a man before it can be sheathed again.

*Norse Mythology
**King Högni's dwarf-made sword Dáinsleif. It could not be sheathed until it had drawn blood or taken life.
**Tyrfing. Another dwarf-forged sword, it was cursed so that it would kill a man every time it was drawn.

* In 3.5e at least, there was a Dungeons And Dragons mechanic that was a quality of an intelligent weapon, that was almost word for word the laconic version of this trope.

* In the Gaia Online MMORPG, the Muramasa sword cannot be sheathed until it has drawn blood.
*The cursed swords in Muramasa: The Demon Blade cannot be sheathed until they have tasted blood. It there's no one around to kill, the swords will turn on their wielders.

The {{Team Fortress 2}} example is borderline.

Also, I can't find any citation for the Sikh belief.