Yatarou

The katana Yatarou carries is a puzzle the wizards of The Crystal Highlands of Armaria cannot solve. They brought the blade here years ago, a friendly wanderer with an impossible artifact, hoping the region's famed scholars could decipher its origin. For all their instruments and incantations, the mages have found nothing. The metal doesn't ring true; it absorbs the magical light of the spinning monoliths without warming, and its edge cuts through enchanted stone as if it were air. Yatarou themselves remembers nothing before waking in a field with the blade clutched in their hand. They train with a calm diligence that belies the profound void in their memory. One evening, a wizard noticed a single, faint mark on the handguard, a symbol no one recognizes. But Yatarou does. They see it every night in their dreams.