Fontaine Artifacts

Fontaine Artifacts are obviously artifacts created by the Fontaine family. As the Fontaine family has close ties to the Daedric Princes and also extremely magically attuned, it is known that they possess the capacity to make and research the development of many weapons and equipment pieces that can grant the user incredible power. Through the years of their existence, there has been many Fontaine Artifacts created. All of them are considered extremely valuable to the family, and none of them may be sold or given to anyone who is not part of the Fontaine family.

Even the simple sword that every Fontaine main line member carries is considered an artifact. This is perhaps the least valuable artifacts they possess, due to how common these swords actually are. A lot more rare artifacts, known as Traces of Origin, have been created over the years, and these tend to be priceless. Should a Fontaine Artifact be stolen, the family will go all out to recover it, sending their most powerful members to terminate those who dare to steal the artifacts.

Fontaine Main Line Sword
Fontaine main line swords are all considered artifacts of the family, and are still valuable even though they are common, with a new one being made for every main line Fontaine being born. This does not invalidate their value, though, as all of these swords are different from any other Fontaine made sword and unique, with only one copy of every sword existing.

All Fontaine swords are made with straight edges, although they can be single or double edged. They are almost always bastard swords, to facilitate the use with two or one hand. All Fontaine swords are made with the Fontaine alloy, which is two parts of ebony to one part of silver, one part of quicksilver and a bowl of stahlrim chips. This resulting mixture is normally a dark grey, but extremely shiny. After forging, the swords will have the Fontaine Eternal Enchantment applied to them, which makes them unbreakable and unable to lose their edge by immobilizing the position of all the atoms in the sword relative to each other. This results in extremely sharp swords that never break or blunt. However, this prevents enchanting, which means normal Fontaine swords never have magical effects

The difference between the sword of a normal Fontaine and that of a Main Liner/Royal Fontaine is that the swords of the Main Line or the Daggerfall Royal Family have their umbilical cord added into the molten metal to be used by the sword. This causes the sword to gain extremely powerful supernatural properties related to the Fontaine whose umbilical cord was used for the construction of the sword. With the use of Fontaine Sword Channeling, the dissolved umbilical cord fragments can generate power and thus transforms the blade into a magical weapon.

The power difference between the sword of a Main Line/Royal Fontaine and that of a normal one is staggering. Due to sword channeling, the additional magical damage is high, and the sword becomes capable of applying magical and conceptual effects to those that are hit by it. Furthermore, all Fontaine Main Line Swords are capable of firing energy crescents related to the power of the Fontaine who provided the umbilical cord used for its construction.

A Main Line sword can be made for any Fontaine, but normally are only made for the Daggerfall Royal Family or Main Line Fontaines, because the individuals from these two lines of descent tend to be much more powerful, which makes their swords much stronger if made. The swords require one to know how to perform Fontaine Sword Channeling, or they are just normal Fontaine Swords that somehow end up being sharper, with increased spiritual pressure that increases the weight of strikes.