46-47.) In AD&D 1e, the DMG likewise described the holy avenger (technically named "Sword, +5, Holy Avenger") as "a holy sword." (See p. 8.) Two kinds of holy sword were offered there, namely the holy sword +5 and the sword of sharpness. Paladins with any form of "Holy Sword" are virtually immune to all magic (see MONSTERS & TREASURE, MAGIC & TREASURE, Swords). The first printed appearance of the holy sword I can find is in Supplement 1: Greyhawk, which presented the holy sword as if it were a class feature part-and-parcel of the paladin: In case it helps, I trace the holy avenger back to early editions of D&D where it was presented as but one token of a broader type: the holy sword. To understand how (or if) the holy avenger has changed in the Realms, I need to identify its starting point. The functions of magic, and magic items, have often changed through these events. The Realms have experienced several in-narrative events created to coincide with, and explain, rules changes that came with each new edition of D&D - the (first) Sundering, the Time of Troubles, etc.
Anyone who has ever played D&D surely knows of the holy avenger, the mighty magical sword whose true power manifests only in the hands of a paladin.įor purposes of a campaign to be set in the Forgotten Realms, I am attempting to ascertain where the notion of the paladin wielding a special sacred weapon first crossed into official Realms material.
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