… maybe I missed it, but am I to understand that after we depowered this weapon, this ancient piece of Azerothian history was just unceremoniously tossed aside like a terrible gag gift you get a Christmas?
In all seriousness: How tf did it turn up at the beach? Was there a part in the chain where Xal’atath actually tells us not to fuss about how the knife turned up again or did I imagine that?
My personal headcanon is that the owner tried to dispose of it Jumanji style, but since its sentient like that damn boardgame, or the One Ring, it found its way back. But is there lore here that I missed? Did someone smuggle it out?
Also, unrelated, but on priest characters, does the game treat it as if it’s your knife that is the one?
Presumably it was set to be stored away by the priests at Netherlight Temple and their leader, whereupon the blade’s suspiciously preturnatural ability to just so happen to be lost , stolen or otherwise misplaced by whosoever carries it kicked in, allowing it to eventually end up in the location where the player relocates it.
Xal’atath has this sinister “thing” about it where as soon as it’s done with someone, fate and “coincidence” arrange for it to fall out of their possession and find its way into the hands of whomever it seemingly wants to be possessed by next.
A more notable example being that it abandoned Modgud in her hour of greatest need during the War of the Three Hammers, presumably because by that time she’d fulfilled whatever purpose the blade intended for her and it was no longer interested in helping her.
If it is a finger, or toe, or claw, of an Old God, perhaps it can move about at will. Sort of like Thing from The Addams Family, or stuff from Evil Dead.