Item from Arcane by Riot Games
Riven's massive Noxian runic blade, deliberately shattered by its wielder in rejection of the empire she once served, then reforged — carrying the weight of her guilt and the question of whether redemption is possible.
The Blade of the Exile tells Riven's story without words. It was forged in Noxus for a promising soldier, inscribed with runes of power that made it nearly indestructible. Riven carried it with pride through campaigns of conquest until the horrors of the Ionian invasion broke something inside her. She shattered the blade herself — a symbolic rejection of everything Noxus had made her. But the runes remember wholeness, and in moments of desperate need, Riven can channel her will to temporarily reforge it. Each reconstruction forces her to confront what she was, and the blade's fragmented state mirrors her own: broken by choice, capable of being made whole, but forever changed by the breaking.
A broad-bladed greatsword of dark metal inscribed with green runic script. In its broken state, only the base third of the blade remains intact. When reforged through Riven's will, the runic energy reconstructs the full blade in crackling emerald light.
Also known as: Riven's Sword, The Broken Blade