Item from A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
The ancestral greatsword of House Stark — a blade of dark, smoky Valyrian steel as wide as a man's hand, used for centuries to execute the king's justice in the North.
Ice was not a weapon of war but a weapon of law. When Ned Stark passed the sentence, Ned Stark swung the sword — that was the Northern way, and Ice was the instrument of that personal justice for generations. Its destruction by Tywin Lannister — melted down and reforged into Oathkeeper and Widow's Wail — was not merely the loss of a sword but the symbolic dismemberment of House Stark itself. Two Lannister swords made from Stark steel, one given away as a gift and the other wielded by a monster. The act was deliberately cruel, and every Stark who learns of it feels the wound. When Ice enters a scene in memory or reference, it carries the weight of everything the Starks lost — and everything they're fighting to reclaim.
A massive two-handed greatsword of dark Valyrian steel with a rippled, smoky pattern in the metal. Too large and heavy for battle, it was a ceremonial weapon — a headsman's blade. The crossguard is simple, the grip wrapped in grey leather, the whole weapon radiating cold authority.
Also known as: Ice, the Stark sword, the Stark greatsword