Item from Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn by Tad Williams
Josua's sword — a long, slender blade that is not a Great Sword but carries its own significance: the weapon of a reluctant prince, wielded left-handed, used to knight a kitchen boy.
Naidel is important not for what it is but for what it represents. It's Josua's personal weapon, the sword he relearned to fight with after losing his right hand. He won Vorzheva from her father's clan with it. He knighted Simon with it. He carried it through the fall of Naglimund, the exile at Sesuad'ra, and the march on the Hayholt. In a trilogy about legendary magical swords that reshape the world, Naidel is refreshingly ordinary — a good blade in the hand of a good man who'd rather not be fighting at all.
A long, slender blade — elegant rather than imposing, suited to Josua's left-handed fighting style. Not a magical weapon or an ancient artifact — just a well-made sword carried by a man who never wanted to need one.
Also known as: Naidel