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Peasant's Sword

Brennan describes a wall of swords behind locked glass and, next to it, an umbrella stand holding one humble-looking sword with a leather-wrapped hilt UC2 E4·01:14:17. After a 25 Arcana check he says the party calls it the umbrella sword, that legend has it forged for a tyrannical knight in medieval Poland who rejected it, and that a peasant boy found and picked it up UC2 E4·01:41:05. The one thing the party knows is "It works best in the hands of the humble" UC2 E4·01:41:05. Iga says the sword will suit Cody, and Cody says "It kind of hurts when I touch it" UC2 E4·01:42:28 UC2 E4·01:41:57.

The Peasant's Sword is a plain, leather-hilted sword that Brennan says Ricky got from Iga's castle and links to a peasant boy and to humility: it works best in the hands of the humble UC2 E4·01:14:17 UC2 E4·01:41:05 UC2 E9·02:10:36. In UC2_05 Ricky tells Cody he is glad the Questing Blade found him and says he will take the umbrella sword, and Murph hands the Peasant's Sword to Ricky UC2 E5·00:22:18 UC2 E5·00:22:35. Ricky draws it against a siege devil UC2 E5·01:28:26. Esther looks at it and says it is tied to humility and has "more powers that kind of unlock when you are like, crazy humble" UC2 E6·02:20:28. At the sword in the stone Brennan says Ricky is holding the Peasant Sword UC2 E9·02:10:36.

In UC2_12 Ricky slides the Peasant Sword across to Cody, who is grateful for "A fucking usable sword", and Brennan says Cody must be tested by a sword that does nothing but work UC2 E12·01:13:42 UC2 E12·01:14:02 UC2 E12·01:14:42. Cody later says he will take the Peasant Sword, and he brings the Questing Blade along so that nobody else gets it UC2 E12·01:30:08. Ricky tells him to keep it until the Questing Blade is sorted out UC2 E12·01:47:25. In UC2_13 Cody gives the Peasant Sword to Nick Lisowski, calling it Nick's family sword UC2 E13·01:11:23 UC2 E13·01:11:40. Brennan's recap says Nick is choosing to become a warlock, and two years later Nick carries the sword on his back under Umbral Arcana UC2 E14·00:02:49 UC2 E18·01:59:09.

By episode

UC2 E4: We Need To Talk About Cody

  • Umbrella sword — a plain sword with a leather-wrapped hilt in an umbrella stand — 01:14:17. Legend (Arcana 25): forged for a tyrannical Polish knight who rejected it; a peasant boy found it, trained with it and killed the knight; "It works best in the hands of the humble is the only thing you know about it." — 01:41:05. Cody: "It kind of hurts when I touch it." — 01:42:28; Brennan says it would be "a million percent" a better fit for Ricky — 01:42:25.

UC2 E5: Trouble at the Tunnel

  • Umbrella sword, the "Peasant's Sword" (from UC2_04) — Cody offers it to Ricky; Ricky takes it: "sure, I'll take that umbrella sword" — 00:22:18; Murph: "I hand the Peasant's Sword to, to Ricky." — 00:22:35. Ricky draws it in round 2 — 01:28:26; it makes a "shield of light" against a devil's horn — 01:44:33.

UC2 E6: Collaborators

  • Peasant's Sword (from UC2_04) — Ricky's sword; Esther identifies it: "the sword is connected to sort of humility as a concept. It's literally called like the Peasant's Sword. It does have more powers that kind of unlock when you are like, crazy humble." — 02:20:28.

UC2 E12: The Battle of the Hot Dog Cart

  • Peasant Sword (from UC2_06 "Peasant's Sword") — "a sword that, hey, it works" — 01:14:42; Ricky gives it to Cody; Cody: "A fucking usable sword." — 01:14:02. Cody keeps it — 01:47:25. With it Cody does a swing "old and rusty" that "You swing and decapitate with a blast of lightning" — 01:32:01.

UC2 E13: Of Rats & Dragons