Ushgēd

The legendary items known together as Ushgēd are considered to represent mastery of the Vegrāhid over the physical and metaphysical (rūn, shālemna, lumna) sciences. As the items, and the ancestors, originate at the very beginning of Shāmalta civilization, concrete details are scarce.
Their creation is covered in the legend of Īdshāgād:

The Vegrāhid gathered together, combining their knowledge and skills in engineering and metalwork to create a great treasure for the Shāmaltā. But first, they would need to create the tools to make this great treasure they had envisioned.
Each departed from their friends and family, for they would be gone a long time. Deep into the earth, they traveled beyond the farthest realms of their clans. In these hidden depths, shown to them by Shapla, they came together at an underground river of molten iron.
They forged the tools needed in the murderous heat that would have slain lesser beings. A forge, an anvil, a hammer for smithing, a hammer for striking, and a pick for harvesting raw materials. In the process, they would also need to make a prosthetic arm for injuries sustained.
With these tools, they forged Ferūklad, the symbol of lordship and birthright of the Regdāhid of the First Empire. The sword was more than a symbol, it was a deadly weapon that could cleave flesh and armor or burn a foe to ash.
But once finished, they took the tools home separately, claiming it was their due for the labor. Never again would a single item be made using all six pieces; their people were lesser for it.
-Askmir the Lorekeeper

Seven items are known:

• Ferūklad - "The Iron Sword." A deadly weapon and a symbol of the Regdāhid of Sāvarāhid. While the position was hereditary in practice, the bequeathment of Ferūklad was the legal requirement for rulership. Even without Shāmalta using the traditional title, there would be no "legal" Emperor without it. Like the Teryn legends of the sword Caliburnus. Historical anecdotes are unclear as to the properties of Ferūklad: tales speak of disintegrating enemies, sundering stone, and cleaving hardened steel with no effort.
• Shāragad - "Ordination." An anvil so large it could be worked comfortably while it sat on the ground. Covered in rūn and elaborate engravings, it could also rightly be considered artwork. Legends speak of it imparting a measure of Argad's mastery of crafts and art to those who work upon it as well as Lumina's mastery of rūn. Argad created items of stunning beauty and terrible potency that rivaled Lumina's without her innate skill.
• Edtash - "Harvester." A humble pickaxe, similar to the later Teryn dolabra; useful as a tool for mining and entrenching. Though a humble item, it was covered in rūn by Lumina as all the Ushgēd were. Legends speak that wielding it allows a person a fraction of Oram's innate sense of stone and metal, and excavation with it is as easily as getting a bucket of water from a fountain.
• Thezra - "Eternity." A forge of perfect symmetrical and geometrical construction, able to generate and retain heat on par with industrial furnaces. The least is known about any of Thezra's additional properties, but its value as a historical and symbolic artifact can't be understated. Legends say it was still in Ithal when Makhashakh occurred, meaning if one could locate the old hold, it could be the easiest of the Ushgēd to recover.
• Khālakgus - "Lavagrip." A prosthetic left arm up to the shoulder. Said to be immune to earthly heat and making the bearer immune to physical temperature extremes. Legends also speak of its ability to channel the sun's radiance into a deadly beam. Until the fall of the First Empire, all rulers of Molyhal and its domain ritually excised their left arm to bear Khālakgus in the fashion of their ancestors.
• Ekhagrūn - "Rūnmaker." A single-handed hammer wielded by Lumina to strike rūn into any, and every, item she so desired. Said to be perfectly balanced even though of great size and covered in a flawless tapestry of all known rūn. To Mazrūn and followers of Zepid it's even more important than Ferūklad.
• Sāzagemfak - "Worldbreaker." A massive sledgehammer with two heads capable of flattening a 5cm ball of cold iron, sundering a boulder, or shattering a foe's body... all in a single blow. Legends tell of Vanas using it to open entirely new tunnels during excavation as Vanahal was expanded. It's also said that when the anvil Shāragad was moved from its initial position, the stone was pulverized for a solid meter below. Her siblings joked: "be careful, or you'll break the world," and thus it was named.

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