These evil weapons date from a dark age commonly referred to as The Purge. The tales tell of an ambitious senator's evil schemes to take control of the ancient republic which governed the land. Only those of the Order of the Arcane took a stance against him in his relentless grasp for power. To combat them these special weapons were commissioned for the republic's soldiers. What followed was the complete eradication of the Order. For centuries vast amounts of arcane knowledge has been lost to this Purge. It is only now that the Order is close to its former glory.