The broken sword is a relic of the iron shortage in the Baldur's Gate region... your first major mission in BG1 is to solve the iron crisis. Basically, the iron was tainted, so swords, armor, whatever was always breaking... hence the broken sword. Really annoying to have your only sword break in the middle of a fight with Kobolds (once upon a time, they were a formidible enemy[sort of]).
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It deons\'t mttaer waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, it olny mtaetrs taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be croecrt. The rset can be a tatol mses and you can sitll raed it. The huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
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