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When I installed the Heart of Winter expansion, I decided to scrap all my old saved games from the original Icewind Dale. (I hadn't played the game in months after getting stumped, and stuck, by the puzzle room in Dorn's Deep. I also wanted to rework my original party to include a druid to take advantage of the new spells for that class in HoW.) My question is along these lines: I remember that in the original, non-expansion Icewind Dale, there was a fairly awesome bastard sword that you acquire before getting to Dragon's Eye. The weapon was consecrated to Auril Frostmaiden, and bore some title to the effect of "Snowmaiden's Fury" or "Wrath of Winter's Maiden" or some such. For my money it was the best melee weapon in the game; it glowed with an ice-blue flame and could freeze opponents solid. I have vivid memories of my Northlander swordswoman freeze-drying lizard men in Dragon's Eye with the sword (pardon my French, webmaster, but @*?/! the friendly "lizardfolk" of the otherwise great 3rd Edition) and my Tethyrian paladin hacking them into ice cubes; it made for some nicely sadistic yucks at the end of the day. My question is, does this sword still exist in Heart of Winter, and if so, where is it? Conlan's Smithy in Kuldahar doesn't sell it and I don't see it listed in the item list in the Ironworks HoW walkthrough. I'm of the "Monty Haul" school when it comes to scouring for treasure in these games, so I doubt that I've overlooked it. So I'm asking if the swords still exists and where, guys.
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