Element(s):The Lost Blade and The Hundred Soldiers.

This post is not one of the previously scheduled posts, but given how late this is in coming, I will be posting this instead.

This post consists of elements, these are things that can be put into a story or world.  They do not change the world by any large extent.  Instead they might be the key to a given story or episode.  Perhaps a macguffin or important thing to a story, but they do not hugely shape the world around them like a module might.

Element 1: The Hundred Soldiers
At some point in the past a city that had sent its army to the aid of a nearby allied city that was being menaced by some menace.  The details are vague and vary greatly in the telling, but while the armies main force was away and only a hundred ill trained and ill equipped soldiers remained to defend the city.  The city was crushed and the populace was slaughtered by a dragon or an evil wizard so the story goes.  One soldier, the blacksmith's apprentice had survived after being struck unconscious and mistaken for dead and seeing his home destroyed he was stricken with grief and rage.  He gathered up the swords of each of the ninety nine other soldiers who had fallen and took them to the forge.  He shattered each one and broke the blade from his own sword, using one shard from each sword, and the hilt of his own he crafted a new sword named "The Hundred Soldiers."  It was not the best crafted or sharpest blade that had ever been seen, in fact it was a rather mediocre weapon, but it is said that whoever wields it fights with the resolve of a hundred brave souls, it is also said that as long as The Hundred Soldiers was wielded in the defense of a city, that city would never fall.

Element 2:  The Lost Blade
The Lost Blade is not some mythical sword but a man.  At some point in his past his home was attacked by some force, details vary in the telling but some say an evil wizard came in search of some thing of prophecy.  When he could not find it the wizard left but vowed to return in one year, and if the thing could not be found he would destroy the town.  Unable to find the item, a group of the villages men, including this man trained themselves for battle vowing to let no harm come to their loved ones.  They failed and the village was burned to the ground by the wizards fire.  Badly burned this man, who by some accounts had led the resistance, dove into a river and survived.  He came to with no memory of his past or his name, all he remembered was pain and his skills with the sword.  From this point on he became a wanderer, helping the helpless and fighting those who cause suffering.  He is known only as the Lost Blade, and while many whisper about his possible origins, no one knows for sure what the story is, and he seems uninterested.  He has studied swordsmanship under every master he can find, and by some he is regarded as the greatest swordsman.  He has occasionally taken an apprentice and shown them the way of the sword, but he only takes as his apprentices those with no worldly ties and no sense of destiny.

Note: It is very easy for the Lost Blade and the Hundred Soldiers to be connected.  The Lost Blade may have once been the blacksmith's apprentice and crafted the Hundred Soldiers in a fugue state.  Some details of their origins might need to be changed to reconcile them, but they work well together.