Anvil

Anvil, also known as the King of Swords, was the Sovereign who ruled Great Clan Valor and the Sword Domain from Bastion. The heir of Warden of Valor, he became an unparalleled weaponsmith and one of humanity's first Supremes, but his attempt to defeat a cruel Flaw by refusing to cherish anything hardened into a system of control, calculated sacrifice, and pre-emptive violence. His reign shaped the lives of Mordret, Morgan, and Nephis, and ended when the Domain War he engineered created the conditions for a new generation of Sovereigns to overthrow him. (Chapters 504, 1644, 2163–2164, 2252–2259)

Biography

The heir forged for war

Anvil was Warden of Valor's younger son and inherited the divine lineage of War God. Having lost his mother during the First Gate Crisis, he was raised under an unusually severe program of swordsmanship, scholarship, and survival training. At seven he was already serious, observant, and willing to continue after exhaustion, while Jest tried to teach him that real combat required deception and flexibility rather than rigid knightly ideals. Anvil accepted the lesson through the metaphor that good steel must bend instead of break, an early sign that craft and battle were already inseparable in his thinking. (Chapters 2156, 2162)

By fourteen, Anvil had surpassed Jest as a swordsman and trained chiefly with his elder brother Madoc. He worried openly about Madoc contracting the Nightmare Spell, then survived his own First Nightmare shortly before turning sixteen. At the Academy, the tall, cold Sleeper defined combat as a contest of weapon, skill, valor, and will; the answer preserved his father's chivalric language but also placed superior equipment and practical victory at its center. He studied dead languages and runic inscriptions alongside martial training, laying the foundation for the forgemaster he would become. (Chapters 1935, 2158, 2160–2161)

The First Nightmare gave Anvil a Flaw that required him to lose everything he cherished. After Warden died in the Third Nightmare, the young heir concluded that the only way to escape the curse was to stop treasuring people and things altogether. Jest had meant that an Awakened should adapt creatively to a Flaw, but Anvil transformed that advice into a vow of emotional self-erasure. He immediately turned from private grief toward consolidating Bastion, and later memories identify this decision—not an innate inability to feel—as the point from which his deliberate indifference began to consume his humanity. (Chapters 2161–2164)

Cohort, marriage, and the mirror beneath Bastion

As an Awakened, Anvil fought beside Broken Sword and Smile of Heaven, becoming one of the celebrated champions of the second generation. After Warden's death he broke opposition among Valor's branch families, prepared obsessively for the Second Nightmare, and equipped his cohort with exceptionally powerful Memories. He also repeatedly explored the forbidden realm behind Bastion's Great Mirror, studied its inscriptions, destroyed ordinary mirrors throughout the Citadel, and developed a perfectionist hatred of Flaws. His search for additional strength led him to recruit the Dream Realm-born Asterion, whose knowledge and formidable Aspect he valued despite recognizing the youth's danger. (Chapters 2162–2165)

Anvil entered the Second Nightmare with Broken Sword, Smile of Heaven, Ki Song, and Asterion. During the trial, a flawless duplicate of Anvil appeared through Bastion's Great Mirror and lived among his family while the original body remained in its sleeping pod. The returned Anvil recognized the danger immediately, tore through the Valor compound, and destroyed the copy in a brief, devastating battle. His terror for his wife Gwyn and relief when she survived showed that his indifference was still a fragile performance at that point, not the absence of attachment he wanted it to be. (Chapters 2166–2173)

Gwyn later gave birth to Mordret, but Anvil viewed the child with suspicion because the mirror duplicate had been present during his absence. When Gwyn died after Morgan's birth, he stood before the Great Mirror and declared that he had failed again and would not fail anymore. The fall of America then killed Immortal Flame and Smile of Heaven, breaking another of his remaining attachments. According to Jest's recovered memories, that final loss brought Anvil to accept Asterion's offer of a new bargain: help in killing Broken Sword. (Chapter 2173)

Betrayal in the Underworld

Broken Sword survived the loss of Smile of Heaven by insisting that her wandering soul might have reached the Fifth Nightmare. He drove his cohort toward Transcendence and then toward further Ascension, hoping to rescue her before it was too late. Ki Song's later account says Anvil opposed this haste partly because higher Ascension risked accelerating Earth's destruction and removing its strongest guardians from the waking world; it also attributes to him resentment toward the man who had failed to keep Smile of Heaven safe. Jest's memories independently establish that Anvil had already agreed to a plan against his former friend after America fell. (Chapters 2173, 2187–2189)

After the cohort conquered the Third Nightmare, Anvil made a deal with Asterion and brought Ki Song into the conspiracy. The four challenged the Fourth Nightmare in secret less than a year after becoming Saints, then attacked Broken Sword in the Underworld immediately after emerging as Supremes. Even surprised and outnumbered, Broken Sword survived long enough to flee into the darkness, but the Spell later announced his death. Anvil's final explanation adds a second, crucial motive: Broken Sword had absorbed Weaver's forbidden lineage, which the conspirators believed would awaken the Forgotten God if humanity came to know, love, and worship its celebrated bearer. (Chapters 2189–2190, 2256–2257)

The murder solved one danger by creating several others. The surviving Sovereigns could no longer trust one another, while their Domains grew through a limited number of Citadels that encouraged conflict. Anvil, Ki Song, and Asterion initially restrained each other; Asterion held Mordret, Anvil threatened Ki Song, and Ki Song restricted Asterion's fame. Anvil and Ki Song later stranded Asterion on the moon, massacred his followers, and erased his public identity. With their remaining deterrence broken, Anvil struck Ki Song and began the clandestine struggle that ultimately became the Domain War. (Chapters 2191–2193)

A king behind other faces

For much of the story, Anvil is an unseen ruler rather than a public monarch. Sunny first identifies him as the Sovereign behind Clan Valor and suspects the Sovereigns of suppressing independent Saints and targeting the young Nephis, while Madoc remains the clan's nominal head in the waking world. This concealment also limited the fame on which Asterion's Domain depended. Anvil nevertheless directed Valor's expansion, forged the clan's weapons, and exercised authority through his siblings, children, Knights, and Citadels even when he could not easily leave the Dream Realm. (Chapters 504, 804, 1073, 2191–2192)

During the Antarctic crisis, Anvil sent Madoc, Morgan, and Nephis as Valor's vanguard, entrusted Morgan with extensive military power, and positioned Madoc to oversee the expedition toward the Tomb of Ariel. Valor and Song publicly fought Nightmare Creatures while preparing against each other, and Anvil's forces treated the continent as both a humanitarian battlefield and a route to territorial advantage. The campaign expanded his struggle with Ki Song without requiring him to appear personally, while Nephis gained forces, prestige, and a place inside the clan whose king she intended to kill. (Chapters 1099–1128)

After the Third Nightmare, Anvil continued forging almost without pause in Bastion. He had produced so many weapons that even the blades carried by ordinary Knights and Paladins were described as his discards, while branded swords connected their wielders to him. He altered Nephis's Kinslayer personally, allowing him to seize it with his Will, and Valor used ceremonial elevation and political patronage to bind useful outsiders to the royal clan. Nephis outwardly accepted this place but commissioned a weapon Anvil could not control, turning his attempt to incorporate her into preparation for his death. (Chapters 1644, 1667, 1689, 1804–1805)

The king descends on Godgrave

Anvil entered Godgrave through the authority anchored by the Ivory Island, before Valor conquered the Garden Castle in the Hollows. His arrival extended the Sword Domain through the Citadel, its anchored subjects, their fortifications, and the swords he had forged. When a horde of Nightmare Creatures threatened Valor's vanguard around the island, a storm of countless blades descended with exacting control, annihilating the creatures without striking his soldiers. The troops did not merely receive physical strength from his presence; they moved with heightened coordination and near-inhuman martial precision, expressing the Domain's “spirit of war.” (Chapters 1848, 1945)

He appeared as a tall, severe man in finely made dark armor, a vermilion cloak, and a dull steel crown. In his address to the assembled army, Anvil warned that Ki Song could not be underestimated, presented his own presence as the soldiers' assurance of victory, and framed the campaign as a contest for Citadels that would culminate in a duel between Sovereigns. He placed Morgan and Nephis at his sides, then ordered Sunny's Lord of Shadows persona to disrupt Song's expansion while the army secured the surface and strengthened his Domain. (Chapters 1853–1854)

Anvil's strategy treated territory, Citadels, subjects, and weapons as parts of the same system. He personally cleared Hollows around a newly conquered Garden Castle and established a fortified chain between the Gateway and the army's holdings, enabling his authority to spread continuously across the Breastbone Reach. The design produced a commanding early advantage, but it also made his strength dependent on infrastructure and loyalty. Mordret's assault on Bastion and the arrival of Ki Song from the west forced Anvil to fight a war on two fronts while Nephis, Sunny, and Cassie prepared to make both Domains destroy each other. (Chapters 1945, 2005, 2022–2026)

The Two Crossings and Condemnation

At the Two Crossings, Anvil repeatedly sent the Sword Army against fortified Song positions. He observed the first failed assault, ordered a retreat when success was no longer possible, and immediately revised the engineering plan to use three bridges and attacks on the fortress wings. Later assaults incorporated the Ivory Island, Knights, flying Echoes, and improved siege methods, but the defense held and casualties mounted on both sides. His willingness to continue the attritional siege demonstrated both tactical adaptation and the callous arithmetic that had come to define his rule. (Chapters 2075–2077)

Seeking to bypass the Lesser Stronghold, Anvil asked Sunny to chart a route for Saints and then large numbers of Awakened through the Hollows. When Sunny explained that every practical route crossed the territory of the Cursed Tyrant Condemnation, Anvil did not abandon the maneuver. He declared that the subjugation force would kill the creature and that he would lead it personally. The choice exposed him to extraordinary danger, but also prevented him from spending the army indefinitely against the crossing and promised a route that could overturn the siege. (Chapters 2080–2083)

Within his Domain, Anvil surrounded the expedition with a river of flying swords and used his Supreme Will to cut phenomena that could not be harmed as ordinary matter, including the concept sustaining a cloud of lethal pollen. He then invaded Condemnation's territory, manifested a scarlet sea of blades, and fought the Cursed Tyrant while his Saints held off its Great servants. The confrontation strained his Domain and left the observers unconscious, yet Anvil killed a class of enemy he had never slain before and cleared the clandestine route to the western rib. (Chapters 2082–2092)

Afterward, Anvil converted Condemnation into a new sword before the other Saints recovered. He also used the expedition as cover for Jest to investigate Sunny's Nameless Temple, showing that the daring campaign served intelligence gathering as well as strategy. When Jest reported that Sunny hid something connected to Nephis, Anvil weighed which member of her circle was most dangerous but deferred action during the war's critical stage. His private ease with Jest briefly revealed the remnants of an old bond beneath their king-and-subject roles, even as Jest lamented how thoroughly his former student had become heartless. (Chapter 2095)

The last battle of the Sword Domain

Cassie disclosed Anvil's hidden route to Ki Song to balance the Sovereigns, while the conspirators stripped both rulers of their Great Citadels. Anvil and Ki Song finally devastated Godgrave in open battle, sacrificing puppets, swords, soldiers, and the battlefield itself. Nephis descended between them, publicly demanded an end to the war, and then challenged them. When Anvil seized Kinslayer because he had forged its brand, she dismissed it and drew Sunny's independent blade; Sunny simultaneously moved the Nameless Temple and a fragment of the Shadow Realm onto the battlefield, suppressing both Domains. (Chapters 2184, 2233–2234)

Anvil fought Sunny first as a Supreme facing a Saint and nearly won by combining his Sacred sword, enchanted armor, metal authority, and concept-severing Will. The balance reversed when Sunny attained natural Supremacy. Anvil was a Supreme Beast with a craftsman Aspect only loosely tied to direct combat, while the newly Supreme Titan commanded six incarnations and a shadow legion inside a hostile Divine Domain. Although Anvil's weapons and armor remained formidable, their enchantments could not overcome the resulting disparity, and the loss of Citadels had already diminished the wider system supporting him. (Chapters 2251–2254)

During the duel, Sunny accused Anvil of using his Flaw as an excuse to fail his children, suppress Saints, abandon populations, and spend human lives in civil war. Anvil answered chiefly by calling Nephis his completed masterpiece, revealing that he understood her growth as the culmination of his own forging. He also defended Broken Sword's murder through the danger of Weaver's lineage. The explanation established a genuine existential threat, but Sunny rejected the hypocrisy of killing Broken Sword when the Sovereigns had successfully hidden themselves for decades and concluded that Anvil's hatred had also driven the decision. (Chapters 2253–2257)

Anvil made one last attack by arranging his flying swords into vast runes that sharpened a descending blade enough to threaten the battlefield itself. Sunny diverted the weapon into the Shadow Realm, severed Anvil's hand, crippled him, and beheaded him before the king could finish his final appeal concerning Nephis. Anvil's crown fell beside his body and every remaining sword dissolved into scarlet sparks. His death ended the Sword Domain's royal rule; surviving Valor loyalists later became exiles, while Sunny judged from Anvil's final conduct that the king may have wanted to die, though not by the outcome he received. (Chapters 2257–2259, 2813)

Appearance and personality

Anvil is tall and powerfully built, with black hair, a chiseled face, and cold steel-grey eyes. As king, he wears a finely crafted suit of dark plate armor, a vermilion cloak inherited through Valor, and a plain crown of dull steel. His armor moves without noise despite its weight, reinforcing the impression of precision and absolute control. Earlier memories show the same recognizable seriousness in childhood and adolescence, before age and authority turn it into an oppressive royal presence. (Chapters 1848, 1853, 2156, 2171–2173)

His public manner is restrained, formal, and domineering. He speaks evenly, rarely explains himself, and expects compliance without theatrical anger. Even before becoming Supreme, he frames combat through valor, skill, weapons, and will; as king, that philosophy becomes an authority so confident in its own rightness that it can force the world to yield. He is nevertheless practical rather than merely ceremonial, revising failed siege designs, leading a march against Condemnation, and personally forging or fighting when his plans require it. (Chapters 1935, 2075, 2081–2092)

Anvil's coldness is cultivated, not natural. As a child he worries for Madoc, enjoys Jest's kindness, cares for Smile of Heaven, and panics over Gwyn's safety. His Flaw convinces him that affection causes loss, so he attempts to extinguish the capacity to value anything. The effort succeeds enough to make him ruthless but never becomes complete: his displeasure when Nephis's allies threaten his design, the bond still visible with Jest, his hatred of Broken Sword, and the genuine smile he gives while calling Nephis his masterpiece all expose emotions beneath the steel facade. (Chapters 2095, 2158, 2163–2164, 2172–2173, 2254–2257)

He is an obsessive perfectionist in both people and objects. Flaws in a weapon provoke contempt, and he spends years forging innumerable swords while studying runic sorcery and the Great Mirror. He applies the same logic to human beings, treating Morgan as an heir to train and Nephis as a weapon to finish. This worldview produces extraordinary craftsmanship and disciplined leadership, but it also reduces relationships to function and allows him to interpret suffering as one more stage of tempering. (Chapters 1644, 2164–2166, 2253–2256)

Abilities and Aspect

Aspect, lineage, and Flaw

Anvil inherits the divine lineage of War God through Warden, granting the exceptional constitution noticed in his youth and aligning his family's abilities with warfare, technology, progress, and craft. The corpus never supplies a formal Aspect name or a complete Spell-style list of his Abilities. It does establish that his Aspect is fundamentally that of a craftsman and enchanter, with only a loose direct connection to combat, so its demonstrated functions should not be expanded into an unsupported class or genre system. (Chapters 1938, 1944, 1644, 2254)

His Flaw is explicit: he must lose everything he cherishes. It does not make him emotionless and is not shown taking possessions on a stated schedule or by a measurable trigger. Anvil's countermeasure is psychological—he trains himself to cherish nothing, believing that indifference leaves the Flaw nothing to take. This reduces his vulnerability to anticipated loss but does not nullify the curse, and the story presents the method as self-defeating because emotional denial destroys the very family, loyalty, and kingdom he hopes to preserve. (Chapters 2161–2164, 2253)

Authority over metal and swords

Anvil's Dormant Ability gives him a tremendous affinity for metal and the power to control it. He pulls weapons from others, flies by exerting force on his own metal armor, and directs myriads of swords independently with enough precision to destroy a horde without touching allied soldiers. At Supreme scale, this becomes both army and environment: blades flow as rivers, hover as storms, recover after striking, form runic structures, and descend along separate trajectories under a single governing Will. (Chapters 1848, 2082, 2086, 2233, 2257)

Metal control is not identical to unrestricted control of all weapons. Anvil's most reliable hold is over metal and, especially, blades he forged or altered; Nephis therefore dismisses Kinslayer when he claims it. Shadow-made and soul-made weapons do not automatically answer him, and Sunny can fight with Soul Serpent while Nephis can form a blade from her own soul. His final loss also shows the practical counter: sever his Domain, destroy or bypass the blades, contest his Will, or use a medium and weapon outside the system he has branded. (Chapters 1667, 1689, 2233–2234, 2253–2257)

Forging, Memories, and runic sorcery

Anvil can create and alter Memories through his craftsman-and-enchanter Aspect, aided by extensive study of runic sorcery. He equipped Broken Sword's cohort before the Second Nightmare, produced an enormous inventory of weapons for Valor, branded existing blades, and forged artificial Echoes such as a steel stallion. After killing Condemnation, he converted the Cursed Tyrant into a sword rapidly enough that the accompanying Saints did not witness the process. These feats establish that slain beings and soul shards can serve his craft, but the exact conversion stages are not shown. (Chapters 1644, 2082, 2095, 2164, 2254)

His best personal equipment carries multiple potent enchantments. The final Sacred sword can channel his Will and survive exchanges with a Supreme Titan, while his Supreme armor repairs damage and displays glowing red runes with varied effects. His runic arrays are not confined to items: he arranges countless swords into enormous luminous rings that intensify a falling blade. The system remains vulnerable to broken runes, superior force, spatial redirection, and the destruction or loss of the physical objects sustaining a given enchantment. (Chapters 2253–2257)

Sword Domain and Supreme Will

Anvil's Sword Domain spreads through himself, claimed Citadels, territory, loyal subjects anchored to those Citadels, and the swords he forged. Citadels act as major relays, while soldiers and contiguous fortified ground extend its reach more gradually. Within that authority, allies gain coordination, martial precision, and a shared spirit of war rather than a simple uniform increase in physical strength. Because people, infrastructure, and swords are vessels of the system, conquered Citadels strengthen Anvil while betrayal, lost territory, or destroyed weapons diminish him. (Chapters 1073, 1848, 1945, 2233–2234)

His Supreme Will is cold, sharp, and conceptually destructive. In the Hollows, a sword stroke kills poisonous pollen by cutting the concept sustaining its material presence. Against Sunny, Anvil's Will attacks courage, determination, and hope rather than merely flesh, and his weapons can become sharp enough to threaten the fabric of the battlefield. These attacks are neither absolute nor effortless: foreign Domains suppress him, the stronger Will of another Supreme can resist him, and a target can avoid the contest altogether, as Sunny does by sending the descending sword into the Shadow Realm. (Chapters 2082, 2086–2092, 2253, 2257)

Combat skill, scale, and limitations

Anvil is a master swordsman trained from childhood by Warden, Jest, Madoc, and Valor's veteran warriors. His technique is precise, efficient, and supported by decades of battle, from the campaigns that expanded human territory north of Bastion to killing Great and Cursed Nightmare Creatures. He can coordinate large wars while fighting personally, and his composure lets him adapt after surprise or injury. His craftsman Aspect does not replace this skill; rather, the weapons, enchantments, metal control, and Domain multiply a martial foundation already among humanity's finest. (Chapters 1935, 2156–2158, 2081–2092, 2253–2257, 2823)

His greatest limitations are structural. He is only a Supreme Beast, while some later Divine Aspect wielders possess more cores and incarnations. His Domain depends on Citadels, subjects, territory, and forged blades, making coordinated rebellion capable of weakening him before a duel. The Shadow Realm fragment suppresses his authority, Sunny's natural Supremacy resists his Will, and superior raw power overwhelms his enchantments. Even so, the battle requires elaborate preparation: stealing Citadels, exhausting him against Ki Song, trapping him inside a Divine Domain, and producing two new Supremes at the decisive moment. (Chapters 2233–2234, 2251–2257)

Power progression

Relationships

Mordret

Anvil's relationship with his firstborn is founded on suspicion. The flawless mirror duplicate appeared while Anvil was away in the Second Nightmare, and after Mordret's birth he doubted that the child was truly his despite Jest's certainty that Gwyn had not betrayed him. He later gave the four-year-old boy to Asterion as part of the Sovereigns' system of deterrence and quickly accepted the loss of that hostage when their balance failed. Mordret returned powerful and divided, was rejected and imprisoned by Valor, and built his adult purpose around killing the father who had surrendered him. (Chapters 2171–2173, 2191, 2520–2521, 2872–2874)

Mordret's campaign destroys House of Night, invades the Sword Domain, and forces Morgan to defend Bastion, costing Anvil both a major Citadel and his daughter's loyalty at the moment of the final battle. Yet Mordret is prevented from reaching Godgrave and does not kill Anvil himself; Sunny delivers the blow instead. The result leaves Anvil's eldest son with the strategic success of helping topple his father's kingdom but without the personal vengeance that had organized much of his life. (Chapters 1945, 2205–2233, 2257–2259, 2874)

Morgan

Morgan is Anvil's younger child and chosen heir. He raises her within Valor's martial system, grants her command in Antarctica, and leaves her to defend Bastion when he goes to Godgrave. Her sharp body, strategic talent, and loyalty make her a fitting royal weapon, but his emotional detachment does not give her the affection or confidence she seeks from a father. She continues serving long after Mordret's rebellion begins, then ultimately supports the government Saints' seizure of Bastion, helping remove the Citadel from Anvil's Domain. (Chapters 1099–1108, 1945, 2205–2233)

Nephis

Anvil helps destroy the Immortal Flame clan and permits attempts on the young Nephis because she might grow into an avenger. When killing her proves difficult, Valor instead incorporates her: she wears the clan's colors, leads its troops, and wields a sword branded by Anvil. He knows she hates him but believes pressure, battle, and access to his war will forge her into an ideal successor. In their last confrontation he calls the newly Supreme Nephis his masterpiece and says she is complete, claiming her victory as the success of his design even while she destroys his reign. (Chapters 1099–1108, 1689, 2191, 2233, 2254–2256)

Broken Sword, Smile of Heaven, and Asterion

Smile of Heaven was Anvil's childhood friend and the emotional center of their cohort. He distanced himself after resolving not to cherish anyone and expected Broken Sword to make her happy and keep her safe; her death in America consequently intensified both grief and resentment. Broken Sword remained his leader through the Third and Fourth Nightmares, but Anvil conspired with Asterion and Ki Song to kill him. The stated motives combine strategic fear, Weaver's lineage, disagreement over humanity's survival, and personal hatred, none of which the narrative allows to erase the betrayal. (Chapters 2161–2165, 2173, 2187–2190, 2256–2257)

Asterion begins as Anvil's risky recruit and contractual ally, then becomes a partner in Broken Sword's murder and a custodian of Mordret. Their relationship is always transactional: Anvil values the Dreamspawn's knowledge and power but recognizes him as dangerous. Once the three Sovereigns begin restraining one another, Anvil and Ki Song turn on Asterion, erase his followers, and strand him on the moon. The sealing outlives Anvil but fails permanently, leaving later rulers to confront the enemy he could contain but not destroy. (Chapters 2164–2165, 2173, 2189–2192, 2732–2739)

Ki Song and Jest

Ki Song progresses from Anvil's cohort companion to co-conspirator, fellow Sovereign, and final rival. They agree that Broken Sword must be stopped and cooperate against Asterion, yet neither trusts the other after their first betrayal. Their Citadels and Domains eventually make peaceful coexistence structurally unstable, and Anvil's attempt to place his sword above her heart opens a clandestine conflict that culminates in the war at Godgrave. Their final duel weakens both enough for Nephis and Sunny to replace them. (Chapters 2187–2194, 2233–2259)

Jest is Anvil's childhood instructor, his father's closest comrade, and one of the few people who remembers the boy beneath the king. He teaches Anvil flexibility, watches him mistake emotional suppression for mastery of his Flaw, and remains fiercely loyal even after recognizing what that choice creates. Anvil trusts him with covert intelligence and can still trade dry familiarity with him, but Jest's private lament that his former student is breaking his heart shows the cost of serving a ruler he loves while understanding the damage that ruler causes. (Chapters 2095, 2156, 2161–2164)

Items

Anvil's personal sword at the end of the Domain War is a Sacred Memory forged from Condemnation after he kills the Cursed Tyrant. It serves as a focus for his Supreme Will and withstands repeated clashes with Sunny's augmented Soul Serpent, though the blade is eventually nicked and damaged. The corpus does not provide a formal Memory name, tier, or enchantment list for the weapon, so “Condemnation” and “condemning sword” are descriptions rather than a cataloged item identity. (Chapters 2095, 2253–2254)

His Supreme armor is a silent, intricate suit of dark plate marked with red runes. It possesses multiple enchantments, can repair itself after damage, and works with his metal affinity strongly enough to carry him through the air. Sunny destroys individual runes and dents the suit once he becomes Supreme, showing that neither its repair nor its enchantments are unlimited. Anvil also wears a dull steel crown that falls beside his body when he is beheaded. (Chapters 1848, 2082, 2086, 2253–2257)

Anvil commands an immense inventory of swords that he forged across decades. Valor's Knights and Paladins wield what are described as his discarded works, while selected weapons such as Nephis's Kinslayer receive personal alterations and remain subject to his control. He also rides a fearsome artificial Echo resembling a black steel stallion during the Hollows expedition. These objects function collectively as extensions of his craft and Domain, but none is assigned to Anvil in the supplied item catalog, so no unsupported item-page link is used here. (Chapters 1644, 1667, 2082, 2233)