>(Maybe treating the
>weapons like the Ottomans treated "timur" land grants -- usable for the
>life of the recipient but _not_ hereditary, unless the authorities wish
>it.)
This suggests an interesting asventure hook where an aging adventurer has leant out their special moon-made scimitar to a young protege who has either lost it or just vanished. The characters are seent to retrieve it before the Lunar Authorities demand it's return. If they are really unlucky, of course, they will be stopped by the authorities while in possession of said weapon and charged with it's theft. Their patron will refuse to back up their story, since that would involve admitting their own misuse (in lending it out in the first place...)
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