Broken Hero Sword

The Broken Hero Sword is a high-tier Hardmode material that is used for the highest tier sword, the Terra Blade, however cannot be used by itself offensively. The Broken Hero Sword has a 1 in 250 chance (0.4%) of dropping from either a Frankenstein or Swamp Thing during a Solar Eclipse, which can only happen in a Hardmode world.

Tips

 * Given the drop rate, and that three Broken Hero Swords are needed to craft the Terra Blade, it can be a good idea for high tier characters to use Water Candles and/or Battle Potions during a solar eclipse, to increase the player's chances of getting three.
 * The Broken Hero Sword is quite useless after obtaining the Terra Blade other than selling it.
 * To get more money than selling them directly, try crafting the True versions of Nights Edge and Excalibur. This yields the most return(both True swords are worth 10 gold. Making the Terra Blade(20 gold) essentially throws away the 2 gold the third broken sword is worth)

Trivia

 * This item may be an allusion to the classic literary trope of the disgraced or defeated hero who must repair their sword.
 * It may also be an allusion to the similar trope of taking up the weapon of a past hero (perhaps killed by the monster dropping this item) to fulfill a destiny.
 * It is possible that this is a reference to the Zelda games as the in game version of Link's clothes are called the Hero's clothes. Also, broken powerful swords exist in the Zelda series too.
 * It could also be a reference to Dark Souls in which the character starts out with a broken sword, Similarly, one can smith said sword into a powerful blade near the end of the game. This however is unlikely as it does not look much like the Broken Hero's Sword at all.

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