Laevateinn

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Statistics Laevateinn (Staff) All Races DMG: 62 Delay: 402 Enhances "Elemental Seal" effect Accuracy +30 Magic Accuracy +10 "Magic Atk. Bonus" +20 "Vidohunir" Aftermath: Inc. Mag. Acc./Mag. Atk. Occasionally attacks twice Lv. 75 BLM Damage Per Second: 9.25 TP Per Hit: 103 Enhances Elemental Seal The spell cast with Elemental Seal active will receive a 10% damage boost.	Other Uses Resale Price: Cannot be sold to NPCs. Used in Quest: Trial of the Magians (Staff Trials) Trial 1072 Trial 1073 Trial 1872 Trial 1873 Trial 2276 Trial 2687 - Reward Laevateinn (90)
Synthesis Recipes None	Used in Recipes None
Desynthesis Recipe None	Obtained From Desynthesis None

How to Obtain

Cannot be auctioned, traded, or bazaared, but can be delivered to a character on the same account.
Cannot be obtained as a random reward from the Gobbie Mystery Box Special Dial and similar sources.

Quest

• Mythic Weapons

Special Event

• Nomad Mog Bonanza 2010 (Rank 1)

Historical Information

Passed down for generations in the myths and stories of the peoples of the north is the World Tree motif, known to those intimately versed in such tales as Yggdrasill. One obscure legend tells of an ambitious Gigas who ventured to the center of the tree to obtain the single branch fabled to grow there, the “Branch of Ruin.” Known to sprout only the seemingly lifeless, skeletal frames of leaves in place of lush foliage, he plucked it at its base and made his way to the lands of the Dvergar, whom he commissioned to fashion the branch into Laevateinn.

Background

Laevateinn, or "Levatine," is a mythical sword from Norse mythology, also known as the "Wounding Wand" or the "Staff of Destruction". The elf Volund had forged a sword so lethal that it imperiled the very gods themselves. The sword was taken from Volund, brought to Asgard, and passed into the hands of the god Freyr, who traded Laevateinn for the hand of the giantess Gerðr. At Ragnarok, Surtr (the lord of the fire giants) wielded Laevateinn and severed the roots of the world tree Yggdrasil, instigating the destruction of the universe. Freyr would ultimately fall to his own blade during Ragnarok at Surtr's hand.