Kin-Slayer is the Knorth heirloom sword. It works together with the Knorth heirloom ring to enhance the strength of its rightful wielder. The sword is broken and corroded by changer's blood when Ganth is killed in the Keep by warriors from the Master's House seeking Jame and the Book Bound in Pale Leather that she had taken. Jame takes the shards with her to Tai-tastigon and keeps them in her pack throughout God Stalk and in Dark of the Moon until she is captured by Tirandys in the Palace of Karkinaroth. Kin-Slayer is reforged then in Perimal Darkling, and Jame sees it later. When she briefly returns to the normal world she tells Graykin about it and tells him to find it and take it to Torisen. Graykin gives it instead to Caldane, Lord Caineron, but returns it to Jame when he breaks from C