According to family lore, Cecilia Faber, my 6th great grandmother and my namesake was a great beauty, a pricess in exile, who fought a shark and made it her personal transport to get to shore after her boat capsized during a storm. Once ashore found work as a school teacher and married a blacksmith who crafted that sword as a wedding gift, something about he'll be there to protect her and if he wasn't she'd still have a part of him to protect herself. Sadly her husband died young and she had to wield that sword to protect herself and her child. She became a formidable warrior and all subsequent daughters of her line had to learn sword arts and other forms of self defence.