Step 0: East Karana
To start it off travel over to East Karana, you hail a half elf named Felonius Sworddancer at the base of the HHP ramp. He tells you about the history of the ultimate sword(s), and tells you about he test given by the person who holds the scabbard. He tells you the legend and oints you in the direction of East Freeport where you meet the scabbard-holder. Other than that, he is fairly useless and you don?t necessarily have to do this it is just part of the whole quest.
Step 1: East Freeport
The man you need to see is Kargek Redblade sorta close to the East Gate. He is in the slum section of East Freeport near a tent overlooking the large depression there. If you look behind the row of shops where the leather store and stuff is in East Freeport just after you zone from West Freeport, there is a path that leads to a raised area looking down over some tents. Take the path to the left along the wall and you will find Wenden Blackhammer and Kargek Redblade. You don?t need Wenden just yet but If you hail Redblade (you might have to say the following line ?I will do you a favor?) you will see some text explaining why he has a big red scabbard on his back. Ask him about whatever he starts off talking about. I believe it?s his family's responsibility or something like that. Ask him about the scabbard. He will have a brief back and forth with you and ask you to take a note to a friend of his, an ogre in The Feerott named Oknoggin Stonesmasher.
Step 2: Feerott
Oknoggin Stonesmasher hangs out around the stone bridge in Feerot. He is not KOS, so you need not fear approaching him to give him the note, whatever race you are. Be careful though, as bouncers wander this area on their patrols. He will give you a tiny lute and ask you to return it to Kargek Redblade.
Step 3: East Freeport
Return to Kargek and hand in the lute. He will give you a book, with some interesting story details about the blades in it, and tell you to take it to his brother Tenal Redblade, in East Karana.
Step 4: East Karana
Tenal resides near the top of the ramp to Highpass. Handing him the book will prompt him to give you the totem of the freezing winds, and give you some text. After a lengthy explanation of how rotten and unworthy he thinks you are, Rallos Zek takes over his body and commands you to bring him an Ice Goblin Heart, along with a totem he gives you (to prevent skipping steps). The Ice Goblin Heart comes from the land where the Rathe bestowed his curse on the giants. This clue leads you to the Frost Giants of Permafrost, and more specifically for this step, the ice goblin wizards who drop the heart needed for this portion of the quest.
Step 5: Permafrost Keep
The jail in Permafrost Keep was where people I know had the most success camping the heart. Took me a couple of hours. It drops off ice giant wizards as a rare, they spawn throughout the fort. Once you have it, you can short circuit a later step by also camping the frost giants on the way to Vox's lair for a block of Permafrost needed for the first blade. This is also a rare item and took me a week of returning and killing Ice Giants, who are now all six-hour spawns.
Step 6: East Karana / Emerald Jungle / Skyfire / Solusek B
Returning both the totem he gave you and the heart of frost to Tenal will result in him handing you A Totem of the Fiery War. You guessed it fire? war? dragons! He asks for the scales of a Red and Green dragon to be returned to him. Green Dragon Scales are obtained from Severilious in Emerald Jungle, a random spawn dragon of level sixty plus. He requires a raid team of about forty to kill, has nasty fear and AE stun poison effect. He is however, the easiest of the Kunark Dragons to kill. He generally drops from one to three scales, but has been known to drop none at all. Red Dragon Scales may currently be obtained from three sources: Nagafen if you are fifty second level or less. Or Zordakius Ragefire, the red dragon who spawns from the cleric quest (Easy to kill with the fifty-five plus people who are likely to be accompanying the cleric doing the quest, but hard to spawn. He drops scales as a random rare drop), and Talendor, the mighty red dragon of Skyfire. The only killing of Talendor on Brell thus far produced one red scale, so we can presume his drop rate is similar to Severilious. Remember those Red Dragonscale Breastplates that people run around wearing and looking pink in? You will learn to hate them. Once both are obtained, return to Tenal.
Step 7: East Karana/Plane of Hate
Returning both scales to Tenal with the Totem of Flaming War or whatever it?s called results in yet another subquest. This time he apparently has nothing better to do then send you traipsing off to hate to obtain the Hand of the Maestro. This is an Uncommon drop off the Maestro of Rancor in Hate. He's easily killable with eighteen if you are all fifty-five plus, and drops the hand every fourth or fifth attempt. He spawns once a day. Return this and the totem Tenal gave you to him.
Step 8: East Karana/Plane of Sky
Yet another subquest. This time he gives you the Mark of the Sword, and tells you to return it and the Spiroc Wingblade to his brother Kargek in East Freeport to obtain your scabbard. The Spiroc Wingblade is an uncommon drop off the Spiroc Lord on the fifth isle of Sky. Turning in this blade with the Mark to Kargek gets you a red scabbard, the final reward of this portion of the quest.
First Reward: The Scabbard
Yes, all of this for a simple four slot combinable container. It is used both to combine the other parts of the quest and produce the Blade of Strategy and Blade of Tactics and also to combine them into the two handed Jagged Blade of War and break them back into the two component blades again. You'll have to free up an inventory slot for the scabbard, but it?s a small price to pay. I think he also gives you instructions on how to use it as well.
Step B: The First Blade
Step 1: Ocean of Tears
A Dwarf in Ocean of Tears named Denken Strongpick will talk to you if hailed him. He also shows you a runed blade that he found on the ocean floor, the first of four pieces needed to put in the scabbard. He says he will trade it to you for four items. It seems this grumpy dwarf and his friend are stranded on this island, and they need two rebreathers and some booze to escape; dwarves? go figure. The booze is Vox Tail Ale, which you can buy nearly anywhere. The catch is, he wants it cold. Really, really cold. You need a Block of Permafrost to keep the liquor frozen, and those only drop from ice giants inside Permafrost, not the ones in Everfrost. Yes, the ones by Vox although they?re Not too hard, they are definitely a pain in the rump. So you need two rebreathers, a block of Permafrost, and a keg of Vox Tail Ale. Rebreathers are tinkerable by any gnome of sufficient skill. There are four I know of for sure, Bten, Fidgety, Minipus, and Wyzskarlet. Rebreathers will generally cost you about three to four thousand plat per device unless they've lowered their prices recently or you?re in a guild with them for sale. Vox tail ale may be purchased from several vendors across Norrath, including the EFP Port Authority and the Sandfishers in North Ro. It was formerly a very difficult subquest involving obtaining the scale of Faydedar (Ack) and camping more greens for rare parts (double Ack) but Verant decided in its mercy that given the rest of our quest, this was too much, and put them on vendors.
Step 2: Permafrost Keep
Yes, if you didn't camp the Ice Giants the last time you were here, or didn't get the block, you are back! Giants spawn every 6 hours by Vox's lair, kill them till they drop the rare Block of Permafrost.
Step 3: Ocean of Tears
Returning to Denken whatever it was with the rebreathers, the block of permafrost, and the keg of Vox Tail Ale results in the first blade. Stow it in your bank for a while
Second Reward: First Blade
You can keep it in your bank for now. Looks like katana in inventory, so make sure you don?t accidentally destroy it.
Step C: Second Blade
Step 1: Chardok
The one and only step here is to kill the Queen of Chardok till she coughs up her rare drop, the Ancient Blade. You may need to kill her many, many times before she poops out that loot. She's a tough mob, on a par with Venril Sathir to kill. Takes twenty-four to thirty level fifty-five pluses. You can also camp the king next door for his nifty Incarnadine Breastplate while you are here. Royals are on a two-hour spawn cycle.
Third Reward: Second Blade
Another blade to put in the bank. Has a katana icon, make sure you don?t accidentally destroy it!
Step D: First Hilt
Step 1: Lake Rathetear
The first hilt is easily obtainable. Head straight out from the SK zone to the lagoon with the tall Spiroc Tower in it. Go to the Aviak Diving Board and dive off. Swim to the bottom, under the tower. Swimming under that tower will reveal a small brown bag on the sea floor. Picking it up will give you the Unjewelled Dragon Head Hilt.
Step 2: PoH / PoF / Sebilis / EC / Other Zones
Now all you need to is obtain one each of the following: Black Sapphire, Jacinth, and a Diamond. These may be obtained as drops from many mobs in Hate, Fear, Sebilis, and other high level zones and mobs. Or the easy way; they go for about one K each in trade or three K for the bit.
Step 3: East Freeport
Take the three gems and the Unjewelled Dragin Head Hilt to Wenden Blackhammer, the Dwarf standing next to Kargek in East Freeport. Handing him all four results in the Jeweled Dragon Head Hilt.
Fourth Reward: Jeweled Dragon Head Hilt
Something else to put in your bank.
Step E: Second Hilt
Step 1: Timorous Deep
The second hilt may be found on the chessboard island in Timorous Deep (location is -6000, -4000) lying against the King. Looks again like a small bag. Pick it up and you will receive a Severely Damaged Dragon Head Hilt. Also easy to get, but it has a problem? its damaged. The dwarven blacksmith informs you that you need a Ball of Everliving Golem from the Plane of Fear, and a block Rejesium Ore that the giant lords in Frontier Mountains have.
Step 2: Plane of Fear
The first item you need to obtain is a Ball of Everliving Golem. These are random drops off the three Golems of Cazic Thule: Fright, Dread and Terror. Most of the zone needs to be cleared before you attempt them. Each golem can drop it, so between zero to three can drop on a given raid.
Step 3: Dreadlands
Next, you get to camp Mountain Giant Patriarchs to get rejesium ore. You must supply a Giant Monocle to one of those lords. The monocle is a rare drop from giant patriarchs, who are themselves rare spawns who also drop the TreeWeave. Good luck finding a giant patriarch. Good luck getting him to drop a monocle if you do. The best place to spawn lots of them is at the big giant fort in the mountains. A single warrior of level fifty-five can pull and kill most of the giants here. A well-equipped fifty-eight warrior can solo them. Most of us will need the help of at least a second warrior for the patriarchs however. A Giant Monocle is a lightstone looking item. This is what you need.
Step 4: Frontier Mountains
Take this monocle to a giant deep in the mines within the giant fort there. His name is Mentrax Mountainbane (perhaps it was Mountainbone). There is another named giant with him, do not mistake him for the one you need. Hail both, the one that roars is not the one you want. Neither is KOS. Giving him the monocle produces a block of Rejesium Ore.
Step 5: East Freeport
Give the Rejesium Ore and the Ball along with the Severely Damaged Hilt to Wenden Blackhammer. He produces the Finely Crafted Dragon Head Hilt.
Fifth Reward: Finely Crafted Dragon Head Hilt
You guessed it, another bank filler.
The Blades
Now it gets confusing so read carefully or read it twice.
Step 1: Combine the two blades and the two hilts in the scabbard. This produces your first rewards, the Blade of Tactics and the Blade of Strategy.
Step 2: Combining these two blades produces the Jagged Blade of War, a nasty two hand-slashing sword ?The Jagged Blade of War?.
Step 3: Combining this blade alone in the scabbard splits it again into the original two blades.
Congratulations!!!
If you get to this stage you are the proud owner of the Warrior Epic Weapons!
More info
This section contains extra info to help you finish the quest
Zones (in order)
East Karana
East Freeport
Feerot
East Freeport
East Karana
Permafrost Keep
East Karana
Emerald Jungle / Skyfire / Solusek B
East Karana
Plane of Hate
East Karana
Plane of Sky
East Karana
Ocean of Tears
Permafrost Keep
Ocean of Tears
Chardok
Lake Rathetear
Plane of Hate / Plane of Fear / Sebilis / East Commonlands / others
East Freeport
Timorous Deep
Plane of Fear
Frontier Mountains
East Freeport
These are the zones in order that you must go to them. It is very handy to have a Druid or a Wizard with you to port you and your party(s) around to the next destination (or as close as possible). This will eliminate some of the time it will take to do the quest.
Items
Here I managed to get detailed statistics of a couple items in the quest.
Heart of frost - Magical Item, No Drop, Lore Item ? Weight 0.5
Rebreather ? Magical Item ? Weight 10.0 ? AC 1 - Head
Unjewelled Dragon Head Hilt ? Magical Item, No Drop, Lore Item ? Weight 0.5
The Hand of the Maestro ? Magical Item, No Drop, Lore Item ? Weight 0.0 ? AC 5, INT 5, HP 20, MANA 30 ? Primary, Secondary, Range, Ammo
Spiroc Wingblade ? Magical Item, No Drop, Lore Item ? Weight 10.0 ? DMG 15, DLY 38, Effect: Invigor ? Primary, Secondary
Ball of Everliving Golem ? No Drop, Lore Item ? Weight 10.0 ? HP 15, SVF 2, SVD 2, SVC 2, SVM 2, SVP 2 ? Primary, Secondary, Range, Ammo, Hands
Black Sapphire ? Weight 0.0
Jacinth ? Weight 0.1
Diamond ? Weight 0.0
Block of Permafrost ? Lore ? weight 15.0