
In the modern day, Hudson soon learned that its reflective surfaces were excellent for deflecting laser fire. The sword is incredibly sharp, and when Hudson puts his full strength behind a swing it is capable of slicing through metal and stone. Hudson uses the sword as a way of compensating for his lack of speed. When David Xanatos replaced the sleeping Hudson with a stone statue, he claimed that the sword was the hardest thing to replicate. ( "Awakening: Part Two") The sword is notable as one of the few relics of the Middle Ages that the gargoyles use on a regular basis.

The elderly gargoyle took it from a Viking shortly before he was placed under the Magus' spell of stone sleep and has carried it ever since.
