The woman blanches.<br/><br/>"It... uh... it glows? That's really all I know about it... that, and it nearly blew me away when I pulled it out the first time..."<br/><br/>As to your "connections," the faerie queen doesn't have<em>too</em>much to say on the subject. The sword was once much more powerful than it is now, but presumably most of that energy transferred into the girl currently trussed up against the wall. And as to the pedestal... it's definitely magic, but its function is too convoluted to make clear sense of it. A receptacle? A battery? A beacon? Words and half-thoughts assault your mind the longer you stare at it, but nothing that's necessarily a solid lead...<br/><br/>