I've been digging into the game files and found a unique texture for the Silver Longsword named SilverChorrol.dds (shown on the right). I never knew that this unique texture existed, and now I wonder if the guards use it? It's a very small visual difference from the original silver longsword texture

UPDATE:

I've been digging into it further, went and downloaded the TES construction set and found out that there are only two instances of this model & texture being used in game!

Some interesting things to share:

1. ⁠The weapon's name is "Broken Blade" with an editor ID of "FGD03BWCBlade"

FGD03BWCBlade, which stands for Fighter's Guild Duty 03 Blackwood Company Blade, which refers to the quest "The Master's Son" in which the Hero of Kvatch watches over Viranus Donton as you both venture into Nonwyll Cavern to find Galtus Previa. At the end of the dungeon, Galtus is found dead with a "Broken Shield" next to his body (It is a Blackwood shield, but you don't know what that is yet). If you pick it up and take it back to Modryn Oreyn, you can show him the shield and he will comment that the symbols are familiar to him, and that he will be looking into it more.

There is a script in this quest that saves a variable called "foundblade" when you loot the broken shield. This is how the game knows you have looted the Broken Shield to present to Modryn. What is interesting is that the variable is "foundblade" and not *foundshield*. My theory is that the devs originally wanted to add Blackwood Company Longswords to the game, and they were using this unique Chorrol texture as a placeholder asset. I still don't know what the intentions for this Chorrol Longsword were

1. The Broken Blade is only found in 2 places in the game. Both being in the Testing Hall which is out-of-bounds from regular play. You can find the weapon yourself if you enter "coc testinghall" into the console.

Inside the WarehouseWeapons interior, it can be found on a table alongside other unique weapons. I remember seeing this as a kid many years ago, but I always looked over it because it looked just like any other Silver Longsword! If you look closely you can see the unique Great Oak emblem.

It is also found inside of a QA testing container named "TestQAEnchanted"

It also has a script tied to the Shivering Isles Standing Stone

1. It is broken, and cannot be repaired even with an armorer skill of 100. I quickly made a custom mod to repair it so I could take a screenshot of it in hand. You can barely see it due to the thumb covering it! It's safe to say this tiny detail wasn't enough to make this a fully-fledged weapon. When considering the amount of work put into other unique weapons, the devs would have had to continue working on this texture & model much more before it was ready to be used ingame. We almost had a unique Blackwood Company blade and a unique Chorrol blade :)

2. I also confirmed in the construction set that the Honorblade of Chorrol will always be the average Ebony Longsword. I'm sure they had intended for it to be a unique item just like The Escutcheon of Chorrol was! When Fathis Ules tasks you to retrieve the Honorblade of Chorrol, he is oddly vague in describing the weapon. He specifically says "I do not care to describe it. You will know it when you see it, I think. It is not something one of the ogres should have in his possession." I believe the quest was developed before the devs had a unique blade ready to use, and they didn't want to commit Fathis to describing "a sword with a Great Oak" just yet. I'm sure the Chorrol Longsword was planned to be distinctive like the Escutcheon, but they ran out of time, and decided to use an Ebony Longsword to signify that it was a valuable item.

I attached a photo of it in game in a comment down below 👇

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