[quote=@Zelosse]
[@Lucius Cypher] uhh mate? You can't break that sword.. like bare handed while it's in you would be impossible. 

First because Maria appears to have already yanked it out of his chest. 
Second because you're suppressed. Still. You're also missing a lung and a good portion of your flesh was supposedly burned horribly.

You'll get your shattered blade another time, but it will be a group function. If it was so easily shattered they wouldn't keep making tombs for it.
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She made it pretty vague, sounded like she was having a hard time just holding it. Not to mention that Malakaus was already holding the sword in his chest anyways, so how she's grabbing it by the hilt is beyond me. Also Malakaus is dying, not dead. And I figured his final act of defiance would be showing that despite everything he's been put through, he has at least enough strength to kill two things: the sword and himself. But I didn't have much else to do aside from slowly bleeding to death.