The Broken Hourglass - Galen's Magical Weapons @ Official Site

Planewalker's latest update for The Broken Hourglass covers the interesting idea that virtually all magical weapons come from one man - Galen:

In The Broken Hourglass, powerful magical weapons and devices are not only artifacts from antiquity. They are an important, if exclusive, manufactured product, and a man named Galen controls virtually all of the mainland's production and distribution in unconventional arms.