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There is no evidence that I know of to suggest that the Imperial family had a sword as an heirloom.

As for the Amulet of Kings: Since we know how Emperor Uriel V died while he was in Akavir, it's safe to say that some of his men brought the amulet back--if it was on him. He may have left it home.

As for the "knighting" at the end of Arena: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3En8bMg5LDk
No sword to be seen.

He doesn't have a sword as he comes out of an extra dimensional prison, :shocking: So maybe it wasn't on him then, but why is a sword heirloom so difficult to accept? Like I said, Uriel has a sword on him in Oblivion. I guess I fail to see what the big deal is.

It's not that it's hard to believe; it's just that it just hasn't been hinted at anywhere. There is no reason at all to think it's true.

I could say that there are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyvern in Summerset Isle. They would not be at all out of place in the setting, and there is nothing to prove they aren't there. However, nothing says they are, so the obvious answer is that for now, there aren't.

Uriel carries a sword in Oblivion, but so do the Blades, a decent chunk of the Fighters' Guild, the entire Imperial Legion, every city guard, the Battlemages, the Dark Brotherhood, random Daedric cultists, random bandits and marauders, the Golden Saints, the Dark Seducers, the Knights of the Nine, pirates, the Knights of the Thorn, and dozens of random civilians. That don't evidence nothing.

Maybe he borrows General Warhaft's spear (don't look at me that way, you Morrowind fanatics) as seen in the http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-CLcNe0yao&feature=related?

I like to consider the floppy version more canon since I'm pretty sure Warhaft was imprisoned with him, even if this version does make Uriel Septim downright hideous.

I only ever played the CD version; I didn't realize the endings were so different!

In any case, it still doesn't show him with a sword. And even if it did, there's nothing to suggest that the sword would be hereditary.