A Anthology of Living Weapons

What is a weapon to you when your playing a video game, what does that cool magic sword you got really mean to you? Nothing.
Do you think about the spear's feelings when you slaughter tens of goblins with them. Nope not a bit.
Do you think of the armor that dropped after dying in a rogue like losing it forever. You might be sad that you lost some really valuable equipment but that's all there is too it.
After all their inanimate objects, tools even at that. Tools with the purpose of giving you strength.
But what if perchance that inanimate wasn't so lacking of sentience. Now you've come across a living sword or so and talked with it as a person. But, what if the sword couldn't talk, what if it still wasn't a person. All it could do is urge you on like the ring of Sauron or sometimes not even that.
As the item sits there for thousands of years, changing hands throughout the ages observing the world. What would they care about, would they care about anything. Sometimes not.
Not only the items reaction itself though, but what about the world around it. How will the world change in accordance to this powerful item as it passes from person to person.
But even immortal things will eventually fall and be trapped forever. One day the day will come to pass when the item sitting in some buried cave deep under the earth will no longer find a Keeper at the end of their long wait, as the darkness stays eternal.