Talk:Corthala Family Blade/@comment-188.99.208.243-20180529154042/@comment-3234315-20180529180707

I don't know exactly what the prerequisites for a backstab weapon are in terms of game file mechanics, but it's possible that it's the "Unusable by Thief" flag. So if an item has this flag set, as Two-handed Swords e.g., it will not work.

Valygar Corthala's blade, in the original game edition, has this flag active. That was that game's attempt to restrict the usability to a specific character.

The Enhanced Edition, however, uses a different mechanism for character restrictions, and has this flag not active anymore.

What I conclude from this is that
 * 1) in the Enhanced Edition this is indeed "fixed";
 * 2) you could "fix" it for the original game yourself, if you have access to the game file browser/editor Near Infinity: go to the   category, open , and on "Unusable by" uncheck the "Thief" flag. Then save the file, and do a test. :)