The arms closer 2 front are older, withered, but thats why he takes other arms, he keeps up his power level. (perhaps he has skipped leg day, and thats a joke PC has said b4, fighter players shouldnt be too hard to push into making that joke and using it here.)
The second closest was a famed swords master who had a prophecy set before his death, that his descendent would found a tribe and spawn a city and king. But only ‘When the heir surrpases the founder (who is now a death knight) and curbs the arogence of his dynasty.’ The Founder defeated his grandson, and ggrandson, and took their arms to ‘curb their arrogance’. PCs father never did this ‘the city and the living need my arms!’ (hes actually arrogent and wants to use son/PC to fulfill profecy but rule in his place) PC will have to defeat the Founder and then reject his fathers ‘Arogence’. the latter may be: a class system 4 new city, ‘we need to be a warlike people’, or