During the final years of Potema's reign following the death of her son during the war of the red diamond, a 10 year long siege begun.
As it went on the Wolf Queen's sanity and desperation only grew, resorting to enlisting legions of the undead, Necromancers, and Vampires among other monsters to hold back the empire from the outside, and ever mounting executions to instill fear from within to halt any thoughts of rebellion among the citizens of solitude. The city was transformed into a land of death, monsters stalking the night, and executions by day.

This executioner's blade has tasted the blood of countless, both innocents and the guilty on the mad queen's whims, maybe the dragonborn can put this once dreaded blade to a better purpose.

This unique steel great sword is based off of European executioners swords, but enlarged with a flared tip to display a more brutal nature to contrast with the gilded imperial design of the grip, guard and pommel.

Location: Within the loot room at the end of Potema's Sanctum, the last segment of Potema's Catacombs, after the boss fight you will find it leaning against the chest in the next room, which also has Potema's skeleton.

Requirements: None, is a completely Standalone greatsword mod, but I would personally suggest using whatever greatsword animation replaces you like, but leaning towards the heavier looking ones. Maybe some berzerk inspired animations or ones designed to imitate the Colossal greatsword animations from the souls series and elden ring.

Crafting: None, found as loot within Potema's catacombs, upgraded using steel ingots.

Balance:  Higher damage than a skyforged steel greatsword, but slower.

Credits: UESP wiki and bathesda for the artwork and icon art used to reference when making the guard and pommel.

Note: There is only a two handed version for this weapon as a one handed version would not fit very well, and no scabbard due to the blade shape.
Also was unable to take as good of screenshots as usual, list died so had to take pics in a mostly vanilla game.

My Other Weapon mods:
Spinesplitter Katana - A Skeletal katana inspired by Adventure Quest Worlds Doom Weapons, With a blue variant with the colors of Dage's undead legion.
Euphoria - Mad Blade of Cyrodil - An artifact forged for the Champion of Cyrodil to celebrate their role in ending the Oblivion Crisis, but seemingly twisted by the Amber of the Shivering Isles.
Trithril Weapon Pack (With optional Glass weapon replacer) - A set of 17 new weapons made using only a single weapon's textures as kit-bashing practice, with optional files to instead use them as replacers for vanilla and Animated Armory glass weapons. Based on a 50/50 mix of Reman Era space program lore, and Dragonfable Ataelan aestetics. (With some morrowind mixed in)
Cysero's Hammer - A 3D recreation of Cysero's Hammers from Adventure Quest Worlds and Dragonfable.
Darkfrost Greatswords - Blades of the Lost Twins - A pair of Lunar frozen greatswords forged in honor of the nordic myth of the lost twins Filnrig and Rhainna eternally lost in a magical blizzard, the twins often being associated with the moons Masser and Secunda. (Based on the Darkmoon greatsword from Elden Ring mainly, but some other moonlight greatswords were referenced too)
Loukas' Sword - Blade of the Mouse Guard - Adds a recreation of Loukas' Sword from the graphic novel series Mouse Guard 1 and 2 handed variants included.
Seagrave Trident - Scourge of the Depths - Adds 1 new craftable trident weapon to Skyrim, Made of shipwreck salvage, Fishbones and whatever metal could  be found.
Lost Relics of Tamriel - Echos of the Past : 11 relics of Tamriel's past have been scattered across Skyrim awaiting the arrival of the hero of this new era, Can you find them all? With Relics from the various other Elder Scrolls games Like Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion, ESO, Redguard, and Battlespire.
Crescent Moon - Blade of Lunar Glass: Adds a unique White malachite/glass saber called the Crescent Moon, With Bloodmoon and Frostmoon branching upgrades. With an Insect inspired design drawn by The Artist/Streamer Juniper Actias AKA Egocider.
Rolith's Hammer - AE Weapons Series- A replica of The Hammer/Warhammer used by Rolith, Captain of the Knights of Oaklore from Adventure Quest (Classic, Worlds and 3D), and Dragonfable. (originally Planned on releasing both at the same time)
Northpoint Blades - A Breton Knight Weapon Set: A Set of 3 Breton-styled weapons, Steel Blades, Bronze Decoration and Tirthril Inlays.
Bloodcoil Rapier - A fromsoft inspired bloody daedric rapier (coiled sword from DS and Bloody Helix from ER), this brutish yet elegant weapon pairs well with
vampire and edgy characters in general.
 Nordic Adze - A hardy nordic multi-tool, equally useful for mining ore, chopping wood and chopping thalmor.
Heirloom Dagger: An overly ornate herb harvesting knife with a decorative corundum plating, designed based on a knife I made for my own grandmother.
Silvered Boneweave Arsenal: A Set of 9 Ivory and Silver weapons used by dunmer of a remote island in their struggle against an exiled necromancer from Olenveld.
Grovetender Blade: A 3D recreation of the Grovetender from Dragonfable, with several glow color options and optional sheath.
Lunar Scythe: A flashy Ivory, Ebony and green scythe with an insect themed design drawn by the artist Egocider.
Alabaster Frost Katana: A recreation of Dragonfable (And other AE games) Vanilla Ice Katana, With a unique frost damage and frost resistance sundering  enchantment. With Optional weapon pack version.