Good old Taurog the god of war, he'd be quite popular in a world like Desktop Dungeon's.
That means he's got a huge load of followers, many many avid slaughtering little bloodthirsty (and sometimes halfling!!) adventurers.
They're all asking for help like : "Hey big T, gimme a sword to whack some guys and grab their gold!" or "I totally don't want to die, so like, could you perhaps arrange a little something?" or even simply "me no like monster, me kill, you make me better kill stuff." for the less educated followers (I'm looking at you berzerker).
Now then, there's even some people who just strolled to his altar 10 minutes ago and said they'd smash a few random monsters in his name. And then they come back. And they ask for a weapon!
Okay fine, they did kill baddies, that was fun to watch, but you're definitely not going to give them the ultimate weapon of mass destruction right away.
But hey, those poor guys are counting on you, if you just give them the Finer Sword: "looks like it could do +1 damage compared to that piece of metal you just left behind, what a deal!", they're going to think you're actually ignoring them (which, by the way, you are, sort of).
So, you can't give them a big sword of almighty doom and you can't just give them a sword called Finer Sword.
What do you do? Give the weapon a snazzy look and a fancy name: Skullpicker, yeah, that's cool! That feels downright deadly!
Just add a bit of legend behind it and voila! They all feel loved! Every single one of those spelunking losers actually think they're special!
This is totally the true story behind Taurog's sword. Fact!
That and the fact that he broke his trusty Godspanker whacking the other gods on the head to nerf them. Sad story. Seems like Binlor had a tough skull.