seven Blades campain

[Nosta]

my D&D group voted on are next game
and we have chosen an original campaign
Idea of mind called "the seven Blades campaign"
The main Idea of the games story is five hundred
Years ago seven warriors fought a battle against
an monster that made even the mightiest of gods wary to
fight it and after a long fight they were able to seal the monster away
time pasted and five hundred years later the game starts with my players enter a academy for people with superb fighting talent and unknow to the players character each one is a child of one of the seven warriors who fought of the monster of legend that faithful day.

the game will be split in to three main parts

1 the seven Blades
were the players with have to seek out the seven legendary weapons of the warriors of legend
2 the return of the seven. mid point in the story were the main antagonist bring back the seven warriors under the control of a powerful artifact
3 the war and the revival of the legendary monster: the antagonist start a war on the five nations of the world and use the monster as the linchpin of there war machine

now on to why I came to you guys
the game will be a gestalt game with low magic
as in classes but items and such will be allowed
wizard, and its spontaneous counterpart will not be allowed
cleric is also out
the players will start at level seven


I need to get some build ideas
1
first is the seven warriors
second is the headmaster of the academy the players will attended

also i'm willing to listen
to any ideas my fellow DM-players have to offer
my players seemed to like my first game
but I want to improve and make my next one better

[Thealtruistorc]

Warblade is an obvious choice for a great sword-wielding hero, and the same goes with Crusader and Swordsage. Maybe a player who uses this class could belong to some sacred order who has studied martial arts for a long time. For the rest, mix it up with duskblade, factotum (make one of the seven swords a quickrazor), psychic warrior, or perhaps binder.

What sort of abilities will the swords have?

[Nosta]

Warblade is an obvious choice for a great sword-wielding hero, and the same goes with Crusader and Swordsage. Maybe a player who uses this class could belong to some sacred order who has studied martial arts for a long time. For the rest, mix it up with duskblade, factotum (make one of the seven swords a quickrazor), psychic warrior, or perhaps binder.

What sort of abilities will the swords have?

the seven weapon is a work in progress
I have several names but that's it
Each weapon is based on a gem like ruby emerald, opal and such
they will only work in the hands of some one the blades deem worthy
they should be fairly powerful and should have several abilities each