The one with the "sword that controls you" sounds like the Fallen Guild, in Retromud.
Quoted from
"Fallen are said to wield their Fellblades, but in truth their Fellblade wields them. Their very personalities are subject to the whim of their blades, their lives are dictated by what their blades wish of them. Their swords forever lust for souls, driving them onward like starving vampires, pushing them further and further along the edge, rewarding them every step of the way with more and more power. Its ultimate purpose? Not even the Fallen know, for their swords keep their own council... but some fear that the Nameless One will awaken still when he has 666,666,666,666,666,666 souls."
I've no clue about the others you mentioned.
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