Here's a quick render of the sword. I want to give the blade a "brushed steel" kind of look. Shiny, metalic, but not mirror refelective. I think the word is "Anisotropic".

The problem with this render is no environment. You'll have a hard time getting a convincing looking reflective metal without an environment -- either a map on the material itself, or raytracing with a world to reflect. This is one of those occasions when HDRI environments and raytracing really shine. What metals "look like" is a function of the environment around them. If you create a synthetic 3D environment with no lights and nothing to reflect, they'll look like nothing much.