Several blatant script issues

1. Talon is the true rightful heir of the kingdom and possesses the heirloom weapon to prove it -- the triple-bladed sword -- and yet Mikah is made king at the end and the citizens applaud it.

2. As Mikah takes over kingship, Talon and Mikah's sister, Alana, have a one-night stand before Talon departs HIS kingdom "looking to love" other women. Would the new king tolerate this treatment of his sister or does he consider it a gift to Talon since Mikah gets to have the throne? It doesn't help that Talon and Alana were sorta built-up to be a romantic item up to this point.

3. The general irrelevance of Xusia the sorcerer, which is explained here: https://moviechat.org/tt0084749/The-Sword-and-the-Sorcerer/58c737615ec57f0478fb9de8/The-sorcerer-didnt-add-much-to-the-story

4. The convoluted first act fails to (A.) create story drive and (B.) develop the main heroes & villains into interesting characters; they're paper thin and the rest of the movie lacks breathing room to develop them, as was effectively done in "Conan the Barbarian" (which came out at the same general time in Spring, 1982).

Needless to say, the movie's a prime example of bush league scriptwriting.