You needed to drag and drop the sword back onto the stone while it was glowing.
Sword from the Stone (56KB) - Fake Excalibur
No essential NPCs are killed (even if Bronthion had been in the village), but the rest are dead for good without reloading an old save, or resorting to hex editing (
Reviving dead NPCs).
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