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>>33486286
Terry Pratchett made a sword of meteorite metal and plans to be buried with it.

That sounds like the creation formula for a intelligent cold iron weapon

>>33486286
This would be a perfect focus for any divination wizard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMByI4s-D-Y

>>33486286
>the Sword of Durandal
Durandal is the name of the sword. It's wielder's name was Roland.
So you meant to say "the sword Durandal" or "the Sword of Roland".
Autism ended.
The Holy Spear/Spear of Destiny/Lance of Longinus/Spear of Longinus (take your pick on name it has a bunch), the spear which pierced the side of Christ, is attributed all kinds of magical properties, and everyone and their brother have spearheads on display which they claim to be The One.
Muramasa blades are arguable, considering that it's fabled that a Muramasa must draw blood when drawn, to the point of driving their wielders mad. Malevolent intelligent weapon right there.

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>>33486286
>>33486446
>God-son spear

The musket that began the american revolution, the one that produced "the shot hear round the world" comes to mind as a more modern example, same with the pistol that killed Lincoln.

As for the ancient world example see Joyeuse, the sword wielded by Charlemagne, it's name translated to "joyful" and is currently housed in Louvre.

Also the Sword of Attila, also called the Sword of Mars or Sword of God which was the legendary weapon carried by Attila the Hun into battle.

>>33486587
these all sound like plots to episodes of Warehouse 13

I love that show.

>>33486286
>Are there legendary weapons in meatspace?

The Kusanagi.

Too bad the Shinto priests responsible for the three sacred treasures won't let anyone look at them.

Also the sword is supposed to have been lost or stolen a few times so what the priests do have is probably not the original.

Like, the sword being lost at the battle of Dan-no-ura is probably more symbolic than factual (the shogunate usurping the Emperor's military authority and all that) but in addition some monk was said to have run off with the original sword at some point.

>>33486286
It applies the Tetanus debuff on hit

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US battleships.

Japan believed they were invulnerable, as up to WW2, every navy that had attempted to lay siege to the island chain nation was smashed against the rocks by freak storms. This was only bolstered after http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War this embarrassing part of history.

Imagine their surprise when no storm gods intervened.

>>33486286
El Cids sword is still kicking to my knowlage

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Joyeuse, sword of Charlemagne the Great, currently on display at the Louvre.

According to myth, forged by the same Volundr who smithed Durandal, Curtana, Gram, and Caliburn/Excalibur. The legends around it is that it's peerless, never loses its edge, and changes colors thirty times a day (perhaps an elemental damage attribute that shifts at random?).

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>>33486286
The Missile Durandal!

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>>33486286

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szczerbiec

Szczerbiec (Polish pronunciation: [ˈʂt͡ʂɛr.bʲɛt͡s]) is the coronation sword that was used in crowning ceremonies of most kings of Poland from 1320 to 1764. It is currently on display in the treasure vault of the Royal Wawel Castle in Kraków as the only preserved piece of medieval Polish Crown Jewels. The sword is characterized by a hilt decorated with magical formulas,[7] Christian symbols and floral patterns, as well as a narrow slit in the blade which holds a small shield with the coat of arms of Poland. Its name, derived from the Polish word szczerba meaning a gap, notch or chip, is sometimes rendered into English as "the Notched Sword" or "the Jagged Sword", although its blade has straight and smooth edges.

A legend links Szczerbiec with King Boleslaus the Brave who was said to have chipped the sword by hitting it against the Golden Gate of Kiev (now in Ukraine) during his capture of the city in 1018. However, the Golden Gate was only constructed in 1037 and the sword is actually dated to the late 12th or 13th century. It was first used as a coronation sword by Vladislaus the Elbow-High in 1320. Looted by Prussian troops in 1795, it changed hands several times during the 19th century until it was purchased in 1884 for the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The Soviet Union returned it to Poland in 1928. During World War II, Szczerbiec was evacuated to Canada and did not return to Kraków until 1959.

Define legendary weapons?

Because I'd think any historical weapon carried by a famous historical figure would count.

>>33487183
Individyak weapons which become famous enough to feature in legends.

Excalibur is a good example

>>33487215
*vidual

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>>33487167
Some more:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunwald_Swords

The Grunwald Swords (Polish: miecze grunwaldzkie) were a gift presented by Ulrich von Jungingen, the Grand Master of the Order of Teutonic Knights, to King Vladislaus II of Poland and Grand Duke Vytautas the Great of Lithuania on 15 July 1410, just before the Battle of Grunwald (Tannenberg). The gift, a pair of simple bare swords, was a formal invitation to the battle. After the Polish-Lithuanian victory, both swords were taken as a war trophy by King Vladislaus to Kraków, Poland's capital at the time, and placed in the treasury of the Royal Wawel Castle.

With time, the two swords became treated as royal insignia, symbolising the monarch's reign over two nations, the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. They were probably used in coronations of most Polish kings from the 16th to the 18th centuries. In private hands after the partitions of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the end of the 18th century, they were lost without a trace in 1853. They have remained, however, a symbol of victory and Poland's and Lithuania's past, and an important part of national identity of the two nations.

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>>33486788
>the US Navy is planning on putting this in ships come 2016

It should be noted that the flames you see are not propellant. The flames are the air igniting by the force of the kinetic projectile moving so fast it literally rends the air in front of it apart because the air cannot flow out of its way fast enough.

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>>33487215
Oh, well in that case, I'll say the nuclear bomb.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Jewels_of_the_United_Kingdom#Swords

The Sword of Spiritual Justice, the Sword of Temporal Justice, and the Sword of Mercy are all owned by Great Britain.

>>33487244
I wouldn't count that, in the same way there aren't any famous battering rams; it wasn't a soldier's personal weapon

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Do individual vehicles count?

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>>33487227
And another

Ceremonial sword of The Order of The White Eagle commisioned by the last king of Poland. Currently on display in the Royal Castle Museum in Warsaw.

>>33487255
If the vehicle kills shit and is identifiable, then yes.

>>33487252
>I wouldn't count that, in the same way there aren't any famous battering rams; it wasn't a soldier's personal weapon
Fat Man and Little Boy, then.

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>>33487257
And a close up.

>>33487093
>>33487244

Bombs and missiles have the problem that they aren't reusable unless they were crap in the first place and didn't go off.

>>33486286
>What would it's effects be?
Unbreakable

>>33487283
I'm going off the definition of "an individual weapon I'm interepreting this to mean "rather than a class of weapon" famous enough to inspire legend." Fat Man and Little Boy are household names 70 years later, I'd say they succeeded.

>>33487298
When was the last time you heard of a legendary Siege tower?

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>>33487255
>Do individual vehicles count?
USS Enterprise. The Big E. A name borne by multiple famous warships in US Navy service.

Notable for actually inspiring real and well-known fiction that pays homage to it. I mean, fuck, where do you think Star Trek got the name from?

>>33487309
I get what you mean, hence why I specified two specific individual weapons rather than a class of weapon. But I dunno what reusability has to do with it, as long as they were used famously.

>>33487328
It's more to do with being used by a single soldier

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>>33487309
ekhm...

>>33487093
>>33486788
This makes me want a high fantasy setting where legendary weapons that were mistaken for swords and spears and such are actually advanced military weaponry like battleships and missiles n shit. Im a sucker for tech mixing into a magical setting in a positive way

>>33487318
Aircraft carries: because sometimes you just gotta take over a minor country or make countries that matter that aren't' your allies watch their steps.

>>33487355
carriers*

3am is not good for my typing accuracy.

Anyone got any options for pistols? I actually need this for a game I'm running.

Also, not necessarily from real life(mythology is okay too) I need a legendary scythe that isn't Death's scythe.

>>33487352
>'Take this weapon of legend, Chosen One.'
>hands you an intercontinental nuclear warhead

>>33487380
>Dwarf and Elven war
>Dwarves decide enough's enough
>"I think it's high time we showed you elves the hammer of our god!"
>They drop a hydrogen bomb on an Elven forest

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>>33487352
>>33487380
>>33487404
Japan beat you to it.

>>33487244
I'd assume we're thinking of legendary individual weapons that still exist in something close to their complete state. Bombs self-destruct by nature of their function.

>>33487425
It's a LAW. How disappointing.

>>33486286
There's the Spear of Destiny which is supposed to have some heavy magical properties surrounding it. Hitler sent his Thule Society goons after it because he believed it would grant him immortality.

Kusanagi: an ancient Japanese sword which according to legend was found in the body of an eight headed serpent killed by Susanoo, the God of storms and seas. It is not on display and hasn't been in centuries but is occasionally brought out during royal coronation ceremonies.

Joyeuse: The sword that was made for Charlemagne. The problem is there are two of them, both date back to the 10th century. Nobody really knows which one is the real one. Reported to change colors 30 times in one day and shines brighter than the sun when used in battle.

The Ulfbhert: Legendary swords used by only the most elite Viking warriors. These swords were incredibly advanced for their time; they were not made out of low-carbon steel like most European weapons and testing has revealed the strength of these swords is comparable to modern day steel. Each sword was stamped with the name "Ulfbhert", a mysterious sword-smith with no traceable history other than these swords.

>>33487425
In japanese media everything is a metaphor for nuclear war.

>>33487442
I recall a Prototype crossover fic that makes it a more badass rocket launcher.

>>33487379
Wild Bill Hickok's Revolver (.44 S&W)
The pistol that killed Lincoln (.41 Derringer)
The real 007's sidearm (Walther PPK)
Himmler's handgun (Luger P-08)

>>33487379
.45 ACP Luger either the carbine or Serial Number 2
John Wilkes Booth's Derringer (its a 2 1/2" barrel and .44 cal)
Adolf Hitler's 7.65mm Walther PP
Gavrilo Princep's Browning Model 1910
Jack Ruby's .38 Colt Cobra

There's more you just need to give me time to think. I'm sure I can name ones with history as opposed to rare models.

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>>33487380
>Rumors spread that a nearby human kingdom has come into possession of a mighty spear capable of piercing even the heavens themselves

>>33487425
Evidently I quit watching that too soon... Also why did I quite watching Zero No Tsukaima at all, I remember liking it enough.

Anyway, bigger question- As far as I remember main character boy who's name I forgot had no relevant experience at all, would a random contemporary necessarily know how to use that? I'm not certain I would.

>>33487518
If you've seen it used, you can probably figure out how to use it.

>>33487518
I doubt the average citizen would know how to use it, let alone a Japanese citizen, who barely know how regular guns work

What about that hammer they use to bonk popes on the head to be see if they are dead? It's not very big but it's a hammer with a long history of kabonking holy men.

>>33487536
Sauce please. This sounds more like a Monty Python sketch than a real thing the Catholic church does

>>33487231
>US Railgun: Even air can't escape it

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>>33487231
We just came out with something even better.

Self correcting bullets, which means aimbot is now irl!
http://io9.com/5880884/this-self-guided-bullet-can-chase-you-down-from-over-a-mile-away

>>33487549
I dunno man, people did weird shit in the past, like Plague Doctors who used sticks to jab at sick people

>>33487528
Sure, I'd imagine that after some study I could figure it out, I doubt they're -that- complicated since they're meant to be used in a hurry on the battlefield, but that scene looks like he just picked it up and went straight to launch.

>>33487534
This is my assumption. I doubt I'd instantly know how to use it and I've at least fired standard guns before.

>>33487518
>>33487528
>>33487534
The protag's power is literaly to know how to use any weapon with perfect accuracy if he touches it.

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>>33487491
Only the bravest and most persistent can rise to the ranks of Dragon Riders.

>Hngances became
Captcha tells me of one that did

>>33487550

US military: we are going to free the shit out you like we free this air from its chemical bonds.

>>33487536
It's only for the Pope, and it's a vestigial ritual from the funerary rites dedicated to Charun, psychopomp of the Etrusques.

>>33487577
Also with the same methods!

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>>33487572
>My lord, please do not feed the rumors, there is no way Valkyries would be soaring across the sky

>>33487549
http://www.snopes.com/religion/hammer.asp

Also a gazillion other articles if you choose to Google it. Long story short, the church almost certainly did it at some point in the past, but there's a lack of reliable sources to say if they still do. Regardless, one or more Pope Tappers are surely out there. Made of silver or gold no less.

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>>33487560
HAX

>>33487566
I thought that only went for magic weapons like his talking sword.

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>>33487536
>>33487549
Its real. Used to be an old practice. Basically they'd use a small silver hammer to tap the pope's head and call out his name (not the papal name) 3 times. If the dude didn't wake, they pronounced him dead. If I recall correctly, the Camerlengo then used this hammer to destroy the late pope's Ring of the Fisherman.
>pic related

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>>33487598
>BEHOLD, IT'S WINGS SHADE THE LAND, AND IT'S TALONS SHRED THE EARTH, THE GREAT BIRD ZIZ!!

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>>33487641
>TREMBLE YE WHO SAIL THE SEAS, FOR A BEAST LURKS ON THESE WAVES! IT'S FANGS DEVOUR ISLANDS, IT'S ROAR ALONE CAN BE HEARD ACROSS THE WORLD! SEEK YOUR DEATH IF YOU SAIL OUT, FOR THE GREAT FISH LEVIATHAN SWIMS THESE WATERS!

>>33487641
>IT'S WINGS SHADE THE LAND
Then we will fight in the shade

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The Wallace Sword.

William Wallace's sword, used at the battle of Stirling Bridge and battle of Falkirk. The blade is 4'4, including the hilt, it's 5'8.

In Scotland, it's basically a national treasure.

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>>33487655
>IT'S FOOT FALL CAUSES THE GROUND TO QUAKE, IT'S TUSKS SHRED MOUNTAINS APART, AND IT'S JAWS GRIND KINGDOMS TO DUST! BEHEMOTH THE GREAT BEAST, KING OF THE LAND!

>>33487658
Fun fact, the grip of the sword used to be bound in the skin of a man Wallace flayed after winning a duel. Once the King of England found the sword he had the grip changed because he thought the original material was too barbaric for a sword of that stature.
>themoreyouknow.jpg

>>33486446
>Muramasa blades are arguable, considering that it's fabled that a Muramasa must draw blood when drawn

Wait, there's more than one sword that does that? It was my understanding that there wasn't just one blade made by Muramasa, but for some reason I thought there was only one MUST MURDER cursed one. Well, live and learn.

Anywho, when's the last time someone supposedly drew one and lost themselves to bloodlust? I'm guessing a long time ago. Not that they'd ever let it happen, but I'd love to see someone in modern day draw one while being recorded. Make a show of it, keep them under observation for a while, it'd either be extremely interesting or extremely boring.

On that note, if you were given the opportunity to draw one, would you? Personally, I would. Not that I 100% doubt any and all supernatural stuff could possibly exist, but I do doubt it could straight-up force a person to kill.

The Axe of the Viking at Stamford Bridge.

It's probably either a Dane Axe or a turkish-styled double axe, possible if this nameless berserker fought in the Varangian Guard.

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/stamfordbridge.html

>>33487690
>Get the chance to draw one
>Make a big spectacle of it, like you're barely able to hold back the desire to slaughter
>Fight yourself to sheath the sword, falling over in a exhausted state
>Become legendary as a man capable of resiting the demon sword's influence

>>33487655
I get the whole framing alien concepts in what's familiar and all, but I'm pretty sure that anybody who already had boat technology at all, would recognize a battleship as a really big boat. They wouldn't really understand guns, or how it moves without oars or sails, but they'd certainly get "boat" from the overall shape.

>>33487678
I really doubt even ancient people would interpret that as an animal of any sort. There's hardly anything comparable to any animal body parts.

>>33487641
No problem with the bird comparison though.

>>33487685

It's actually MORE hardcore than that. It wasn't the grip. He made a SCABBARD out of human skin.

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Gustavus Adolphus' (Gustav II of sweden AKA The Lion from the North) rapier Marson, currently on display at Stockholm Livrustkammare

He carried it during all his successful battles until his death at lützen, where he was shot through his lung, dragged behind his horse, stabbed repeatedly and finally shot through his temple.

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>>33487729
It was either the coal digger or this.

I mean imagine if you were in a fantasy world, where even wooden boats are stunning new tech, and suddenly this massive metal thing comes lurching over the waves, covered in long, thin THINGS that spit fire and explosions. Would you really consider it a boat in the way you know boats?

>>33487708
I totally didn't think of that. Pretty good scam as long as nobody else is brave enough and/or gets the chance to also try.

>after first success they decide to give different people a try to be sure
>second person does go totally blood crazy, gunned down by ridiculous amount of bullets before rampage stops

PLOT TWIST!

>>33487231
>The flames are the air igniting by the force of the kinetic projectile moving so fast it literally rends the air in front of it apart because the air cannot flow out of its way fast enough.
I need new panties.

>>33487352
Might and Magic pre-ubisoft. The demons were aliens, and the world was created by a technologically advanced race from space
http://mightandmagic.wikia.com/wiki/Ancients

>>33487757
Reconciling the battleship would be a stretch either way, but if I had seen boats at all, boat would be the closer comparison than fish. Neither of the two emits fire or is even close to that big, but boats are closer to that size, closer in shape, and share its totally rigid, unbending form.

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>>33487655
You call that a leviathan...
>IT ROSE FROM THE BLACK DEPTHS OF THE SEA SPITTING FIRE AND THUNDER!!!

>>33487769
>Thrown into a new life of adventure as people from the magical and mystical side of life, the hidden side, believe you to be someone with an incredible will and spiritual strength, when it was just a huge case of convenient timing that the blade didn't send you into a murder rampage
>These coincidences continue all the time
>You cannot escape

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>>33487352
Lesser Shades of Evil

>>33487624
Hammer of smite pope

>>33487799

Imagine a NUCLEAR sub.

A beast that lives deep underwater and evokes destruction that can only be described as divine wrath.

>>33487796
Again, you are thinking as a modern minded young man who is smarter than your average pissant peasant. If you were some mud slinger, or heck, even a deck hand, back in the ages of wooden boats and such, would you automatically think "oh it's just a big ol metal boat" or would you think "JESUS CHRIST WHAT IS THAT MONSTER!?"

>>33487442
>>33487473
Found the fic again.

It's a FGM-148 Javelin in said crossover.

>>33487620
nope, it's for anything built to be a weapon. So it doesn't work with training gears and ornemental swords

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>>33487811
>IT STRETCHED TO THE HORIZON AND CALLED DOWN THE WRATH OF GOD!!!

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The US Military has a weapon that uses a high power laser to guide and direct plasma energy, AKA lightning.
Yes, it's a ray of light that can electrocute/supercook people and acts as an EMP to anything electronic.

I'd say this counts as a legendary weapon.

>>33486788
>US pacific campaign
>BB centric
Please.

The japs focused on battleships and got fucked. They'd have been better off with more carriers.

>>33487801
I was thinking the hypothetical person was just so immune they didn't even realize there was anything to resist, but whatever.

So is this a comedy or an adventure story?

>>33487811
Sea god.
>I was but a wee lad when I saw the sea god rise from the murk, it's body was something I had never seen before, gleaming, like metal, it almost reminded me of a furnace. Then it opened up, like a clam shell, and with a terrifying roar, it spat out spears of fire that roared into the heavens. A few days later word came that a neighboring kingdom had been reduced to nothing by heaven's wrath. But I knew...it was the sea.

>>33487749
>He carried it during all his successful battles until his death at lützen, where he was shot through his lung, dragged behind his horse, stabbed repeatedly and finally shot through his temple.
The Swedes still won the battle.

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>>33487837
We shall quash this peasant rebellion with ease!

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>>33487834
>It was a giant beast that's eyes glowed like fires and had skin of metal! It can shoot death and destruction from it's nose!

>>33486356
>Terry Pratchett made a sword of meteorite metal and plans to be buried with it.
>and plans to be buried with it.
I was about to make a bad Alzheimer’s joke here but fuck, it's sad it has happened to him

>>33487810
Does bonus damage against catholics.

>Levitical ulaRec

>>33487822
To reiterate, if you only knew fish, then yeah, it's a big monster fish. But, and I acknowledge I can't really look at this independent of my own world view, I don't see why someone would go to "some kinda giant magic fish" instead of "some kinda giant magic boat."

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>>33487865
A flying beast that brought a whirlwind wherever it went! It landed to nest and birthed live men!

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>>33487865
>The eyeless drakes returned once again, they spat their terrible flames at the invaders. I do not know what sort of king commands these monsters, but I thank the lord on high that he seems to be helping us.

>>33487879
HALF FISH, HALF BOAT
ALL METAL
THE MOUNT OF THE SEA GOD IS TERRIFYING INDEED!

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>>33487885
I have no idea what to write from a peasant's perspective, this shit is just too weird.

>>33487885
Well that's a stretch now.

>>33487879
If it uses some variety of torpedo, it might look like a fin of some creature that stabs at you through the water.

>>33487877
Is that how it works? A weapon that's been used on multiple somethings gets better at killing that thing?

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>>33487885
>The flying beasts are more terrifying than any dragon. Their horrifying roars still haunt my dreams.

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>>33487895
I started running out of steam after the first one. If you can do better, by all means.

>>33487905
Well, that's what Ocrist and Glamdring did, isn't it?

>>33487892
Some kind of golem.

Bloody Chamberlain's Sword.
But I'm biased, being from Maine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Chamberlain#American_Civil_War

>>33487919
It was a valiant effort.

>>33487892
They quit even trying to rationalize it as anything familiar and just go into "flaming wheels of eyes" style angel descriptions.

At least, I'd pick that over super forced animal comparisons at a certain point.

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>>33487923

>>33487892
Some kind of moving guard tower thing, maybe?

>>33487941
>Telleth me, peasant, what manner of beast did this?
>Beast? Twernt a beast, sir knight, aint nuffin made by god's grace could be that horrifying

>>33487841
And better encryption code ...

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No Tizona yet?

Wut.

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technically the Green Dragon Crescent Saber counts, due to its supposed reputation and dubious existence. I mean, the weapon might not have existed at all but it was wielded by the most popular chinese jesus figure.

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>>33487892
This beast, what is it called.

>IT STRUCK FROM THE DEPTHS AND BIRTHED ITS CHILDREN INTO THE SKIES TO FEAST UPON US!!!

>>33487963
I fully approve.

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>>33486286
If you haven't seen the AVGN review of Swordquest, do so. Basically there are four prizes that are retrieved by certain means and you need at least one of them in order to enter the final competition where the winner receives the grand prize, The Sword of Ultimate Sorcery.

While not weapons, the other items each have some special magic abilities of their own. The fates of all these items are lost to public record, mostly due to a videogame bubble collapse, though the Talisman of Truth is said to have been melted down to just the decorative silver sword.

>>33486356
Terry Pratchett is Sokka?

>>33487892
A miniature siege tower made out of metal! It spits fire and death!

Can you set out to actually make a Legendary weapon?

Like... mine special metals yourself, forge the blade with it. Quench it in a mix of different blessed or mystical waters (like a combo of Lourdes water, water from Mt Fuji etc). Carve a sheathe from sacred wood, like an olive tree from Jerusalem.

Then you can like... go on a journey around the world to infuse it with energy and rituals from all over. dunk it in human blood or a heart in a Mayan Temple, slay an evildoer with it yada yada.

Would that make it legit enough for Legendary Weapon status? Would it set it apart from regular swords used by famous people?

Rolled 6

>>33488009
Yeah. The guy used it to pay for his college.

I believe the Philosopher's Stone and the Crown are... somewhere... but the sword is missing.

>>33488046
It'd depend if you did anything amazing with it or not.
Legendary Weapons are defined by being weapons.
Legendary pieces of art aren't.. really weapons. They're decor.
If said ritual weapon managed to do something miraculous or improbable owing to the creation, maybe

>>33488059
So basically almost no weapons here are legendary cause they are just for show.

USS Eldridge, Philadelphia experiment. That ship that supposedly crossed over into a kind 'hyperspace'.

>>33488084
Ah, but they weren't for show at one time, and did or do amazing things. They're legendary because they were important enough to endear themselves to an entire culture.
An intentionally legendary blade is a lot like a forced meme. Might work. Might not.

>>33488046
All that prep is good, but you have to use it. Slay a hell of an evildoer. But the most important thing is that you need to name it.

Excalibur qualifies as a legendary weapon, because King Arthur called it Excalibur and was given it by the Lady Of The Lake, but then he used it to conquer England.

Sokka from The Last Airbender did something nearly as notable, forging his sword from thunderbolt iron and then using it to save the world. But he never named it beyond "space sword" and it didn't really become legendary

>>33488098
Enjoy being potentially fused into metal

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>>33488107
>>33488119
Ok, gotcha. Well of course, the weapon would be used to do great deeds like protect innocents, slay wanted criminals and all that.

What would you call your own weapons and what would them legendary?

>>33488098
>supposedly crossed over
Check the sources, mate. There's lots of reputable Strange Stories in the world. This one is bullshit.

>>33488098
Eh, our cloaking device on an F-16 was cooler.

>>33487620
No its anything that could be considered a 'weapon'

The rest of the show is fucking harem shit, light novels a bit better but with the main creator/writer of that series having died, it will never be finished.

>>33487869
The crazier he gets the more fun his books get

>>33486356
There is a bit more to the story. Terry was on the one of the Queens honour rolls in, was created a knight bachelor and... created his own sword. Whats notable is Pratchett mined his own iron ore, built his own kiln and had a friend forge it for him. Its not made entirely of meteorite through; he smelted one or two small meteorite fragments into the iron.

>>33488179
He liked roaming around in Oblivion, just walking around and collecting loot and shit.

>>33488147
My personal weapons? I have an Arming sword meant for someone my size and a Rapier meant for a man eight inches taller than me.

The oversized Rapier would only work when wielded with a parry dagger in the other hand(i happen to have one) and the legendary thing about it would be its ability to sunder swords that were locked in the hilt of the dagger.

>>33487092

im pretty shur Gram was smithed by Odin

>>33488009
It is said if the sword of Ultimate Sorcery is wield by a true gamer, it can become a weapon more powerful than Excalibur or Durandal.
In fact, it is say it works like the ticket from the Last Action Hero and can teleport the wielder into the realities of video games.

>>33488195
If they were other rapiers you could snap 'em in your parrying dagger. Though for the most part a good rapier, like an Ulfberht, would bend like crazy but spring back to its normal shape. That'd make it legendary IMO.

>>33488207
As for legendary weapons that have appeared in works of fiction I've written, the Spear of The Sufferer was a spear made of an alloy that nullified psionic powers around it.

And the Instrument of Destruction was a guitar with an axe blade on the body.

Best legendary weapon is Ame no Murakumo no Tsurugi, not every weapon can behead a god, 8 times.

>>33488223
Weebs, please, refraing to comment.

>>33487446
>>The Ulfbhert: Legendary swords used by only the most elite Viking warriors. These swords were incredibly advanced for their time; they were not made out of low-carbon steel like most European weapons and testing has revealed the strength of these swords is comparable to modern day steel. Each sword was stamped with the name "Ulfbhert", a mysterious sword-smith with no traceable history other than these swords.

Fucking time travellers.

>>33488229
I don't know, he has a point. What weapon from Western mythology does anything comparable to that?

>>33488223
Was that 8 different gods? Or just one god that was rather slow to take the hint?

>>33487757
It wouldn't be too dissimilar to natives against Europeans. Eventually the awe factor goes and they figure out their best bet is to steal some tech weapons and use them against their enemies.

So before long your Celts or Vikings would be stealing tanks and using them.

>>33487739
It's actually MORE hardcore than that. It wasn't the grip. He made a TENT out of human skin.

>>33487379
> I need a legendary scythe
The scythe/sickle Cronus used to castrate Uranus

>>33488262
How can you castrate my anus?

>>33488269
Very carefully

>>33487892
>>33487885
>>33487865
>>33487834
Imagine how the folks of the Sentinel Islands felt when they first met white men. I wonder if we're anywhere in their religion. I mean, they sure didn't give these dudes a warm welcome:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/1509987/Stone-Age-tribe-kills-fishermen-who-strayed-on-to-island.html

>>33488269
The less you know, the better it is

>>33488107
I'm pretty sure a good deal of legendary blades were indeed made to be special or legendary from step one.

>>33487033
swords*

He had two, both presents of defeated enemies. On against the catalan Count of Barcelona, the other one against the moor King of Morocco.

>>33488299
>Both arming swords
>One belonged to the King of Morocco
>Not scymitar or similar shit

>>33488214
wait you were talking about weapons you made up for writing and shit? I thought you were saying you actually had a rapier.

>>33488240
fucking arabs actually, vikings stole some damascan steel and the tricks to making them I'd say.

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>>33488269
>>33488278
>>33488284
I will chop-fuck your ass-balls

>>33488241
The maul of Bullroarer Took, stupid slant-eyed nips never invented golf. Similarly the sword of Herakles was used to keep lopping heads off the hydra, a mythical monster of legendary proportions.

Also consider the fact that the japanese worshipped sea serpents, rock and tree spirits, and anything else that came along as 'gods' so the weapon is more shitty weeaboo hyperbole.

Since this thread allows for weapons of questionable actual existence and/or abilities, shouldn't the Ark of the Covenant count? It could be pretty destructive if its users wanted it to be.

>>33488299
Imagine if there was some guy in history who cared nothing for wars or nations, but was an incredibly skilled swordsman who'd just go around beating kings and conquerors in duels and taking their swords.

Like a non-bumbly mix of FF's Gilgamesh and Miyamoto Musashi.

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The Sword of Mercy.
Image shows it in the centre between the Sword of Temporal Justice and the Sword of Spiritual Justice

>The Sword of Mercy, or Edward the Confessor's Sword, is a symbolically broken sword that is part of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom.[1] The sword has a blade cut off short and square, indicating thereby the quality of the mercy of the sovereign; according to the mythological history of the sword, its tip was broken off by an angel to prevent a wrongful killing.

>>33488350
If you told me of a sword broken by and angel to prevent a wrongful killing, I'd naturally picture it a lot more broken than that. Like missing the vast majority of the blade, not just the tip. And not a clean break, either.

>>33488316
Western Moors were heavily influenced by christian warfare, specially if they had to fight in Spain. Also, one of the few things that moors imported from the western christians was weapons. Not to mention that scimitars were introduced mainly by the turks, who were the new guys in the theater of the XXI century.

Plus both swords are probably fake like pretty much all the weapons in this thread

>>33488404
>of the XXI century

I meant XI century, of course

>>33488346
Sounds cool for a character, or even a villain

You want some real good meatspace adventure hook?
Well, here I'll leave yo one.

Seems one of Hernan Cortez captains, Don Juan de Grau, Baron of the village of Toloriu, married one of Moctezuma's daughter, the princess Xipaguazin, which was baptized Maria.
Seems the princess knew where to find a secret vault containing a reserve of gold which was located outside of the city of Mehica. Gold and jewels which wasn't lost during the Noche Triste.
Don Juan and Maria somehow "smuggled" the equivalent of 132.000 shields in gold and jewels and also bring with them something else. In the year 1537 Maria died of the common cold not before giving birth to the rightful heir to the treasure, Don Juan Pedro de Grau y Moctezuma [cont.]

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>>33488434
According to the personal journal of Don Juan, he decided to bury the body and the treasure of his wife in an unknown location around the village of Toloriu for fear he could be accused of treason for smuggling such amount of gold and jewels from the royal taxes. But what calls most the attention was the fact part of the Journal was lost and there was a reference to that other object which make him question his faith.
In the year 1934 a group of German adventurers bought the whole land which once belonged to the Baron de Toloriu, digging around for find the true tomb as the one find in the local church was just a decoy.
They didn't find anything and in the year 1965 a mysterious order of knights commanded by who seems the last heir to Princess Xipaguazin made this slab be hang over the main gate of the church.

>>33488318
>fucking arabs

That's not how you spell "Indians".

>>33487869
>He cancelled his con appearance for the first time this year because the disease is getting too difficult to handle.

2014 is the year of death.

>>33488376
May be less showy, but given angels are divine, a perfect clean break of only what was necessary seems more in line with angels. To me at least.

And there's also no reference to if it was in the heat of the attack of done in advance to make a point.
(Sorry)

>>33488434
>>33488455

>marriying indias
>jewing gold and jewels

Fucking catalans man

I wonder if any sniper stories can be traced back to a Legendary weapon. Didn't that one guy never use a scope because he didn't like how the light could reflect off of it and give his position away, so just used iron sights?

>>33488472
Simo Häyhä, 542 kills with his rifle and another 200ish with his SMG

>>33488434
>>33488455
This particular one is new to me but wow, there are a lot of iffy tales of troves of gold in Central/South America.

Personally, I'd still go for that mountain lake I can't remember where at the moment that the locals supposedly threw gold into as an annual ritual. Then, if I struck it rich, tempt fate by funding another dig on Oak Island.

>>33488455
According to some lines of research, the object was linked to the cult of the god Huitzilopochtli.
Some legends said it was the main reason which drive mad one of Hernan Cortez men, ordering him to open fire to those partaking in a religious ceremony, starting the event which ended with La Noche Triste.

>>33488472
>>33488487
Also his rifle was an outdated piece of shit, and when offered a newer more accurate one he refused to take it because he couldn't be bothered to learn how to use a new gun.

>>33487231
Railguns: who needs chemical propellant when you have MAGNETS

>>33488468
I assumed it was done dramatically in the heat of the moment. An angel showing up at the last second and shattering the sword seems like a more impressive spectacle to me.

Plus, even if it was done in advance, the sword still had plenty of blade to totally murder somebody. If you're gonna come down from the heavens to personally break a sword to make a point about justice and mercy, why suddenly be so subtle at that point?

>>33488541
The gun was clearly a noobtube.

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>>33487309
Magic

>>33488544
>Oh, are you going to use a chemical reaction as propellant?
>FUCK NO. SEE THIS SHIT? FUCKING MAGNETS. I'M GOING TO RAPE THE FUCKING ATMOSPHERE AND SHOVE A BULLET UP GRAVITY'S ASS WITH ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS SHAPED LIKE DILDOS

Railguns are fairly extreme.

>>33488541
Obviously, the real reason is that he knew that gun had leveled so much at that point its bonuses far outweighed the default advantages that brand new gun had.

>>33488466
>http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/02/terry-pratchett-cancel-appearance-alzheimers-discworld

>"The Embuggerance is finally catching up with me, along with other age-related ailments."

I am going to cry.

I wonder about the dagger that killed Julius Caesar. What if it wasn't merely malcontented nobles that inspired the assassination, but the blade itself wanting to kill rulers of men?
Seriously, how many Roman rulers were assassinated? Could be a dagger silented willing blood.

>>33488588
What if all the weapons that killed famous people are part of this covenant of cursed weapons?

Who would believe "The axe made me do it!" ?

>>33487620
Anything, so long its a weapon.
And not shoehorned to have a extra function as a weapon. For instance, he has problems defending himself if he uses wooden practice sticks, walking sticks, tableware, and stuff.
But he can operate war machines and weapons.

>>33488610
I recall the wording used in the sub I watched was "anything designed as a weapon", so his fighter plane he finds works just fine.
Anything that was made with warfare in mind can be used with accuracy and skill.

>>33488550
So we have story 1:
Whilst in an attack a man swings his sword at another and an angel screaming in at the last moment to break the blade mid-swing.

And story 2:
A man draws his sword swearing to kill another when an angel strolls up and silently touches the blade with a finger, breaking off the point and giving a stern look before leaving. The big man will hear about this.

Both seem cool in their own way.

>>33488260
It's actually MORE hardcore than that. It wasn't the grip. He made a COTTAGE out of human skin.

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>>33488636
It's actually MORE hardcore than that. It wasn't s cottage. He made... Well, have you ever heard of the Millennium Dome?

>>33487757
Yes.
Even more so if actual ships have been built.
Even a stone age civilization would be able to tell.

>>33488655
I was gonna go with castle... but Damn

>>33488606
I like the idea of wepons being infused by their famous owners or victims.

Like how Glamdring and Orcrist glow red because they killed to many orcs and are thirty for their blood.

>>33488434
>>33488455
>>33488535
I think I found my next campaign.

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>Sword of Stalingrad
>The Sword of Stalingrad is a bejewelled ceremonial longsword specially forged and inscribed by command of George VI of the United Kingdom as a token of homage from the British people to the Soviet defenders of the city during the Battle of Stalingrad. On 29 November 1943 it was presented to Marshal Joseph Stalin by British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at an afternoon ceremony during the Tehran Conference in the presence of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and an honour guard.

>The sword is a double-edged, two-handed longsword, approximately four feet long, with a solid-silver crossguard. The acid-etched inscription in Russian and English reads:
>ГРАЖДАНАМ СТАЛИНГРАДА • КРЕПКИМ КАК СТАЛЬ • ОТ КОРОЛЯ ГЕОРГА VI • В ЗНАК ГЛУБОКОГО ВОСХИЩЕНИЯ БРИТАНСКОГО НАРОДА
>TO THE STEEL-HEARTED CITIZENS OF STALINGRAD • THE GIFT OF KING GEORGE VI • IN TOKEN OF THE HOMAGE OF THE BRITISH PEOPLE

>The hand grip is bound in 18 carat gold wire and has a pommel of rock crystal with a gold rose of England. Each end of the 10-inch crossguard is fashioned in the likeness of the head of a leopard and finished with parcel gilt.
>The 36-inch double-edged blade is lenticular in cross section and hand-forged out of the finest Sheffield steel. The scabbard was made from Persian lamb skin dyed crimson, although some sources suggest it was of Morocco leather. It is decorated with the Royal arms, the Crown and Cypher in silver gilt with five silver mounts and three rubies mounted on golden stars.

>In its time it was celebrated as one of the last masterpieces in swordmaking craftsmanship from the modern age.

>>33486446

>implying the sword didn't itself weild another sword
>doesn't know about the legendary sword of the legendary sword durandal
>year of our lord 1066+952

>>33488686
Remember than Catalans are like Jews, but brownier like all those filthy latinos.

>>33487446
>The Ulfbhert: Legendary swords used by only the most elite Viking warriors. These swords were incredibly advanced for their time; they were not made out of low-carbon steel like most European weapons and testing has revealed the strength of these swords is comparable to modern day steel. Each sword was stamped with the name "Ulfbhert", a mysterious sword-smith with no traceable history other than these swords.

Oh for fuck's sake....
>rant
THAT DOCUMENTARY WAS FUCKING BULLSHIT.
>/rant

the reality:
1. they were not "viking". they are Frankish, probably from the north of France or Southern Germany. The evidence is that they were produced in a workshop affiliated to a monastery.

2: They were not used only by "elite vikings". ulfberht-marked sword blades were exported down the Rhine, and up the Danube. Blades with the markings have been found in london, Germany, France, Spain and Hungary. A significant grouping has been found in the Ukraine.

3: They were not "stamped" with a name. They were inlaid (a process of carving out channels, and then forge-welding iron inserts into the channels) with text and shapes. Many swords were at that point.
3b: Nor is it a "sword-smith". Ulfberht swords were produced over the span of almost 1/4 of a millennium, from about 800 to 1050 - +VLFBERH+T was a brand name, no different to "Ferrari" - still produced long after Enzo Ferrari died.

3c: its not particularly mysterious, records from the 8th century are incredibly rare, those from bladesmiths even more so. We also have no information on Ingelrii, Gicelin, Leutrel, all other sword-makers.

The steel was an advanced crucible steel, but it is very exaggerated in that documentary

>>33488744
There is also the slab which is in french.

>>33488625
I dunno, I'm tired of god/gods being subtle. They're always so subtle this last millennium or two. If there are such beings and they really do care about what humans are doing, I'd appreciate some old-fashioned awe-inspiring shows of overwhelming force. So I'd still pick a number one.

And still, if the point is to stop a murder, then why leave the sword still totally functional. I get not intervening at all, I get intervening and completely shutting the whole murder down. I don't get half-assing the diving intervention. It's like if some kid was throwing rocks at your window so you went out there and... limited him to just slightly smaller rocks.

>>33488752
>rant
>/rant

Jesus Christ, fuck off back to reddit you subhuman.

But thanks for the info.

>>33488762
>Frenchies
>Any better than latinos

>>33488655
>It's actually MORE hardcore than that. It wasn't just buildings. He encased his own BODY within human skin.

>>33488804
that's the joke

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>>33487352
This page is my favorite on the whole "modern army comes to wreck shit in fantasy land" genre.

The source is "Gate - Thus the JSDF fought here" for anyone who want's to know.

>>33488810

>It's actually MORE hardcore than that. It wasn't just buildings. He encased SCOTLAND within human skin.

>>33487231
>that pressure wave
Hnnnng.

>>33487773
Don't we all

>>33488281
We're probably devils.

>>33488804
all Latin races are shit-tier

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>>33488867
Keep telling yourself that

>It's actually LESS hardcore than that. It wasn't just buildings. He encased SCOTLAND within human skin. But then the Scotsmen told him to stop being so gross I mean ew.

>>33488281
This sounds like a problem easily solved by a helicopter with a door gunner.

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>>33488867
butthurt barbarian detected

>>33488833
Wait, hold on here... You're telling me, that under his rule, every single Scot walked around day in and day out covered in human skin?

...I'm sorry, you've gone beyond the realm of plausibility here. Where would they even get that much human skin? And get the army of craftsman needed to make a perfectly fitted custom skin suit for every man, woman and child? It's just not feasible to have everyone walking around in human skin.

>>33488908
nope. all of Scotland. not just the populace.

>Fire from his eyes and lightning bolts from his arse.

>>33488046
Search suptg for the artifact hammer story. Some smith dude goes on a workplace quest to forge his own hammer from a legendary ex-worker's metal.

>>33488830
>bakblast clir
Man Gate was pretty gr8, too bad it kinda devolved into stupid shit.

>>33488920
Well sure, the land itself, I get that, it's doable. But humans covered in human skin? Preposterous! Even regardless of how people would somehow obtain perfectly fitting suits of human skin, everybody in the whole country would get so hot and damp and diseased from not shedding excess blood upon all surfaces they come in contact with.

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>>33488768
Simple. Angels use katanas.

>>33488984
>Angels
>Katanas
That's an alchemist and his magical one use only katana, Anon.

>>33488976
>bakblast clir

Oh... Now I get it, that is clever.

>>33488981
But anon, we all are skeleton covered in human skin

>>33488981
I think this is a case of the cow/crane thing /tg/ did a while back

>>33489002
3 spoopy 5 me

>>33489002
If there was a skeleton living inside me I'm pretty sure I'd know.

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Not really legendary, but boner giving nontheless.

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>>33486286
Pretty sure Nuclear Arsenals count as legendary weapons.

>>33489002
What the- Are there people covered in human skin in this very thread? Man, this board is weird.

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>>33488541
>Also his rifle was an outdated piece of shit
It was a fairly up-to-date weapon at the time, you know. It was as old then as the M16 is now, and it's still in service.
And it very clearly wasn't a piece of shit if he managed to kill so many people with one.

>>33487231
FUCKING MAGNETS

>>33488588
>I wonder about the dagger that killed Julius Caesar
Which one, there were about a dozen involved in the process.

>>33488935
Found it, will read soon.

>>33489013

>DISCH DISCH DISCH DISCH
>thousands of glow sticks being tossed into the air at once

Dat's sum rave dere mang.

>>33489053
I think it was the same dagger, senators were passing it from one to another.

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>>33488541
>Implying Nuggets sucked back in 1940.
>Implying Nuggets suck now in 2014.
cука

>>33488776
I've never even read a single page of Reddit.

the " /rant " comment was there solely for silly humour.

>>33489053

Nha, only one dagger, but everyone took a turn according to the due process of the senatorial murder committee.

Fairly standard sort of shit when legislators do a murder.

And if I can mention a ship, how about Ormen Lange "The Long Wyrm" - Olav Tryggvassons longship? The largest and most fancy warship of the viking era? Probably decorated with a golden dragonhead in the front, and tail in the back. About 50 meters long with space for 80-130 fighting men. Probably lost at sea in 1000.

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>>33489080
Uh, no. I mean, think about that for a minute. Which of these is more likely.
>hey guys, who wants to go kill Caesar?
>alright, so that's about a dozen of us. who brought knives?
>one guy?
>uh, well, let's just, I dunno, take turns?
>maybe the other guys can, like, cheer the knife guy on while they're waiting
>should we decide on the turn order first?

OR

>hey guys, who wants to go kill Caesar?
>alright, so that's about a dozen of us. everybody go grab a knife and come by here tomorrow.

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>>33489044
>Whoever draws the nugget from the earth shall be the one true slav.

>>33489113
It was a joke, stupid one, but a joke, don't overthink it.

>>33489113
First option seems fun and turns an assassination into a more cheerful event.

>>33488984

>filename

GDI

>>33489111
Adding to the story - he had it modeled after a smaller ship he stole from Raud, a powerful chief and magician. He could not convert Raud to christianity, so he killed him by forcing a serpent down his throat and then stole all his ships and gold.

>>33488752
...all of those things you said where covered in the documentary...

>>33488830
I was wonder if anyone posted this
cool beans

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I feel like this sums up a couple things

>>33486446
Wasn't Masamune supposed to be the one that when stuck in the water, everything just noped out of its path?

>>33487257
I read "Stanislaus Augustus Sex Devil"

>>33487564
From what my buddy had said they basically paint it plain as day how to use the things. I know its a little far fetched that he could just skoop and shoot. but they make it so any moron can shoot the ting, I mean have you seen what we take as light infantry these days?

>>33487658
>The Wallace Sword.

>William Wallace's sword, used at the battle of Stirling Bridge and battle of Falkirk. The blade is 4'4, including the hilt, it's 5'8.

>In Scotland, it's basically a national treasure.

Actually, it is'nt Wallace's sword, unless he was related to Dr Who, because its a clear example of a type of sword made 300 years after Wallace's death.
The hilt is absolutely characteristically of late 16th Century fashion. The blade likewise, is mostly of that date. However the blade is in fact made from peices of 3 swords forge-welded together. Either a blade that broke, or parts of several stuck together to make a longer object for display. It is vaguely possible that one part of those three is of 13th century origin, but no evidence can be found to conclusively prove it.

Furthermore, this sword was only attributed to wallace in the year 1801, nearly 500 years after his death.

It is described as a "national treasure" by the Wallace Monument. Historians describe it as a national joke, as they refuse to allow anyone to study the sword, because every expert who has has consistently denounced it as a 16th Century blade that has nothing to do with Wallace.

Co-incidentally, it is not the only Wallace Sword. there is a second one in the private collection of a noble scots house whose ancestors were instrumental in the battles of the Scots Wars of Independence, which is far less well-known. I've been fortunate enough to study that, and unfortunately, that one's also from the 16th Century....


>>33487739
There is no scabbard for the sword. The origin of the story of the scabbard made from the skin of Cressingham was only created by Blind Harry, a poet in the service of King James IV, in the 1470's, fully 170 years after Wallace's death. No evidence exists of such a scabbard in reality.

>>33487844
Why not both?

>>33487690
>>33487708
>>33487769
Personally I'd just "accidentally" cut myself to keep the myth going.

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>>33487572
>>33487491
Beware the humans to the east. It is said their king's general carries a Shield of Iron of which no weapon can penetrate to protect his kingdom

>>33487657
Well played

>>33489332
Yes.

That guy is talking about Muramasa, though, another famous Japanese swordsmith. Masamune is generally accepted as the iconic swordsmith-monk, whereas Masamura was haunted by mental illness and anger difficulties, and it's said that these traits lived in his swords. In the same story you referenced, Muramasa's sword cut anything that even so much as brushed it, whereas Masamune's refuses to cut anything that is not deserving, instead just nudging leaves and fish gently by.

The Honjo Masamune is probably the most famous sword in the Japanese cultural mind, even moreso than the Kusanagi. It's also missing at the moment, presumably taken as a trophy by an American officer.

>>33487889
These are pretty much impossible to see unaided even if you're looking for them.

>>33489356
It's actually "Santa Claus August is Sex Devil"

>>33489488
No offense, but this is exactly why I'd want to test it myself. Even if it's done with the benevolent intent of preserving the world's mystery and wonder, I still don't like the thought that people might have faked various wondrous accounts. Though one always wonder if the opposite were the case too, which is why I once again figure the only satisfying answer is to test the mystery myself. But whoever's in charge of Japanese legendary swords, I doubt they'd ever let anybody try. Though I'd at least hope it's out of fear the curse is real, rather than fear of it being proven nonexistent.

>>33489467
I guess it could be adventure-comedy, but that's kinda hard to pull off.

>>33489488
What if the sword made you think that?

>>33488134
>Philadelphia experiment
Basic gist is that the navy was testing out a hypothetical cloaking field, one big enough to cover and entire battleship, that worked by screwing around with electromagnetism and gravity, they put it on the ship and turned it on and not only did it turn invisible (though it did leave a greenish fog) but after a few seconds of invisibility it caused a bright blue flash and teleported 200 miles away to another port, arriving 10 SECONDS before it left and then snapping back to it's first position. Unfortunately a chunk of the crew was fused into the metal of the ship and several others had gone completely insane and the military just did it's best to quietly shut down the project

>>33489854
see
>>33489905

>>33489854
There are a number of Muramasa blades in private hands, nihonto.ca had a spearhead for sale a while back. Wanting to test one would be insulting the owner's intelligence, and cutting yourself would risk corroding the surface.

>>33490241
I mean testing as in drawing it and seeing if I went murder crazy, no way I'd cut myself on purpose. It'd either be stained with the blood of the victims I was driven to murder by its supernatural powers or left perfectly clean. In my normal state of mind I'd never damage a rare artifact like that.

>>33487560
So it's like a miniaturized Excalibur?
Sweet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M982_Excalibur

>>33487620
ANY weapon.
Later on, at least in the LNs, he winds up back in our world, so he hijacks a JASDF Mitsubishi F-2, flies it through a rift in the sky, and fucks up an ancient and obscenely powerful dragon with it.

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>>33487442
Patriarch detected

>>33488752
Every single point you made was covered in that documentary you hate., including the point that later blades were inferior and counterfeits were common.

>>33486635
>won't let anyone see them
>rumored to have been lost or stolen
Maybe there's a connection.

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>>33488670
Japan's got that one covered too.

>>33488670
>I like the idea of wepons being infused by their famous owners or victims.
So, like Warehouse 13?

>>33489968
>quietly shut down the project
Sorry the navy quietly shut down that thing you made up.

>>33489854
Wait, do you really believe there might be a bunch of magical bloodthirsty katana floating around in Japan?

>>33493394
>that thing you made up.
Nah, that's just how the story goes, I know it's bullshit but that's how that rumor tells it.

>>33488541
The Nagant was a decent bolt action at it's time. He was offered a shorter variant of the same gun made in his country, and he did use it.
>Yfw best sniper in history didn't need no optics, fancy rounds, a spotter or even training
Hardly fair to compare modern pussy snipers to the Spirit of Winter though.

>>33487351
holy fucking shit, apparently this was actually a thing. Suck on this, Trojan Horse.

>>33486286
There's a sword in a museum in my home city, supposedly that belonged to Sir Bevis; the sword Morgelai. If even half the stories about Sir Bevis are true, that thing's seen enough blood to make it a Khornate daemon weapon!

>>33489356
He did fuck Catherine the Great.

>>33496358
But on the other hand, who didn't?

>>33488976
it did some neat bits later with planes, but yeah. it went sort of batshit.

(although that whatshername bayonetting the shit out of the phalanx was brutal)

>>33488976
it did some neat bits later with planes, but yeah. it went sort of batshit.

(although that whatshername bayonetting the shit out of the phalanx was brutal)

>>33486788
Bismarck.

>>33488768
I'm pretty sure it takes a special brand of stupid to try again when an angel just came forth from the heavens to make sure you don't kill this guy.

At the second try you're practically begging for damnation.

>>33493919
> Suck on this, Trojan Horse.
The Trojan Horse worked. Rhodes withstood Demetrius's siege and used the scraps of the helepolis to help build the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

>>33487379
What exactly is the theme of the game?

With firearms it's difficult to really attain "legendary" status because they're hardly unique to their owners.
Everything >>33487477 and >>33487480 listed were production models (minus the .45 ACP caliber Luger, but that wasn't even used in combat. It's an expensive trinket more or less.) made in the thousands to hundreds of thousands, and even besides that they're only notable for being used in a singular event.

There's plenty of guns that have blood on them, and substantial numbers at that - there's one Texas Ranger, Charles Askins I think, who has an officiated-by-him kill count of something around 26 or 27, but he was also reported to not keep track of the non-whites he killed so it could easily be double that - but those are hardly famous.

>>33491885
I'm sad that the anime adapted it to be more harem instead of changing it to be more Shonen (at least I think shonen is the one about super powered fighting)

>>33486446
Didn't the Lance of Longinus get it's head put on Charlemagne's sword?

>>33500436
Technically, "shonen" is a demographic, not a genre.
But I think we all get what you're getting at.

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>CRTL+F A-10 Warthog
>0 found
it's like you guys don't even BRRRRRRRRRRRT.

any of you read GRUNTS!? it has a dragon that places a curse on his horde that caused some Orcs that stole a bunch of military hardware from it to basically become US Marines. it's good for a bit, and has some cool ideas, but it devolves into edgy pretty early in.

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>>33502307
missed pic/

>>33502186
See
>>33487915

>>33502186
They actually stopped making those.
Proof that A) The military-industrial complex has no soul, and B) Fate has ordained that the survivors enter the Halls of Legend.

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>>33488541

How has there never been a story about Simo where his Rifle is possessed?
It seems like such an obvious thing to do.

Alone, on the front line, your country is being stolen right from under you, and someone offers you a chance to turn the tide.
What price wouldn't a man pay?

>>33502932
Because he's a pretty obscure historical figure who's actual wartime exploits are more or less unknown, and who's personality is even more unknown.
To write something like that, you'd basically be writing historical fanfiction about a name with some loose facts attached to it. Even more than normal "what if" alt-history stories.

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>>33503102

He's not that unknown.
He's pretty famous, it's just that not a lot of records exists of just what the fuck happened out there.

I say that makes for excellent what-if material.
If shit is too well documented then you have to steer off from the actual event.

>>33487678
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azEvfD4C6ow

>>33487845
Mythos cultists worshipping the inscrutable sub-god?

>>33502932
>>33503102
>>33503189

Would make a pretty decent story.

>Gets shot in the face
>Kept alive through demon magics
>Wakes up on the eve of the end of the war as thanks from the demon for all the lives he fed it

>>33504920
He got the injury at the end of his service. Someone mortared the position he was in and he took a bunch of shrapnel to his face and was taken out of combat.

>>33505123
I thought it was because he got tagged by an exploding round.

>>33493406
You don't?