In Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, The Dagger of Time was one of the Artifacts of Time, believed to be created by Kaileena, the Empress of Time. A legendary sword for the determined adventurer in any reality.ġ1. It even appears in Bloodborne’s The Old Hunters DLC. The Moonlight Greatsword has appeared in all of FromSoftware’s games, going back to the Sword of Moonlight in Demon’s Souls, and the Sword of Moonlight in the King’s Field series. But the sword makes for a powerful magic build weapon with high intelligence scaling and moonlight projectile magic attacks. In order for him to drop the Moonlight Greatsword in Dark Souls, the player specifically has to cut off the tip of Seath’s rear tail. There the player may encounter Seath the Scaleless and fight him. So instead he set about achieving immortality with magical experiments in his crystal domain of the Duke’s Archives. In the world of Dark Souls, Seath the albino dragon betrayed his own kind because he happened to be born without the stone scales of immortality. Probably most famous as it appeared in the Dark Souls games, The Moonlight Greatsword is a legendary Dragon weapon with magical properties. THE MOONLIGHT GREATSWORD (FROMSOFTWARE GAMES) Perhaps not the most reverent of artifacts, but certainly one of the funniest!ġ2. The Holy Hand Grenade was actually a visual satire of the Sovereign’s Orb, one of the Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom, which looks exactly like the Holy Hand Grenade. “And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'O LORD, bless this Thy hand grenade that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy.'" Don’t forget to count to three before throwing it, not two, not four, three! Arthur throws it and the killer rabbit snuffs it. Bring forth the Holy Hand Grenade! The Book of Armaments describes precisely how to wield the Holy Hand Grenade to devastating effect. But several decapitations and dismemberments later, they were forced to consider alternate options. Arthur and his knights were quite skeptical of Tim the Enchanter's warnings of the danger supposedly posed by an ordinary looking white rabbit. Nothing wrong with a levity counterpoint! In the classic Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch was the decisive divine weapon used by King Arthur and his knights to defeat the guardian of the Cave of Caerbannog. THE HOLY HAND GRENADE (MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL) But sometimes being the right sword for the job can earn it a place in history.ġ3. Sting didn’t start out as a legendary sword, even if it was ancient and forged by elves. Samwise Gamgee even got to wield Sting when Frodo had been captured by Shelob and the orcs of Cirith Ungol. Frodo had to discard quite a lot of baggage on the Journey to Mordor but Sting was always kept close. Perhaps Sting’s most useful feature, apart from its function as a sword, was the ability for the blade to glow bright blue when evil denizens were close by. When the time came for his nephew Fordo Baggins to embark on his own perilous quest, Bilbo entrusted the short sword to him. It served Bilbo faithfully throughout his adventures. Only later, when Biblo fends off the spiders of Mirkwood, does he name the sword Sting. Elrond identifies the blades recovered from the cave as having been forged by the High Elves of the First Age. This somewhat unassuming sword was discovered in a troll cave by Bilbo Baggins not long after he had set out with the company of Thorin Oakenshield. Just as the blade rends flesh, so must power scar the spirit." And what good would a cursed, soul sucking sword be without a foreboding inscription? "Whomsoever takes up this blade shall wield power eternal. But through the Lich King’s influence, Arthas only brought death and destruction back to his homeland, converting much of his army and people into Scourge.įrostmourne killed and absorbed many souls while Arthas wielded it. Desperate to save his homeland of Lordaeron, Arthas took Frostmourne. He got his wish in the form of Prince Arthas Menethil. The Lich King hoped that one day a warrior powerful and desperate or ambitious enough to take the sword would do so and become his embodied agent. The Lich King was entombed in a mound of throne-shaped ice from which he would telepathically command the Scourge in a campaign to conquer the realm of Azeroth.Īlso thrusting from the Frozen Throne was the two-handed runeblade Frostmourne, which contained a portion of the Lich King’s spirit and power. In the World of Warcraft games and world, the spirit of the orc shaman and warchief Ner’zhul was cursed and remade into the Lich King.
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