[Trotts]

Cereal and soup quiver when you draw near Abyss

[Locke Reaper]

I would have to go for kalam's ketra knives. especially the otataral one...if your a mage imagine the smug smile on your face as he slips you one...well not so smug anymore that is:rolleyes:

[Gem Windcaster]

Oh no, not a lightsaber...

[Sinisdar Toste]

personally i think the bloodswords kick the most baddie butt, their like a drug too

[Fiddler]

awesomest weapon? hmm, think i'll have to say Stormy's flint sword, just because that T'lan Imass gave it to him. or was it gesler that got it? it's late and i'm tired.

[Battalion]

What about the Adjuct's sword, or the Rope's rope? Or Traveller's sword?

For me, the best creative use of a weapon was when that sergeant, either Balm or Cord, I get confused, smashed a shovel over Karsa's head, snapping the haft in two. Dig it.

[cerveza_fiesta]

rahahahakramer99999999;209790 said:

personally i think the bloodswords kick the most baddie butt, their like a drug too

oh yeah...forgot completely about those. Those things are awesome. The way SE describes Karsa and the other Toblakai fighting with them in the first third of (House of chains??? the books kind of blend together a bit in my brain) was so freakin awesome. I loved how he always described them as kind of flexible so he could wrap in around a "child's" shield and lop off a limb, but were still stiff enough to whip through bone and whatnot. Plus the upkeep on them (rubbing in blood oil) fills in the notches, makes them sharp, makes you an insane berserker AND makes you progressively more immune to magic...simultaneously. Wasn't the blood oil related to otataral somehow?

[cerveza_fiesta]

cerveza_fiesta;209695 said:

2 Things

Anybody remember why Shilas Ruin's swords hum? I was trying to find the part where they describe that in MT, but I gave up. I seem to remember something about tensioning cables inside the steel that make it vibrate...


Anybody think this was a terribly sissy weapon to give to somebody who wrecks as much s**t as schilas? Whatever happened to the giant black swords trailing black smoke, or soul-infused unbreakable flint swords, or earth-shattering hammers? I was hoping in MT he'd get some kind of cool matched pair of swords that he could put together and take apart to unlock different abilities...reminiscent of the final fantasy movie that came out a short while back.

To answer my own question and for you folks...from the encyclopedia malazica...both swords "glory goat" and "sarat wept" are in the blue style of letherii steel, except glory goat is invested so that it self sharpens:

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Glory goat:

'...long and narrow of blade, pointed and double-edged, modest hilt...'(MT, UK Trade, p.348)

Kuru Qan: 'The edges self-sharpen, I believe. Nicks and notches heal, although some material is always lost.'(MT, UK Trade, p.348)

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'Blue Style' Letherii Steel

Kuru Qan:'the Blue Style, which...is the very earliest technique for Letherii steel. In some ways, the Blue Style produces finer steel than our present methods...the blade’s core is twisted wire, five braids of sixty strands each. Five bars are fused to that core to produce the breadth and edge. Blue Style is very flexible, almost unbreakable, with one drawback'...(after touching Glory Goat to another sword)...a strange sound reverberated from the Blue Style sword. A cry, that went on, and on...'Depending on where on the blade you strike, the note is unique, although each will eventually descend or ascend to the core’s own voice. The effect is cumulative, and persistent.'(MT, UK Trade, p.348)

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Still the humming swords don't have the cool-factor that the powerhouses like dragnipur and Karsa's sword do. (whoever said it) is right though. Some balance is necessary I s'pose... not everyone can be anomander or else it would be a boring book

[Tremolo]

@cerveza: Thank you for your info about the descriptions of the swords. This thread reminded me of something awful - another darkskinned warrior who also used two swords..." Icingdeath and Twinkle are fictional blades (scimitars), signature weapons of Drizzt Do'Urden, a fictional ranger created by R. A. Salvatore under the Forgotten Realms ...". It almost ruined Silkas for me...pun intended.

[Dolorous Menhir]

R A Salvatore created Drizzt? I thought he was in Baldur's Gate and then Salvatore wrote some bad books about him.

[Tremolo]

Dolorous Menhir;209881 said:

R A Salvatore created Drizzt? I thought he was in Baldur's Gate and then Salvatore wrote some bad books about him.

I just used info from Wikipedia...not sure which is oldest

EDIT: More info from Wiki:

First books about Drizzt are from 1990

Baldurs Gate was released in 1998

[Pallol One Eye]

Seems like Rake's and Silky's sword's each seem to have taken a peice of Elric of Melnibone's runesword Stormbringer which moans and sings and sucks out souls.

[Flawed]

I thought the swords moan because there was slight flaws in how they were made. Making the inner coil hum? Like one of those Tuning fork things.

The blessings on them went wrong and so ended up being cursed but Brys said he doubted it would be a problem to the dude who was going to use them. Ie Ruin.

( muses to self ) " Hmmm i bet the whining goat sound is akin to Britney Spears latest track. "

[Trotts]

*Silchas Ruin advances on his opponent, drawing his blades from their scabbards.....*

"Gimme gimme more, gimme more, gimme gimme!"

Ahhh make it stop, Hood take me now!!!

[Sucka27]

Aww come on, the Dark Elf trilogy isn't that bad...

At least i liked it

[Asmodeus de'Yakshas]

Sucka27;209913 said:

Aww come on, the Dark Elf trilogy isn't that bad...

At least i liked it

Sorry, but it is. RA Salvatore is one of the worst writers in modern fantasy. Horribly unimaginative and cliched.

[Sucka27]

Well i never said it was awesome writing. I thought it was entertaining.

Btw, i'd argue that Salvatore doesn't reach the hackery of authors such as Raymond Feist, Terry Brooks, or especially Richard Knaak. There are a lot of really bad writers out there and at least Salvatore brings an interesting character to the table in Drizzt. Not the best, I know but I still enjoyed it (you won't bait me into arguing he can hold a candle to the better writers in the genre). He uses the word 'lament' to much though. Just like S.E.'s characters shrug too much and Goodkind's characters cry too much.

[cerveza_fiesta]

Sucka27;210302 said:

Well i never said it was awesome writing. I thought it was entertaining.

Btw, i'd argue that Salvatore doesn't reach the hackery of authors such as Raymond Feist, Terry Brooks, or especially Richard Knaak. There are a lot of really bad writers out there and at least Salvatore brings an interesting character to the table in Drizzt. Not the best, I know but I still enjoyed it (you won't bait me into arguing he can hold a candle to the better writers in the genre). He uses the word 'lament' to much though. Just like S.E.'s characters shrug too much and Goodkind's characters cry too much.

Don't forget Robert Jordan's Nynaeve "tugging her braid" and "rictus grins" from every character in the book

[Obdigore]

Ok, can we please remember that a lot of authors are writing books for a quick 2-3 hour read, a good time, and then you move on?

Like Salvatore or Modesitt?

For their target audience, and the desired effect, they are excellent writers.

Just becase you, personally, don't like what they write, or the fact that they are not attempting an, in any way, epic fantasy, does not mean you should bash them.

[Mentalist]

Hmm, personally i enjoyed Knaak's Dragonlance stuff..