Coolest weapon from literature?

[KChagga]

Stormbringer. Come on the sword was friggin EVIL.

 

[Deedlit]

Definitely soul crusher. What other sword corrupts a great hero into the evil emperor of Marmo, raises people from the dead, while still being an incredibly useful sword in battle. (Lodoss started with a manga, which is literature)

 

[GILGAMESH]

Naaaaa !!

Stormbringer. Come on the sword was friggin EVIL.

Now that's just a mater of perspective. Evil is as Evil does.

 

[Draxus the Tainted]

Sword of Kas

 

[Holy Bovine]

El Ravager's Hackmaster +12

 

[DarkJester]

What is the name of that series with Elric in it? I always want to pick up the first one at book store but never remember the name.

 

[Heathen72]

Post your own favourite weapons!

1) Monkey's Wishing staff (what other weapon can you hide up your nose?) Monkey!

2) Grayswandir Roger Zelazny's Amber series

3) The Subtle knife (if you are looking for something really
sharp) Phillip Pullman's Dark Material's series

4) Spellbreaker, Blackwand, Pathfinder... in fact any Morganti weapon. Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos series


And If one can choose from more than literature

5) Light sabre Duh!

6)Peter's Sonic Boomerang Battle of the Planets / Gatchaman

7)The Master's Tissue Compressor Shrink ray

8)Wave motion gun (not quite a melee weapon, but ...) Star Blazers / Great Yamato

 

[Holy Bovine]

Re: Post your own favourite weapons!

2) Grayswandir Roger Zelazny's Amber series

I thought Grayswandir was Fafhred's sword from Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar series?


Now that I think about it maybe it was just called Graywand?


Great, now I have to go and find my Amber and/or Lankhmar books...grumble, grumble

 

[Mystic Eye]

Tsyr, Did you mean Ice from The Song of Ice and Fire books? Was it even magic or just a really well crafted sword? I am not sure.

I guess my bet would be on Stormbringer.

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

I'm gonna go with one probably most people aren't terribly familiar with... Need. Need was cool. Good backstory, good personality, good character development. And yes, I am talking about a sword here

Long live Tarma and Kethry!

I love Mercedes Lackey, and the Oathbound and The Oathbreakers were the first two really "serious" fantasy books I every read. I'm glad to see someone else reads her books.

And yes, in the later books in the series, when Need "awoke" she was one of the most interesting characters in the series.