Magic Weapons

[gamecat]

Elric's Stormbringer, but that may be too modern of an idea.

 

[Megatron]

as with all the other weapons included in this thread. whichever god they reference.

That's a good point. I'm using that. ;p

 

[lukelightning]

A quick note about the horns at Jericho: The Bible doesn't state that the horns themselves knocked down the walls; from what I've read the horns are part of a ritual/ceremonial action, and the proper interpretation is that God told the Israelites to go around the city blowing horns, etc. and they did, so then God knocked down the walls. The sound wasn't what knocked the walls down.

 

[Finster]

Along the same lines as Ceasar's sword, I think Charlemegne had a sword called Durendal. Don't know if it had magical properties ascribed to it though. I also don't know if I spelled any of that correctly.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

A quick note about the horns at Jericho: The Bible doesn't state that the horns themselves knocked down the walls; from what I've read the horns are part of a ritual/ceremonial action, and the proper interpretation is that God told the Israelites to go around the city blowing horns, etc. and they did, so then God knocked down the walls. The sound wasn't what knocked the walls down.

In D&D terms, it is possible that these horns were either a focus component of a spell, or the horns created a (divine) spell effect. (Or it was a plot device )

The only weapon I recall now is "The Holy Handgrenade", which would be a "pop cultural" weapon

 

[Zander]

A quick note about the horns at Jericho: The Bible doesn't state that the horns themselves knocked down the walls; from what I've read the horns are part of a ritual/ceremonial action, and the proper interpretation is that God told the Israelites to go around the city blowing horns, etc. and they did, so then God knocked down the walls. The sound wasn't what knocked the walls down.

Perhaps, but aren't all divine weapons used by mortals mediated by a divinity? One could argue that it wasn't really David's sling stone that knocked out Goliath.

 

[Whisper72]

Definately check out the celtic myths and the nibelungen saga for stuff...

 

[kenobi65]

4) In Arthurian myth, Excalibur is Arthurs' Sword of War.

Not to mention the sword that Arthur pulls out of the stone, which, IIRC, is a different sword from Excalibur. (My memory of Arthurian myth is foggy...)

 

[IcyCool]

Along the same lines as Ceasar's sword, I think Charlemegne had a sword called Durendal. Don't know if it had magical properties ascribed to it though. I also don't know if I spelled any of that correctly.

I think it's spelled Durandal, although that might be too much Xenosaga for me. And it was Roland's sword. And if I'm not mistaken, it was unbreakable.

Ah, here it is:

The sword of Roland, fabled to have once belonged to Hector, and which, like the horn, Roland won from the giant Jutmundus. It had in its hilt a thread from the cloak of the Virgin Mary, a tooth of St. Peter, a hair of St. Denys, and a drop of St. Basil's blood. Legend has it that Roland, mortally wounded at Roncesvalles, strove to break Durandal on a rock to prevent it falling in the hands of the Saracens. The sword, however, was unbreakable so he hurled it into a poisoned stream, where it remains for ever.

 

[DwelleroftheDeep]

Guan Yu's (Romance of the Three Kingdoms) gread sword-Black dragon