#Caledfwlch

[logicalcalamity]

A redraw of when Dave got Caledfwlch, to use as proxy art for a human soldier token in my Homestuck proxy commander deck.

[gawrkin]

Excalibur in the Welsh Tradition

From Encyclopedia of Mythological Objects, by Theresa Bane

Below is an excerpt of the original text and a translation describing Llenlleawg's slaughter of Diwrnach:

Swung it in a circle" Hmmmmm. I looked at some other translations:

The Mabinogion, by Gwyn Jones

The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales by Patrick K. Ford

It does seem like Excalibur has the capability to destroy an entire army

Preiddu Annwn

Dream of Rhonabwy

[tournamentstuck]

On review, this tournament seems a bit convoluted. But I wouldn't have it any other way.

!! Freshest Artifact To Get Into Hands With Intent Of Harm !!

This is the masterpost for the tournament! I will be linking each individual poll underneath as the tournament goes on.

Propaganda is welcomed and encouraged! I will reblog any and all that comes my way.

Due to the size and diversity of weapons in Homestuck I have divided the tournament into pools. This is so we dont have two swords or two hammers or two assault rifles for the finals so on so forth. To keep track of pools with more than one round of brackets, these pool-brackets will now be called Acts. If a Pool doesn't have more than one Act it will not be refereed to with one.

--Round One Pool One Act OneCutlass of Zillywair VS Occam's Razor

Bec Noir's Body Sword Thing VS Human Pornography Sword

Caledfwlch VS Snoop Dogg Snow Cone Machete

Shitty Ninja Sword VS Unbreakable Katana

sord VS Bait and Switchblade

Scarlet Ribbitar VS Regisword

Royal Deringer VS Ancestral Awakening Sword

Saber Rattle VS Caledscratch

--Round One Pool Two Act One

MSPA Standard Issue Pistol VS Doc Scratch's Magnum

Calliope's Magnum VS Flintlock Pistols

Flintlocks of Zillyhau VS Golden Pistols

Fin's Fiveshooter VS Twin M9 Berettas

--Round One Pool Three

Jade's Newspaper VS Diamond Droog's Newspaper

--Round One Pool Four

Suitarangs VS Sollux's Throwing Stars

--Round One Pool Five Act One

Quills Of Echidna VS Thorns of Oglogoth

Thistles Of Zillywich VS Needlewands

Cue Needles VS Knitting Needles

--Round One Pool Six

Equius's Fists VS Roxy's Fists

--Round One Pool Seven Act One

Ψdon's Entente VS HIC's Double Trident

Meenah's Double Trident VS Brainfork

--Round One Pool Eight

Clubs Deuce VS Table Leg

--Round One Pool Nine

White Wand VS Empiricist's Wand

--Round One Pool Ten Act One

Broken Caledscratch VS Broken Royal Deringer

Broken Scarlet Ribbitar VS Broken Caledfwich

--Round One Pool Eleven Act One

Sledgehammer VS Warhammer Of Zillyhoo

Pogo Hammer VS Wrinklefucker

Pop-A-Matic Vrillyhoo Hammer VS Claw Hammer

Fear No Anvil VS Telescopic Sassacrusher

--Round One Pool Twelve Act One

Battlespork of Zillywut VS Skaia War Fork

Junior Battermaster's Bowlbuster Poking Solution 50000 VS Red Skaia War Fork

--Round One Pool Thirteen

Kanaya's Chainsaw VS Demonbane Ragripper

--Round One Pool Fourteen Act One

Fiduspear VS Jousting Lance

Cigarette Holder VS Daggerlance

--Round One Pool Fifteen Act One

Registickle VS Homes Smell Ya Later

Sickle VS Clawsickle

--Round One Pool Sixteen Act One

Green Sun Scepter VS Walking Can

Dragon Cane VS Gold Scepter

Black Scepter VS Spear Cane

Cast Iron Horse Hitcher VS Bull Penis Cane

--Round One Pool Seventeen

Con Air Bunny VS Liv Tyler

--Round One Pool Eighteen

Claw Gloves VS Action Claws

--Round One Pool Nineteen Act One

Ahab's Crosshairs VS Girl's Best Friend

Black Rifle VS Green Sun Streetsweeper

Harpoon Gun VS Proton Canon

Laser Gun VS Hunting Rifle

LE's AR VS Crockercorp Appearifier Rifle

Gold Rifle VS Blunderbuss of Zillywigh

Mom's Rifle VS Blunderbuss

DD's AK VS DD's AR

Previous Rounds Below The Break!

there arent any yet lol

[moon-touched-vn]

Arthur (armor)

[negreabsolut]

La Dama del llac dóna Escàlibor al rei Artús. Dibuix d'Alfred Kappes; 1880.

[clancarruthers]

THE SWORD OF RHYDDERCH HAEL - CLAN CARRUTHERS CCIS

THE SWORD OF RHYDDERCH HAEL   ‘Dyrnwyn (‘White-Hilt), the sword of Rhydderch the Generous: if a well-born man drew it himself, it burst into flame from its hilt to its tip. And everyone who used to ask for it would receive it; but because of this peculiarity everyone used to reject it. And therefore he was called Rhydderch the Generous.’   The Thirteen Treasures of the Island of Britain I draw…

[conceptofjoy]

i still think dirk is an american scottish and or welsh guy. he doesnt know it but dave was close to getting it which is why alpha dave thought it was funny to name him mf DIRK. he dodged the silly accents accusations by a hair’s breadth

look inward bro

[ceaselesssong]

I ran out of tags

I’ve created a Homestuck Family Tree.

Some observations:

- Harry Anderson is both Yiffanys cousin and Uncle, and while he’s not Technically dating Tavros the whole affair verges on incestuous, as Tavros is Harry’s Uncle. Not that incest is much of a problem in Homestuck. But.

- Through a few leaps in logic, Jade is siblings with a Sword, a Cat, and Doc Scratch.

- I have no idea how to categorize Calliopes relationship to Doc Scratch. She’s sort of… part of him. If Doc Scratch inherits unclehood from Hal, would he inherit siblinghood from Caliborn.

Now, time to tag all 53 characters

[a-cat-in-toffee]

[ofglories]

He wonders what it would be like to talk to swords.

Not that it would help with Caledfwlch. The sword and him are one and the same, one soul split into two beings. And all that.

[tournamentstuck]

Masterpost

[negreabsolut]

Escàlibor, per Sylvester0102. [font]

[ecto-biologist]

Call me caledfwlch the way I'm a useless piece of shit

[tlaquetzqui]

What flattery could Sauron and the Ring use to manipulate him that wouldn’t just get met with “duh, I know”, though? It couldn’t even use “everyone will know how great you are” because Sonic would say “Oh they will soon enough without your help, ✌️Precious✌️, I just haven’t bothered showing them.” (I feel it’s clear Sonic would make air quotes every time he refers to the Ring by Mairon’s name.)

The only tack I can think of Sauron being able to take is “defeating me wouldn’t really count unless you give me my Ring”. Which Sauron might not be childish enough to expect—does he seem like the kind of person who would anticipate Goku healing Cell to make the final fight better?

Also…“Hey what do you say, Gwaihir, Gandalf (love the wardrobe upgrade by the way, buddy): want to help the Knight of the Wind ride again?” It’s not like this would be his first rodeo with a dark lord. The desire to prevent things and people from passing away, Sauron’s main trap for both Elves and Men, is even involved! (“Sounds pretty lame!”)

Sonic the Hedgehog (sustained speed of 767 MPH) could have made the journey from the Shire to Mount Doom (1718.5 miles) in just over two hours. But also he famously loves rings, so he almost assuredly would have found the thrall of the Ring far too powerful to resist. Tails would have had to shoot him

[meraki-sunset]

🌻Meraki's arsenal🌻

This started as an excercise for dinamic poses using some references and giving my trollsona diferent hairstyles, but i ended up using it as a way to show a bunch of axes she has.

Some are based of canon weapons, like Ahab's crosshairs (Eridan's gun), caledfwlch (Dave's sword), Ancestral Awakening Sword (Vriska's sword), Thorns of oglogoth (Rose's horroterror wands) and The legendary Zilly Weapons.

If the names are stupid you already know it's because i speak spanish👍 (tho names of things in homestuck are kinda stupid anyways)

[gawrkin]

On making a Welsh version of the entire story of King Arthur:

No Lancelot and No Affair. PERIOD. And absolutely no compromise or cheating on this one: you cannot turn anyone else (coughBediverecough) into a Lancelot analogue. You must sacrifice the Love Triangle completely - no "duty vs. love" drama. You're going to have make do without that conceit. You must exercise your own creativity and forge a different dramatic conflict for Arthur and Gwenhwyfar, if at all.

Supplementary to the above: Divorce is legal.

Arthur is at the forefront. Sometimes, Cai, Gwalchmai and Bedwyr is the focus of a particular adventure, but Arthur is a Man of Action, who often outdoes his own warriors. And in particular, he may not even be a King - he may even just be a military chief (Wleddig, Ameraudur or Dux Bellorum), freeing him up to rove around.

Giants, not fairies, as the primary supernatural race Camelot interacts with. Next to that, Saints and Deities come afterwards.

Note that Queen Guinevere herself is the daughter of a giant.

On the legal side: Celtic Law is Tort Law - a weregild system is at play, known as Saraad (Insult/Honor Price) and Galanas (Injury/Homicide Price). Livestock as a measure of wealth. Inheritance system is Gavelkind (although tribal politics may come into play. See Tanistry).

Emphasis on Poetry, Song and Poetic Speech. Englyns are recommended. Bards as serious authority figures.

Be liberal with the supernatural. Mystical items are always fought over and Knights have cyneddf, or mystical abilities.

The Grail Quest has to be whole sale rewritten and given a new mythos: it's either "The Raid on the Otherworld" where the story is about the capture of a mystical Cauldron (Preiddu Annwfn). AND/OR. It's the Peredur version of Perceval, involving a Severed Head instead of a Grail - Maybe its Bran the Blessed himself! - and possibly a battle with the "Nine Sorceresses"

Exceptions to the "No Affair" rule: Medraut and Melwas. The former requires commitment to Traitor!Guinevere and the latter ends with Arthur winning and taking back Guinevere, whether Melwas lives or not.

The Fall of Camelot - There 3 options for how it should unfold without Lancelot: a) defaulting towards Historia Regum Britanniae's version of events. b) the Gwenhwyfach feud. And c) Non-Traitor Medraut ending. The first, similar to the No Affair exception, requires commitment to Traitor!Guinevere. The second involves establishing Gwenhwyfach as a character in her own right. The third and last is the most difficult: the writer must concieve a sufficiently satisfying third party as an opponent for Arthur and Mordred for a tragic last stand.

No Incest. Medraut remains Arthur's Nephew.

No Villain!Morgan

Optional for the above: Iddog Cordd Prydain as an instigator for the hostilities between Arthur and Medraut

As an extention of the "No Lancelot" rule, No Lady of the Lake and No Galahad either.

Arthur assumes the throne through normal means - No Sword in the Stone or Sword from the Lake. Kings Lot and Urien are allies all they way. Excalibur/Caledfwlch is part of a set of Three Holy Weapons, the others being Rhongomyniad and Carnwennan.

Exceptions to the "No Affair" rule: Edern ap Nudd as Guinevere's lover. Highly unrecommended, either for potentially establishing a Love triangle (defeating the whole purpose of removing Lancelot) and for potentially resulting in Arthur's early, non-Camlann death.

Trystan and Essyllt potentially do not end in tragedy (Total omission of Brittany, Isolde White Hands and the Black Sails motif) (Writer's choice). Although Mark could still treacherously kill them both, ala Prose Tristan.

King Mark as potentially Conomor the Cursed.