#Enchanted Swords

[joncronshawauthor]

Unlocking the Magic: A Beginner's Guide to Sword and Sorcery Fantasy

Grab your enchanted swords and dust off your spellbooks, as today we’re delving into the rip-roaring world of Sword and Sorcery fantasy. So, buckle up, or rather, belt up—we wouldn’t want your scabbards to slip, would we? What is Sword and Sorcery? Picture this: a rugged hero with biceps like boulders, wielding a sword so big that it’s probably compensating for something. He’s joined by a…

[noodles-and-tea]

This trope would be so funny for them

[vosus]

Ashrahi, of Flame

Mark Jarrell

markjarrellart.com

[benevolenterrancy]

@hereticcryptid i'm late responding to this prompt, but have a continuation on baxia and hensheng wanting more cuddles than one would normally expect from a spiritual sword!

[snurtle]

I've been thinking about the templars lately. they were promised honor, virtue, told that they would be charged with protection of the innocent... And then those same people are systemically exploited and abused, abuse others because they're taught to regard everyone else as either sheep who need to be lead or potential threats. Never equals, except in their brothers/sisters-in-arms. They act as the guard-dogs and military arm of an entirely different organization that they're only a functionary member of but have no governing say in. Even the chantry aren't their equals- they function as the templar order's supervisors! And all this isolation and closing of ranks ends in disability, addiction, death, and abandonment by the system they spent their bodies in service of.

To top that off, retaliations against them just confirm the paranoia they were taught to embrace. It's probably a long hard road to get out of that hole.

Like, listen. the dichotomy of mage vs templars is a satisfying and easy one, but the system is tearing them apart too. have you ever heard of a retired templar?

at the end of it, mages and templars need to unite against the real threat. the chantry.

[faithschaffer]

I can't believe we're already halfway through Swordtember!

Day 15- Sword of the Enchanter

Sword- The Faceted Fighter

The handle of this blade is designed to slot in and out different gemstones. These gemstones are enchanted, imbibing the sword with their different elemental and magic abilities. They can be deftly switched mid-battle for an element of surprise. 

[fairyuniverse]

[disneyboot]

[desertduo-but-everywhere]

[hermitcraftx]

The problem with a lot of traffic life interpretations in my opinion is they don't understand character foils or don't employ them in their writing. Grian-Martyn and Scar-Ren are genuinely pretty good character foils for a series that is not really scripted or planned out like a book is. I could go on and on about how they parallel each other and the similarities between them. Even the smaller details between the four usually match up

leaving the rant in the tags so I don't have a huge block of text again ueueue

[thanes-krios]

What it is about kind male video game companions that male gamers absolutely HATE?

I've seen it happen with Dragon Age's Alistair, Mass Effect's Kaidan, and even lowkey KOTOR's Carth Onasi (emphasis on kind, not necessarily nice, cause dude had a bit of an attitude in the beginnning). Now I'm seeing it with Gale of Waterdeep from Baldur's Gate 3.

Men hate him! Admittedly, many women seem to also hate Gale (Though from what I'm observing, it seems to be because his romance is bugged in a way that doesn't recognize when you've rejected him, so to many it comes off as not taking no for an answer -- but that's the fault of the game, not the character). The other reason I'm seeing from women is that he supposedly doesn't respect boundaries, citing his relationship with Mystra, but... were yall listening to him at all?

1. This goddess took interest in him as a *child* prodigy, became his mentor, and then his lover??? That's sus as hell.

2. It's not like he and Mystra had personal boundaries set specifically for their relationship, and he decided to cross them, it was that Mystra has general magical limitations for magic users in general, and Gale thought he would be an exception because she treated him as special, and because his reasons for pushing his magical limitations were to restore a part of her she'd lost. I've also seen people say he downplays that as a simple mistake made in his youth, but from the actual conversation with him, it's very clear he regrets that so?? I don't get it. (maybe I'm misremembering or missing more of the story, I'm only at the beginning of Act 2)

But this post is a reaction-rant to seeing too many male creators on tiktok hate on Gale so badly it's becoming obnoxious. And their reasons are so weak, yet fuel hatred so strong. They just find him so annoying, and I guess to each their own, but I don't get why, and I don't get why men always seem to find those kinds of emotionally available, kind for the sake of being kind, male characters annoying.

[we-are-knight]

La Belle Dame Sans Merci, by Maena Pailette

[blogfanreborn777]

Fire Summoner by Matt Cowdery

[illustratus]

Hervör retrieves the sword from Angantýr by Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein Stub

Hervör awakens her father Angantýr's ghost from his barrow on Samsø to demand the cursed magic sword Tyrfing

[captainpondlilly]

Remembering how Squeem mentored Gorgug as an Artificer over the summer really makes the premiere of Junior year hit that much harder

[jhokey]

Ponderous Edge

I like the idea of the Storming Edge, with its slightly shorter reach but faster, more agile strikes. But wouldn’t it also be cool to have a massive greatsword form with extended reach and powerful wide-area attacks?