Swords

laevatein
The one in the Norse myth. No idea about the million times it is reused in games and anime

Armageddon's Blade from HoMM. Blew up the whole world.

>can cut through dimensions
>can kill divine beings
>killed a cloud-scraping giant in a single attack and wound up transforming the entire nature of the world

Probably that sword from the hindu creation myth that cut the world and split the sky and the ground into two separate pieces that would never again touch.

10/10, was going to post.

I wish Miura would finish his damn series. All of these great characters get introduced and then nothing significant happens with them for entire volumes.

From fantasy fiction? Widowmaker. So powerful a normal elf wielding it could completely push in the forces of Chaos and solo their armies.

Not after the expansions came out

Tizona

What a mundane name for a sword that strong.

Wasn't the Sword of Frost also needed for that?

>Ctrl+f Shining Trapezohedron
>No match
???

This board keeps disappointing me. I thought you guys are experts on lore and all things power level.

Misclicked the wrong image in my sword folder.

Fourth post, best post.

>>Shining Trapezohedron
>not Shining Finger

you disappoint the School of the Undefeated East

/thread

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>Shining Finger
B-but that's not a sword!

Isten kardja, the Sword of Mars.

From the only real canon:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_of_Attila

Shining Finger Sword, then.

My dick

The sword Christ wields in the book of revelations

Well, it WILL never get bent, and it can't get wet either so...

>Shining Trapezohedron

But that's not a sword you fucking gook.

All seriousness, ST can refer to the Trapezohedron or the sword in the Demonbane's setting.

Doomgiver
Only one weapon can counter it, and it would be unlikely just anyone's got it.

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???

Soul Edge, the sword of swords

Tonal magic is a hell of a drug.

Keening was a dwemer short sword which was capable (and necessary) to manipulate the Heart of Lorkhan, a part of the god responsible for modern reality. The dwemer used it and the hammer keening to use the heart's power to do...something. Either way, they all vanished from everywhere in the world, and no one knows to where or precisely why.

Still not as powerful as Muh Nado

Doesn't Khorne have some preposterously powerful sword that could cut from the warp into reality if he would only get off his ass and actually use it?

Redguard swordmasters could hone their will into a sword.

Ea is ridiculous as far as raw power goes, since Enuma Elish literally does infinite damage. Anything that can be killed by brute force is killed by Enuma Elish - But that's all it does. There are a lot of swords from other media that have weird conceptual powers that trump it, and Ea can't really do much against something that can't be killed by mundane means.

My vote goes towards Dragnipur, from Malazan Book of the Fallen.

A sword forged as a trap for a world consuming entity of chaos. It's actually a plane forged into a weapon, and within that plane is a wagon, and within that wagon is the bait for Chaos - A bound goddess. Everyone that Dragnipur kills is trapped in the sword and chained to the wagon, forced to drag it and keep Chaos chasing, until they literally dissolve into nothing, unable to ever completely die. This has to happen, because while Chaos is chasing the wagon, it is unable to concentrate on doing anything else and is thus kept away from the real world. There are several gods chained in it, as well as demons, elves, wizards, pretty much every species and archetype imaginable, all lashed to the wagon and forced to drag it.

When it's wielder allows it to fully unveil itself, every magic-sensitive person in a several mile radius gets flattened by the sheer metaphysical weight of Dragnipur. Even that wielder, one of the most powerful characters in the entire series, nearly gets crushed to dust just by carrying it.

People await a hero who will wield the sword
Excalibur, Herald, Gigas
The Blade has many names
for it has been celebrated in myths and legends through time
But all of these speak but of one weapon

What is this Bleach spiritual pressure bullshit?

It's a metaphor

Frostmourne hungers.

Excalibur. Duh.

>shattered by Ashbringer
>Ashbringer is still ok
Light>edge

Seriously, that scene was so stupid and frustrating.
>You think you get to defeat the Lich King?
>Nuh uh, here commes the mary su of the week to save the day for all of you by the power of asspulls

The only thing that is slightly amusing about your post is that there are people who would actually think Bleach did it first, rather than a sword having massive spiritual force, enough to slay just by being there, being an old idea in pulp fantasy novels.
I hate you anyway.

This

STILL not as powerful as Muh Nado

Mana Sword is pretty shit. The ability to ascend other weapons turned out to be better than the Sword itself.

Tirion did only 2 important things in his entire life- defended the Light's Hope and shattered the Frostmourne.

Not to mention he used propably the most powerful weapon in lore to do this, and he himself did this thanks to the power of Light, not by himself.

You're just mad your husbando Arthas died

>You're just mad your husbando Arthas died
No, I'm mad I didn't get to defeat him myself, faggot. Why did they have to shove Tirion in there?

>He thinks Bleach did spiritual pressure bullshit first
>He thinks anime did spiritual pressure bullshit first

Millenial pls go

Wow, that sounds fucking retarded.

>No, I'm mad I didn't get to defeat him myself, faggot.
Just like you got to defeat Archimonde, Illidan Deathwing and Archimonde again yourself

oh wait.

Killing major lore characters always required assistance of another major lore character
>Why did they have to shove Tirion in there?
Because their tweeeest "I did it all just to make you my greatest DKs" woudn't work if we had nobody to ress us
And I don't get why you are calling Tirion mary sue if he literally died in lava

Well, its actual name is some elvish word. Widowmaker is just a translation.

And it has other names too. Godslayer, the Sword of Khaine, Ruin, Kingsbane, etc. It's true name isn't known, Widowmaker is just the most common moniker for it.

The Eternal Sword that can manipulate and cut time and space from Tales of Symphonia is high up there. The user gets all sorts of abilities like traveling back and forth through time, penetrating, stopping time, bounding time, teleportation, and spatial control. Its best feat is splitting a world apart into two worlds that's placed into separate dimensions. The upper limits of what the sword can do has never been shown.

Took eight books, ten years, and about 2.5 million words of buildup to get there.

I can hardly do it justice in two paragraphs written in a hundred seconds.

The Sword of Damocles, for it hangs above the head of every Sword wielder in this thread.

>My vote goes towards Dragnipur,

Came here to post this.

>Just like you got to defeat Archimonde, Illidan Deathwing and Archimonde again yourself
>oh wait.
And that makes it better how? I just mentioned Arthas specifically because of the context

>Wow, that sounds fucking retarded.

I got to about-
>and within that plane is a wagon,

-before I realized that I wanted none of whatever this was.
None of it.

Damocles is meant to be ignored.
And since it can be ignored
Its worthless

The ST isn't even really a sword in Demonbane's setting either. Demonbane itself, as the (metaphorical) "Sword that Smites Evil" is closer to being an actual sword that whatever the flying fuck the ST is.

>a fucking stick is the mightiest sword in the hands of a true master
Works for me desu.

>ITT: insanely powerful swords vs vaguely sword shaped reality warping artifacts

At the least we got 1 literal dimensional shard, which only functions to contain something.

It's one of these two I'm sure. Mythic work of the gods vs a Really pretty real one.

Strictly speaking it was the concept of a sword.

The sword that's not a sword...

Depending on what you consider a 'sword', Noel Vermillion from Blazblue was pretty much a goddess.
Too bad she was a huge jobber despite her alleged power and only really existed as a plot device.

> Mongrel! Those swords are fucking patented!

came to the thread to see if you plebs had superior tastes...

best sword posted within three comments.

/thread

>Bleach
>not Zeta's KONO PRESSHA

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Callandor
The sword that cannot be touched, the sword that isn't a sword. Well it is a sword a really nice sword, but that's mainly a side note. This sword lets you use as much magic as you want even the satan magic.

But is Callandor really a sword though? It's basically a big magical battery in the form of a sword.

I reckon Ookami and Jubei's swords are pretty powerful. One has the ability to cut through someone's time, the other to cut souls.

/thread

Is a sword really a sword if it doesn't do sword things?

If your sword's power is to shoot bullets then it's just a fancy or in some cases magical gun.

I can understand a sword being the sharpest sword, or the largest sword, because these are qualities inherent in every sword and therefore a sword that bears these qualities will be the best sword in that category of sword-judging.

A sword that destroys the universe or shoots laser beams can't really be judged against other swords because these qualities are only incidentally related to its swordfulness, and therefore at odds with how truly swordy the sword is.

Basically, what criteria are we using when we say "powerful"? destructiveness?

you, you are your destiny.

Daubendiek from Glen Cook's "The Swordbearer." Very wonderful book, and an unbelievably powerful blade, which acts as a semi-conscious extension of the will of the deity who created it.

Well, this is the classic issue with this sort of thread.

Literally the first post was a sword that destroys the universe when you swing it. Where do you go from there? Conceptual manipulation bullshit. Dragnipur, Callandor, Keening, The Transistor, Monado, Shehai.

But none of those are really used as swords in the typical sense. Dragnipur can be, but it's main purpose is to imprison a world-killing god. Callandor is a big-ass magical battery, hitting things with it would dumb. Keening just fucks reality in about six different ways by manipulating the Heart of Lorkhan. The Transistor literally isn't a sword at all, it's just shaped by one, and it's actually the sysadmin key for an artificial reality - One of the characters in the game calls the protagonist a retard because she's been dragging it along the floor and hitting people with it. Monado is futuretech so advanced that it can analyse and rebuild reality, it's sword-like shape is entirely coincidental and it's also not actually a sword. Shehai is just willpower in the shape of a sword, and the Pankratosword technique is just using that willpower to achieve point-blank nuclear fission.

Then you have the swords which are, in fact, swords, are physically less damaging than the aforementioned reality-killing Ea, but have other stuff to make up for them. Tyrfing, Stormbringer, Frostmourne, Soul Edge, Excalibur, Durandal, etc.

There's no real way to define 'power' in an absolute sense when given so many variable factors and conditions.

I think it should be judged in the same way a sword is judged: how good it is at killing people. A weapon that is not purely a killing tool shouldn't be judged for this. Draugnipur and company shound't be included. Ea works, since all it does is destroy things. Pankratosword technique totally qualifies.

Then Ea wins the thread since Enuma Elish automatically kills reality when it is used. An arbitrary amount of damage, effectively infinity. Everything that is vulnerable to damage is immediately destroyed with an arbitrary radius of effect. The only way to counter Ea is to stop it's wielder from using it in the first place. It's not even conceptual bullshit, it's literally 'This sword hits so hard that the Big Bang happens again'

GG no re indeed.

In that case, it doesn't destroy everything. It creates everything (again).

It has to destroy everything first, by definition.

[2. Trade][Hunishar]: Did someone say [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]?

The one that gets the job done.

I think somebody said [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]!

I'm going to say excrucian weapons.
Aside from being able to fuck up the mortal world (prosaic reality), they can destroy pieces of existence.
Remember wumbo?
Of course you don't.
That's because an excrucian stabbed the Power of Wumbo with Monstrous/Colbrand and it obliterated not only the soul of that power, but all existence of Wumbo past, present, and future.

It's a bit edgy for my taste, but they're the enemy, so I'm okay with it.

Enuma Elish is more metaphorical than anything.
Yes, it tears apart reality-fields up to and including ones generated by world-souls (such as the one surrounding planet earth that makes everyone realize that up is upward and white is not black etc.), but as far as magical power goes it's not that ridiculous, just a little stronger than Excalibur.
Now, Excalibur is strong enough to destroy mountains and blow away entire cities so that's still a good attack, but it doesn't LITERALLY blow up the planet or galaxies or shit.
Destroying "worlds" only helps if your enemy relies on the world for basing its existence (such as elementals) or is using the world against you somehow (like a Reality Marble user). It's just a quirk otherwise. Revealing the truth beneath earth's reality-field is nifty, but it doesn't add any extra damage.

How weeb are we willing to go?

My vote goes to the og Yoshitsuna the Baal Sword can lick mah balls

Nah, I mean, Enuma Elish in Fate/Extra does 99999 damage. The only things that can survive being hit by it are things that can't be killed by damage alone, which are actually pretty frequent in Nasuverse.

Atma weapon from FFVI

Lore wise im pretty sure it unmakes creation/simulates genesis or something like that, I wouldn't use the videogame-translated version to judge it.

Not sure how it would effect things that operate under different laws of physics, like Type Mercury.