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[Elrik]

For those who don't know, Excalibur was King Arthur's sword (the sword in the stone), Masamune was a very high quality type of blade, and Ragnarok was from mythology and is described to be the weapon to end wars or something.
If you've herd of them from Final Fantasy, then vote for that reason. Masamune is the only one that is known to exist, F.Y.I. Excalibur is the most realistic, but was only in a story. Ragnarok is mytholigical.

[Mastah_Fluff]

Also Masamune was in Chrono Trigger, the frog guy could use it...I don't think I could any of them mind you, but if any it would either be Masamune or Excalibur as this is the first I have heard of the Ragnarok as a sword

[Thrice]

Final Fantasy 9 O.O

[Dc]

all i know is that king arthur is a pimp so his sword gets my vote.

[Squee]

Excalibur's sheath prevented the wielder from bleeding or getting their wounds infected. That's amazing! It would be so hard to lose a fight with that sword. XD

[Deval]

I've got this cool novelty fork that extends really long. Does that count as a weapon of legend? Can I vote for it? I'd so vote for that because it's totally more practical.

[Squee]

My friend found this metal prod in physics. He wrapped the end in ticker tape and masking tape and called it his scepter. He went and started to hit people...down there and we all laughed...unless you recently got hit. Then you cried...a lot.

Anyways, this was a cool weapon. So much better than an extendable fork. XP

[Deval]

Awe man, I want a scepter.

[Rattlesnake]

I always thought Ragnarok was a battle...
/me pulls out her myth book and looks up ragnarok

taken from the book:

Ragnarok was the doom of the Germanic gods. After a terrible winter lasting three years, a final battle would be fought between the gods and the frost giants on the Vigrid Plain. On the side of Odin and the gods were ranged the "glorious dead" who had fallen in battle and were taken to live in Valhalla; while with the fire god Loki and the frost giants fought the "unworthy dead" from Hel (the Germanic netherworld), plus the fearsome wolf Fenrir and the sea monster Jormungand. There was nothing that the chief god Odin could do to prevent this catastrophe. His only consolation was the foreknowledge that Ragnarok was not the end of the cosmos. After he had been killed by Fenrir, Thor had been overcome by Jormungand, and most of the other gods had died in the mutually destructive encounter with the frost giants, a new world was destined to "rise again out of the water, fair and green."
Before the battle two humans, Lif and Lifthrasir, had taken shelter in the sacred tree Yggdrasil and they emerged after the carnage was over to repopulate the earth. Several of the gods also survived, among them Odin's sons Vidar and Vali, and his brother Honir, Thor's sons Modi and Magni, who inherited their father's hammer, and Balder who came back from the dead.
Ragnarok held a gerat appeal for the Vikings, whose onslaught on the western Europe is still the stuff of legend. Once they understood the effectiveness of the standhogg, the short, sharp shore-raid against the richer lands to the west and south, then, as Alcuin remarked in the eighth century, "no one is free from fear". In 793 the British offshor monastery of Lindisfarne was sacked and St Cuthber's church was spattered with the blood of the monks. "Never before in Britain," Alcuin lamented, "has such terror appeared as this we have now suffered at the hands of the heathen." But for the Vikings it was like Ragnarok, "an axe-age, a sword-age". It was a rehersal for the "wind-age and wolf-age before the world is wrecked." Although Christianity did eventually come to the Germanic peoples of northern Europe, their preoccupation with a cosmic catastrophe did not fade altogether. The Last Judgement exercised their minds during the Middle Ages. It may have been that behind the Nazis' resolve to fight on in World War Two lay a folk memory of Ragnarok.

Hmm this is rather long now but I'm going to throw in another quote just because.

Ragnarok was forshadowed by a chilling Fimbul winter. Sol and Mani grew pale with fear; blizzards swept down from the peaks and icebergs towered over the frozen earth. Loki broke free from his bonds and set sail with the fiery host.

off topic: woot! fenrir! who my clan is named after

[S3it0*]

if im not much mistaken, wasnt Masamune a weapon of Auron's on FFX?

[Bean]

Wow, Rattlesnake pwned you!

lol

[Elrik]

none of my replys apear that i make at school.../cry
but anyway, i was working from myths and rumors on ragnarok.
I wasnt really talking about ff weapons but they look cooler than the real deal(relativly speaking)

EDIT: im gonna try to get more weapon stuff in another poll.

Edited by Mirage, 03 March 2004 - 08:02 AM.

[alone]

EDIT: im gonna try to get more weapon stuff in another poll.

No no no! No need to start another poll cus you didn't think before you posted this one.

Did you read the post about Polls? Don't dooo it!!!

[Elrik]

too late

[gnr and safety hazard]

1. Masamune (sp?)

2. Rusty spoon used to remove spleens

Edited by gnr and safety hazard, 04 March 2004 - 03:00 PM.

[Zapatak]

The Sword of Mars It was the sword Attila was to rule the world with, and defeat Rome. If i was to choose a weapon that would be my choice.

o yea, another awesome sword from the Complete Book of Swords that would be cool Farslayer, kills your most hated enemy by screeching around the world and pierceing him in the heart. Although it is also said that whoever uses the sword will never prevail.

Edited by Zapatak, 04 March 2004 - 04:07 PM.

[Megalomaniac]

i Think best Weapon from FF was Cloud Strifes Ultima Blade something like Osimari (duno) but u had to go into the challenge arena and get all them point thingys.

[Exor]

you ppl forget.sephiroth also used the masamune

[Indominable]

uh i think Ragnarok was in Golden Sun for Gboy Advance but it was a spell that summons a huge sword rather than a sword.

[Silverwizard]

Now someone got me mad. Excaliber was not the sword in the stone the sword in the stone was broken in a fight with a black knight. Arthur was saddened by this but Merlin brought him to the lake where the Lady of the Lake gave him Excaliber it (like the sword in the stone) had the power to ignore armour of foe, also it had the power of the sheath (mentioned above). Arthur's demise was because he did not bring the the sheath to the last battle he fought in since he could bring but one. Also Sir Gawain had a girdle with the same power (see Sir Gawain and the Green Knight).

[Poison]

I'd probably vote for Thor's Hammer, or Poseidon's Trident. Although I'm just being awkward

[Silverwizard]

Well the weapons of the gods are a little more powerful, most weapons of legends are classified that they were wielded by mortals, but yeah, Thor's Hammer is fun fun fun.

[Shane]

I prefer the Green Destiny myself, but seeing as its not on the offered list I would have to vote for Excalibur cause its the sword of kings.

[Lasden]

I vote links fishing net on Soul Calibur 2 (GC version)
That thing owns : D

but it aint there i vote Masamune

[green_mantis]

You dont have any spears up there, I can't vote...