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So here are 13 names I came up with for some horribly evil swords. (and yes I did rip two of them off from blue moon rising). What other ideas can you all come up with?
1. Trust Reaver
2. Soul Flayer
3. Stone Breaker
4. Bale Weaver
5. Bane Sower
6. Flare Blight
7. Pattern Render
8. Sorrow Herald
9. Respite’s Ruin
10. Forest Spiter
11. Defiler’s Slave
12. Peace’s Degradation
13. Void Conflagration
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Y'know, Fred Saberhagan wrote some books about various swords of power. I think there were 12 of them.
Sheildbreaker
Woundhealer
Sightblinder
Farslayer
Stonecutter
Dragonslicer
Townsaver
Doomgiver
Coinspinner
Mindsword
Wayfinder
Soulcutter
They each had little poetic rhymes written about them and everything. They weren't necessarily evil though. I remember when I first started gaming at 13 or so, I stat'ed up the 12 swords and made them powerful campaign quest items. I revisit the idea every now and then.
-Skeld
Y'know, Fred Saberhagan wrote some books about various swords of power. I think there were 12 of them.
Sheildbreaker
Woundhealer
Sightblinder
Farslayer
Stonecutter
Dragonslicer
Townsaver
Doomgiver
Coinspinner
Mindsword
Wayfinder
SoulcutterThey each had little poetic rhymes written about them and everything. They weren't necessarily evil though. I remember when I first started gaming at 13 or so, I stat'ed up the 12 swords and made them powerful campaign quest items. I revisit the idea every now and then.
-Skeld
Heh, I did the same thing for a 2e campaign I put together. Those swords were quite impressive.
In answer to the OP, you could go with the swords from the Elric books Stormbringer and Mournblade.
I always liked ones that aren't quite so grandiose, like Ribtickler or Pigsticker.
I always liked ones that aren't quite so grandiose, like Ribtickler or Pigsticker.Or The Hobbit's Beater and Biter.
-Skeld
True, true.
This.
Awesome. And it is now stolen for my collection of gaming posters.
Y'know, Fred Saberhagan wrote some books about various swords of power. I think there were 12 of them.
Sheildbreaker
Woundhealer
Sightblinder
Farslayer
Stonecutter
Dragonslicer
Townsaver
Doomgiver
Coinspinner
Mindsword
Wayfinder
SoulcutterThey each had little poetic rhymes written about them and everything. They weren't necessarily evil though. I remember when I first started gaming at 13 or so, I stat'ed up the 12 swords and made them powerful campaign quest items. I revisit the idea every now and then.
-Skeld
Beat me to this one!
I shatter Swords and splinter shields,
None stands before Shieldbreaker.
My point's the font of orphan's tears,
My edge the Widowmaker.
Maybe it's the odd scheme or the uneven number of lines, or just that I'm an evil DM, but I've always preferred Mindsword's verse:
The Mindsword spun in the dawn's gray light,
And men and demons knelt down before.
The Mindsword flashed in the midday bright,
Gods joined the dance, and the march to war.
It spun in the twilight dim as well,
And gods and men marched off to Hell.
Excruciator
Grand Mauler
Dismemberer
Eyepopper
Talktaker
Cauteriser
Limbshatter
Decomposer
Flay Blade
Mindwarper
Excessive
Gratuitous
Percy the Happy Knife
How a bout a Sword cleed simply.."The Bloody Blade"
Bob
Jimmy
Ralph
Jack
Steve
Mikey
TJ
Elvis
Tim
Dewey
Monty
Pat
Junior
Looks for his Gae Bolga
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This.
Notwithstanding the inherent paradox of "liv[ing] down the shame of being slain by..." There seems to be an implied resurrection there.
This.Notwithstanding the inherent paradox of "liv[ing] down the shame of being slain by..." There seems to be an implied resurrection there.
Or embarrassment in front of one's also-slain peers in Hell/the Abyss/afterlife of your choice, take your pick. :)
Fidelacchius
Amoracchius
Esperacchius
Parceracchius
Aequitacchius
Iraeachhius
Kring
Fidelacchius
Amoracchius
Esperacchius
Only if you're a paladin sir ;)
Parceracchius
Aequitacchius
Iraeachhius
Help a fella with poor latin skills here, do these three mean anything?
Hmm...Aequitas was a Roman goddess of trade, and it's where we get the word "equity" from. Beyond that, I'm clueless.
I'm always a big fan of the one-word names:
Fate
Ice
Gloom
Bane
Ender
Pen
Sticker
Bottle
Speaker
Mousepad
Dinosaur
Keyboard
......
ok, now I'm just naming things at my desk.
Yeah, it happens. The players always look at me funny when I introduce them to Coke Zero the innkeeper or the infamous dragon Wireless Mouse.
Lightbringer*
Heavensent*
Silvershard
Ebonflame
Bloodletter
Deathedge*
Dracobane
Bluesheen
Heartseeker
Soulsinger*
Whisperwind
Frostbiter
Darkreaver
*All part of my own homebrew Campaign World.
So here are 13 names I came up with for some horribly evil swords.
Seriously, it depends on the provenance of the sword. I think it would be pretty neat to be given a sword with a name, say, in an ancient language you can't read. There'd be some quest to find out what it meant -- good or bad. Glamdring and Orcrist were Foehammer and Orc-killer, I think. But imagine the fun of finding out that your relic longsword "Monohoshi Zao" is "The Laundry-drying Pole."
Edit: By which I mean to say that it's really difficult to come up with something cool. Nounverb and so on is kind of overdone -- that's what makes the antimotivational poster funny -- but then again, gibberish is gibberish.
One idea I've had is to use the scientific names of animals, for instance "Culicida" (mosquito) for a vampiric weapon or one with bleed. Insects in general are good: Rhopalocera (butterflies) for a dancing weapon, and so on. Depending on the rest of the language and feel for your campaign, some things will sound Latin or Greek enough to be out of place, but you can pull not a few names this way.
I always liked ones that aren't quite so grandiose, like Ribtickler or Pigsticker.
I believe one of my players once made a character named "Figgins" with his trusty blade the "Fig Tickler."
Help a fella with poor latin skills here, do these three mean anything?Parceracchius
Aequitacchius
Iraeachhius
Parcere can be loosely translated into mercy (literally "be lenient to")
Aequitas (well, æquitas), is justiceIra is wrath
Hm.. with the seven sins around, the seven swords of sin could get sinful names:
Luxuriacchius for lust (luxiuria)
Gulacchius for gluttony (gula)
Avaricchius for greed (avaritia)
Acediacchius for sloth (acedia)
Iracchius for wrath (ira)
Invidiacchius for envy (invidia)
Superbiachhius for pride (superbia)
Okay, the latest could be mistaken for "super biatch ius" or something, sounding like something you hear in the less savoury raps.
If you want to go a bit back in all things sinful, you could use older/alternative forms:
Fornicacchius for lust/fornication (fornicatio) (luxuria is actually extravagance, but lust was interpreted as carnal extravagance)
Tristicchius for sorrow/despair (tristitia)
Vanagloriachhius for vainglory/vanity (vanagloria)
Fornicacchius for lust/fornication (fornicatio) (luxuria is actually extravagance, but lust was interpreted as carnal extravagance)
Sometimes a sword is just a sword, Dr. Freud.
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Beat me to this one!
I shatter Swords and splinter shields,
None stands before Shieldbreaker.
My point's the font of orphan's tears,
My edge the Widowmaker.
I was doing research on sword blessings in Christian myth/history and found it interesting that the rituals I found were mostly defensive. Not "Dear God, let me stick this blade into the infidel and send in screaming to hell, in thy mercy." But more of the "Let this blade protect the helpless the widows and the orphans." Widows and Orphans came up a lot. It's interesting that Shieldbreaker calls them out too.
I like Farslayer and Coinspinner:
Farslayer howls across the world
For thy heart, for thy heart, who hast wronged me!
Vengeance is his who casts the blade
Yet he will in the end no triumph see.
Who holds Coinspinner knows good odds
Whichever move he make.
But the Sword of Chance, to please the gods
Slips from him like a snake.
Though Shieldbreaker's is
"I shatter Swords and splinter spears;"
Aside, I actually have rolled to hit against the BBEG after being pounded on chanting "For thy heart for thy heart, for he who hath wronged me." Not an exact quote, but I like the cadence more.
envy (invidia)
Invidia means Envy? Ahahahahahah! Ooooooooooh so appropriate...