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jemmayoung · 1 year

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Shallan Davar as Radiant from Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive.

#shallandavar #stormlight archive #radiant #pattern #knights radiant #sword #shardblade #artnouveau #digitalart #shallan #wordsofradiance #cosmere #lightweaver #illustration #brandon sanderson #oathbringer #spren

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piano-hoarder · 7 months

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Got a shardblade kata for y'all.

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#cosmere #the cosmere #stormlight archive #cremposting #stormlight #shardblades #shardblade #adolin #adolin kholin

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wanderingprometheus · 7 days

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My sprenblade! Took the radiant order quiz and found out I was a stoneward a while ago so I based the design off of the cracks in Peakspren skin! Also loosely inspired by Mayalaran.

#stormlight archive #stormlight fanart #shardblade #stoneward #sprenblade #Yes I know shardblades are all silver but let a man have his fun okay

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snorange · 7 months

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Where are all the shardblades? TWOK claims that 80 shardblades are tracked by Rosharan historians. Dalinar's vision of Feverstone keep has dozens of shardblades left behind, with just windrunners and stonewards being present. Additionally there seems to have been hundreds of honorspen at the time of the Recreance. It is said many are lost, but how do you lose an indestructible big ass sword. First, most boring theory, they are all in Shinovar. We don't have a lot of history of Shinovar, and from szeth we know that they wouldn't invade that would show the rest of the world their collection of blades.

Second theory is that they transformed into non-radiant spen. It is clear that honorspen and windspren are very closely related. Presumably every radiant spen has a similar match. Syl seemed to turn into a windspren when Kaladin was close to breaking his Oaths this seems to claim that a Radiant of the 2nd ideal would not have a shardblade or deadeye in shadesmare. This seems unlikely with the number of deadeyes in shadesmare but the numbers are so vague who knows.

Third theory is that the blades are being sent into shadesmare. Not much explanation is given on the mechanics of Adolin's sword is able to leave shadesmare where it just doesn't exist as a blade only the deadeye. The only logical explanation I can think of is that Adolin doesn't bring the sword out of the Oathgate, but is summoning it as usual afterwards. This means that if a shardblade were to enter shadesmare unbonded it could not be returned to the physical realm. In this case anyone could bring a shardblade to the horneater peaks to "destroy" it. This seems reasonable for the skybreakers to do, but the ghostblood's could do it.

#stormlight archive #cosmere #brandon sanderson #shardblade #adolin kholin #the way of kings #Rhythm of war

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theineated · 5 months

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Ok so if silver destroys Investiture and cheese can block Shardblades the perfect way to stop knights radiant is to use a shield made from cheese bathed in silver and watch as their weapons get stuck and crumble

#cosmere #cosmere spoilers #stormlight archive #cremposting #shardblade

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kieran-0 · 1 year

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#stormlight archive #stormlight archives #adolin kholin #gavilar kholin #elhokar kholin #shardblade #shardplate #shardbearer #sunraiser #firestorm #mayalaran #way of kings #words of radiance

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kathanglangit · 1 year

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okay here's how you design a fantasy weapon pls like and subscribe follow me for more tips-

Kidding- but this was sent to me by Dyl just a while ago and I just had to.

I do actually love seeing these wild designs, there's more imagination in them than you can beat out of a roomful of AI "artists".

Art by Peter Andrew Jones if I'm not mistaken.

I do wish there were more of them around, just over-the-top bullshit that doesn't take itself too seriously.

This one's from The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982). It's a sword with THREE blades. Two of them shoot out of the hilt as projectiles- I love it. I would never use it.

I set out posting my art online initially to design "practical fantasy weapons", and while I haven't abandoned the "practical" part myself, going nuts on weapon designs is still just really fun to do.

Saradomin Godsword from OldSchool Runescape and the newfangled RS3 version.

Doesn't have to be "practical". Depending on the context, the looks can be more important than the functionality.

Sanderson depicts shardblades in The Stormlight Archive as being ultralight to justify their size. Fun middleground, but not always necessary.

Art by Alex Allen.

There are weapons that will forever be iconic BECAUSE they went nuts with 'em.

Of course they also went nuts with the people using them, so there's internal consistency, but the point stands.

Guts' Dragonslayer, Berserk (1989-2021) by Kentaro Miura.

Cloud Strife's Buster Sword, Final Fantasy 7 (1997) by Square Enix, image from the 2020 Remake

Moonlight Greatsword, in one of its many iterations, this time as Ludwig's Holy Blade from Bloodborne (2015) in The Old Hunters DLC by From Software

Kratos' Blades of Chaos, God of War (2005), image from their iteration in God of War (2018) by Sony's Santa Monica Studio.

Just- don't pretend you could ever use them in the real world, yourself.

Actual martial artists can already hurt themselves using tried-and-tested weapons from history (i.e. there is someone to learn how they use them from), let alone the average untrained gamer with something out of fantasy.

Doesn't stop people from trying. Baltimore Knife and Sword are among the many blacksmiths who routinely produce real world versions of fictional weaponry (look up Man at Arms: Reforged on YouTube) and recently Digitally Twisted Outlaws (also on YouTube) started training with one such giant replica Dragonslayer, and dubbed their weapon-style the "Colossus Sword Form".

Bottom line, just have fun with it. Don't get too bogged down by what's consistent with real world usage, especially when the context is fictional.

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herdaz · 2 months

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plans for beaded oathbringer earrings that i will probably never make. yeehaw! i probably should have played around with designs before i ordered beads, but ya know lol

#txt #art #my art #pixel art #beading #beaded earrings #stormlight archive #the stormlight archive #oathbringer #dalinar kholin #beading pattern #shardblade #brick stitch #fringe

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rashenditrash · 2 years

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Me, in my bathroom, to Brandon Sanderson: "Give Vin and Sarene shardblades you coward."

#vin #vin venture #sarene #mistborn #elantris #shardblade #cosmere #brandon sanderson #i get it though theyd be too powerful #those ladies would get stuff done #or even better - give one of them nightblood

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mostly-ghostie · 2 months

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Okay so I haven’t started reading The Stormlight Archive novels yet but I asked a cute NB friend what their fave fantasy sword is and they said Mayalaran. I just started my interpretation of her shardblade form based on the wiki and the little bit of art I’ve seen on here. Okay so far? Their birthday is at the end of next month and I wanna give them a lil painting of their favorite sword with their favorite flowers, and I think the dichotomy of life and death between the flowers and Mayalaran will be especially beautiful and also *hopefully* impress this babe of a person that I’ve had such an intense instant connection with

#mayalaran #stormlight archive #stormlight fanart #fantasy swords #artists on tumblr #I’m so into this person already that it’s a little scary #but they seem to be reciprocating just as enthusiastically #I think and I hope #and we’re low key talking about going on dates and stuff and I just wanna do something really sweet for their birthday #but also make it look good #Brandon Sanderson fans help #I did just start reading Elantris btw and I’m already hooked #at their suggestion oops #shardblade #deadspren

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vanishingvoyager · 2 years

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Day 273 of art every day

Day 2 of cosmere inktober - Weapon

#art #dailyart #dailydrawing #cosmereinktober #Shardblade

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butwhybother · 11 months

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Shardfrisbee

#shardblade #text

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sarahshoots1st · 1 year

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Two Forms of Justice

Whenever I reread this scene in WoK, I am struck by how Brandon unintentionally recreated Garen's ultimate by having Dalinar ram his Shardblade into the ground (where Navani had painted the glyph for "Justice," no less.) I doubt he had League of Legends in mind specifically, but I think the idea of using a magic sword to bring about "justice" is a common enough theme in fantasy that it was certainly meant to be an ironic subversion of the trope. Dalinar, for once bringing about something great by giving up the Blade rather than by wielding it. It fits nicely into his arc as a whole, which is a critique of the power-fantasy prevalent in much of modern fantasy (particularly video games).

[Picture ID: In the first picture, Dalinar Kholin stands, having just offered his Shardblade Oathbringer to Sadeas in exchange for the bridgemen. In the background, Kaladin and his men stand staring, stunned to see a lighteyes willing trade away a Shardblade, considered to be a priceless weapon by most. In the second picture, Garen Crownguard kneels, having rammed his sword into the ground. Glowing fissures erupt in the stone as a much larger, magical version of his sword falls from the sky, smiting his enemies in a depiction of his iconic ultimate ability.]

#dalinar kholin #stormlight archive #shardblade #way of kings #garen crownguard #garen league of legends #demacia #paladin

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lordhadess · 2 years

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The moment when Kaladin first summoned his Shardblade as he’s about to die

Just ✨perfection✨

#stormlight archives #kaladin stormblessed #shardblade

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alexyquest · 2 years

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reading a book by brandon sanderson be like: damn, this man loves to write about mist huh

#brandon sanderson #the stormlight archive #mistborn #cosmere #shardblade