How magic and super metals change sword design, feat IMPERIOUS
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In this episode of Fantasy Re-armed we take an in depth look at how swords can be designed differently to standard convention in a logical way based on being magical or made out of fantasy materials.
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Shad, having finished your book, I just want to tell you that your first novel doesn't read like a first novel. It was an amazing masterpiece of storytelling that was literally impossible to put down. Very few books make me lose sleep, but this book was absolutely brilliant, and I never thought of sleep until I finished it at 4 am this morning. I can't wait to see how you continue the series and I will gladly support you all the way. Writing is truly an amazing skill you possess. (P.S., you must've channeled to a ninth degree bond in storytelling to create this instant masterpiece. Much love from the U.S.
Thank you so much, I can't express how gratifying this is to hear! please remember to leave a review on amazon if you haven't already, it would mean the world to me.
I'm a good way into the book as well and and second this.
Also, I read the scene where the Main Character is first realizing his powers reads in Shad's voice.
@mxt mxt I've started the series, but sadly I've only finished the first book
@mxt mxt it can have a few good comparisons between the two, but even though they're similar genres, A Song of Ice and Fire has a much more political perspective and orientation. Shad has a bit of that in his novel, but I feel like it deals with fewer characters, but with a much greater depth. For instance, you could compare dayless the conqueror to king Robert. Both started off leading a revolution and ultimately ruling, and they both come to realize that things weren't quite as noble as they assumed. But aside from that it's night and day. King Robert says he regrets becoming king, but continues to live exactly as he has been. After his defeat, Daylen is constantly tormented by his past actions after realizing the monster he'd become. That's a simple version of what comparison I make, but of course plenty will think differently. I think it comes down to preference honestly. I think I like Shadow of the Conqueror better because it's dealing with the constant feelings of an old tyrant coming to grips with how terrible he is, even in day to day dealings with people
enchanting a sword with lightning would work you block a attack the lightning frying your adversary to death removing the block or parry option from him and keeping all your advantages a win win .
I can't imagine the excitement Shad must feel of holding HIS SWORD that HE DESIGNED and is part of HIS BOOK. Epic.
I wonder how much it'd cost to get Goodsmile to make a figma figure of my main character from the novel I'm working on.
It's been such an honor, I'm also pretty giddy for all the subs rolling in. Hehehe
BUT WHAT ABOUT SSSSWWWWWOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRDDDDDDSSSSSS!?!
That must feel awesome!!!!
@@QuantumLeapCosplay amazing work on the sword, my dude.
You have reached peak youtube when the sponsor for the video is you
Nani
@@bonnieworkman9690 shad sponsored his own video.. that was the joke
@@childofslaanesh1251 well think smarter not harder
Hmmm your channel name is _INTRESTING_
kinda like using your stimulus to pay a parking ticket, peak capitalism- government pays the government lol
*"The hero is also the villain"*
Anime and Movies has taught me that plots like that are actually interesting
Reminded me of Revan from KOTOR when he said that in the intro
Thanosss
Naofumi.
Poor git.
Code Geass is where it's at! =D
Lelouch?
So what you’re saying is that you enchanted your wooden sword with unbreaking III
Yes that is a Sununcle.
Now for the spoiler that you can figure out about 3/4 of the way through:
SPOILER ALERT!!!
He also attached MULTIPLE Totems of Undying to the sword, hidden elsewhere, which NO-ONE has been able to do to anyone's knowledge.
Also sharpness V
Or maybe sharpness X actually
So a book where the hero is also the villain and swinging around a sword made of painted balsa wood.
yes
Sun forging=Indestructible eh?
Sunforged Pommels....exclusively for ending rightly.
Pommels are indestructible moment they are unscrewed
That pommel was suspiciously blue...wasn’t it?
shit... that pommel got me... farewell my son, I'll leave my kingdom to you.
End him lightly
Sunforged spoons
The most versatile substance on the planet, and they use it to make a frisbee- Ultron
It's a really good Frisbee.
"Wait, I still have my rights to raise." -Jotaro
It would make a robo dog very happy.
@@bonnieworkman9690 Lol
@@quaziludmillazaman9534 JoJo what are you doing here
The madlad went ahead and did it. This is the best timeline.
>sunforge piece of paper in shape of a sword
>bring whole new meaning to term "papercut"
@Haku infinite enchants it with speed and poison
Enchant the paper sword with inflicting salt to the wound followed by lemon juice? That ought to take the fight out of someone real quick lol
Hah. I win. *SUN-FORGED LEGO PIECE*
Frostee Fyre
The final form of caltrops
@@FrostyFyre I think you mean sun forged caltrop
2:38
Called it. XD
I knew that you would not let the cover artist to draw a HUGE sword without a reason.
"The hero is also the villain." I too played KOTOR.
I too, watched infinity war.
#thanosdidnothingwrong
lol i cant get past the star forge part
LIfe Of Finn You’re so close to the end.
Imperial Empire i cant get all the star forges
@@kingartichokexii7430 The star maps? There should be spoiler-free guides to reaching them all by now. The star forge itself is the very end of the game, it's the last place you visit.
Random thoughts:
1. Sunforged sword breaker might finally catch swords effectively?
2. I see your sunforged phallic symbol and raise you a sunforged personal massager! Yes, I am the most beloved puckish rogue in all the lands.
3. Sunforged balsa wood armor? Would it retain its impact-absorbing softness or would the indestructibility mean it becomes crystalline hard?
4. Sunforged boots. Finally we can fantasy-story plod across continents on foot in comfort to toss that infernal ring into a volcano without grimacing every time we step in a puddle because our soles wore down to holed nubs half a continent ago. Huzzah! (Might be especially useful for thieves and assassins to sneaky sneaky about too.)
5. The sunforged codpiece. Because safety matters.
6. The sunforged spectacles. What devious wonders might we see? X-ray specs for real? Zoom lenses? Night vision? See through time to your own impending demise?
7. My personal favorite description of a Vorpal Blade comes from Roger Zelazny and is made of ... moth wings? Ah the joys of magic in a good Alice hallucinogenic fantasy. But ah, what a sharp cutter.
8. Speaking of useful sword enchantments: electricity. "Don't tase me, bro!" (Baddies, always wear your gambeson.)
9. Another fave enchantment: any throwing weapon of "Returning". Infinite weapon throws? Suck it, Gambit. I see your game of 52 card pickup and raise you INFINITY!
10. And last, but not least, speaking of useful "magic" weapons: the Sick Stick. *Blech!* And lo, were the knights of the battlefield laid to waste, unable to fight back, unable to breathe, and often slipping to their ignominious disgrace upon the growing pool of putrescence. One angry girl was "sick" of all their fighting.
Them, small brain; 50k GP value vorpal flaming burst greatsword
Me, big brain; a jug with caltrops, marbles, and oil in it, like five silver, and a wand of magic missile, like 2k GP
I don't want a self returning grenade.
That does bring up an interesting question I have:
Shad says the sunforging process enhances the properties that the item was designed for, such as cutting for a sword or force application for a hammer. Does the magic intrinsically understand that, or does the sunsmith have to consciously think about what the item is for during the magic imbuing process? Like boots are meant to be sturdy and protective footwear, but what if I want the most comfortable boots that will never allow foot fatigue or blisters, no matter how far the wearer walks? Do I have to think about that while sunforging them, or do I have to construct them with comfort in mind beforehand to get that property?
@@FlameDarkfire This is the most interesting question about the "hard" magic system he's created, how exactly is mechanical/qualitative effect conveyed, and like real science can there be unforeseen consequences/advantages? Or is it just that a master sunforger can convey whatever meaning/complexity they desire and nothing else?
I want to answer all these questions, but the answers to everything are in the book itself.
Smart advertising. Now I need that book.
Sunforged spoons
"Resistant to flexing but having the capacity to flex".
We all have that humble homie.
Imagine sunforging a piece of Lego and stepping on it.
Ow :(
It wouldn't to anything, unless it had a pommel. Pommels are the most dangerous part of a sword. they are the most dangerous weapon in the world. Do not be mistaken, the United States dropped pommels on Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and never had nuclear weapons, but instead a stockpile of 14th and 15th century sword pommels. The Soviet Union spent time and money investing in far inferior nuclear weapons over the course of fifty years as the US and Western European countries had gathered up all the pommels during WWII and the early post-war period.
@@JPGotrokkits hmm interesting never looked at it that way. So you're saying this is the only way to end them rightly?
Aren't legos already nearly indestructible?
Can he sunforge willy this way we can learn iron tail like primeape without the tail ^_^) ye know i know that you know
> "Who better to save the world from darkness than the one responsible for most it?"
*Revan joins the chat*
If we're trusting Kreia and HK-47 (because HK served Revan after he was already darth Revan, not cuz he lied) which is a dubious Idea then yeah
Banner Saga follows that same plot hook too.
I always named my character Darth Revan, just so that when the game pulls the big reveal halfway through and Mission asks "How can we trust you, you're revan!" I can respond. "Mission, please, I'm not Revan anymore. I'm DARTH REVAN."
"Why are we not enchanting wooden swords?"
Suddenly Skyrim.
That would be a cool crafting system
Someone mod this now.
Well... There is the alchemy glitch after all....
@@darthplagueis13 sounds interesting
@@bonnieworkman9690 The Spiffing Brit has done a few videos on it recently, so if you wanna know more about it, feel free to check them out.
Shad looks like a giddy school boy showing off his sword like that, I love it.
Put a huge grin on me face, too. XD
I mean.
You wouldn't?
You should do one on how these metals affect armours.
And civic/siege engineering
If they could be crafted, as rings... I could see someone making internal linings, of extremely ligh and small chain mail to be worn over the undercloth and under the actual cloth. Wouldn't need truly big armors.
Maybe, for show-off make a full plated armor, but i don't know.
They talk about it in the book... there is some risk is using this kind of enchanting on armor
Make armor out of enchanted cling film
Also shields
Shad: "and when you sunforge weapons, they can cut really really well."
Me: *Pulls out my mace*
That would not cut well It would do even more smashing.
hulk smash
@@ignisshadowflame1027 probably not, actually, since it makes it lighter
Assuming it’s also made out of wood, if it’s made out of something else, it would be better
@@thelotusking9901 It would make the mace smash better due to the sunforging process; the weapon's weight would be lower (mechanical benefit), but the force at the point of impact would be amplified (supernatural benefit), enough so that the near-weightlessness would be an almost negligible factor.
@@sebastiandraculstar8741 Yeah, but Force = Mass X Acceleration. If the mace is lighter, it'll do less damage. Solution: Sunforge bigger, heavier mace.
Wood can cut through flesh? Well, yeah, I've gotten a paper cut as well.
Dude....SUN FORGED PAPER SWORD
@@thallan 🤣
@@thallan paper armor and paper sword +paper shield =paper knight
@@NaozaneST paper Italian + paper plumber + wii = paper mario
in the show Jackie Chan Adventures, there was an origami man that basically did all that.
*ENCHANTING A WOODEN SWORD WITH UNBREAKING,SHARPNESS AND MENDING*
They called me a madman
unbreaking
unless he used creative mode to give it unbreaking 10, which virtually eliminates durability.
@@matthewmartin3787 you can't do that in creative mode. it's a command or something. but when I tried a command it said there was a limit. but there's ways to get level 32,000 enchantments
>Mods
There's a game, don't remember what it is called but the first sword you get is made of wood but if stay loyal to it and fully level it up it secretly becomes the most powerful weapon in the game
Instead of a spear stabbing point, a blunt head with a crushing ability would be devastating. Imagine a quarter staff that hit like a truck
Imagine being able to change the mass of a warhammer at will. While you are winding up it weighs nothing. While it is hitting it weighs many tons.
@@thenthson bam infinite energy. just sayin
Oh god my grammar is atrocious in my original comment.
Just sunforge a paper truck and hurl the massive thing at enemies like The Incredible Hulk.
@@thenthson I don't have to imagine it. That is effectively how the Mjolnir works. To Thor it is 9 kilograms. To the poor sod he hits with it however, it weighs about 1 million pounds or however much it's volume in neutron star material weighs.
"It makes sense when you read it."
basically every Stephen King book.
That is until you get to the end of every Stephen King's book ever written. Where he doesn't actually know how to end the book.
Some of King's books don't even make sense to him. Cocaine is a hell of a drug
That one scene in IT didn't make sense when I read it. Yes That Scene
“You want it to be resistant to flexing, but have the capacity to flex.”
So basically humble, yet strong boyfriend swords then.
tigerdude36
“Humble, yet strong boyfriend swords”
So... Anubis but it’s Jonathan Joestar?
@@giantturtlecat2959 iS tHaT a JoJo ReFeRaNcE
So you can appreciate why people got so attached to good swords. Because it was so rare to find a better one. The ultra-heavy ones that can cut through anything to the super light ones that could move at the speed of sound. It depended on the preferences of the wielder.
The best kind of bo- I mean, sword.
My sword is Dio.... Help!
Shad : "I basically writen a book with medieval wooden lightsaber"
Yes, haha, harkening back to his "they're doing lightsabers all wrong" video.
This idea just means that everybody will get a lightforged hoodie and sweats, with a scarf to wrap the face. Indestructible, yet comfy.
@@H1Guard that wouldn't be effective as armour.
@@TheTechmaster1999 but if its padded.. like a nice puffy jacket.. it would be unable to be pierced while absorbing impact.
@@kingzut the force has to go somewhere. And in hard magic systems you can't just say " F-it it's magic" there has to be some form of defense that disperses the force of an indestructible hammer keg tapping your face
@@colbystade840 well face yes but im saying you can wear a form of padded clothing that id sun forged to protect your body/legs.. a padded enough helm might be hard..
Conclusion: unbreaking III wooden sword is the best Minecraft weapon.
Don't forget sharpness V
1ts2EZ *OOOOH*
you did it wrong... it's the diamond axe mate. you have a shield after all, and you want to be the fanciest you can get. so all diamond gear and a shield. all enchanted for maximum shenanigans.
Mollof did you not watch the vid? His sword was a wood sword that was unbreakable.
Dimanari Null r/whoosh
The Inheritance cycle actually represents the usefulness, or lack thereof, of a flaming sword quite well. It's useful for cutting through gates and portcullises, but only useful for intimidation in combat against living enemies.
"Unless you're fighting undead, vampires, ents and Sandor Clegane."
I just find it hilarious that one guy made it tot he list.
He's terrifying. Haha and scared of fire. Makes sense!
I honestly would not use a flaming sword against ents. It would not do much damage, but it would ensure the wrath of a giant tree creature capable of ripping apart a stone wall.
@@marktresztian4467 I mean if you're fighting an Ent in the first place you've probably already incurred its wrath.
Why would you want to fight with an ent? Just leave them alone in their forests.
@@marktresztian4467 Who knows, but if you did, well, the above.
"Why aren't we enchanting wooden swords?" The Spiffing Britt in Skyrim "Hold my Soulgem"
Benjamin Chambersmith wooden swords are perfectly balanced with no exploits at all
*see also every Skyrim player, eventually.
in Kingdom Hearts 1, Sora can still cast spells with the wooden sword when he loses the keyblade.
@@ForeverOfMusic big brain
in the War Of The Ancients Warcraft trilogy of books one of the characters, an Orc, Gets a druid to make him an axe that then gets blessed by the demigod Cenarius. When he doubts it cos he thinks itll break after 2 hits Cenarius tells him his enchantment makes it virtually indestructible
“Why aren’t we enchanting wood?”
Because Bethesda fixed that bug.
Smh you don't enchant wooden swords because you wait until you have a diamond sword
Aren't enchanted staves and clubs a staple?
Just nobody thought to enchant wooden sword.
@@defensivekobra3873 smh u still using melee? the real pro strat is running around with an inventory of charged crossbows with harming 2 arrows and machine-gunning them down
@@_ForceSmash_ Not arrows. Overcharged fireworks.
@@_ForceSmash_ & defenseive kobra you both wrong real pro bored and running around blast sheeps off form High Hrothgar or pick a fight 🤣🤣🤣
Imperius:
-Can cut through any base material
-Cannot cut through other sunforged materials
-Is a striking blue color
Lowkey:
*Imperius is a Light-Saber* ;D
Ironically, shad made quite the mistake when he said a fire enchanted sword would cauterize the wound while in multiple other videos he claimed getting hit with a lightsaber would make you explode
@@colemanbubar5098 I reckon that would depend on the temperature and the amount of radiation coming off the sword. I dont think getting cut with a flaming sword would cauterize wounds unless it was REALLY hot...and the blade itself would have to be hot. Flames on the blade wouldnt cauterize anything.
A lightsaber is a blade theoretically made of focused plasma? its hot enough to cut through a blast door very quickly, so in essence is burning at several thousand degrees...not taking into consideration WHAT kind of metal a blast door in SW would be made out of, or that materials melting or vaporization point.
I reckon we will never know one way or another...but the irony isnt lost on me.
@@colemanbubar5098 that’s because a lightsaber would be hot enough to vaporize the liquid in your body all at once. A fire sword wouldn’t
@@colemanbubar5098 Well. A red hot[almost/is forging hot] sword would partially cauterize the wounds they made, if it's magically hot/flaming to be even hotter than forging hot it may be instant. A light saber is a LOT hotter than that, and would cause the water molecules to vaporize, causing tiny explosions. Instead of cauterizing the wounds, a light saber in real life would shred the flesh it touches from vaporizing the water, causing much more severe bleeding than a regular sword. And that's coming from a massive Star Wars nerd.
Well, first i thought of was a shardblade
> Shad invents medieval "hard light"
> Proceeds to make a sword out of it.
Yeah, I can totally see it happening.
as opposed to the hardlight in destiny 2
Can be nullified if near magic-sealing paraphernalia or techniques XD
@@acethemain7776 Playing against 6 people using Hard Light across the map was definitely *fun*
@@lucasfranke5161 every crucible game become a rave party
Would you have preferred a huge fuckoff axe?
Shad seems so genuinely excited whenever he talks about stuff; its very admirable!
Definitely one of the main reasons why I enjoy his content so much. Not only is the subject matter very interesting to me to begin with, but you can just tell he has so much passion and enthusiasm for these things. It rubs off on people and makes them want to listen to him. It has been so cool seeing his channel grow and now to see him actually publish a book is amazing. Once I have some extra cash, I am definitely going to get his book. This video sold me on it when I was already pretty interested. I can't wait to see what else he does in the years to come!
Cheers from the US, Shad! Keep doing what you're doing and we'll keep supporting you the whole way!! (:
Poor: enchants diamond swords
Rich: *Enchants wooden sword*
...why?
@@mysticmagicsmurfdarklord6844 skyrim reference
@@Himmyjewett thanks
@@Himmyjewett what? no, minecraft reference
@@Himmyjewett there’s not a diamond sword in Skyrim but you are a god if you use the wooden sword to kill Alduin
Alternate Title: Shad explains why his sword is allowed to break the rules other swords have broken for 24 minutes
Yes it’s a very long title
Shad's channel is about the Rules of Fantasy, what did you expect?
Two other downsides of a longer sword is they're more awkward to carry and unsheath. With indestructible materials you could have a sword which folds up and springs to full length when drawn solving this issue.
Sooooo.....a lightsaber?
@Bobby da Costa yeah, but anaklusmos is a short sword in its extended form so it doesn't really get the benefit from it, although I admit it does have some significant advantages over a lightsaber in the 'unlosability' enchantment and the increased level of concealment you can get with it being the size of a pen in it's dormant form
So basically... RWBY weapons! XD
dks2's puzzle stone blade would be nice
Well, I guess with magic anything is possible. This reminds me of Gin's sword from the anime Bleach. so much potential in one weapon and it's wasted in a damn moment
Could you sunforge a pillow and have the comfiest pillow ever?
Also, those are some darned good woodcarvers if they could carve a sword that length and have it be only 1/2mm - 1mm thick.
Magic planer. And lots of sanding.
Sunforged woodcarvers.
Let's just say it would be very warm... perfect for cold winter nights ;}
A sunforged pillow would be as inflexible as a sunforged piece of wood, right?
@@danpowell806 Except he says at around 12:10 "when you sunforge any object, and not only weapons can be sunforged by the way, there is a supernatural enhancement that comes from the magical light infusing into the object that increases its functional ability for whatever purpose it was made for". So wouldn't it stand to reason that a pillow made to be comfy to sleep on would magically become a lot comfier?
One reason you don't really want your sword being _too_ light is momentum. Blocking and parrying with a very light sword is measurably harder. Especially if it's also long. So trying to parry a metal sword with a paper one? Well, good luck with that. For the sake of argument, assume both have "indestructible" enhancement. At the very least, parrying with an extremely hard feather-weight sword will be very hard on your wrists, which would have to basically take the full brunt of the strike you're blocking/parrying. Cutting and chopping also becomes way less effective if the sword is very light-weight, since it will stop very easily the moment it encounters resistance (you'd have to actively push the sword though, like you would a knife). And against good heavy armour, a lightweight sword is nearly useless.
Another reason is training. Most enchanted weapons in fantasy are prohibitively expensive. So, when you're an aspiring adventurer who, after a few months/years/decades of training with and using a steel sword, finally got enough money to get an enchanted one, you wouldn't really want to have it be all out of whack compared to your trusty steel sword, would you? Granted, getting re-trained to use your new very light, longer one-handed sword with very different balance more effectively, might give you an advantage in combat. But that could take _a while._ So you might go instead for an enchanted sword that has similar length, weight and balance to what you usually use, but is just better (edge retention, sharpness, cutting, chopping, stabbing effectiveness, etc)
Normally yes but imperious is suppose to be a molecule thick so no probs in cutting through things. Parrying would still be a problem though you might be able to just cut through while parrying.
All of this is explained in the book
But even if the sword light feather, if it has unbreakable sharp edge, wouldn't it still cut through things as if it was hot knife on a butter?
@@ranaoblivious2122 well, if you dropped a very small diamond on a piece of paper from a short distance up, it wouldnt just go straight through, because it just doesnt have enough force, despite its superior toughness.
@@Rooster319 Okay, so that's cutting but what about penetration? Piercing weapon (rapier, etc) are unique because it focus all it's kinetic energy into one spot. Of course, if it were a regular weapon it wouldn't be able to attained its edge however, if the tip is a lenght of an atom and able to attained its edge, wouldn't that still mean it can Pierce trough anything? You could have a stupid looking needle like rapier and can still penetrate any form of physical object. Of course needle is just my opinion but it would penetrate trough anything right?
“Who is more qualified to fight the evil than the one who started it?”
So, it’s like Knight of the Old Republic? I NEEEEEEEEED IT!
Edit: Titanium can’t hold an edge?! Okay I needed to know that. Thanks a bunch!
Not only that, but one of the main themes from kotor is also present in shadow of the conqueror
So would that mean Titanium would work for accents on swords? Like the hilt or guard?
So, if titanium can't hold an edge, what about an enchanted aluminum/titanium Damascus, enhanced with Sharpness+Indestructible? Very light, unbreakable, and with a proper edge configuration, cuts like a lightsaber/vibrobade?
@@Elite_Trainer_John Titanium works best in alloys. It's hard, but brittle, so on its own it's best in a bulky object like a mace or flail tip - but it's lightweight, so the mass of a blunt weapon isn't there. A titanium steel alloy, however, can be more flexible, meaning you can strike an edge on something hard with less worry it's going to crack or chip. Also, it means you have a bit of flex when you bend your blade, instead of snapping it in two when you push too hard sideways.
* draws sword that can slice through any non-magical material
* atoms in air are sliced apart
* dead
Unintended enchantment - random fission explosions xD
@@sr71silver If it magically cuts anything it touches then wouldn't being cut actually provide less resistance then the atoms trying to deflect of the edge?
@@metalman6698 "If it magically cuts anything it touches then wouldn't being cut actually provide less resistance then the atoms trying to deflect of the edge?"
You'd need to input more energy than what you get out of it for any atom you cut that is lighter than iron (so it should always have more resistance). I guess it might be an energy sword, but any energy produce is merely the energy coming off of the energy sword.
But lets say it is magic that doesn't conserve energy, and it cuts atoms it comes across.
Well, you'd be hitting so few atoms with the edge that it still wouldn't matter. Especially through air.
@@sr71silver spliting isnt destruction, well, steel eint a molecule, molecule is carbondioxide or dihydromonoxide, iron is just iron. But setting that aside, go to the anton petrov channel and look at literarily last video, you dont even need a sharp edge to cut molecules, just sharp atoms. As for my fission joke, well yeah, its a joke, i doubt you can get any thinner than a graphen sheet (smallest atom able to form a sheet) and thus bigger atoms will displace, smaller stack or bounce off, molecules will split but nothing visible or significant will occur.
@@sr71silver yeah i agree now with you :)
I love the visualization of Imperious! It looks so much cooler than it did in my head :)
I loved the design, too. It sure was a pain in the arse to make, though. Hahaha
@@QuantumLeapCosplaylol :)
Shad, first off. Your book is amazing! Second, i would like to suggest a video idea. The best alround armor and weapons for a person that is going to fight monsters
@Rechordian I'm pretty sure it has something to do with hunting monsters~
That is also something I would like to know for a certain project I’m working on
Never before have I been so hyped to describe realistic swords in my books. You're awesome, Shad!
So you are telling me is in your book they make LARP weapons that can kill that is amazing I need to buy this books
The thumbnail is actually during the time Shad first made a sword with his godly powers.
Safe to say, he was quite happy with it.
Shad, you're an amazing person. Seeing the joy in your face is the real magic ^-^
You've motivation me to pick back up my own medieval fantasy film. Thank you for being you, never change!
Your sword is essentially a lightsaber that requires edge alignment
Any blade that was enchanted to thin the blood of the victim, therefore causing them to bleed more, would be debilitating at worst and devastating at best
Mosquito Blade!
That's just a poison blade, or a blade with the "bleeding" effect.
So like, tipped with venom?
Because I'm pretty sure a lot of venoms stops the blood from clotting
Also there's probably certain medications that stop clotting, but if its a historically accurate setting, snake venom works.
@@Pip8448 except you can't use an antidote or neutralising agent. My dad is on blood thinners and it's absolutely wild if he cuts himself. I do, however, see your point that bleed and poison are both effectively a damage over time concept
Cut some major arteries and walk away
Shad: "Have you heard of the vorpal sword?"
Me: **Glances over to my Lewis Carroll collection box-set** Yeah, I might have heard of it.
Do you remember chon-chon?
Most impressive
Snicker - snack
Did you go galumphing over to read them?
My god Shad is just pumping out the videos lately :) keep up the good stuff my man
He's pumping out the videos because he's pumped about his book. He needs an outlet or he'll explode from excitement.
His energy level is of the charts could this be the legendary super shad
It’s a digital press tour!
Two things 1. "Like a razor blade through flesh" 2. I love this channel so much and u deserve a prize for sword science
A vorpal enchantment on a shrapnel grenade would be devastating.
I know it's not your typical fantasy weapon, but it would be exceptionally effective.
Clay pots filled with flammable materials and possibly shrapnel may have existed as early as 740bce.
the holy hand grenade of Antioch.
Call of Duty: Modern Fantasy Warfare sounds like a kick-ass game though.
@@sircharlesninefingers4170 yeah. They should make one
Just say the Dwarves made it
I have a friend whose username is Imperious and I was thrown for a moment, my first thought being "How does that crazy slav know Shad?"
Lmfao
He wields your Slav friend as a weapon
Lol
Aha! He’s a human weapon!
Imperious is one of the archangels from the Diablo franchise
Explosive pommels, of course!
The enchantment should also let the pommel “regenerate” at the end of the handle.
Yes yes yeeeeeeessssss
Pommels that gain increasingly super weight/velocity/impact once they´re screwed off and thrown.
How'bout pommel that can cut?
@@chengkuoklee5734 would come out as kind of a two-bladed sword I guess.
You made fire potions and bombs redundant. :(
Honestly I love seeing fantasy swords, and hearing you talk about one you designed yourself inspires me to keep making more fantasy sword designs, while also giving a explination on why they look like that and how effective it is in universe. My designs would suck irl to be honest
So what I'm getting from this is in the fantasy world, with weapon enchantments, rapiers are op af.
Well, in dark souls, the estoc is one of the best weapons.
@@GeneralNickles It was mostly just a joke because of the way he talked about them in the video. Plus videogames use manufactured numbers that don't necessarily mean anything outside of that game.
@@LunaireTD I know.
This was my thought exactly. If I'm understanding sunforging correctly then you could theoretically make a rapier or estoc that was basically just a super long needle and be able to slash and poke things to death at lightning fast speeds.
@@3lloGuvner Heaving read his book, Rapiers are super looked down on due to certain cultural aspects but they are still very effective. But Sunforged stuff doesn't seem as common as one would think.
The book is amazing Shad. Really think you did a phenomenal job with Daylen as a character. No spoilers but it’s clear you put a lot of thought into his redemption ark.
0/10
The pommel isn’t unscrewable. How is one supposed to end his opponent rightly?
Wait, wrong sword guy
No the sword is the polmol
An enchantment that makes the pommel instantly rematerialize in place after striking it's target.
@@deussalt8108 And make the pummel a grenade.
Now I'm imaging a self-cauterising enchanted scalpel for fantasy doctors xD
21:44
Question. Why is the guard sharp on the bottom?
Is the wielder intent on having their fingers cut off in a clash?
from the look of it? yes
I wonder if this character/sword is from his book... do you have any idea?
@@jonasamorim1384
That's exactly what he says it is.
The argument of making it lighter is valid, but it certainly does need the side facing the user to be flattened
Superhero character, sword feels as though it weighs a ton to others.
Yeah, I don't think he needs to be concerned about clashes. If I'm understanding it correctly, clashing with it would feel like clashing with a moving truck. His sword doesn't GET pushed back, he does the pushing.
Shad: It makes much more sense to enchant wooden objects instead of metals!
D&D Druid players: Welcome to the party, now grab your enchanted wooden sword and shield and lets go on an adventure!
Except when you encounter something else that is enchanted with a tougher materiel thus negating the enchantment, thus you now fighting with a thin wooden sword. So depends on how common enchanted items are.
@@PJDAltamirus0425 Except that isn't how it works in most settings. It would be the power of the enchantment that matters the most. A +1/+1 enchantment would always break against a +2/+2. A knight with a +1/+1 arming sword would be at a disadvantage against a druid with a +5/+5 wooden club. Also, the enchantment would still effect flesh and blood the same regardless of the enchantment of the weapon, so an enchanted wooden item would still have an advantage in speed to get in those nasty quick hits.
@@phill6504 I think what Philip is saying is that. If a heavily enchanted metal weapon hits a equally heavily enchanted wooden weapon, the metal one would win.
@@alonelyperson6031 Not really, if they are both enchanted to be indestructible then it doesn't matter. If they are both enchanted to cut through anything they hit then each blade would cut through a metal blade the same as a wooden. What matters is the setting and the enchantment system used. The whole point of magic is that it trumps physics and what would normally matter.
@@phill6504 Yeah, I know. But I was just clearing it up.
I know for a fact that a sword the size of a mountain can easily be trumped by a blade that kill with one single slash.
Who better to fight back the darkness of the world then one responsible for most of it. LEGENDARY QUOTE.
Thank you Emperor Martin Septim, very cool
I’d love to see your take on how various superhuman abilities would affect the design of medieval weapons
The big question is, do they sun-forge MACHICOLATIONS?!
Yes
Yes yes yeeeesss
"What about fire enchantment?"
Burning whip. THat is all I have to say. Burning whip. Or burning lassos. Anything that's all about wrapping around the opponent and restraining them.
**throws enchanted pebble**
I win.
@Arkalidor I'd say it depends on the specifics of the fire enchantment. If it was just that the weapon is always on fire, then yes putting it on something like a whip would be more useful then a sword. But if the fire enchantment caused the target to burst into flames, then it would be effective on any weapon. Imagine a sword with such an enchantment could only be blocked by a shield once, then the shield would combust and now you're likely no longer facing an opponent with a shield.
I rather enjoy lightning whips for more crowd control / utility options
Why would you want that? Worst case for the enemy is like "oh, you burned my ankle, singed my eyebrow, and ruined my doublet". It's not going to kill anybody, or do enough damage to put them out of the fight. It would be great for a slave master or something though. Riot police. Not so much in a real fight.
@@NEOMNIMON no, you'd just be facing a dude with a burning sheild. Only the face of the sheild would catch fire, because that's where the sword hit, and the guy is just going to shove a flaming shield into your face.
SHADow of the conqueror
Of course you would :)
I can't believe I missed that. Clever
Well he is a dad...
In theory, a weapon being longer and lighter does convey an advantage in terms of reach and speed. But there is a massive caveat. You really wouldn’t be able to fight someone with a normal sword unless you were supernaturally strong.
This is because of the way swords behave in the bind when you actually fight with them. Essentially, they are similar to big levers, and if your blade were that much lighter than your opponent’s you would need to be many times stronger than him to hold your own when your blades were foible to foible. It is easy to see that this is the case by trying to spar using a wooden waster against someone with a blunt steel longsword. The heavier steel provides more presence in the bind, and the lighter wooden sword cannot effectively compete. The lack of weight would also make cuts more difficult (though the incredibly narrow edge may help to offset this, depending on what is being cut).
During the Napoleonic Wars, British Flank Company Officers (i.e. Officers who might be expected to actually fight hand to hand rather than simply direct fire and maneuver) were issued sabres (heavier with more blade presence) rather than spadroons or smallswords (the epitome of light swords historically speaking) commonly used by other infantry officers. The reason for this was not that smallswords breaking in battle was a big problem - it didn’t need to be. The smallsword simply didn’t have enough blade presence to block clubbed muskets, cavalry sabre blows, etc.
All design is tradeoffs - you could theoretically make a sword much much heavier, and that would give it an advantage in the leverage of the bind but it would also make it significantly slower and more tiring to use. You could make a longsword with a skinny blade like a transitional rapier - I guarantee it will be lighter than most other longswords, but it will be at a perpetual disadvantage in the bind.
There is a reason historical swords were the weight that they were, it was not only a limitation of metallurgy and material science. So long as you might have to fight people with normal swords, or god forbid, pollaxes or halberds, I do not think a sword that much lighter would be a significant advantage - rather, it might get you killed.
On the other hand, that material would make great armor.
Could the sword-hilt make up for this? Notice that the hilt-cover has spikes coming out of it, which could be used to grip an opponents sword. Legitimately curious to hear your response.
@@leightonshelley I don't think so. It has some protrusions, but not much outside what could be found on early modern complex hilts. Generally, weight near the hilt won't make much of a difference when you're foible-to-foible. It would help foible-to-forte, but you'd have to be fighting someone with an exceptionally heavy weapon for that to matter, the mechanical advantage in favor of the forte is already enormous.
I cut the normal sword with my sharp sword
+
What about a blade with a dynamic weight?
Shad's shameless self plugs through this entire video are adorable
Shad the Shameless
Shad the shameless snake slayer
Wouldn't you if you just published your first novel?
Well it worked. Reading it now.
Well he's got some points there.
Magic enchantments on classic weapons are quite stupid.
sounds like he put far more thoughts in enchantments than other authors.
Your book is first book that I actually bought in electronic format, just started reading it and I like it. I hope that it will be published in Russia, and preferably in hard cover, so I can put it on my bookshelf.
I'd love to get a paperback version. For now it's digital only
I didn't know a human being could be this excited about something I find it very entertaining. You do you internet sword man
You've not achieved much in life, have you?
@@nottoday3817 Bruh why you been salty.
My goal in life is to be as excited about anything as shad is about basically everything lol
Hey, your channel gave me so much insight on weapons and fantasy. I've made a lot of short stories and characters before knowing about you, but watching and listening to you gave me more inspiration and knowledge. You're now one of my favorite channels to go to.
What about runic spells, and most importantly WHAT ABOUT DRAGONS?
Fighting dragons... or enchanting dragons?
What about dragons, eh? One word: MACHICOLATIONS!
When you say runic spells I always think about the Scottsman from Samurai Jack
Maybe it has placation, that ones pretty good
@@patrickstewart3446 a way to target and attack those on the ground with a great deal of protección vs. an airborne target? Okay.
I'm waiting with baited breath for the audio book. Edit: Also the book is SOLD OUT on amazon as of me posting this! Congrats man! Congrats!
Our steel brings all the dragons to the machicolations.
Wait... he called the enchanting “sun-forging”? Thank god he didn’t call the weapons “sun-forge blades”
Haha I see another TDP fan
@@generalamaya3965 well don’t count me out
@Renato Barros I am also a TDP fan
I guess Im not the only one whos thought of that
Mindful of hours and hours of your videos, the first time I laid eyes on the cover of your book I immediately wondered about the practicality of that sword!
Being a longtime fan, I'm so happy for your publication, Shad: keep up the good work 💪🏾
Ya be made me fall in love with half swording
I love watching videos where you talk about ideas in your book
My brain takes the "OW" out of Shadow every time I hear Shad mention his book title - so instead of hearing "Shadow of the Conqueror" I hear "Shad of the Conqueror"
me too!
No shad, no!!!
***SHAD THE CONQUERER***
Shad of Conquerors
Better, OW of the conqueror.
Interestingly, I thought of a similar concept (to sunforging) of a magical bow that absorbs light and fires a beam of it instead of arrows to solve the problem of carrying a quiver. The drawback is it has to have a light source nearby to work. The intensity of the light determines the power of the shot.
your novel should spell like this Shad-ow of the Conqueror :D
Yes yes yeeeeesss
WAIT that could be the name of the game I talked about in a the coment I made
@Zack Nemo
Not that Shadman!
Been reading the book. Every time it talks about Shades, I replace it with Shads. Just imagining him being cloned, dark and silly. It's amazing.
I occurs to me that fire enchantments would be very useful, not for attacking people so much but as both a simple light source and for, well, setting things on fire. So raiders would likely love flaming swords.
Secondly, that weight enchantment on your superhero's sword would be down right deadly if the effect also occured when attacking; that is to say, that while it feels its normal weight when being held by its user, the sword *strikes* with the force it would have as though it weighed the ton it feels to others.
Force = Mass x Acceleration after all. You swing the sword as though it weighed only (say) 100kg, but strike with the effective weight of a 1000kg sword? That's a lot of damage. Hell, that's anime levels of damage.
Finally, can I just congratulate you on turning the the old 'Wooden Katanas Are Even Better' trope from a joke into an actual logical argument? Because you make a really solid point. Especially if your magic relies on runes like so many magic enchantment systems often do. It is, after all, much easier to carve runes into wood than trying to carve them into steel, or trying to make the runes while it is being forged or something.
Mars Phoenix great idea, one issue though.
100kg? What kind of sword weighs that much? It would have to be made of lead or something!
@@lordfelidae4505 In history was some moment about decoration sword, where they weight was over 30-40 kg. It`s not a 100kg, but that was a exaggeration just for comparison of mass mechanics.
@@teaborgat9589 but he was talking about how light the sword is, so it makes no sense to describe the sword as being as light as a greatsword made of lead
@@danydady6851 from the point i understand it he says about illogical and ineffective weight of enchantment for this sword, because it will generate not enough power for strike the opponent. Like (moment his of comparison) of simple physics. You need take some weight x acceleration on pressure point = strength. With a lower speed or mass this sword will deal less damage, because it is a swords mechanical and physical abilities
"Hell, that's anime levels of damage.
"
Check out UQ Holder, because the way you propose to use weight enchantement is how the protagonist's gravity blade works.
1g for fast mouvements, 1 trillion tons to crush his opponents...
The weight is set with a scroll wheel on the handle.
You are so right about weapons made out of random stuff (like wood) being able to cut still. Search Kiwami Japan on youtube and watch him make chef knives out of literally everything. I'm not even joking. They really cut too.
Didn't expect to hear that name over on Shad's channel.
The noodle knife was really neat.
"I wanna enchant my nun-chucks!"
Enchanter: *laughs* "Your serious?"
Enchanted nunchucks never get tangled and always hit!
@@moch126 phantasmal chain that only exists when you want, and shifts length as convenient.
You're.
Perhaps they treat you wielder as ethereal and pass through them so you can't hurt yourself and keep momentum XD. Could just use a stick though XD
"it's Competency lll"
"the hero is the villain",
Everyone elder scrolls play through ever.
my first elderscrolls dude was a generally good guy, by skyrim standards, and he was a werewolf, and maybe killed a few people that didn't deserve it... hmmm yeah I see your point.
@@robertdicke7249 I am you...
Robert Dicke
I was a horrible person
As soon as I got OP enough with my equipment upgraded with Smithing 100 I slaughtered every single killable NPC I could find
and I also randomly spawned dragons using Console Commands, because who wouldn’t abuse the Console
@@giantturtlecat2959 I wouldn't... Because I can't.
**Crying in Nintendo switch**
My character's unusual in that she's alright by Skyrim PC standards, and she doesn't use weapons at all. She just uses her magic and that's about it, so my Two Handed is at about 19 from the few times I've used Bound Battleaxe for a sneak attack. *EDIT:* Nevermind, her housecarl Lydia was slain in battle, so to make that sacrifice worth it she joined the Companions and built an entire set of (enchanted) Dwarven armour. She's using that for the time being with the Warrior Stone, and her Heavy Armor, Blocking and One-Handed skills are all at least at 30 now.
I wonder how many times the craftsman accidentally broke the prototypes of IMPERIOUS before he could sunforge it because it was made out of wood and was super thin and long. I meen before ist was made nearly indestructible by sunforging it, it must have been super fragile and so transporting it must have been a pain in the ass.
Not really, you'd shave off the sword shape with a plane. (Like using a cheese slicer) Carve the top half with one blade, then the bottom half with another. Wet the wood so it is flexible (wet paint/dye would do the trick), then lay it in a special mold so it is perfectly flat when you do the enchantment.
Making the tools would be the hard part. The actual sword could be mass-produced in minutes. After that, it would simply depend on how long it took to do the enchantment and how magically expensive each enchant is.
Sunforged spoons
TBH i doubt the user of imperious would let that happen the big bad would probably have designed and sunforged it himself so that couldn't happen
@@RhelrahneTheIdiot why whould he design the sword himself when he can leave it to an expert?
@@defensivekobra3873 this is the 3rd time I have seen you comment this and I must present you with superior option of sunforged forks
Imperious: 0/10 not enough machicolations
That's ashame
Needs corbels as well.
And zero dragons.
You win. 🤝
Look up the seige video
Tbh just how much this guy loves his job makes me so happy
"The hero is the villain"
so like...40k?
*BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GODS*
@@solitudeguard3196 okay then lathrix (being facetious)
What is 40k and to@@solitudeguard3196; potatoes, LOTS of potatoes. :)
No. There's no heroes in 40k.
Unless you mean the ancient Greek definition of hero
Shad: "Why not enchant a wooden sword - which is technically what Imperious is - and let the magic make it nearly indestructible..."
Me looking at my enchanted wooden sword in Skyrim: Uhhh
This reminded me of enchanted sticks in Minecraft
Search TH-cam for skyrim fork. Dude creates a pair of instant kill forks. It's AMAZING!
@@wompa70 Dude is called Spiffing Briton!
It Just Works!
@@Yslohr oh god no...
Shad's got a book?
*this will be a fine addition to my collection*
"there is such a thing as too long"
*flash back to sephiroth trailer for ssbu*
me: that's awkwardly long arming sword
shad: "You may not notice, but this sword's main difference compared to historical is that it's huge for an arming sword"
why wood though? I'd just make a sun forged blade out of aluminum foil, thin glass or ceramic.
edit: any crystalline material would have the most fine edge because of its molecular structure.
absolutely glass. you could make an incredibly thin glass rod and oh so carefully sharpen the edges. it would cut through anything and if you went up against an opponent with enchanted armor you could poke straight through the links of the chainmail underneath and just wiggle the blade shredding his insides. and since it was made specifically to stab into the gaps in armor the enchantment would make it easier.
@Pef it would be great for stabbing but blades need their edges to be only a few microns across to be considered razor sharp. you need a very hard material to get that kind of edge. sharpening the glass wouldn't get you the sharpest edge on second thought but scoring and making a clean chip of a glass blade would make the sharpest possible edge you could get.
Maybe the book has a in-world reason? Like, if it was a futuristic style world with advanced
Sci-Fy tech and stuff then I could see wood being more of a Status symbol. Taking into account of course that the world is covered in metal and stone super structures.
Wood could just be a wealth thing. Then again, it may also be a weight thing. Foil and Glass may just have too wonky of a weight to it, whereas wood sits just right.
@Pef If you think so.
Glass or obsidian would be great, but they couldn't really make super straight, large pieces of glass with medieval technology. That's a modern thing. That's why it was all broken up stained glass, and only in very important places. And obviously, aluminum foil didn't exist.
I just got my book in the mail yesterday, I've just finished chapter 7 and I'm loving it so far. The inner turmoil and clash of perspectives with Daylen is very interesting.
That's awesome to hear, thank you!
One enchantment I would recommend is-for lack of a better name-attack magnetism. This would mean all incoming attacks within a certain range of the blade would be drawn to it rather than the intended target, making defense against projectiles and even other swords easier
This makes me even more excited to read Shadow of the Conqueror. Can't wait, Shad! And once again, congrats!
Just waiting for the man at arms reforged Imperious.
Man at arms doesn't put out anything new. They made a new channel called "that works"
@Just that Crazy They've got the video right here. And they've forged a sword from a fantasy book before
By the way, I hope they go with temper-bluing, rather than paint. I remember Tony Swatton did a great job of that on Sting
Shad is becoming super succesful. Imagine he gets a netflix tv show? Im not much of fiction a reader. But ill definatly support a movie or tv show if theres a kickstarter
Heck ya Amagen his fantasy rearmed as a Netflix show.
@@bonnieworkman9690 shit that would be pretty good I'd say, probably pretty popular too.
@@darkpixel1128 Yes indeed we can hope
Na they would try to force political view he doesn't agree with on him and his show.
Would they and hey they can try and that would make a story
17:14 The captions killed me X'D But in all seriousness, fire enchantment is useful when applied as a "complete ignition" enchantment. AKA I poke you with my blade and you spark in flames.
Hm
*Bonk*
And now ur on fire :)
@@mohammadsaleh1998 Basically, its more of an ignition than just fire enchantment.
Fire aspect