Weapons that a FAIRY could use effectively in real life: FANTASY RE-ARMED
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- Are there medieval weapons and combative styles that could make a fairy dangerous?
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Tinkerbell- Exists
Everyone- Oh how adorable
Shad- We must teach it how to kill
@@samarnadraThe true purpose of fridge magnets revealed.
Well they are showed to have martial groups in legend of the neverbeast so...yeah.
Another kind of Shad: we must teach it how to f*ck
oh yes i mean theirs a pirate on never ever land
@Rayane Toy ReviewsNgaming Yes, yes, YYYYEEEEEESSSS!!!!!!
**Fairy flies up behind you**
**Drives an obsidian spike a foot long into your ear**
**The last thing you hear?**
*"HEY! LISTEN!"*
Or better.
They go behind you, stab you in the neck and paralyse you from the neck down.
They they constantly go "HEY! Listen!" XD
*Fairy flies into the eyeholes of your helmet*
*Sticks half a knitting needle through your eye*
"WATCH OUT"
yeah sure, but what about dragons?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Fairies using crucible
Fighting fairies is basically like fighting a nest of bees, with massive stingers and human intelligence. No thank you
That's before you take magic into account.
thankfully i have my electric racket
@@-Extra_Lives Bees, but they occasionally fire Fireballs at you
@@mundanespecter4970 no fire is bad for wings- electricity or thunder attacks
make that wasps. Wasps can sting you and not die.
So I tried softly introducing one of these fairies into one of my roleplay sessions. A knight was carrying a jar with a captured one, and when he got ambushed in the dark, he let it loose and covered his visor as well as blanketing himself under his cloak. The little devil slit many people open before they could even realize what was happening.
The other roleplayers looked at me with legitimate fear in their eyes.
"Why would you bring something so horrifying into this roleplay?"
Best reactions ever
What's the story behind fairy and knight?
@@birdiesanders7788 The knight previously managed to capture one of these fairies and kept it in a jar weeks prior before this encounter.
How on earth did he do that
@@skyline5963 Last time he passed the forest full of them, his torch blew out at the end and he ran the hell out. One got stuck between his pauldron and gambeson and couldn't cut its way out. So he stuck a sleeping insence inside.
I wonder how they'd handle a fairy assassin. Honestly I don't buy fairies with huge swords because it'd be hard to balance ( just like humans with huge swords, the center of gravity would be a difficult issue to deal with, and flying with something that affects the balance that much would be even harder). However, a super-fast, tiny, flying assassin with a thin "rapier" coated in poison could slip easily past any guards, through any defenses, place one fatal stab and be gone before the target even starts to realize something's wrong. A fairy could have a hit count in the hundreds before anyone even knew the deaths weren't natural.
Note to self: When fighting fairies. Bring goggles.
Elkator955 And a tennis racket.
a racket strung with cold iron
A flame thrower is where it's at.
Note to self: When fighting fairies... bring that electric fly swatter, and hope you see it before it sees you.
And a insectcide
When somebody says "Fairy" you imagine a pretty harmless creature. But then somebody says "needles and razor blades"...
then someone breaks out the poison
I am an exception, I've spent to much time looking at Celtic/Germanic/Nordic myths to think harmless. Trolls, Goblins, Gruffs, and so many more are all to willing to mess you up.
When I think fairy I think don’t follow the fairy lights into a slow depressing death lost in a foggy bog and don’t let them carry you off and turn you into creatures cause they think it’s funny, fairies are flipping dangerous and merciless for amusement
First thought; Tinkerbell with a bit more bitchiness.
Reality; Wasps with human intelligence and less friendliness.
Good grief, they're terrifying.
Not too mention bigger than themselves
You've convinced me that I'd rather fight an ork than a fairy.... Well done
Marco van der Merwe if you mean warhammer orks, you are mistaken, I don't mind getting sliced as much as squeezed like chocolate eclair with the whipped cream coming out being my innards
Or worse, 40k Orks. You'ze get krump'd sumfin' gud.
Warhammer 40k is not medieval fantasy.
You sure about that ;)
Regardless of their tec level we are talking about a creature 20 times the strength of a human who considers combat tactics to be just as important a part of education to the public as real world modern humans consider evolution important to their citizens. Trained to kill before they can even walk, trained to use both ranged and close quarters weapons before they are on solid food, and didn't know what a civilian was until they noticed that some members of a village they attack enact strange tactics that involve running screaming and hiding rather then trying to engage in direct combat.
8:02 "SPIKE THOUGH THE EYE, INTO THE BRAIN, THE HUMANS DEAD"
*immediately show ad for mosquito repellent*
from what i hear, that stuff is flamable. FLAME THROWERS AT THE READY!
@@tangurplemerclain1868 as a curious twat who used that method to kill ants and cockroaches, I can confirm
Amazing.
@@tangurplemerclain1868 Brother. Get the Flamer. The HEAVY Flamer
"The fairy army approaches, sire."
"Light the torches, man the bonfires, get the warpaddles. It is the only way we live today..."
jtfroh you forget spray for killing insect
Release the dragon riders
But what medieval weapons would dragons really use?
jtfroh "Release the pyromancer!"
Itself.
Fantasy Creatures RE-ARMED.
There, that's a name for you. You're welcome.
Pathfinder Savant
Hell yea.
I second this!
Yes.
so, kinda like "man at arms: REFORGED"
Lol he actually used it
Long razor blades to combat the big human things you say...?
[ATTACK ON TITAN OP INTENSIFIES]
9 Human shifters!
SIE SIND DAS ESSEN?
Sasagayo!
But we humans can use fly swatters.
This fight goes totally to us😎
Einfach nur ich imagine fly swatters with tiny spikes so that the fairies are pierced
Anyone else think Shad should make a DnD 6th edition with all the fantasy re armed weapons and archetypes
Yaaaaas!
Or a GURPS worldbook
That would be amazing. I'm probably going to homebrew a lot of his fantasy rearmed stuff into my campaign already
@@When_did_they_add_handles that campaign is about to get funky lol
I have to say, the lack of realism in how D&D handles weapons bugs me often basic advantages are ignored or only included in a feat or class ability.
A battle of fairy vs humans would be so gruesome on both sides. The razors slashing throat and needles piercing eyes and brain on one side, and probably paddle like weapons or tennis racket like ones (with steel wires on it) on the other to hit the fairies midflight which would completely crush their bodies or torches frying them instantly... Everyone would be coming home with PTSD XD
Don't forget flamethrowers and thermobaric bombs! Both seem to be a very good weapon against masses of fairies. And of course chemical weapons, too
Gwenn Blei Thought you said bottle of Fairy. That would sting!
Gwenn Blei iron or steel butterfly nets. Think about it.
David Craft
Could be interesting to take prisoners indeed :D
I love the smell of napalm and fried fairies in the morning lol
Great, now I'm thinking about a bunch of knights running around the forest with tennis rackets and beekeepers hats.
KommissarKek that image made my day
KommissarKek
That looks honestly terrafying, imagine what those men have seen! Men with cuts across their body, necks slit like a sordid game...
Yo ...defintley one of my favorite comments
Yes! When he asked how you would fight them, tennis rackets are one of the first things I thought of. Which answers why fairies would use ranged weapons: to stay out of range of the dreaded racket.
Shield bash the little bugs
imagine a band of armored warriors walking through a fairies infested forest, one of them heard something, alerting the band, so far nothing has happened, but as they were about to let out a sigh of relief, the last member guggled, making all of them turn around, just to see the gaps on the poor soul's armored were covered in colorful chitinous wings, fluttering gleefully as they slowly back off and zip away as fast and sudden as they have appeared, leaving behind a dying warrior collapsing into a pool of blood pouring out from every gap of his armor while the forest echoed the gleeful and mischievous, high pitched giggling
Very realistic.
This is why to me fairies are the most evil being in a generic fantasy set... Most of the time you don't even know what hit you and you're left to bleed yourself dry in complete horror
I got chills
Fire. Kill it with fire. Burn the forest if you must.
@@bishopofeternity48 and they will move into our homes. Claim our land and burn all of our children! Never will we ever be safe, that is if we ever survive.
Shad: *Talks about fairies using razor blade weapons.*
Me: *Flashes back on a Harry Dresden novel where a crowd of tiny fairies cuts a Princess of the Sidhe to DEATH using exacto knives.*
All hail to the Za-Lord!!
Investigator: "Um, he looks like he was cut by a lot of razor strikes."
Detective: "From what direction?"
Investigator: "Eh, everywhere."
Detective tools to his partner: "Oh God no."
Investigator: "What?"
Detective's partner: "Murder fairies. The murder fairies are back. Call the Grimm Brothers."
Dean Winchester in the distance: "fight the fairies! You fight those fairies!"
imagine a band of armored warriors walking through a fairies infested forest, one of them heard something, alerting the band, so far nothing has happened, but as they were about to let out a sigh of relief, the last member guggled, making all of them turn around, just to see the gaps on the poor soul's armored were covered in colorful chitinous wings, fluttering gleefully as they slowly back off and zip away as fast and sudden as they have appeared, leaving behind a dying warrior collapsing into a pool of blood pouring out from every gap of his armor while the forest echoed the gleeful and mischievous, high pitched giggling
Sonic comes out: "Meow"
So my dream of roleplaying a fairy that could wield a massive great sword was not insane?
By the way, it would be within the realm of possibility to have "best weapons to use AGAINST this specific fantasy creature"?
Andres Arancio ooh like what would you use to kill a dragon
Most likely a ballista
There are one on dragons ^^
Andres Arancio steelnets?
Tennis racket with guitar strings for weapon.
Full-body metal armor with a glassed visor slit (detachble - you don't want that when fighting humans or other species that are stong enough to break the glass within 1 inch of your eyes) for protection.
How to fight the Kraken?
Fairies are often described as cruel and sadistic. ... This doesn't bode well.
Great, Now I'm imagining Tinkerbell in a dominatrix outfit... Brain, wtf?
@1234kalmar That on the other hand, is a very nice imagery. But mainly because I have a thing for tiny, forceful and aggressive females.
I did not need to imagen that.
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Correction: I did not need to see that.
"What a great setup for a horror fantasy story" he says as I'm thinking of adding tiny, ferocious pixies with spikes and razors to my dark fantasy setting...
I know right
And in the meantime i'm training one how to swing a razor to cut open someone's neck off.
it would be like Jumanji mosquitos
*vampiric* faeries
Be wary of the scary faerie who, from their eyrie, carry blades to bury in your capillaries, for should you tarry, "felled by a canary-sized adversary," will read your obituary.
Should be #1
Definitly underrated
@@ljrandom147 Post it everywhere link it.
👏
It took me two read over with my buzzed self but yeah get tinkes wicked poem more likes good one
Fairies usually use the most powerful weapon of all, annoyance: "HEY, LISTEN!!! LISTEN!!! HEY LISTEN!"
Drakengard fairies are by far the best at this.
Damn it navi shut up i know
Shad fails to mention that fairy swarms would be absolutely terrifying.
Why'd he need to when one could end an army.
I still think nets would be effective at getting them all.
@@superraegun2649 it would have to be a very tight net and made of good material. So that they couldn’t wiggle through or cut their way out. Idk how tight of nets they could make in the medieval period but it could be made by magic but would also effect the cost to make or get.
@@Parhelion2
Thick woolen sheet woven at intervals with metal wire? It would hang and drape like a tent, but it would stop slashes pretty well for a while.
@@ericward8459 an excellent idea 2 years in the making! If you can handle the added weight you could wet it down adding a little bit more barrier to entry.
"Faeries could use giant swords"
NEW THEORY: Cloud is a Faerie. FF7 is set in small scale.
I second this!
It would make the shinra robots like toys... it would work
It is displayed life sized, FF7 was originally released in the 90s when the average TV was a 26" CRT tube TV, and he was only 1/6 the screen tall, making him about 4".
@@royherb3842 oh yeah, it's all coming together
Where are his wings?!
Did he lose his wings?! Poor guy :(
Any man that shaves with a straight razor knows now how terrifying fairies actually are. It gave me goosebumps. Peter Pan better start treating Tinkerbell better, or he is going to wake up with something... missing.
I say, a fairy assassin would out perform ninjas... Ninja fairies, hmm...
Then lords would hire fairy anti-ninjas. And invisible battles would rage on, at the ceilings, in mouse holes, under the beds!
This is an awesome idea for a story, I am stealing it to add it to my universe.
Devian stretched his arms as he walked through the the corridors of his palace. He stopped at an open window, leaning on the wall next to it and looking out at the gardens. A servant girl tending to the flowers saw him. He smiled. She quickly averted her eyes and returned to her work. Nobody else seem to have been in sight. He closed his eyes, inhaling flower aromas.
Then, a sudden sound, like a tiny bell ringing, right in front of his face. Devian snapped his eyes open, only to see a flurry of motion right in front of him, accompanied by by more tiny bells. He took a step back, but a moment later it was all over. He looked around frantically and finally saw the source of commotion. A black-clothed fairy was pinned down to the floor by to of his kin wearing royal uniforms. Razor-thin blade lay snapped in two next to them. It must have been as long as Devian's arm and it must have been that blade clashing against guard's swords that made the bell sounds.
"My lord", he heard a voice of the Spymaster in his head "Are you unhurt?". Devian looked to his left - a fairy in an ornate officer uniform hovered in the window frame. "No, I'm fine, Sahatoros". The fairy bowed his head apologetically. "I beg your pardon, my lord. We were almost too late. Another moment, and..." The fairy shook his head. "I already told you that we absolutely must install fairy meshes on all windows! Will this finally convince you, my lord?"
Devian looked at the tiny assassin again. He was already bound by two guards and on his knees, his spectral wings tied just as his arms. "I thought I was paying you and your fairies so that I wouldn't have to worry about your kin attacking me. Meshes, wind-blowers, fire curtains and other gimmicks are not cheap, you know!"
"But my lord's life is even more valuable, is it not?", the spymaster said as he slowly flew down to the attacker and his men.
"Fine. Fine. But if I'll ever be in such a danger again, it's your head! Yours and your people's. We have no shortage of fairy mercenaries after all."
Pirate fairies would DESTROY ninja fairies EVERYTIME!
Atila Elari This gave me the shivers.
If ever you make a novel of this I'd definitely buy one.
So that's why my pixie summon has a longsword. That's terrifying.
Totally gonna make my players fight these tiny horrors
Party: let's cut through those woods
Fairies: laugh mischievously
Party:
Me: The long way it is!
Best weapon against fairies: Don't believe in them
That won't actually save you if they do actually exist.
So you don't believe in them, that foot long rapier still pierced your brain... XD
A light weight fairly tight weave net might be effective. Think of the entangling nets you always see in gladiator movies.
Dichlorvos.
Guys, it's a Peter Pan reference: "Every time a child says, 'I don't believe in fairies,' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead."
or smoke just make a huge fire contain the smoke some how and if the winds in you favor choke them out. or maybe just burn down the forests or maybe extreme cold?
Way to go Shad. Making the old fairy folk tales even more terrifying, and ruining every Tinkerbell style fairy ever. GIVE THAT PIXIE DUSK THROWING WUSS A SPIKE!
Nice idea, but it wouldn't work well. A fairy might have the strength to lift and use a spike, but they're going to have the same issues _using_ it as a realistic knight would have with Cloud's Buster Sword. Newton's Laws of Motion put a limit on how much high strength can benefit you in combat.
(And that's not getting into how few flying creatures can carry a large fraction of their body weight in flight, never mind with the extra stresses that dodging and thrusting and whatnot would provide.)
@@timothymclean but that problem can esely be solved. instead of atemting to swing the blad and spiral out of control the faris would drag it over the target in a fly buy manover. sure it would probeblu be eksosting but is the blad is stationary copared to the fary it is much esier to control.
@@timothymclean except the square cubed law dictates that the sword would have proportionately less inertia, and thus be easier to manipulate
@@ashtongiertz8728 But the fairy _also_ has less inertia, which is the problem. The problem from the Laws of Motion doesn't have anything to do with how strong you are relative to your weapon's mass; they have everything to do with how _heavy_ (and hence stable) you are relative to your weapon's mass.
Shadi: "WHAT CAN WE USE AGAINST THESE THINGS?!"
me: "fire... burn them... to hell..."
Thermonuclear Warfare
just get a giant fly swat and a can of bug spray. done.
A giant shield because you could just pin them down and step on them.
Me: steel armour would actually be toxic to them, though it could go from a rash to lead or murcury levels of toxic (I prefer lead or mercury)
Guyman#100 wouldn’t the shield do the same job as crushing them with your foot
Me before video: "Fairies? Many types of fairies in myths were quite horrific sure, but, those small bug people? All right then."
Me after video: "...Those small bug people are now the scariest kind."
We must pacify them with offerings of pizza.
Now think about an army of fae warriors armed with razors, supported by a cadre of those horrific ones that know glamor spells, hexes, poxes and other mean spirited cantrips.
@RequiemPoete And lead by the more godlike ones, such as the Tuatha De Danann.
TheRhythym: Humans? Ohhhh you mean those huge wingless freaks that died out thousands of years ago? As a matter of fact, one of my ancestors killed their king himself. They let him keep the skull. My family lives in it to this day
"Fantastic Beasts and How to Arm Them"
Calling it: Stabbing humans in the eyes with toothpicks and needles, maybe even small rapier swords.
Now I'll watch the video.
EDIT: Well I was right about the eye thing, but holyshit I was wrong about the size of the weapon.
Got similar impression, though I've imagined one little creep slinging a chef's knife!
Neferkariusz31 fairies average life must be like dark souls.
"Long Razor blade"
OK correction. More like attack on Titan
Oh look! What a cute little fai...*throat gets sliced to little pieces*
Once this series is over we need another full series of “versus” scenarios with properly-equipped fantasy creatures and how they would play out. Faeries vs. Minotaurs with PROPAAAHHH armor, doors and 10 foot rapiers
Yes, everyone on brackets and let's see who will win in the end. Maybe we could vote.
The problem is that realistically each side will forgo what weapon is best FOR them and use the weapon that is best AGAINST their opponent.
Port Kapul ...Shad can cover that
Derp Gerpenstein Fuck yeah!!!
As someone with an obsession with fairies, this is literally the best video on the internet for me. Thank you so much, I know you won't see this cause this video is old but i still want to say thank you.
Here is something interesting is that the fairy’s still need to fly and have proper balance and mobility so I see the fairy’s with super large swords with some sort of lifetime training like say archers.
"So now fairies are basically tiny balls of unstoppable death." This one line is my favorite thing from the entire channel so far and neatly encapsulates why I particularly enjoy this series.
Tim Homer i kid you not i read that line as he said it.
But what about the Dragons?
but what about the fairy attack on the wookies?
@shadiversity you forgot to mention their ambush capability.
Literally thousand of fairies could be hiding in treetops.
Teutoberg Forest scenarior, but with lightning speed fairies, I guess the battle is over for Rome's Legions in a matter of minutes.
Woosh Woosh Woosh dead.
“Those trees are up to something.”
Forest fires.
@@WynnofThule if you burned a fairies home you will never be safe anywhere
@@WynnofThule thats what they said
In vietnam
also, fire would be an incredibly stupid idea. Insect bodies are typically covered in wax. Ever lit a butterfly on fire? it can burn for seconds before it looses ability to fly. Believe me, one thing that can make a swarm of attacking insects more terrifying is a swarm of insects ON FIRE!!!
KohuGaly fairies aren't insects
About the "needle-like weapon through the eye"-idea: I don't think a creature of such low weight could penetrate the back of the eyeball and reach the brain, as the eyeball itself is pretty though. You could always increase the speed of flight for the fairies, but that would also increase the danger to their own bodies. So i believe it is more about driving poison in the carotid artery and other weak parts of the human body that have a good blood circulation.
Are you implying you've lit butterflies on fire before
Evil Roy Slade good point. I’ve wondered about fire vs faeries too, and in light of that it still makes sense. I mean, if you’re some godawful person who captures and sells faeries you just have to burn the forest, dive them out, and have copious amounts of sleeping gas (ineffective to humans due to size) at the other end and BOOM, entire faerie city knocked out for the picking
May I ask why where you lighting butterflies on fire?
I play in dnd as a fairy character.
Never thought to apply the square cube law.
Watch out dm
gay
One of my players is a fairy. I’m so sending this to him.
I'm just going to take everything you (and comments) said in these series and put it into a fantasy game at some point.
Same here :)
I am already integreating it into the fantasy universe I am designing(v12.3, I have re-written and designed that lore way too many times)
man, think about an mmorpg where players of Faries just see everything way bigger and their cities and stuff could just be in Floors and Walls of other places...
That does sound pretty interesting.
Yup, i'm writing a fantasy saga, which i plan on making it as realistic as possible, and this videos are inspirational blessings.
I which i could make a game though.
qwonatz you'd need high-poly models of the other races, but the scale would be easy to do.
Don't forget, that a fairy probably never fight alone...
Coupled with hit'n'run tactics and the horror of any army, foolish enough to cross their lands, is born.
Just think about it:
One moment there is peace, next dozens of deadly butterflies come and leave behind a heap of cut open persons, left to bleed out.
And if a camp is raided in the dark... who is left to scream?
Well the one or two poor traumatized sods they leave alive to spread the warnings.
One (or maybe two) word: Chain-Lightning. Fairy army toast.
In the Dresden Files, book series by Jim Butcher (everyone should read, it's great) the main character, at one point, hires a small battalion of faeries to protect him. he gives them all box cutters. when someone attacks him, it's death by a thousand cuts, as a tornado if death swirls around them.
I'm scared of how hard I laughed at this.
Your very own fairy army, all for the price of few pizzas.
The Za lord Dresden!!
Especially considering that the opponnent in that case was MUCH more more powerful than Dresden himself, and he being one of the most powerful wizards.
@@YormanGina
I was going to say not to forget their pizza. Pizza Lord...ha!
If Tinkerbell was given a razor blade weapon, Wendy would've been dead before Act 2.
Maybe you could make some videos about how humans could fight different fantasy races, because these videos mostly look at how various fantasy races would fight against humans and not even mention what countermeasures humans could take. Maybe you could call it something like fantasy warfare analysis.
so when i saw the title i immediately thought: "hmmm... what weapon a bug would have?" And the answer? Stings (w/ poison) and numbers
So I'm imagining this gale of glittering steel singing past faster than anyone can outrun turning crowds into quivering heaps of meat in this unstoppable maelstrom...
Wow. Who know Tinkerbell was God-Tier.
XxSoraMifunexX: Reminds me of planet HD 189733b. A blue gas giant close to it's star with a VERY high silicate content. Basically it rains glass shards. With winds clocking in at 4300 miles/hour. It rains glass sideways. That's the impression I get from a fairy army.
Tinker bell was also many times stronger than he depicts here. She could pick up and carry a 250+ pound man, stop a full strength sword swing. She was beastly creature even before his arguments. Watch the Robin Williams hook movie.
Well, something everyone seems to forget is all that extra mass. Carrying a weapon that weighs more than you do would drastically increase the energy required to fly, which is already extremely energy costly, and much more sensitive to extra weight. Not to mention that with extra mass comes increased inertia, which means it becomes much more difficult to turn and change direction quickly
This video only further validates her title of 'Firefly from Hell'.
in most games, when you progress, you get bigger. but in real life, you shrink and then grow wings!
When I clicked on this video I would never imagine the answer to be: Cloud's Buster Sword.
You know what's even scarier? Their three-dimensional-aerial-army-formation.
Thanks for the arrow in the thumbnail Shad.
I wouldn’t have seen the sword without it AND the circle.
=3=
It grabs people's attention ^_^
Yes, it makes anyone with a reasonable intelligence say "Oh look, it's click bait! I don't want to support that, so I'm not clicking!"
Seriously, every video I have seen with thumbnails like that has turned out to be an incredibly stupid one that fails to even address whatever pulled me in in the first place. (With exception to yours, now.)
If you want to deliver the impression that you cater to people who come here to think, I suggest you avoid tactics like that.
Really marscaleb?
I put forth the position that clickbait is a non-issue if, _(when one takes the bait)_ the video delivers, giving you exactly what you had hoped to find.
The problem is that it DOESN'T happen. In fact, that's basically the definition of click bait. If it actually delivered what it advertised, then it would just be honest advertising, which is what I'm trying to encourage.
Nobody uses the word "bait" to describe something that is honestly presenting itself, only things that are some form of trap or scam. If a video is actually about what it teases you with, then it's not click-bait.
The issue at the heart of this discussion is using tactics that look like click-bait.
Your argument is that if clickbait is honest then it's not clickbait? That was _my_ argument boy, get your own.
A fairy with a fishing line would also be very terrifying.
two fairies with monowire.
Or just a cutting thread. Thread smeared in glue and powdered glass.
Dear God that sounds terrifying
The battle of fairy Hoth suddenly became more terrifying
I'm pretty sure I've seen this before. The character in question wasn't technically a fairy, but she was controlling a set of fairy dolls. Many lives were lost in that incident.
What I learned today was....
When Navi says "Hey, listen" you listen.
Or you get a fly swatter... XD
The best strategy to kill them would be to use your shield like a tennis racket and try to smack them when they fly towards you.
Or as a horrible fantasy noble sport: Fairy Tennis
ask how well that works with flies...
actually the best weapon would be a metal razor wire tennis racket. So that when it hits or even clips them it does near lethal damage.
but the troops deployed with them would have to be very quick
Bring a racket
6:36 "a very significant point"
I love unintentional puns
In this scenario (human vs fairy), tennis is no longer a sport, it's a fantasy martial art.
The Great Exorcist a thin metal wired tennis racked would be high demand for the smithy
Maybe with barbed wire...
Now imagining a jousting fairy... Like a Beedrill on Steroids. Thanks Shad
Fairy vs Fairy warfare would be a sight to behold.
You also need to remember that because of their smaller size, faeries would likely have incredibly fast reaction speeds.
Probably how they can stop so fast.
Does the size has anything to do with reaction speed ? Is it something intrinsically between size and speed reaction ?
Strange because theres a bug that can go so fast but can't actaully react fast, theres a limit to how fast a living creature's reaction speed can be, especially if that creature is limited by human proportions.
It has to do with mass and perception. Bugs and insects perceive time much slower than humans do. So while their ability to react is slow, their ability to see an attack before it even happens is very high. Its why ants can sometimes quickly crawl into a crack before a human foot comes down. Its also why a frog's tongue needs to be lightning quick, so that even if the bug sees it coming they can't do much to avoid it.
@@dix-neufcmsifredi2706 It's about frame rate, sime insect eyes perceive at a higher frame rate than ours, so they see things in slow motion compared to us. This means that even if they have the same reflexes as us, their brains have more time to process what is happening, also the smaller you are the less distance your brains' signals have to travel to get to the muscles.
Did anyone else realize that the fairies battle tactics is pretty much ‘Attack on Titan’
Pfft
Wow, this makes me see fairies in an entirely new and scary light. Maybe you should make a follow up video about humans could fight against these fairies.
ShieldWife Fly swatters, baseball bats, frying pans, really anything you can smack a small object with would instantly crush the bones of the fairies. It would be like being hit with a fucking freight train.
You call.in sick.
Edge alignment on a great sword. Turn it "Sideways", and you can swat'em!
apparently putting them in a microwave works...
(thats a reference, not a cruel joke btw)
a tennis racket with barbed wire instead of string... that might work
Supernatural Honest Armament Dissection
S.H.A.D
PS: Fairies are repelled by iron in most fantasy and folk tales.
Sean Peery S.H.A.D? Poor choice of words my friend
I maybe thinking of a different fay race but I believe they are compiled to count grains of sugar or salt if it's spilled in a lot of myths as well.
Ive heard that myth before in a book about fairy's
They could use bronze weapons. Almost as good as iron, plus if magic is involved that could negate the difference completely. For cutting weapons they could use obsidian blades, which are sharper than surgical steel.
L. Wolf *compelled
"It's useless to use projectiles when you are a projectile" laughs in javelin. Because they can change velocity with so much agility, they might be well suited to accelerating projectiles towards targets with their flight and then releasing.
"What Weapons Would *Blank* Use" is a good enough name, although Weapon Affinity (suggested by strong back) is also a good short name
Pk, I just stopped the viedeo for a second in "Would they be dangerous?"
One word: POISON.
After the video:
Oh, yeah, razor blades double their size is more epic.
Now I imagine an anti-fairy armour - a suit made of a thick mesh, extended from the body on some sort of struts, and helmets surrounded by a bulbous mesh sphere. You can see through it, but even if fairy pokes it's needle through this mesh it will not be able to reach your face, and it won't be strong enough to cut the wires.
Though one thing about needing such specialized equipment to fight them, imagine fighting a war against an army that contains pixies but composed entirely of pixies.
That'd work until they realized they could invent miniature crossbows to blind by shooting through the mesh
Atila Elari so...a metal beekeeper suit?
Richard Nyxon
As long as it's a crossbow designed for use by faeries. They can't just be scaled down crossbows, because then whatever material used to make the string or the limbs would lack the length (important for draw distance), string flexibility/limb rigidity (important for the tensile strength of the limbs, the stretching force of the string, and the ability of the parts to return back to the pre-latched state while maintaining their functionality), and the bolts would not have the mass to drive them into the flesh more than a few millimeters at best.
The proportions would have to be different. They'd need longer limbs, and the bolts may be a bit longer (think shooting small nails). As to what the string should be made out of, I have no idea (animal tendon is the only thing I can think of right now), and at its scale, the crossbow would still be very fragile and prone to bent parts.
How would move with that armor or fight long term. Can you move fast, fairys sure can. So it would be hard
"What a great set-up for a fantasy horror story" he says as I'm writing a Neverland retelling and trying to think how to make my fairies more interesting. Thanks Shad!
Behold new shadiversity t-shirt: "Beware of fairies" Why? Because fairies are deadly !!! That is why!!!
Dagons? BUT WHAT ABOUT FAIRIES?
Looking at your last statement:
Pokémon?
Thundergozon poor Hydreigon.
Josh Adams Actually Flash Cannon Hydreigon is a really effective way to lure fairies out and murderize them
You basically made the fairies into Small versions of the Scout regimen from Attack On Titan
Hell yeah! ... and they don't even need 3D maneuver gear! X-D
I feel like outfitting an army in this world would be a terrifying game of rock-paper-scissors. Especially if there are multiracial empires or alliances as opposed to the single race political entities normally shown in fantasy. Equip your army with normal weapons because it works great against many opponents (elves, orcs, other humans), and then you run into a fairy death battalion. Equip your army with primitive flamethrowers and razor-wire tennis rackets and you run into the enemy's troll brigade and dragon riders.
I _need_ him to design an RPG with these considerations! (TT or C would both work for me)
It seems to me that real life small flying things, be they bird or insect, are strongly reliant on good clean air, and heavily damaged by smoke. some oxygen has to power those wings. soot particles are a lot bigger at their scale, more like trying to breathe pepper. I imagine you could smoke 'em out. and now Fern Gully makes a lot more sense
Entropy Zero I would play the hell out of that game.
Kairu Hakubi Good thinking. The only problem would be controlling it in a battlefield setting. A single shift in the wind and now we're the ones getting smoked out. Still better than trying to fight them with a sword though.
Tru dat, but the shift in the wind would presumably take the fairies with it, whether or not they actually fly by displacing air (most of them seem to hover upright just fine) they would definitely get blown around.
ntm4 so... small world?
imagine your just strolling outside picking flowers for some reason
and all of a sudden
in the blink of an eye
a miniscule fairy flies straight through your head with a long, sharp, metal pin
*Fairly* standardized....Yay for the puns!
1:53
The issue I see with them using very long weapons (proportionally) is it would somewhat negate their biggest strength (being hard to hit). I think a long weapon would just pose an unnecessary risk of them getting disarmed or the weapon snapping/bending plus it would reduce the rigidity which they would need considering their lack of mass/power.
There is bone behind the eyes too which I doubt a fairy would have the power to thrust through. At 10m/s and 10th human scale you'd be looking at about a 20th of the kinetic energy of an arrow from a 40lb bow. There is a small gap which the optic nerve goes through but hitting it would be like trying to thrust a rapier through a 2 inch moving target protected by an 2ft sphere of opaque ballistics gel. It would most definitely blind you but I think getting through to the brain would be a lot harder than you think.
Even if it did go in to the brain it's no guarantee of instant death, it would be a very tiny area damaged due to how thin the blade needs to be and people can sometimes survive surprising amounts of brain damage, look up Phineas Gage as an extreme example. If they survived the fairy would be extremely vulnerable while trying to withdraw the blade (unless they left it there and immediately switched weapon).
I think the fairies should make peace with the fact they probably aren't going to get a one hit kill and use a "death by 1000 cuts" strategy. The kinetic energy from flying would be an order of magnitude greater than the force they could produce from swinging a weapon so a long cutting weapon would be wasted so I think they'd be better off relying on momentum combined with slicing movements.
No doubt but the penetrating that deep would make it quite difficult to withdraw the blade so they'd likely be swatted in the process. A long blade would make the fairy much easier to intercepted before they got close enough to do it and you don't need a long blade to blind someone anyway.
the case of stinging like a bee, really though have you ever been stung by a bee? even if the damage be minimal but using various poisons can really work
Jim Giant What about a barbed longsword, and camo-armor.
or using poisons, a tiny arrow isnt gonna do much
First, I want to say, I did enjoy this video, but it did make me think... A lot.
The one problem I saw with the long weapon idea is how it would pose a problem with balance (It's not necessarily an idea negating problem, just one that might alter fighting style to some degree). Sure, they might be able to pick up the weapon just fine thanks to the square-cube law, but metals are quite heavy, and actually holding the weapon out can pose a big problem towards maintaining balance. It might be manageable on the ground, but in the air, their movement would likely be hindered somewhat due to counteracting forces (gravity ↓. lift ↑). The blade or needle would likely have to be held downward and under (or near under) the center of lift in order for them to maintain speed or mobility.
How the weapon is held would effect the speed and trajectory of the wielder in flight; assuming that the downward force produced by the wings is mostly perpendicular to the body while idle, and can be adjusted for forward movement just as the angle of the body changes depending on counteracting forces caused by their movement. The way I see it, this limits them to thrusting and stabbing attacks.
Holding the weapon upwards and close to the core of the body might be useful in initiating a diving maneuver.
Holding the weapon out above the shoulder line might then be used to guide them through the dive, with the dive becoming more steep the closer the weapon is being held perpendicular to the body.
Holding the weapon down below the waist while moving slowly or hovering would be good for maintaining slow movement, or their hovering. If they want to speed up and move forward
Holding the weapon downward and diagonally closer while flying forward, such that the body is more or less horizontal in the air, would be good for maintaining high velocity, or accelerating, but only when needing to close distance between them and a far away opponent.
Similarly, holding the weapon closer to the legs while moving at high velocities would help them climb, as torque is being applied behind the center of mass and the center of lift.
Anyways, I think you get the point.
The problem I see with cutting or slicing (if there's a difference at all) is in positioning the blade in preparation for the arm's motion, which might bring the blade to cross paths with the wings. The last thing they need is a shredded or missing pterostigma. That would send them spiraling out of control pretty quickly. Otherwise, they also lack strength and the mass to make a deep cut. Now if they're using a wide blade, as suggested in the video (that razor blade thing), then there's another problem. The long, wide blade would act more as an air surface due to its lower aspect ratio. To keep a high speed and maintain a proper heading, it would almost always be required to be held to one's side. It would be incredibly difficult to position the blade to make a good cut.
Also, I just wanted to say that simply because something has a sharp edge doesn't make it sink through the flesh easily; an error somewhat implied in the video around 13:14 . I've had pretty hard times cutting through a cat's pelt with new scalpel blades. Velocity, mass, and blade thickness must all be considered; with more mass lowering downward acceleration of the blade as it is slowed down by friction as it cuts. I'll let this one slide though, as I think the mass of the fairy (on the larger end of the standard size scale) combined with the mass of the blade, when travelling at high speeds would be comparable to having an X-acto knife thrown at you.
On another note, I know standard fairies are supposed to be super maneuverable and quick, but I just can't really imagine it. In my eyes fairies, angels, or any other 6 limbed, winged humanoid all normally share one problem (that is only negated if the wings aren't actually used for traditional, propelled flight. Gliding doesn't count). Ignoring the wing ratio needed to maintain them and the energy needs, most of the time, the wings are slapped onto their backs, and they still have those regular human shoulders and arms getting in the way. The problem is, if the body is held horizontal to or diagonally (such that their feet are behind them) to the ground, then it is physically impossible for them to complete full wing rotation; being limited to only about half the full motion. They can do about half the downstroke, and half the energy conserving upstroke. Their flight is severely impeded by their own physiology.
Actually, the more I think about it, fairies are a lot less guilty of that, given the types of wings they have (much more flexible and easy to change from a downstroke position to an upstroke position & vice versa). Not to mention their small bodies require a lot less downward force to keep them in the air.
I did not expect fairies to be such monstrous killing machines.
Awesome video as always, I especially loved the fact that you used the square-cube law(that thing is my bane when trying to design tiny or huge creatures) :)
I think I'd be more afraid to go up against a fairy than a minotaur.
Anti-fairy equipment: magnetic plate armour with the gaps filled up with boiled leather(harder to pierce), torch, goggles and a massive fly swatter, with the swatting part being the length of a longsword.
Too bad they attacked while you were getting suited up (imagine how long that would take to put on).
@@JarieSuicune why'd you go into battle without putting your armor on first though
Depending on the setting u could also try and invest in learning a fire or ice spell that would force the fairies to keep their distance
Shadiversity, channel that will prove to you that you would rather fight with human than with fairy...
Stealing the horror Fairy-infested forest adventure
Thanks, Shad
Name for the series, how about: Fantasy Arsenal
Thinking a bit more, you've been discussing weapons these fantasy creatures would use. However there is also room for discussion of what weapons fantasy humans should use when they know they're going up against a particular fantasy creature. ie; what is the ideal counter to these fantasy creatures given the technology available.
Cool!
Has my vote
Maybe: _Realistic_ Fantasy Arsenal?
Comment supporting the name.
The perfect fairy razor sword might be obsidian. It can get an edge many times sharper than steel.
And no iron, which fairies in most settings hate
Yeah in some settings, most mythical creatures are notably weak to iron.
Probably to give humans a chance to win because humans own a lot of iron, but ignore that
@@shybandit521 It's a very old tradition with the fae, actually. Maybe the nature vs. technology thing.
With one downside. Durability. they could probably use it up to 5 times before they need to sharpen the edges again though, as they only have 5 to 6 in the Moh's scale. A better substitute would be Silicate crystals like Quarts, Citrine and Amethysts that have a 7 on the Moh's Scale and an Absolute Hardness of 100 and a little harder than glass. (No to rose quartz as most of them have fragile inclusions that easily chips off which to us jewellers is a nightmare to shape) Plus it could have some flavor and these crystals are common. Or perhaps Corundums like rubies or sapphires? But the maximum capacity is obviously a diamond. However it's hard to find diamond crystals that big naturally.
@@DreamingBlindly Fairy sword. Magical. Perhaps it would keep the edge.the topic was fairy weapons.
Honestly the only way I can see a group of humans fighting a group of fairies out for their blood is if the humans used some kind of poisonous gas that while not dangerous to human (due to not being concentrated enough) is lethal to fairies since a smaller size means they'd be more vulnerable to gases and poisons.
Sinsystems So their only weakness: BUG SPRAY
So fairies use their agility and giant razor blade swords... So They're from Attack on Titan?
Heartgear One Well, I guess for titans, humans would be kinda like a fairy...
Heartgear One JAGER!!!
The razor blade sword seems kinda similar to attack on Titan if you think about a Titan fighter and that colossal Titan. Very cool idea
Nelyak5
I thought the same thing!
my sister: fairy's are nice and cant hurt you
the fairy holding an ak-47 to her head: yes yes yes
Someone must make a film or animation on every fantasy species waging war on one another, using exclusively the weapos Prof. Shad suggedted! Guess who wins?
...dragons?...
Ah, but which flavor of dragon? Land bound, winged, ice, fire, noxious fumes?
Winged, fire.
By far.
Fairies vs dragons Final Battle
Well the wizards would win every time if they can battle cast
remember the giants though, basically walking faster stronger trebuchet
And fairy dominion age ended with the invention of the fairyprof glaces and the all mighty flame thrower!
Tennis Racquets of razor wire and smoke. That's the only way to deal with them. Maybe bug zappers?
flamethrowers.
nukes.
a death star.
whelp i guess were doomed
I remember playing Neverwinter Nights, on a server where mobs dropped individual loot instead of a loot bag. Funniest thing I ever saw as killing a fairy, and a huge greatsword just pops out of it.
Man Shad, I hope you don't mind me nabbing these ideas and making a setting out of them. The only thing that can stop orcs with bows? Fairies with giant needles.
Oh man, the tension of maintaining an alliance with fairies would be nuts. Nuts, I say.
W00dledude
I imagine a grimdark world in which fairies are the unifying unkillable knighthood, feared for simply bringing peace by a litteral razors edge.
W00dledude in my world them and imps are like ghosts. They don't quite exist in the world, but the m they can be seen by some.
They (Lusatians) have a big holiday on the summer solstice because on that day you can see all the fairy lights in the trees.
Someone make a video game where you play as fairies using buster swords to kill stuff.
Hey Shad, name suggestion for this series: Fantasy Armory.
These fantasy rearmed videos have inspired me to make so many new things for my dnd games for example, Razor wing fairies, deadly hunting fairies that use pack hunting tactics to rip everything that enters their territory to absolute ribbons
From what i heard fairies are often portrayed to be somewhat "allergic" to metal. It seems to be like poison to them... and now we know why because otherwise Fantasy settings would be drastically different ^^
Josef Schöfl that is when ironwood comes in handy, g fairies go!
They're allergic to iron, specifically. Steel, depending on the setting, is fine. Even if it's not, bronze is still an option and since fairies aren't exactly trying to bash their weapons against their enemy's steel, it isn't really an issue, methinks.
A wooden spike is just as good as metal for "through the eye" shots. And obsidian flakes for sharpness. (Or bronze, copper, glass, fantasy metalsmithing)
I think you should call it “the mythical armory”
Or Fantasy Medieval Armory, maybe?
Not bad! I was thinking “Fantastical Tactics”
A very good and creepy analysis! One thing that occurs to me, though, is that while you factored in the disproportionate strength of fairies, you hand-waved the actual strength of the materials their weapons would be made from. Consider how small their hands would be. In order for them to get a grip on a weapon the handle would necessarily need to be quite thin. I don't think slim swords would work out for fairies for that reason. More natural materials could be the answer. Consider fairies harvesting porcupine quills or spines from lionfish. Various plants have long thorns readymade for piercing. I think metal or glass blades would be better for draw cuts. As for an effective defense - What about a cape or extra long, billowy sleeves? Whip a layer of cloth through the air like some of the eastern martial art forms demonstrate and the fairy will have much more difficulty getting to your vulnerable spots. A person could also use vines with thorns as a deterrent by mounting them to a helmet in a similar manner one might use an aventail or mail coif.
StutleyConstable Natural materials would also solve the problem of fairies (in some settings) being allergic/vulnerable to touching metal.
So they are not allergic - the metals don't serve their purpose and thus they don't use, preferring natural(biological) materials instead. Then the whole misconception got mythisizd.
Petra petra and Nick Dzink - The only metal I know of that fairies are not able to touch in some traditions, is iron. I've heard it called the 'Iron Bane'. This bane translates to steel because steel is an alloy of iron. That would not prevent fairies from wearing protective clothing or wrapping the grips in something. Maybe they would sheath the iron in another metal like silver or gold. But using organic material would certainly resolve that issue too. It's fun speculating like this.
Shad: What weapons would a Fairy use ? Giant weapons of course !
Meanwhile King from the Seven Deadly Sins: Uses a Spear as big as a montain.
Shad I want to thank you for making this series. I am currently wrking on my own fantasy universe and this series is really helping me at the moment I am thinking of a sort of fairys with swords like that one from berserk. Really thank you
After watching these videos I wonder how humans survive in any fantasy world at all!
Actually, yeah imagine them using a surgical scalpel like a polearm.
A twig and a scalpel, basically a fairy naginata. Polearms could easily be their projectiles, just fly carrying a lance an let it go before hit the target. Safer than a stab
@@pedroivantaveraferreira3037 I don't know if you'd be able to push it powerful enough. Plus in his goblin video he explained that the smaller something is the worse it is at throwing.
@@arandomzoomer4837 Yeah the smaller you're the small the lever you can create, I know. Still they don't need to throw, just let go, like a bomber plane just let the bombs fall. Imagine it flies straight over your head, having let a meter ago its weapon, and a two inch metaic toothpic pierces your eye.
HOLY FUCK. He can hamstring ypu before you realize he isn't a bug!
So RuneScape got it right?
In RuneScape, most humans are level 3, and most fairies are like level 40.
*Because they kill more*
"Fantasy weapon considerations"
Would love a shootoff/subcategory series about weapons to use against these creatures. You should also talk about weapons these creatures would use against each other: What's the best thing for a fairy to use against another fairy?
Nuada the silver hand slightly shorter pole arms to attack wings.
Human v fairy - cricket bat.
Probably a rapier or spear kind of weapon.
Basically ask yourself what weapons you would use against an unarmored human.
A battle between fairies would probably be a lot of flying around and trying to stab one-another.
Shad, before even watching your video I had the perfect weapon for a fairy in mind. And after hearing you out, I'm certain of it now.
a 5-6 inch fairy (12.5-15.5 CM) would use a spear that is 8-12 inches (20-30cm) long. it would have a normal spear point at one end and a very curved scimitar like blade in the other. when faced with an unarmored human, strike at the face, and when they raise their hands in defence, slash at the wrists. when the opponent is armored, then spear the eye slits and joints of the armor.
and the reason the spear world be better than a rapier would be the two handed wielding, and putting their full speed and weight into the strikes.
In Tinkerbell and Legend of the Neverbeast. Nix, sort of like a military fairy. Uses a fairly long spear like weapon. So yeah, it can work and it's not really new but good thinking.
Why not “Armed Realism in Fantasy?”
Another fantastic video, Shad 🍻
I often feel it should be called "Humans are doomed"
I was thinking "Factual Fantasy Fights" also... dear lord! I'll never look at tinkerbell the same again lol
How about realistic fantasy arsenal?
A.R.F... What, is the mascot going to be a fairy dog, or something?
Joshua Madoc no, a Cerberus.
I'm so glad I found this video, my current D&D character is a Pixie that my DM and I home-brewed. Most certainly my most fun character ever created!