Titles and Blades

[Quiver he/him]

Excalibur.

Anduril.

Callandor.

Oathbringer.

Ice.

Let's face it, if there's one fantasy trope that is too awesome to ever die, it's naming weapons. So, I thought I'd open the floor to anyone who has one of those awesome pieces of fantastic engineering; do you have a weapon, or even a title, which you think is awesome?

Edited June 5, 2014 by Quiver

[Theorymaker he/him]

Oh no, you forgot Nightblood on your list!

[Swimmingly he/him]

I have a giangantic spherical sword I call Earth. I had trouble finding a rack big enough for it, so I tend to leave it on the ground.

[Baine he/him]

How can a sword be spherical?

 

More of a mace then.

Edited June 5, 2014 by Baine

[Left he/him]

I've always liked "Butter Spreader" and "Pizza Cutter". There's also "Weed slayer" and "Toenail Trimmer"

[Jo and the Bush all/any]

I have a Wicked little Knife called The Escort, another, bigger one, called Death's Doorman. Then I have a Sword called the The Army, Just for the "You and what Army?" quote.

[Chrono she/her]

Since I am a hardcore Legend of Zelda fan, I'm gonna have to put up Master Sword. It just sounds cool. What's even cooler? Calling it The Blade of Evil's Bane. Those translators certainly understood how to make a name freaking epic. 

 

Off that tangent, I've always thought that Arsteel, even though it's a character's name, would make a great sword name. One of my OCs carries around a Shardblade named Judgement, which I thought was a pretty cool name for a sword. 

 

On a more comical note, I winced every time I read the last Eragon book because of the name "Tinkledeath". Really, Christopher Paolini? Really? You just took all the awesome of a sword that's pretty much a Shardblade, sucked it out, then threw it into a pigsty. Then set the pigsty on fire. Curse you for all time!

[Gamma Fiend he/him]

Well, in Game 4 of the Sanderson Elimination, it was pretty awesome being killed by an Awakened Sword named Cuddles.

Some of my favorite weapons from fantasies.
Games of Thrones:
Needle
Longclaw
Oathkeeper (I guess Kingdom Hearts works as well with this one)

Wheel of Time
Ashandarei
Justice
Mah'alleinir

The Night Angel Trilogy
Retribution
The Curoch

Kingkiller Chronicle
Folly

and then of course everybody's favorite Blade ever.... Nightblood!

[Erai Sedai he/him]

Turin Turambar's sword: Gurthang which means Iron of Death. That's always been cool for me.

And from the book series The Dwarves, Tungdil's axe keenfire.

[Shivertongue he/him]

<snip>

Wheel of Time

Ashandarei

Justice

Mah'alleinir

<snip>

 

The weapon itself was an ashandarei. It was not named ashandarei.

 

[Left he/him]

Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn. From the books, Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn.

[Kasimir he/him]

Offhand, I like the sound of (the names of) the swords Durendal and Arondight. The first has been associated with Roland (paladin of Charlemagne) and the second (apparently, although I cannot find a literature source quote which makes me slightly doubt this) with Sir Lancelot.

In the Fated Blades series, there's Tiger on the Mountain (a tachi that protects its wielder; the prime case being a single house surviving a devastating earthquake), Glorious Victory Unsought (a very long sword that punishes an ambitious wielder), and Beautiful Singer (a katana which drives male wielders to madness and eventually, their deaths/doom.)

Edited June 6, 2014 by Kasimir

[Terisen he/him]

I actually have hanging over an archway in my place an Elucidator (ok, not really named) and Dark Repulsor from Sword Art Online.  I just like the sound of the name Dark Repulsor.

[Darkarma he/him]

Seriously how about Tasslehoff Burfoot's "sword' known as Rabbit Slayer

[Quiver he/him]

You know, I'm pretty sure this is stolen from something. I want to say Terry Pratchett, but I don't think he actually NAMED the point...

 

A plain, slightly blunt iron axe. "The Kingmaker"

[David Coppercloud]

I know it isn't fantasy and it isn't a named blade, or even a blade.

But it is totally badass: the Lightsaber

[Darkarma he/him]

If you want something heroic with a similar sound to the above's lightsaber... The Starblazer

[Ketek]

Frostmourne hungers.

[Briar King]

Terminus Est Severians blade in Gene Wolfes New Sun

Glamdring(sp) LOTR.

[Gabriele she/her]

Dragnipur wins, hands down.

 

Elric's Stormbringer is pretty badass, too.

 

In epic literature, we also get Olivier's sword Halteclere, Charlemagne's Joyeuse with the famous relics in its hilt, and Turpin's Almace (Song of Roland) as well as Ogier's Cortana (Ogier li Danois) *.  In the the Norse myths we have Sigurd's sword Gram that becomes Balmung (Siegfried's sword) in the Song of the Nibelungs, and Nothung in Wagner's Ring; or the sorta magic sword Tyrfing that keeps popping up in several stories. Beowulf got Hrunting.

 

The Norwegian king Magnus Barefoot (1073-1103) is said to have had a sword called Legbiter.

 

* That's what you get for writing a MA thesis about French epics.

Edited August 9, 2014 by Gabriele

[Appreauntis]

Karak-Ring

[The Awakened Sloth he/him]

Sheep Biter

[Showman he/him]

So, there's Brisingr, and (from Kung Fu Panda) the Sword of Heroes.

 

 

[Arlin]

Mythcarver and Cravenedge from Critital role

[ScarletSabre he/him]

Let's see... some awesome sounding sword names...

Lightbringer

Stormbreaker

Storm Ruler

Starvation

Frost

Killbastard

Grimglaive

Sever

Bloodchill

Widowmaker

The Oathforged

And not a sword name but a cool sounding one - The Forge of Ages or The Forge of Heavens