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[Boksi]

If you're still looking for actual mythological names, I'll give you a couple of them:

Durandal/Durendal: The sword of the paladin Roland. Utterly indestructable.
Lævateinn: Sword from Norse Mythology.
Tyrfing: Another Norse Mythos sword. It never misses a stroke, will never rust and cuts through metal and stone as easily as cloth, but is cursed to kill a man whenever it is drawn and to be the cause for three great evils.
Gram: The sword Siegfried/Sigurðr used to slay Fáfnir.
The Lance of Longinus: Longinus was the centurion assigned to stabbing Jesus with a spear to make sure he was dead, so this is a spear that killed a god, at least metaphorically.
Kusanagi no Tsurugi: Found in the body of the Yamata no Orochi, it can control the wind.
The Sampo: From Finnish mythology, it is never stated what it is, but it can produce both salt and gold, and presumably much more.
Arondight: Sword of Lancelot, one of the Knights of the Round Table. That's about it.
Spear of Lugh/Areadbhar: From Irish mythology, it is a living spear that moves on its own and has a near-insatiable lust for blood and battle. It basically had to be kept sedated between battles.
Sword of Light/Claíomh Solais: Another Irish thing, it's a sword that shines like a torch. Once drawn, no-one could escape or resist it.
Cauldron of Dagda: Since I've mentioned half of the jewels of the Tuatha Dé Danann, let's continue. The Cauldron of Dagda is bottomless and never ran out of food.
Stone of Destiny/Lia Fáil: When the rightful king of Ireland puts its foot upon it, it will roar out. It can also rejuvenate said king.
Other stuff that involved Jesus: The cross, the nails in said cross, the holy grail, the shroud of Turin, the crown of thorns, I can't be arsed to describe any more stuff.

Anyway, I need to go to sleep now. Hopefully this will help.

[EveryZig]

An idea that might or might not fit with the time effects in the universe:
The Eye of Fates
An indestructible crown that allows the wearer to see up to five seconds ahead in their most probable (before changes from use of the Eye) future. This is useful because the Eye more specifically allows the user to constantly and precisely know that future without being distracted by it, and if the user changes their actions based on that knowledge, the Eye instantly updates its predictions based on the wearer's new plans.
For example, in a sword fight the wearer would be able to see their opponent's counters to their planned attacks, and change their plans until they find an outcome that works to their advantage.
This advantage tends to cause a sense of invulnerability that leads its wearers into situations they cannot escape through any short-term plan.


Another idea:
The Edgeblade
A metal handle (like a sword handle, but with no hand guard or pommel) connected at one end to about four meters of perfectly straight wire that is thin to the point of being practically invisible. The wire is completely indestructible (as is the handle), completely inflexible, and able to easily cut through most mundane materials (helped by how the wire is thinner than the edge of a normal sword blade).
The main advantage is that it cleaves a huge (for a melee weapon) swathe of destruction in front of it.
The main disadvantage is that it always does so, as the Edgeblade does not come with a scabbard, and a four meter line of cutting can be quite inconvenient in, say, crowded streets or buildings.
The near-invisibility of the wire is also both an advantage and a disadvantage, as it is harder for enemies to defend against, but it is also difficult to tell exactly where the blade is pointed. And there is also the fact that the handle is completely symmetric apart from the wire, so it is extremely difficult to tell by looking which end is the cutting end.

[Montague]

I'm pretty sure you have enough mythical swords, but here's one anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulfiqar

[Ehndras]

Also, its a great idea but the whole space station in the middle of the universe thing would be totally ripping off... What was it... Was it Dead Space? Not sure. Some console-based modern space adventure/action game or other. Something about an ancient group of aliens culling all mortal beings every few millenia by having their technology and entire civilizations revolve around the station, I believe. Then they teleport in and destroy everything, then go back to sleep until the next batch of aliens populate the station.

I make a point of not using ideas similar or alike that of other Scifi games/books, I try really hard to make sure my ideas are as original as possible.

You're thinking of Mass Effect, in which an ancient race known as the Reapers created the Mass Relays to force future space-faring civilizations to follow predictable technology patterns.Damn you, Pyro

My idea is slightly different: the space station offers no technological incentives or secrets, it's just a giant indestructible thing. People fight wars over it because who wouldn't want a giant indestructible thing for their warships to rest at? It doesn't have star-destroying lasers or anything like that.

But hey, it's your novel and you should do what you want. I shall endeavor to come up with a different idea.

Ah yes! Mass Effect. Sorry, I haven't touched my consoles or 3D games in ages so I have trouble remembering names. I stick to writing and simple games like Elona, DF and SS13 these days. I've never played that game, anyway, Pyro mentioned it when I discussed the Undying idea I came up with in another RP called Worldforge. Looks damn good though, if I ever can afford a good computer I'm definitely getting Mass Effect.


Aye, I have a species called the Undying which are cybernetic remnants of a Swarm attack. When the Swarm attacked their world, they defended it rather than let it fall quickly as every other world had. With their highly-advanced technology they were able to contain significant portions of the Swarm and hold them at bay. Gradually the pillars of their civilization were quite literally eaten away by the Swarm, each territory falling in succession. The last territory, called Cybrax, bid its time and infused its population with cybernetic augments to improve their chances to survive. Unfortunately, one of their greatest technological minds was in a neighboring province when the invasion began... A genius cyberneticist called Khamora had embarked on a mission to research the Swarm when they first arrived, in order to help his people protect themselves against the new threat. Somehow this man managed to capture samples of the Swarm on which to experiment. He discovered that the Swarm were biological insectoids capable of replicating themselves via a strange nanite stream within their blood. It is rumored that he injected himself with the highly-volatile Swarm nanites in hope that he could somehow turn them away from his people... After that, the Swarm attacked him in a frenzy before the entire Cybraxian army, his screams heard across the mountains. All assumed he had been consumed, but he appeared sometime later - apparently in control of the Swarm! His organic shell had been torn to shreds in many places, showing the mechanical components once hidden beneath the flesh. Angered by what he enigmatically called "the betrayal of divine perfection at the hands of the sacred machine, our blasphemous people have failed to embrace the final stage of our evolution... There can be no other way. ", he laid siege to the few provinces not yet destroyed by the Swarm. When the Swarm had nearly depleted the last of their planet's resources and only Cybrax stood still, the Cybraxian people gathered all the power they could muster and launched their remaining starships into the darkness of space. Since then, comparable to that one nomad fleet race from Mass Effect, they've traveled the stars as nomads. Their people's technology is still far beyond that of any living species, and they survive through their technological work as well as serving the function of mercenaries. It is not uncommon to hear of Cybraxian smiths, mechanics, tinkerers and engineers here and there. Their people do not speak of their past, but remember it in a series of rituals. Though they still worship the Sacred Machine, the embodiment of necessary Force and timelessness, they are always reminded of the dangers of too much power - of too much machine in one's body, in one's life. No modern civilization knows even the name of their people... For they are the Undying, and they are One. </insert Borg joke here>

[Itnetlolor]

I've had a number of artifact weapons and so forth I've used in my uni-/multi-/meta-verse (a side project I once worked on) for a good amount of time.

One series of pistols (usually only comes as a 2-of-a-kind (dual-wieldable) per-version/edition) holds a quantum magazine storage unit (standard magazines allow 12-24-odd shots, these allow 24,000(,000)+ shots without reloading) and a aim-assisting auto-tracker-like control unit to ensure accurate shooting which operates at a psychic level with it's operator to make sure the intended target is knocked down or killed (also depending on the intent of the operator as well, whether they want to kill or not). They also had the option to equip magical runes on them so you can have electric, corrosive, incendiary, freezing, singularity, and etc. types of bullets (as many as there are augmentable magical spells; haste rounds were especially nasty since they travel at 5x+ muzzle velocity upon exit; a sniper pistol essentially. This thing shoots through schools.). This gun was essentially broken when it came to duels to the point that wielding such a device would be outlawed due to unfairness in combat. Quantum duplication also allowed it to duplicate rounds and turn the pistol into a shotgun; combine that with haste rounds (and the bottomless magazines), and nothing will exist in a few shots. Did I forget to mention that there's also an option to allow a slow/stop rune augment to be attached to absorb impact from firing rendering it to virtually not have any recoil every shot? Toss in a megaton rune, and you've got a cannon for a pistol that won't destroy your hand upon firing. The many rune slots allow for secondary-superpowering to render other attacks more useful/survivable to the operator.

This was just one (type of) weapon among many. I have a few ilustrations of how the gun series looks even.

[Ehndras]

I've had a number of artifact weapons and so forth I've used in my uni-/multi-/meta-verse (a side project I once worked on) for a good amount of time.

One series of pistols (usually only comes as a 2-of-a-kind (dual-wieldable) per-version/edition) holds a quantum magazine storage unit (standard magazines allow 12-24-odd shots, these allow 24,000(,000)+ shots without reloading) and a aim-assisting auto-tracker-like control unit to ensure accurate shooting which operates at a psychic level with it's operator to make sure the intended target is knocked down or killed (also depending on the intent of the operator as well, whether they want to kill or not). They also had the option to equip magical runes on them so you can have electric, corrosive, incendiary, freezing, singularity, and etc. types of bullets (as many as there are augmentable magical spells; haste rounds were especially nasty since they travel at 5x+ muzzle velocity upon exit; a sniper pistol essentially. This thing shoots through schools.). This gun was essentially broken when it came to duels to the point that wielding such a device would be outlawed due to unfairness in combat. Quantum duplication also allowed it to duplicate rounds and turn the pistol into a shotgun; combine that with haste rounds (and the bottomless magazines), and nothing will exist in a few shots. Did I forget to mention that there's also an option to allow a slow/stop rune augment to be attached to absorb impact from firing rendering it to virtually not have any recoil every shot? Toss in a megaton rune, and you've got a cannon for a pistol that won't destroy your hand upon firing. The many rune slots allow for secondary-superpowering to render other attacks more useful/survivable to the operator.

This was just one (type of) weapon among many. I have a few ilustrations of how the gun series looks even.

That is WAAAAAAAAY overpowered for my story, lmao. The most I'd do is include it as one of the many artifacts I'll have mentioned in historic accounts. I'd go for a downgraded version though, haha. The way I do it is to add multiple effects to artifacts to contrast them and make things more... Real. Every artifact has benevolent and malevolent effects. Since my game/nove lis carefully balanced, I need to make sure every single artifacts has a subtle balancing mechanism otherwise my players will be too strong too fast, or my story will be plain stupid.

Not really worrying about that yet hehe, I can add effects later. I was just working on some new Primordials, aka the immortal beings tha govern the multiverse and the source of the artifacts of mention.

For example...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Ksoth'fgthn / Pr. Ka-Soth Fa-Gothen

The Devourer of Light, He Who Descends To The Abyss, He Who Shines With The Light of A Thousand Worlds, The End That Lies Beyond

An irridescent crystal being said to bring the end of each universe by consuming all light within. Its crystalline shell is ever-changing, rearranging itself into indescribably complex 3 and 4-dimensional shapes. It is said to drink the light from a mortal's eyes before destroying the creature's world to erase itself from all living memory.

Should mortal man look upon its irridescent surface they would see the silhouette of every world Ksoth'fgthn has in darkness consumed. Ksoth'fgthn has no choice but to erase the light from mortal eyes so that none may know The End That Lies Beyond.

--- --- ---

Phgrnath (Fuh Gore-Nath / Phage Ro-Nath)

He That Watches, The Unblinking Gatekeeper, The Thousand Burning Eyes, The Hollow Watchman of Coming Doom

Phgrnath is said to be a hollow Oak-like tree covered in a thousand red eyes that towers above the highest of mountains. It is said to watch over the multiverse so that its followers may record which have ceased to shine. It marks each dead or warring dimension that all Primordials may know which are lost to Ksoth'fgthn and which require Primordial intervention. The followers of Phgrnath are vampyric satyrs that must drink its blood-red sap once every ten-thousand years, rendering it temporarily blind to the chaos of the multiverse. The more clever Primordials use the opportunity to wreak havoc across the multiverse, but Phgrnath's fury is vehement. Phgrnath's twisted roots are said to draw sustenance from the corpses of a grotesque coagulated mush formed by the limbs and bodies of a thousand decaying immortals who defied Phgrnath during its blindness. An arrow formed from its branch or poison from its bark is rumored to kill immortals and even Primordial beings, while its blood-sap is an extremely-addicting elixir of immortality.

--- --- ---

Dygthx / Pr. Die-Guthix / Day-Guh-Thax)

The Dead Moon

A massive comet of glass-like crystal said to be unstoppable and indestructible. It travels fast than light from one universe to the next without ever stopping or slowing. All light passes through its glassy body beyond the speed of light rendering Dygthx invisible to mortals eyes, though one can chart its relative whereabouts via the wake of destruction wrought by such an unstoppable force. It barrels through planets, stars, and black holes alike without any deviation in its momentum. Only by the power of a super-massive black hole can Dygthx' path be changed ever so slightly. An ancient prophecy states that at the end of all Time Dygthx will encounter an immovable object to match its unstoppable force and the impending shockwave created by the clash of paradoxical Primordial forces will tear the multiverse apart.

Primordial legend states that Dygthx was once a moon orbiting a living star made of an indestructible, immovable material. Like Day and Night, Dygthx was said to allow all light to pass it so that the world could absorb and consume the light of other stars as sustenance. Angered by the thought of an object or being not even he could control, the Apex(King/Emperor/"Patriarch") of the Primordial House of Force <crashed> himself into the immovable, indestructible star many times beyond the speed of light. The explosion shattered the star into fragments that remained bound to one another, not a single atom destroyed. Dygthx was not as fortunate as the explosion had fired it from its peaceful orbit at a fraction of the speed of the Force-Apex. Since then, Dygthx has crossed the Primordial Expanse and the entirety of the living Multiverse many times over - never stopping or slowing down even a nano-second. To remind all beings of his might, the Force-Apex scattered a fragment of the indestructible star to every universe and bound it to their center. At the exact center of every universe lies a dead fragment of the indestructible star, beaten like a sheet of metal and shaped into a perfect sphere of perfectly black matter which reflects absolutely no light, exerts no force, and is untouched by any force in the universe.
--- --- ---

Primordial Interaction With Mortals:

Morality is nonexistent in Primordium and apathy towards mortals is nearly a matter of principle. At best we're as interesting as tiny ants; impossibly short lifespans fitting of a pest they need not even crush. We exist solely for their pleasure, nothing more. At worst, well, we're a blasphemous stain upon the fabric of reality deserving of subjugation or absolute annihilation. It is only by the hand of those who wish to observe and enslave us that we are temporarily exempt from extinction.

[Jopax]

Slightly generic, but I've had this idea banging around my skull for a long while now.

A weapon, bladed, not sure about the name, a rather large arrow with a big metal ring on one end. Made of obsidian, or something similar, rather dense, weighing in at several tons.

Except, there is a twist, anyone who wields it determines it's mass, as long as they are touching it, or are in some sort of connection with it (a rope or a chain). So you have this very very heavy cutty slicey thing that acts as though it has no weight as long as it's held by that ring, let go of it and say goodbye to that building it just dropped onto.

[Vector]

a. Creative projects

b. I enter the Nyoi-bo.

[MonkeyHead]

Miyatomo Musashi's Bokken...

I reccomend reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyamoto_Musashi#Duel_with_Sasaki_Kojir.C5.8D

[Vector]

Miyatomo Musashi's Bokken...

I reccomend reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyamoto_Musashi#Duel_with_Sasaki_Kojir.C5.8D

Shit, this one too.  That story was told multiple times in my kendo dojo.

[Zrk2]

Callandor/Choedan Kal if you want some literary references.

[PyroDesu]

Also, its a great idea but the whole space station in the middle of the universe thing would be totally ripping off... What was it... Was it Dead Space? Not sure. Some console-based modern space adventure/action game or other. Something about an ancient group of aliens culling all mortal beings every few millenia by having their technology and entire civilizations revolve around the station, I believe. Then they teleport in and destroy everything, then go back to sleep until the next batch of aliens populate the station.

I make a point of not using ideas similar or alike that of other Scifi games/books, I try really hard to make sure my ideas are as original as possible.

You're thinking of Mass Effect, in which an ancient race known as the Reapers created the Mass Relays to force future space-faring civilizations to follow predictable technology patterns.Damn you, Pyro

My idea is slightly different: the space station offers no technological incentives or secrets, it's just a giant indestructible thing. People fight wars over it because who wouldn't want a giant indestructible thing for their warships to rest at? It doesn't have star-destroying lasers or anything like that.

But hey, it's your novel and you should do what you want. I shall endeavor to come up with a different idea.

Ah yes! Mass Effect. Sorry, I haven't touched my consoles or 3D games in ages so I have trouble remembering names. I stick to writing and simple games like Elona, DF and SS13 these days. I've never played that game, anyway, Pyro mentioned it when I discussed the Undying idea I came up with in another RP called Worldforge. Looks damn good though, if I ever can afford a good computer I'm definitely getting Mass Effect.


Aye, I have a species called the Undying which are cybernetic remnants of a Swarm attack. When the Swarm attacked their world, they defended it rather than let it fall quickly as every other world had. With their highly-advanced technology they were able to contain significant portions of the Swarm and hold them at bay. Gradually the pillars of their civilization were quite literally eaten away by the Swarm, each territory falling in succession. The last territory, called Cybrax, bid its time and infused its population with cybernetic augments to improve their chances to survive. Unfortunately, one of their greatest technological minds was in a neighboring province when the invasion began... A genius cyberneticist called Khamora had embarked on a mission to research the Swarm when they first arrived, in order to help his people protect themselves against the new threat. Somehow this man managed to capture samples of the Swarm on which to experiment. He discovered that the Swarm were biological insectoids capable of replicating themselves via a strange nanite stream within their blood. It is rumored that he injected himself with the highly-volatile Swarm nanites in hope that he could somehow turn them away from his people... After that, the Swarm attacked him in a frenzy before the entire Cybraxian army, his screams heard across the mountains. All assumed he had been consumed, but he appeared sometime later - apparently in control of the Swarm! His organic shell had been torn to shreds in many places, showing the mechanical components once hidden beneath the flesh. Angered by what he enigmatically called "the betrayal of divine perfection at the hands of the sacred machine, our blasphemous people have failed to embrace the final stage of our evolution... There can be no other way. ", he laid siege to the few provinces not yet destroyed by the Swarm. When the Swarm had nearly depleted the last of their planet's resources and only Cybrax stood still, the Cybraxian people gathered all the power they could muster and launched their remaining starships into the darkness of space. Since then, comparable to that one nomad fleet race from Mass Effect, they've traveled the stars as nomads. Their people's technology is still far beyond that of any living species, and they survive through their technological work as well as serving the function of mercenaries. It is not uncommon to hear of Cybraxian smiths, mechanics, tinkerers and engineers here and there. Their people do not speak of their past, but remember it in a series of rituals. Though they still worship the Sacred Machine, the embodiment of necessary Force and timelessness, they are always reminded of the dangers of too much power - of too much machine in one's body, in one's life. No modern civilization knows even the name of their people... For they are the Undying, and they are One. </insert Borg joke here>

*Sigh*

The Quarian Migrant Fleet is the one from Mass Effect, and they were not you basis/infusion, your basis/infusion into the Undying from me was me telling you of the Forever from Ayreon.

Yes, I'm a stickler for this kind of thing.

Also, another Artifact Idea (or two):

An obsidian fragment, with a barely-visible glyph on it that, no matter what test is run on it, a machine will say that it does not exist. It has no mass, no heat, no radiation, nothing. Yet it exists, you can touch it. It does, however, exist in multiple places, and each one is... connected. Place your hand on one, and you get a view from inside another. But it also works in reverse, and other owners of such stones may already know how to use them...

A hexagonal emerald inlaid into a pentagonal diamond, all inlaid into a circular sapphire about an inch in diameter. When worn, will activate a small shield that disintegrates anything that enters it, if a high-speed object approaches it. Downside is, the dust that's all that's left of the object still has the same inertia!

[alway]

Something with effects similar to the ascension machines from SG-1 may work as an artifact; though not necessarily with the ascension bit. Short description of the effects: it gives you knowledge and/or powers/intellect which increase dramatically over time, but culminate with the user's certain or near certain death a while later (typically a few days in the case of the series, though they managed to use plot shields to avoid death). Condition may only be cured through things like other mega-artifacts or GM deus-ex-machinas, so it gives PCs and NPCs a lot of pause before daring to tinker with it.

All sorts of plots could emerge from such a device. On the small scale, tragic accidental use causing the death of an individual. On the large scale, a planet-wide society whose peaceful culture surpasses that of any other, protected by a small self-sacrificing warrior caste who gain nearly godlike abilities through use of the device before going into battle, crushing their foes, and dieing from the effects of the device shortly after.

[PyroDesu]

Something with effects similar to the ascension machines from SG-1 may work as an artifact; though not necessarily with the ascension bit. Short description of the effects: it gives you knowledge and/or powers/intellect which increase dramatically over time, but culminate with the user's certain or near certain death a while later (typically a few days in the case of the series, though they managed to use plot shields to avoid death). Condition may only be cured through things like other mega-artifacts or GM deus-ex-machinas, so it gives PCs and NPCs a lot of pause before daring to tinker with it.

All sorts of plots could emerge from such a device. On the small scale, tragic accidental use causing the death of an individual. On the large scale, a planet-wide society whose peaceful culture surpasses that of any other, protected by a small self-sacrificing warrior caste who gain nearly godlike abilities through use of the device before going into battle, crushing their foes, and dieing from the effects of the device shortly after.

Not the device Rodney McKay got hit by? Oh great...

[Vector]

Honeybug, I think you can be nicer than that >:I