Video and Role-playing Games
Video games and fantasy role-playing games feature a great variety of magical armaments, most commonly represented by swords and similar archetypal weapons. These swords are rarely unique, and in many role-playing scenarios, magical weapons are so ubiquitous that the player characters are expected to come into possession of them as a matter of course.
- The Legacy of Kain series features a powerful blade called Soul Reaver, which is used to devour souls of its victims.
- In the Soul series, the plot focuses on two magic weapons: an evil, soul-devouring sword named Soul Edge and its holy counterpart, Soulcalibur.
- The Legend of Zelda games features many magic swords such as the Master Sword and the Picori Blade, which gains power and transforms into the Four Sword as well as the magic sword itself. In The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass the ultimate weapon is the Phantom Sword.
- The 'Blades of Chaos' are a pair of divine blades forged in the fire of hades in God of War. The series also contains the Blade of Artemis and the Blade of Olympus. Both are divine weapons used by gods to defeat the Titans in the Titanomachy.
- In the Prince of Persia trilogy, there is a blade called the Dagger of Time, which gives its wielder many time-based powers.
- In Riviera: The Promised Land, the lead character, Ein, wields a sword called the Einherjar, in exchange of losing his wings. The sword is called by other in-game characters as a Diviner, or a weapon owned by Grim Angels, capable of vanquishing demons.
- In SaGa Frontier, Sun Sword is the strongest sword in the game made of the energy of the sun and is only available to use by the player by using Light Magic to summon it.
- The Ultima series features many magical swords, the most notable and powerful being the Black Sword, which contains the powers of a demon.
- In Grand Chase, the weapon of Ronan's 4th job is called Tyrfing. Named after the Norse Mythology sword Tyrfing.
- In Warcraft III, Frostmourne is the Lich King's sword used to steal Prince Arthas' soul.
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