These gluttonous jewels respond to the resplendence of insatiable longing. Infinite darkness consumes good and evil alike in a distortion of peace. The pearly gates await thee; come, I shall guide thine way. - Granblue Fantasy's description of the Seven-Star Sword Obsidian (craftable)
yeah it feels like the most straightforward interpretation is either "it's a replica based on a legend" or it's some esoteric Weapon Soul Channeling shit
funnily enough class champion weapons in Granblue actually start with unpainted plastic replica versions and the crafting process is "let's make this actually a usable weapon"
i have to put
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on blast because she had to be directly told about The Thing with zangetsuto when she is in fact the person who knows the most japanese out of that entire friend circle
anyway I am going to argue my Japanese proficiency actually made it harder for me to figure out because my brain just went "zangetsu's sword, he named it after himself, the sword for zangetsu, kuzco's poison" and didn't think anything past that.
uh no i just made this by rubbing metal on another swordThese gluttonous jewels respond to the resplendence of insatiable longing. Infinite darkness consumes good and evil alike in a distortion of peace. The pearly gates await thee; come, I shall guide thine way.- Granblue Fantasy's description of the Seven-Star Sword Obsidian (craftable)
and then they did it