like not just being swords anymore, but huge swords with technicolor blades and multiple layers of plating and wild hilts and runes and just, like, looking like they ought to weigh twenty pounds or so
I just gotta bring up the movie The Sword and the Sorcerer -- it's from 1982 and has this complete nonsense sword with three parallel blades, which can also be projectiles.
mercedes lackey always describes her as being a very plain sword and no one looking at her would think she’s magic
white hilt with silver hilt rings
black lacquer crescent quillions
runes
I commissioned a redesign that kept the elements and is similarish but a bit less fancy and I really like it lol
this is still not plain but I can’t lie
this isn’t a new trend
even of dust