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Legendary Weapons created (and usable) by Silber

Hrunting
History – Beowulf. The sword that failed Beowulf at his time of need against a monster. This weapon, created by Silber using cold iron. The process of making cold iron was lost to the ages, but Silber, diligent as she were, learned how to do it. It also requires blood, which Silber provides as well.
Hrunting is classified as a BOMBARDMENT weapon. It is a single-target, homing weapon.
Hrunting, when summoned, flies in an arc, (max 10 meter parabola from point of origin) to land a blow on the designated opponent. Hrunting will make 3 passes at the opponent for each time it fails to hit.
Blocking Hrunting would cause the weapon to break apart, shattering into shrapnel in the air that linger for a post turn, then launch themselves at the one that blocked. Getting hit by Hrunting would make the weapon break on impact, turning into shrapnel as well, lingering for a post turn before flying into the one that broke it.
Hrunting causes superficial cuts. The shrapnel causes less shallow punctured wounds.
Due to the Cold Iron of Hrunting, damage done by it is increased against spirits, fairies, and werewolves.

Calabolg
History – The Destruction of Troy, owned by Fergus Mac Roich. The great sword that cleaves the tops of hills. Silber came across this weapon during her travels through a dimension of Earth in early 10th century. The forging of Calabolg requires meteoric iron from meteors, a copious amount of it.
Calabolg is classified as a STALWART GUARD weapon, having characteristics of being 3 meters in length and half a meter in width. Thickness is the length of a thumb. With a dark black luster, this iron-forged great sword is a sight to behold. Calabolg is an Area-of-Effect Shockwave type weapon.
Calabolg has 3 charges to create its mythic hill-slicing shockwave, which after the 3rd charge, requires Silver to send back otherwise it would break. The sword performs best against groups of enemies, with each individual threat hitting it strengthens its anti-army shockwave, in the effect that the shockwave increase in radius by a half-meter with each individual (default shockwave swing size is 4 meters). The shockwave travels for up to 400 meters before vanishing (the estimated distance from individual to the three hills where it got its characteristics).
Calabolg causes blunt damage with the blunted blade, with a chance to break bones. Calabolg’s shockwave can amputate appendages.
Due to the “three hill” slicing legend, Calabolg is even more effective against fortifications and golems.

Colada Imperfecto
History – used by Martin Antolinez, owned by El Cid. This sword, notably bright like a light, gave Silber some trouble. It was hard to stabilize the magic circuit that would give the sword the effect “with a glancing blow, strip all clothes bare”. She never did perfect it. She however was able to bestow it the ability to break magic barriers (though strong ones require many swings to break through, more powerful ones may weaken but not fully destroyed)
Colada Imperfecto is classified as a FULL ASSAULT longsword. When called, it creates a bright light that can temporarily blind a person (can be resisted). The sword is classified as an Anti-Barrier longsword.
Colada has the peculiar ability of negating the mana inside magic barriers. How it does this is, by using its own legend as its core, it causes several tears in the mana flow of the magic barrier, instead of simply forcing a wedge into it. The theory is simple, but it is not as simple as one thinks. This is why Silber had trouble with it, and settled with an imperfect replica.
It may actually cause a person’s clothes to spontaneously tear into shreds when swung on rare occasions. It is imperfect after all.

Gram
History – the sword of Sigurd, son of Sigmund. A sword of great renown. Known as a dragon-killer, it was hard for her to track the weapon down. How she came across this weapon was a stroke of luck in itself. At the time she found the image of Hrunting, she saw a man carrying a sword to a banquet. This sword was lunged into a tree. The man taunted the reception inside, which made Silber realize what the weapon was.
Gram is classified as a FULL ASSAULT longsword. When called, it causes a powerful fear effect on dragons and those with the blood of dragons, due to the nature of the sword. The sword is classified as an ant-dragon sword.
Gram behaves the way any normal sword would. When it meets dragons however, Gram's slices, even if a glancing blow, breaks through the defense of dragons. This is why it is the well-known dragon killer. If it faces beings other than dragons, the sword has the same properties as a Mithril sword.
People with dragon blood would experience it as just a good Mithril sword. It's just the blood that reacts, not the person after all.

Rays of the Near Sun/Rays of the Far Sun
History - the two weapons that Silber created as Silber. These are one of those "Unique" to her.
The source of these weapons was the fervent wish of the avatar of Amaterasu, a girl named Luna. These weapons were made with the image of the regalia of Amaterasu "The Eightfold Blessings of Amaterasu".
These two pistols, FN 5-7s of the 5.7x28mm caliber, function as magic weapons, and as BOMBARDMENT weapons, the only ranged BOMBARDMENT weapons she uses without destroying. These weapons are the base of the weapons Luna now has. These magic pistols envision the birth of what a legend could be. Their overall performance would pale in comparison to what the weapons in the hands of Luna can be.
However, these are a starting point of "growth", and in the hands of Silber, are quite formidable.
The projectiles fired by the weapons are non-penetrating non-homing rounds of magic, which do not have any expansion effects. The rounds cause little environmental damage, and their characteristics are the same as an ordinary 5.7x28mm. The bullets do not penetrate: they instead leave a small magic circle, about the size of a bullet hole. On contact with flesh the magic circle releases a burst of energy in a spherical area, about a quarter meter in diameter, with a heat output of a solar flare.
This is how the weapon would be at the base with someone with masterful control of magic without having the blood of Amaterasu. This is why that is how far this weapon goes in the hands of the maker.