"Many have been murdered merely for mentioning the Blade, and, according to some, their souls have been forever damned."
--The Ebony Blade quest giver from Arena, revealing the consequences of simply mentioning the blade.
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Daedric Artifacts part 3
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Ádám Bodorics – Brass and Ebony Bauernwehr
This custom crafted Bauernwehr by specialist bladesmith Ádám Bodorics is a fine way to complete your landsknecht kit with a unique and fetching blade suitable for war and camp. The tough and rigid blade of well tempered steel is sharpened and mirror polished – the blade also has a very thick blade spine to ensure it has outstanding durability. The bolster and riveted nagel are steel and the grip is a composite with a hidden and riveted blade tang surmounted by grip scales of ebony and completed with chiseseled brass framing strips. Included is a wooden scabbard which is bound in leather and throrougly embellished with brass. Included is a utility byknife and pricker which neatly fit into integrated slotted compartments on the scabbard. Below are Ádám’s own thoughts on his custom creation:
Bauernwehrs, the dagger-sized relatives of Messers, took a variety of forms utilizing several different construction methods. Details on this set place it firmly into the middle of the 16th century in style.
The blades are forged and ground from 80crv2 high-carbon steel, heat-treated to 54-56 HrC. A shared feature is the heavily tapered tang surrounded by a chiseled brass strap, which detail is taken from an unpublished original studied in a private session. The Gabon ebony grip slabs sit on the frame, with the gap between the slabs and the tang filled with adhesive. This method is taken from surviving frame-hilt sidearms of this and later eras – as it seems universal to frame-hilt pieces from the areas of modern-day Poland, Turkey and Iran, I don’t believe more Western pieces would be constructed differently. All grips
are secured by tubular rivets which are peened, as I have no trust in simple pins.
The principal blade has a short false edge and simple filework on the spine. The bolsters are decorated with filework with the vestigial guard taking the shape of a stylized flower. The Nagel is also fileworked with diagonal lines, matching the scabbard’s finial. It is peened on the other side of the bolsters. The byknife has a simple flat triangular cross-section and brass bolsters with simple geometric decor on it. Normally I find it easier to rivet on the bolsters first and grip slabs after, but thorough study of a surviving frame-hilt knife showed tool marks clearly showing a different order of operations, so this time
it was grip slabs before bolsters.
The pricker is also heat-treated, making it somewhat usable for honing, but my experience and the number of un-heat-treated originals strongly imply that they are much less specialized tools. In a pre-modern setting, without all the comforts we are used to, having a pointy, stiff but non-sharp piece can have a variety of uses from simply punching holes to undoing stubborn knots in arming points. The sheath has goat parchment linings for each blade, which are covered and held together by vegetable tanned leather dyed black by iron-acetate. For bonding the pieces and layers I only used hide glue. The entire piece is reinforced and decorated with a hand-wrought brass sheath frame. While these and similar frames are somewhat rare in reproductions, there are multiple surviving originals ranging from even simpler ones in iron all the way to the sculpted and gilt ones on Holbein daggers. A rather eye- catching detail is the strap around the mouth of the bypiece subsheaths, emulating the puff and slash style of period clothing. While most of the originals I’m aware of in this style are on daggers, there’s plenty of evidence for it’s use on Messers and adjacent sidearms. For suspension, there’s a pair of brass tubes on the back for a leather thong for vertical carry on a belt. The frame is held in place by friction provided by the tight fit around the sheath.
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For some reason I faintly remember a quest either the ebony blade involving the murder of balgruuf. Like is this a thing bc it hasn’t happened since, and it’s very strange that I remember it.
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mae marries marcurio in her usual gameplay but i'm debating switching that to vilkas.
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I’m trying to read more books by Black authors, and was wondering if you had some good recommendations to add to my list? I just found your blog, and it’s really awesome! Also Thank you for spreading the word about how horrible the hate has gotten towards Leah. I would have had no idea otherwise.
You’re welcome. And as for books I’ll give you a list. Warning, I read most YA but I’m sure there’s some adult and other genres mixed in there:
1. You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
2. LegendBorn by Tracy Deonn
3. BloodMarked by Tracy Deonn (Out November 8th)
4. A Song Below Water by Bethany C. Marrow
5. A Chorus Rises by Bethany C. Marrow
6. So Many Beginnings: The Little Women Remix by Bethany C. Marrow
7. A Blade So Black by L. L. McKinney
8. A Dream So Dark by L. L. McKinney
9. Wings Of Ebony by J. Elle
10. Ashes Of Gold by J. Elle
11. The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton
12. The Everlasting Rose by Dhonielle Clayton
13. Charming As A Verb by Ben Philippe
14. Xeni by Rebekah Weatherspoon (Adult)
I have more, cuz my TBR is pretty long, so let me know if you want more.
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is it normal to change your oc’s canon armor like 5 times in the span of only a few months? XD
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Doctor Doom should try to wield the ebony blade but finds that he cant which infuriates him but it goes to confirm that in his heart he is not evil he truly believes that what hes doing is right
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I want an armor set like this in ESO so badly!!
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𝓣𝓱𝓮 𝓗𝓮𝓵𝓵𝓼𝓶𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝑔𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝒸𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝓈
Upon the moment of conception, the Hellsmith stirs. Awoken by sinful passion between two Devil Arms, he drags himself forth from the very fires of Hell, his own figure a mass of flames. Such heat pouring from his very being is needed for the task ahead; forging the vessel for a new Weapon to be born in nine month’s time. This particular type of Demon has a hard time conceiving, so the Smith slumbers for long stretches, often years, but in the early 18th century he wakes to unprecedented news: Twins.
Ebony and Ivory, their vessels’ names set in stone the moment his flames touch the desired materials, two vessels to be crafted for souls linked by blood. They would be similar, but strikingly different, meant to be wielded together. Their forms would be something new, not swords, daggers, or spears like every one of their family before them, but something else, something to embrace and blend perfectly into the advancements of human engineering: Pistols.
He slaves over them — his best work in centuries — and steams with pride when he mounts the vessels in the great weapon hall of their respective family, his fires almost spent from forging two entirely new Weapons at once. They’re sleek and striking, engravings designed to his very own taste. The vessels are able to turn their hosts’ energy into their very own ammunition, a feat unlike anything his predecessors have ever been able to achieve. Two months in the making, the Smith simply cannot wait to hear the praise sung by their parents on the surface in seven month’s time.
It wouldn’t be so.
One of the daughters would never breathe her first breath, the other forced to cast aside her great power to live as a human due to her parents’ fear of more loss. He waits, embers growing duller with each passing day, until he realizes his work may never be seen. Knowing he can no longer put off his slumber, he drags his body, cooling now, back to the great hall to look upon his masterpieces one last time, only for his roars of rage and anguish to ripple through every layer of Hell.
The parents have come, and they have taken the vessel of their deceased child, Ivory. Their intent is clear; to keep the one vessel close to them while denying the existence of the other, even to the girl still living meant to inhabit it in her battles. His works, meant to pass through time together, are ruthlessly torn apart without his great craftsmanship to ever be acknowledged. He erupts, his fires lit once more by pure anger, and there, cradling Ebony’s vessel, he makes a vow:
He will never craft another firearm again.
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Ádám Bodorics – Ebony Grip Hidden Tang Messer
This beautifully balanced and custom-crafted Messer by specialist swordsmith Ádám Bodorics feels like a natural extension of the hand and its well-tempered and sharp blade slices quickly, cleanly and decisively. The guard and riveted nagel are of steel and the grip is finely carved from smoothly polished fine ebony wood which is directly riveted to the blade tang. The sword is matched with a wood-core scabbard which is lavishly embellished with steel fittings in a landsknecht inspired style. A hanging chain and belt loops allows for it to be worn on the belt. Below are Ádám’s own thoughts on his custom creation:
The large variance in Messers and related sidearms make them a great medium for experimentation and theoretical designs. With this ebony-hilted piece, I intended to create something completely new based on sources mainly from between 1520-1540. In the 16th century, knifelike sidearms undergo several changes, one of them being the increasing regularity of hidden tangs. Illustrations from the period sometimes show rather complex grip shapes that would be complicated with a full-tang construction, but a hidden or a frame tang makes them much more trivial. In this case, I went for a hidden tang and a one-piece ebony grip.
The light, curved blade is ground from 51crv4 high-carbon steel and is heat-treated to 50-52 HrC. While the shape favors cutting and slicing, the tip is subtly reinforced. The spine visibly thickens in the last few milimeters, and the edge angle gets a bit more obtuse. I spotted this detail first on a heavily curved Kriegsmesser from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, but I noticed it elsewhere as well since. The proper tang is relatively short, not an uncommon detail on 16th century specimens.
The short cross with it’s finials is based on a pair of illustrations by Monogramist HD from 1545, and so is the approximate shape of the Nagel. The cross is slid down along the blade and is affixed in place by
the triple-fullered, hand-forged and filed Nagel. The most striking part of the Messer is the grip carved and filed from a single piece of Gabon ebony including a shape following pommel type CC2. This is the most theoretical part as well. If we define CC2 pommels as having a complex bottom profile (as opposed to the simple curve of type CC1), then there are plenty of illustrations showing non-metal grip ends matching the type, from Dürer, Beham, etc. If we limit the definition to the somewhat architectural type done by Sumersperger and the makers of several early 16th century pieces, then we even have an existing piece where the shape is part of the organic grip, all the way back in the late 13th century (NDK-1123-2, shown in Cahiers LandArc 2017 N24, pg2). The swirl of the “beak” is present on several sources as well, from a very basic version by Hans Sebald Beham’s “Peasant at the marketplace” through a richly decorated swirl painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder in “Judith with the head of Holofernes” all the way to the dizzying all-metal Kriegsmesser by Melchior Diefstetter in Vienna. I aimed at a relatively simple shape that would be still above the one on
the Beham woodcut.
The scabbard is based on the already-mentioned illustrations by Monogramist HD. It has a wooden core, a black leather cover and several steel fittings. The largest of said fittings emulate the puff&slash fashion of the time. This detail is found on surviving scabbards of the period, not just in art. The suspension is by a length of handmade mild steel chain and a metal belt loop as in the inspiring illustration. Monogramist HD shows both Messers in a right-side, edge-up carry position – as this is without parallel in the period, I set the scabbard up for a more conventional, left-side, edge-down carry position.
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Black knight commission WIP. No flesh wounds for this fella!
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How would you pitch the upcoming Blade movie?
MAIN PLOT:
London, 1929. Vanessa Brooks, a pregnant heiress who had fled her home, is taken to a local brothel when she goes into labor. While there, her doctor, Deacon Frost, is revealed to be a vampire. Frost kills Vanessa by drinking her blood, then leaves to find another victim. Unbeknownst to him, Vanessa's baby survived. The baby, Eric Brooks aka Blade, is born a dhampir due to Deacon Frost infecting Vanessa while she was giving birth.
London, present day. Picking up from the post-credit scene in "Eternals", Blade recruits Dane Whitman into his gang of supernatural hunters. When Dane asks what Blade is doing in London, Blade says that although he grew up in America, he was born in the city. Blade then says he's following a lead on Deacon Frost. Even several decades later, Blade still wants revenge for his mother's death.
So this movie is a straightforward origin story/revenge flick that happens to feature vampires. Blade wants to avenge his mom. Dane is the newbie who is there to provide exposition for the audience (the audience learns about the vampire underworld whenever Dane asks questions about Blade's line of work).
The other main member of Blade's team is Jamal Afari, his mentor and father figure. There are others on the team, but I won't get into that.
Post-credits scene is Doctor Strange and Wong reviewing Blade and Dane's actions from afar. Strange says that he needs to keep an eye on the two of them, especially since he might need their help in stopping the incursion. Strange then asks for the files on the next recruit for the supernatural team they're trying to build up, who is revealed to be Ghost Rider (it's deliberately not made clear if they're referring to Johnny Blaze, Danny Ketch, or Robbie Reyes).
CAST:
Mahershala Ali as Eric Brooks/Blade
Kit Harington as Dane Whitman/Black Knight
Delroy Lindo as Jamal Afari
Peter Capaldi as Deacon Frost, the main villain
Adelayo Adedayo as Vanessa Brooks
Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict Wong make cameo appearances as Doctor Strange and Wong
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