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  2. List of fictional swords - Wikipedia

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    Four Sword/Picori Blade: A sword forged by the Minish as a gift to the kingdom of Hyrule, which allows its wielder to split into four beings. Sword of Sages: In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, it is a holy weapon used by the Six Sages in an attempt to execute Ganondorf. However, Ganondorf survives due to being protected by the Triforce ...

  3. Naming of weapons in Middle-earth - Wikipedia

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    In Medieval epics, heroes gave names to their weapons. The name, lineage, and power of the weapon reflected on the hero. Among the major tales are those of Sigurd the Volsung and his sword Gram that he used to kill the dragon Fafnir; [a] [1] Beowulf and the swords Hrunting and Nægling; [2] King Arthur's Excalibur, the "Sword in the Stone"; [2] Roland's Durendal; Waldere's Mimming; [2] and the ...

  4. Strider - Wikipedia

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    Strider, a type of Combine machine/bio-engineered creature from the Half-Life video game universe; Strider, an agility-based vocation in the Dragon's Dogma video games; Strider Squadron, the player's fighter squadron in Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown; Strider, a mob found in the nether dimension in Minecraft

  5. Misericorde (weapon) - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of a misericorde from a 1908 textbook. A misericorde (/ ˌ m ɪ z ər ɪ ˈ k ɔːr d / or /-z ɛr ɪ-/; from French miséricorde, "mercy"; itself derived from the Latin misericordia, "act of mercy") was a long and narrow knife used during the High Middle Ages to deliver mercy killings to mortally wounded knights, as it was designed to be thin enough to strike through the gaps ...

  6. Strider (1989 arcade game) - Wikipedia

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    The controls of Strider consist of an eight-way joystick and two action buttons for attacking and jumping. The player controls the protagonist Strider Hiryu, a ninja whose main weapon is a tonfa-like plasma sword known as a "Cypher". He can perform numerous acrobatic feats depending on the joystick/button combination used.

  7. Combine (Half-Life) - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of the Combine's Civil Protection. Certain elements of the Combine's appearance, such as that of the Advisors, are inspired by the works of Frank Herbert. [1] The towering Striders seen throughout Half-Life 2 and its subsequent episodes are based directly on the Martian tripods of the H. G. Wells novel The War of the Worlds, where Martians invade Victorian England, using the tripods ...

  8. Creeper (Minecraft) - Wikipedia

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    A creeper is a fictional creature in the sandbox video game Minecraft.Creepers are hostile mobs (mobile non-player characters) that spawn in dark places.Instead of attacking the player directly, they creep up on the player and explode, destroying blocks in the surrounding area and potentially hurting or killing the player if they are within the blast radius.

  9. Technoblade - Wikipedia

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    On July 2, 2022, Mojang Studios added a tribute to Technoblade in the launcher image of Minecraft: Java Edition. [55] The modified image added a crown to a pig, in reference to Technoblade's in-game Minecraft skin and channel branding. [52] The tribute was removed one month later when the image was replaced to promote Minecraft's Wild Update. [56]