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little art tip: the position of the ears on a human does a lot to communicate the angle of the head—whether it’s tilted forward or back.
tilted back with the chin forward, the ears are going to look lower down, closer to the mouth; tilted forward with the chin tucked, the ears look higher up & more in line with the eyes.
Sorry I’m not hijacking, but this is a really good tip if people don’t know this. Like it does look really strange at first, but it is more realistic than drawing them in the centre of the side plane of the head. So it looks like this;;;
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cant believe we’re leaving out this
and more importantly this
interesting how you forgot
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hmmm and perhaps
and these ones too
I’m not sure how you managed to forget this gem:
what the fuck ethan
I wish i had a context for this. But I really dont.
I was all ready to “um, actually” this, but, um, actually there’s about 3-4 grams of iron in a person, which x400 is 1.2-1.6kg, which is a smallish but not unreasonable sword. So. Math checks out.
How would you extract the iron, though? The more practical solution would be to kill a mere hundred men, then mix 1 part blood with 3 parts standard molten iron, imo. Cheaper and faster, while still retaining the edge that only evil magic can give you.
Or, you could just make the sword of iron, and then use the blood to temper the blade.
1.2 to 1.6 kilograms is a perfectly reasonable large sword. Your average longsword was 1.1–1.8 kg and I don’t even remember if that’s including the weight of the hilt, guard, and pommel or just the blade. Your more classic “knight sword” was a mere 1.1 kilograms on average; the blood of 400 men is more than enough.
This is using the comparatively crappy metallurgy of medieval Europe and their meh iron swords. Move east to, say, contemporary Iran and make a scimitar using high carbon steel (~2%) for a .75 kilogram blade and you only need the blood of about 225 men.
So putting my thoughts in on this… because how could I not.
So you’ve exsanguinated your 400 guys to get the iron for your sword. Cool. But now you have 400 bodies lying around.
Why not put those to good use and cremate them. Use the carbon from those 400 bodies (you won’t need all of them) and now you can make a nice mid-high carbon steel sword.
Now you have a sword forged with the blood of your enemies AND strengthened with their bones.
Ashes mixed with a little water can be used to polish a blade until it gleams. Use some left-over ash from the cremations for that.
So apparently many of my friends are sad that I mentioned using the carbon to make carbon-steel but only put the part about corpse diamonds in the tags…
So.
Lets say you have 400 regular adult sized bodies, you cremate them all. I am not super familiar with the creation of iron alloys (don’t do a lot of that in jewelry), so I’m going to give guess numbers on how many go to what process. You need 190 of them for carbon to make your carbon steel. You set 10 of them aside for polishing. That leaves 200 bodies worth of carbon hanging out.
The average adult body holds enough carbon to make a diamond of approximately 10 carats. That means you can get roughly 2000 carats worth of diamond out of your remaining bodies. Which is plenty to bedazzle the crap out of the cross brace and still have a hefty-ass jewel for the pommel.
Also because of the makeup of a human body (minerals and such), diamonds created from people have this sort of ghostly blue tint, which seems VERY appropriate for a blade forged from the blood of your enemies.
The human body is roughly 18.5% carbon. Assuming an 80.7 kg corpse (what Google tells me is average human weight), we can harvest almost 15 kilos of carbon from a single enemy. This is more than enough to create a carbon steel blade and provide a polishing grit.
This leaves us with 399 bodies. 3,999 carats worth of diamond seems excessive, even for someone willing to kill 400 people for a sword. (For reference, the Hope Diamond is 45.52 carats.)
That is, until we remember that pommel weight is somewhere between 20-50% of blade weight, depending on the blade design. A carat is .2 grams, so we need somewhere between 1400 to 3500 carats of diamond.
I can’t think of anything else to do with the 49-259 leftover bodies, and I really hate waste.
Welp, found the Abyssals…
I was going to say, this seems vastly impractical, but your comment seems better.
