who makes this stuff?

Was just wondering what the pld relic was made from? its white so is it some sort of bone or something?

It takes a Goldsmith to repair, so my guess would be some sort of crystal/gemstone.

It's some special metal. It was made with the same ingot (or same chunk of metal) as the Oathkeeper as far as I'm aware. Prolly some alloy, like a mix of mythril and Cobalt or something.

Its made from a special ore called Code Ore and it looks like a bunch of 1s and 0s and can be made to look like anything the Code Gods deem fit. :D hehe

Wasn't there a third blade made from that same metal (to go along with the real life myth)? To signify the founding three members of the order?

Am I making this up? Was it Durandal?

It's made from pixels.

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Originally Posted by Wolfandre

Wasn't there a third blade made from that same metal (to go along with the real life myth)? To signify the founding three members of the order?

Am I making this up? Was it Durandal?

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3 blades were made of the same material as Oathkeeper for the 3 founding Paladins. Based on the choice of the name Curtana for the Paladin relic and number of sibling weapons (3), Joyeuse and Durandal are likely the names of the other two blades. Joyeuse is often a rapier in FF games so it could potentially be the relic weapon of a fencer class, while Durandal is often a 1 handed sword (it would be funny if it ended up as the Relic of a class such as Dark Knight).

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Originally Posted by Ultimatecalibur

3 blades were made of the same material as Oathkeeper for the 3 founding Paladins. Based on the choice of the name Curtana for the Paladin relic and number of sibling weapons (3), Joyeuse and Durandal are likely the names of the other two blades. Joyeuse is often a rapier in FF games so it could potentially be the relic weapon of a fencer class, while Durandal is often a 1 handed sword (it would be funny if it ended up as the Relic of a class such as Dark Knight).

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You may be on to something there with Dark Knight. That would be a really cool plot device.

However, is it that Oathkeeper was part of this trio (and therefore replacing either Durandal or Joyeuse in the real life myth) or that it was an addition to this trio? I'm loathe to think that, somehow, whatever these things are made of, it was enough to make four identical swords (as Oathkeeper and Curtana share a model, one can assume that other blade(s) will as well).

Kinda wish I could replay some of the dialogue from the Paladin quests and from Gerolt. :/

When the Relic weapons were introduced in 1.22b this seems to be the info given on Curtana:

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Long has the sacred sword Oathkeeper been bestowed upon the commander of the Sultansworn, vowed protectors of Ul’dah’s ruler. Yet it is not alone in its greatness. At the time of its making, three other swords were struck from the same ore and forged in the same fires. These brethren blades, Curtana among them, were then gifted to the three noble paladins by whose hand the brotherhood of the Sultansworn was founded. * Curtana and the Holy Shield are a set, and are awarded together.

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Also, if I remember right, Oathkeeper is still missing and has yet to be shown in game. As for the sword used by the Roe Paladin in the Paladin job quests, Curtana, Thyrus and the Artemis Bow are all supposed to be unique weapons, but one NPC in each job story is seen wielding a weapon that looks identical to the lost Relics.

In the case of the WHM storyline, it can easily be explained by the fact we are visited by the spirit of the original wielder of the Thyrus, A-Towa-Cant appearing. So it makes sense that he'd have a spiritual representation of his weapon. I have not done the other quest lines for PLD or BRD so I could not say about those appearances. Ququruka in the BLM quest also uses a Stardust Rod too. I'd have to look closer into the SMN and SCH quests, a book is a book unless you pay close attention.

If I remember correctly, the SMN and SCH relics are brought up by people as stuff of legends.
Because both were more or less lost arts, there aren't many people that know anything about them anyway.

I can't remember what kind of book the other SMN in the job questline wields. Same with the SCH questline, not even sure we saw a book in that one.
EDIT: the SMN appears to be using Ifrits Grimoire. The SCH (in the small glimpse you get) does have the Omnilex equipped.

Lazy speculation is lazy; it's entirely possible the people we got the Jobs from had their own "Relic Quest" that each of them (like Jehantel, Solkzagyl, and others) completed. For all we know, there could be a legend tapestry (think Wind Waker opening) in the Sultansworn areas that describes or shows the Curtana and that inspired Solkzagyl to it where others wouldn't have cared. Or, only as a free paladin was he able to go searching for the clues to it.

In the SCH questline, the Omnilex was widely used as a combat manual by ALL the Scholars of the time; it's not unique in the sense of the other artifact weapons. When you acquire it it's even specifically acknowledged as "a copy of the Omnilex."
This doesn't explain the multiple Artemis Bows, Curtanas, etc. but at least for Scholar it's well-established that every Scholar worth his salt had a copy of the text.

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Lazy speculation is lazy; it's entirely possible the people we got the Jobs from had their own "Relic Quest" that each of them (like Jehantel, Solkzagyl, and others) completed.

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Strangely enough, Widargelt is unique in wielding an unfinished relic weapon; his Sphairai are noticeably duller than your own. I'd thought Estinien's Gae Bolg was using the unfinished model as well, but checking the cutscenes again this isn't the case, it's just poor lighting.

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In the case of the WHM storyline, it can easily be explained by the fact we are visited by the spirit of the original wielder of the Thyrus, A-Towa-Cant appearing. So it makes sense that he'd have a spiritual representation of his weapon. I have not done the other quest lines for PLD or BRD so I could not say about those appearances. Ququruka in the BLM quest also uses a Stardust Rod too. I'd have to look closer into the SMN and SCH quests, a book is a book unless you pay close attention.

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you are right about WHM relic, but the BLM is also explained easily. while speaking to gerolt, he says that there was a mage who made them, and that he had seen one himself, that was later stolen from the auction by the kobolds. there was more than one stardust rod made.

Pretty sure Oathkeeper is made of mythril, lets not forget those early order Paladins in the past would surely sought a metal that is reachable location wise