Thread: 2.45 Zodiac Braves

So I was wondering about the Lore behind the new weapons. So whatever you know and whatever speculation you have of the hero of the past, say it here

Originally Posted by Hulft

I did read the excalibur thread and thats exactly the reason why I'm wondering who wielded those weapons. I couldn't find the text on each relic so I thought just about starting this thread. If we could gather all the in-game text that mentions who wielded those weapons and in what situation they were (I heard the SCH relic was wielded in the sixth umbral era during the floods), we might find out more if we have access to all of the text. If there is a source on the in game text for each relic - link please

I'm compiling a post about this very topic right now.

• [PLD] Ages past, a wise and just king reigned over all Ilsabard. A blade such as this graced his scabbard in times of peace, and brought terror to his foes in times of strife! And his shield? A twin to the one you hold, unwavering, unyielding, unbreaking.

• [WAR] An ancient hero seized a weapon like this from a voidsent lord. At the time it was taken, legend tells us it was a sword. Yet later, it transformed to match the bent of its wielder and became a mighty battleaxe!

• [MNK] When cataclysm loomed over the Near East, the hero Mirza arose to defend the people from fell fiends. Once he had torn the monsters apart, he raised a mighty empire─and fashioned a pair of weapons such as these from his foes' claws!

• [DRG] It was holy blood that gave divine might to the original polearm of Longinus. However, it was only once the hero set forth upon a great pilgrimage to atone for his part in the execution of a saint that the gods lent him their strength.

• [NIN] Sasuke, the hero who freed a people from a tyrant's reign, wielded blades like these. The ninja himself bore the blood of ancient heroes, and his own descendants bore the daggers for long generations after he passed away.

• [BRD] Behold, the likeness of the longbow once drawn by Yoichi, the famed archer of the Far East! Ancient legend says that the hero could loose a shaft so true as to pierce the eye of a sea serpent, even amidst a raging tempest!

• [BLM] Tales tell of an archmagus who struck down the voidsent queen Lilith when she manifested in our realm. As his prize, he claimed her weapon─the incarnation of which you now grasp in your hand!

• [SMN] Who penned the original of this grimoire in times of eld is a mystery. Yet it is said that the predictions of world's end it holds are so dark as to destroy weak men's wills!

• [WHM] After long years spent spurring worldly desires, a Near Eastern hierarch rose to a higher state of being. And as he did, life itself quickened within his trusty staff, the very twin of which you now hold!

• [SCH] Legend tells us a grimoire such as this was passed down through the mages of Nym. Indeed, Golbas Rombas, the hero who saved his people from the floods of the Sixth Umbral Calamity, was known to rely upon it as his secret weapon.

Originally Posted by Anonymoose

[LIST][*][PLD] Ages past, a wise and just king reigned over all Ilsabard. A blade such as this graced his scabbard in times of peace, and brought terror to his foes in times of strife! And his shield? A twin to the one you hold, unwavering, unyielding, unbreaking.

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