Archanon said:
shout27 said:
Archanon said:
shout27 said:
Personally, I picture Shirou as being primarily colorless and channeling different colors to summon artifacts. . . depending on his mindset in the story at least. In some ways it's easy to forget that he is technically insane, because he's been distorted by his experiences enough to have his very Origin altered.
Black/Red for Gae Bolg
White for Caliburn
Red/White for Excalibur
Green for the 9 lives blade
Black for Gram
Blue for Rulebreaker
etc.
Of course, I also believe that he's the closest human in the Nasuverse, to awakening a spark or whatever it is that grants a planeswalker their power.
Excalibur's gotta be pure white. Crystallized hopes and dreams of humanity, there.
Dammit, I wish I knew more about the Nasuverse and Magic background settings than I do, but I personally think that's arguable. To me, Excalibur is less than Caliburn (which would be pure white) and by it's very definition (as I understand it) was crafted from emotion. . . but it is a fey sword and by it's very nature designed to be wielded alongside it's sheath. Thus, I'd go with this:
Excalibur: White\Green\Red
Excalibur's Sheath: White\Blue\Green
In order of importance for the mana assigned to them. . .
I'll give you White/Blue for Avalon... and even mono-blue is arguable, but neither of them have any green association. At all. And I still say Excalibur is mono-white. It's the crystallized hopes and dreams of humanity, if fires a freaking laser blast, and it's associated with King Arthur, who has incredible associations with knights, honor, chivalry, and duty, all things which are very White.
Well, I have two major reasons as to why I'm unwilling to just say that Excalibur is mono-white. . .
First, Excalibur is not Caliburn, The sword of promised victory, the sword in the stone. If any weapon qualifies as
pure white, it's that one IMO. As it had requirements of purity to work properly, and broke when it was mishandled. I have not seen anything like this with Excalibur, and believe that this is the primary reason Archer didn't simply call Caliburn into being and break it to kill berserker. . . he simply didn't meet the requirements to make it work properly.
Second, is the name of the technique(s) used with Excalibur, something about "Strike of the Wind King" or some such. Unfortunately, it has been my experience with Japanese games that when they include an element into the name of an attack in a rpg, then it means that most likely the weapon itself is the source of that element, especially since Saber doesn't strike me as a 'Wind-type' technique user with the stats I have seen.
Now, this is not to say that I don't think Excalibur is a Holy Sword, I just see it as being like those 'ravnica?' cards that allowed a person to expend one of two colors to use it. . . hell, it might might require a colorless, two white and one of either green or red to use it where Caliburn requires 4 white.