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This is the holy sword named "Eternity", quite possibly the most powerful weapon in the realm designed to combat the forces of evil.

This image is still a work in progress, as I intend to add a faded collage in the background behind the sword. My goal is to fill in the "empty" areas of the image, without taking the main focus of the image away from the sword.

The deceptively simple design of this sword took me weeks to create. For the guard, I started by finding the right pose for the figurine that was to become the angel at the center of the design. Next I added wings to the figurine, and again had to find the right pose for the wings that looked "natural", yet conformed to the general outline for a sword's guard. I next added in the golden sunburst pattern around the angel, which is actually over a dozen stretched and rotated pyramid primatives. Finally I added the blue gemstone to the design, sizing and positioning it so it was properly cradled between the figurine's arms and the torso. Once I had the design the way I wanted, I duplicated it then flipped it to form the other side of the guard.

The grip was fairly easy, consisting of a row of flattened spheres. The size of each sphere was then reduced slightly, based on how far the sphere was from the center of the grip. The result gives the grip a parabolic (curved) profile, which not only looks more natural, but happens to fit the average human hand much better than a straight grip.

Last was the pommel (hilt) of the sword, which has a celtic cross design to it. Though it is hard to see from this image, the design is multi-layered. The whole design was created using only primitives and boolean operations. The thick ring around the design was created with 5 cyliders plus a starburst pattern consisting of several dozen stretched pyramids, then combined using 2 boolean operations. The result creates a ridged pattern in the middle of the thick ring. Each of the four "points" of the cross contain an intricate celtic knot pattern I created using a combination of tori and cylinders (2 days spent on those). The "arms" were created with 9 total cylinders combined together with 1 boolean operation. The final touches to the design included adding the large diamond in the center, and placing a smaller gem at each of the "points" of the cross (which are meant to be ruby, sapphire, emerald, and garnet).