Posted 05 January 2009 - 09:11 AM

ARRHHH I don't get you people. I can not accept that the sword has the weight of all the stuff inside it. And I don't understand why you people jump to that conclusion. I'll try explaining why this is stupid one last time and then I'm just going to copy paste this every time somebody says the sword is "like totally heavy dude".



Let's look at what Dragnipur is carrying. At the end of the book there's a wagon the size of battlesip, loaded with the gate of darkness (is the sword also carrying all the weight of kurald galain then??!! HUH DURH TELL ME THAT!?) and probably - at least - thousands of bodies piled on top. Then there's thousands of creatures pulling that thing. Lets make it a nice round figure like ten thousand beings. Demons, dragons, soletaken, cyborgs and lots and lots of mortal bodies. You also have the warren of chaos chugging along in the background but I'll be willing to accept it doesn't weigh enything before it manifested an army. On top of this Hood arrived and with him the army of the dead, so that's some place between a hundred thousand and a million soldier corpses.

I'm going to make a rough estimate and say that Dragnipur, if your assumption that the sword carries the actual weight is true, carries something like a million tons. I'll even let you off easy and say the full weight is no more than a hundred thousand tons. HOW THE HELL IS THAT POSSIBLE?!!



If the sword was that heavy you have to explain a lot of things. First off, Rake is able to lift a hundred thousand tons now? What? That would mean that when Rake swings the sword he hits things, at something like the speed of sound, with the weight of supertanker. Even if you tried to block his swing you'd be sent into orbit by the weight behind it. BUT, not only that, the point of impact is an edge that is probably magically shapened into a molecular thin edge, when such an edge with a hundred thousand tons behind it hits something it isn't blocked, it just goes straight through... ANYTHING!!! If you place a hundred thousand tons condensed into a two meter sword, inside a granite slot edge down, it doesn't make the stone sweat, it just goes through the rock and then down through the earth a hundred meters or so probably or how ever deep Burn can take it. If you drop it on the ground, say inbedded in the skull of a dead andii, it doesn't just flop about. It would hit with the impact of an angry god. The impact would shatter all glass miles around. shake the city so that surrounding building crumbled and the square in which Rake fell would become a dent so big that you might as well just call it a crater.



IT IS METAPHYSICAL STRESS PEOPLE, NOT ACTUAL PHYSICAL WEIGHT!



That's why things groan around Rake, why the stone sweats (the magic or what ever is generating heat), why Rake is brought to his knee's when Hood enters the sword, etc. Hood doesn't weigh so much that Rake should even notice the added weight of a desicated Jaghut compared to the theoretical mass of everything in the sword. On the other hand Hood was an immensly powerfull jaghut and the god of death. The power of this ascendant is what brought Rake to his knee's. It intensified the burden of the sword because it added so much to the power already contained in the sword. You read what effect it had inside the blade when Hood and Rake arrived, people are knocked to their knee's, chaos retreats, etc. That is why Draconus wonders if Rake is crumbling under THE PRESSURE now that Hood entered. If it became to heavy Rake would just have to let go, no it's the burden of the tenfold power that Rake has to weather, and it's why after he recovers he's able to face Dassem, because he adjusts.



I REPEAT, IT IS METAPHYSICAL STRESS PEOPLE, NOT ACTUAL PHYSICAL WEIGHT!

