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Why Fantasy Weapons Are Created
Fantasy weapons are often named so simply as an aspect of psychological warfare. The purpose was to strengthen the confidence of the wielder in his weapon, or the weapon itself through different means. For example, Thor without his magic hammer Mjolnir cannot be a god, only a simple smith. The sword Excalibur was King Arthur’s primary weapon and symbol of royalty. Without it, he cannot be England’s rightful heir to the throne after Uther Pendragon, his father. In Asia, any Japanese family’s claim to the royal throne is bolstered by possession of the Imperial Regalia which includes the sword Kusanagi.
To make them supernatural and the wielder invincible, the weapons are endowed with magical or extraordinary powers either actually or in legends. Roland has the indestructible Durendal as his most cherished war companion. The sword Dyrnwyn of Welsh legends was said to flame up with fire when used by worthy warriors, but consumes the wielder with fire is he uses it for evil purposes. Meantime, the Irish has Fragarach, the sword that can penetrate all kinds of medieval armour that are otherwise unaffected by ordinary weapons.
In the more modern times, two fantasy world war weapons may be the Me262 ‘Schwalbe’ or the Me163 ‘Komet’, and the ‘Paris Gun’ which was often confused with the ‘Big Bertha’. The Messerschmitt 262 Swallow was the first jetfighter to see air combat and bring down an enemy plane around mid-1944 (in contrast to the British Gloster Meteor which was assigned combat roles only in late 1944). The Swallow began combat operations in the middle of 1944, and one 262 damaged a Mosquito in 26 July as the jetplane’s first combat win. Meanwhile, the Meteor was first assigned an anti-V1 role, downing two rockets on August 4, 1944. The Komet was a rocket-firing jet fighter that was even faster than the Me262.
Meantime, the Paris Gun (Paris-Geschütz) was a long-barrel siege gun used to pound Paris, 120 kilometers away, in World War 1. It was meant as a psychological weapon to scare Parisians into evacuating the city or ceasing resistance to the German military advance. Perhaps the gun was successful, because the Parisians thought they were being bombarded by a new kind of Zeppelin dirigible since no sound was heard prior to the fall of the projectiles. On the other hand, Paris was not evacuated by civilians, and the German Army failed to occupy the city.
So weapons may be termed fantasy weapons, they need to be –or believed to be--- fanciful items. They should be extraordinary or even supernatural enough to be exceptional over similar ordinary weapons. Whether the endowment of extraordinary powers was by legend, fiction or real, the general purpose was create confidence in the individual holder, the group or nation so a positive outcome of the war may be attained, and develop a hero as center of faith for victory. In legends and fiction, these weapons are often successful or come to a romantic end, but for real-life ones, their service is often not worth the efforts and expectations accorded them.
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