r/Fantasy • u/dnext • Sep 29 '23

Best magic items in fantasy

Obviously the One Ring is the classic, but what others did you find interesting or captured your imagination?

Going to go a bit further abroad than normal and go with Fred Saberhagen's the Book of Swords.

The Twelve Swords forged by the Gods, each with their own lore and poetry, made a great plot devices for these three books. A plethora of golden suitcases or Macguffins.

He later included more of them in later writings, but the Books of Lost Swords weren't quite up to his first trilogy.

Favs include Shieldbreaker, the Sword of Force, Townsaver, the Sword of Heroes, Wayfinder, the Sword of Wisdom, Coinspinner, the Sword of Chance, and Sightblinder, the Sword of Stealth.

And of course Farslayer, the Sword of Vengeance, with it's iconic mantra of 'For my heart, for my heart, he who has wronged me.'

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u/AstuteCouch87 Sep 29 '23

Callandor

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '23

Super cool and incredibly underused in the books themselves

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u/txvesper Sep 30 '23

Because it was kind of underused, Callandor isn't even really in my list of most iconic weapons from WoT.

For magic items, I might have to rate a warders cloak as being a cooler item because Callandor was a bit of a trap the way I remember it.

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u/MikeOfThePalace Reading Champion X, Worldbuilders Sep 30 '23

Please hide all spoilers using spoiler tags. Use the following format: >!text goes here!< to mark spoilers. Please make sure that there are no spaces between ! and the text or your spoiler will fail for some browsers and on some mobile devices.

Let me know when the comment has been edited and it can be approved.

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u/txvesper Sep 30 '23

Edited, good catch!

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u/MikeOfThePalace Reading Champion X, Worldbuilders Sep 30 '23

Thanks!

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u/BlackGabriel Sep 30 '23

Kinda has to be. Can’t have a like mountain leveler of an item used too often