Damn, looking at the comments here I realize sometimes I DO have more knowledge on some topics than other people. If you guys don’t know that’s a bronze sword, bronze is a metal that’s well known due to its corruption-resistant properties. When bronze develops that green patina you see on the sword it also creates a sort of protective layer that shields the rest of the metal from oxygen and prevents it from rusting away.
Quick note meant to say corrosion not corruption lmao.
bronze is a metal that’s well known due to its corruption-resistant properties.
I suppose it won’t take a bribe?
This is also why the statue of liberty is green. Also the colossus of Rhodes would’ve been the same color by the time of its fall, and especially by the time some MOTHERFUCKER SCRAPPED IT!
Just wanted to add to your comment here because patinas are freaking cool, in the world of bronze sculpture you can make the patina form a different color by applying different chemicals.
It can be blue, black, turquoise, or iridescent depending on the chemical mix. I’m pretty sure there’s even a company that sells premixed solutions to achieve the desired results.
Beautiful sword, but looking at it gives me the strangest urge to carve runes into my skin.
I feel like there is a room full of monks chanting or something in my kitchen but when I go and look, theres nobody there.
That’s nice. A nice sword. I want that nice sword. 😋
looks almost too nice for that age
Bronze lasts a long time because it barely corrodes in the right conditions compared to iron/steel which rusts the moment you look at it wrong.
Here’s one that was made sometime around 700 BC and is in absolutely pristine conditions because the scabbard was so well made it was a practically air tight seal around the sword.
I have this feeling that my luck is none too good This sword here at my side don’t act the way it should Keeps calling me its master, but I feel like its slave Hauling me faster and faster to an early, early grave And it howls, it howls like hell
