Doesn't have to be "practical". Depending on the context, the looks can be more important than the functionality.

Sanderson depicts shardblades in The Stormlight Archive as being ultralight to justify their size. Fun middleground, but not always necessary.

Art by Alex Allen.

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Adolin Kholin WIP painting, slowly but surely leaning digital painting and of course still obsessing over

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Name a single weapon cooler than Shardblades

Shit Shardblades can do:

-Materialize out of thin air
-cut through anything
-are fucking huge, but light
-they phase through flesh and kill the soul
-come in fun shapes and colors
-pretty
-sometimes are cute fairy gfs

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🛡️‘Other men thought they understood Shardblades and Shardplate, but Dalinar Kholin...at times, he proved them all children.’ ⚔️😛

https://t.co/mBDB6FKJ5P

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