all of the public domain Legally Distinct™ keyswords in one post!
I originally drew these in 2015, and turned the absolutely terrible pictures into colored digital versions. These designs are public domain, meaning you can use them for literally anything and everything you want! Video games, books, movies, anything!
The files for them can all be downloaded here from the Internet Archive, along with the uncolored lineart if you want to make color variants! You can also edit the lineart and designs in any way you want! You don't need to keep them exactly like this.
Key to the Kingdom is the only "modern" one that I drew a few days ago. It has three variations since I couldn't decide which one I liked best, so I put it up to a poll for a drawing I'm gonna do. All of them are "canon" designs though :P
These are magical weapons that are intended to evolve as their wielder's character develops, branching out along different paths depending on the character's choices. The swords can speak and communicate with their wielder, who they usually choose themselves, though sometimes they're born directly from their weilder during Special Magical Circumstances™ (What circumstances? That's for you to decide for your story!)
And if you're looking at them and going ???? at Chipmunk's name, all I can tell you is that one literally came to me in a dream, and that was literally it's name in the dream, and who am I to argue when my dream's gonna give me such a cool looking sword design??
[ID: Ninteen images, showing seventeen different fantasy swords against white backgrounds, with the name written next to each one. One of the designs has three variations.
The first is named Blazing Star. It has a hilt shaped like a skull, with the spaces for the handle forming the eyes. Most of it is light grey, but there are several blue crosses with four pointed stars on them that look like they’re made of sparkling gems along the length of the blade, which turns at a 90 degree angle at the top. Along the metal of the top part are darker angled squares of grey as though forming a grill.
The second is named Chipmunk. It has a cyan circular hilt with pairs of curves on either side like horns or thorns, and the color grows darker as it goes up the blade, going from cyan to teal, to royal blue, to blue-black at the top. The blade is narrower at the base and wider at the top, with stylized lines like clouds or closed fists on the edges, with the lines done in white as the colors of the blade get darker. Across the middle are two white zig-zags forming a bolt like lightning. The very top of the blade is split in two, with one section appearing like a stylized cloud or fist, and the other side having sharper indents and curves, like a bird or snake with its neck curled.
The third is named Crystal Moonlight, and is cyan and sky blue. The hilt is circular but covered in spikes and crystal shapes, with the shaft of the blade thin and made up of three parallel sections, which branch out and twist at the top into sections with three spikes like a fork, twisting around to cross eachother.
The fourth is named Duality Mended, and is made of two separate blades that fit into eachother, one blue with purple detail, the other purple with blue detail. The hilt is round, with a pattern of triangles and circles on each side. On the blue, the triangles point outward, while on the purple side, they point inward. The blue hilt has two triangle shaped cuts in the side, and the purple has matching spikes opposite these. The shaft of each weapon is decorated with circles and squares, with another triangle cut on the blue side, and a matching spike on the purple. At the top, they turn into a pointed curve like a spiky question mark, with two spikes locked together. The metal sections here have the centers cut out in different shapes. The points of each blade narrow together to form a larger point.
The fifth is named Fall to the Stars, and has a round hilt with a spike at the top left, like an upside down capital letter Q. The inside of the hilt around the handle is curved like a dripping liquid that's frozen in place. Most of this sword of grey-purple scattered with small white four-pointed stars, with darker grey along part of the right side, crossing the hilt. The blade curves like a question mark, with the top section park purple metal, with holes cut out of the center, showing a light grey metal or rock that forms most of the top, almost like a hammer. The stone has two sharp points on the front, and a back with smaller points separated by curves.
The sixth is named Fire Thorn, and has a color gradient from red at the top, to gold at the bottom. The “crest” of the blade is a red spiral that is shaped like a dragon’s head with the open mouth on the left, and the lower jaw curling back into a tongue of flame.
The top section has serrated edges with blunted teeth, separated by small pairs of triangles that form hour glass shapes. The rest of the main section curves down below this, narrowing suddenly into a gold handle, then flaring out again into a curved spike like bone.
The seven is named Key to the Kingdom, and this one has three variations. It is shaped like a key, with a light grey blade with “teeth” at the top shaped like half of a hexagon, with notches in the sides. The hilt is made up of three loops, with darker grey above them connecting them to the blade. Version 1 has a solid blade and teeth. Version 2 has a diamond shaped hole in the center of the tooth section. Version 3 has the same cut out in the teeth, along with multiple diamond shapes cut out of the blade.
The eighth is named Path to the Sun, The eighth is named Path to the Sun, and is pale green, with the handle and one decorative wheel desaturated yellow, like dried grass. The handle has two spikes at the end, and appears as though it is wrapped in leather. Above the handle, the "blade" of the weapon splits into two, twisting backwards where they meet the decorative wheel or gear, which is yellow on the outside with different sections, with a green and yellow rings in the center. After this, the two split beams rejoin in the shape of a curved axe head with sharp points at the top and bottom, with one of the tines that form it twisting back behind it.
The ninth is named Queen of Swans, and is half black metal, and half white feathers, with half of the hilt made up of curves feathers, the other metal, and the handle itself the two twisted together. The black metal of the blade curves before twisting back into a sharp point, with the feathers on the other side mirroring it. Where the two connect, they fade between a short gradient of dark grey to light grey. Small white circles cut holes in the metal on the blade and hilt.
The tenth is named Ranging War, and is monochrome grey, with a dark grey blade that forms a blunt end at the top, with three triangles around a circle for the radiation symbol cut through the top, then a line of small cut out circles continuing down the center.
The blade is in three sections, with a gap between the center and the outer edges, held in place only by their connection at the top. The two outer edges flare out and up suddenly before the hilt, forming a guard. The hilt is lighter grey, and flares out at the base, where it is striped with darker grey to form a pommel.
The eleventh is named Silver Light, and has a simple shape, with the inside covered in geometric shapes making it look like it's made of crystal. The hilt is a hexagon with a spoke on the lower left like a capital letter Q, with the spoke pink, the outer edges grey, and the inside dark orange. The blade is thin light grey, and the top section forming the "teeth" is darker grey with sharp pink edges forming two larger triangles on the right, and a smaller on on the lower left.
The twelfth is named The Final Light, and is black, red, white, and pale yellow. The top section is shaped like a capital letter A turned on its side so that it resembles the open mouth of a dragon, with four yellow eyes around the cut out center, which is shaped like a bolt of lightning. The core of the blade is black, which is visible through the bolt of lightning, part of the mouth and jaw, and protrudes from the back of the "head" as two short curved-back horns. The four eyes have white stripes around them, and behind them is yellow like a mane. The rest of the head is striped red and darker red, in straight lines and chevrons. The central part of the blade is twisted together black and red, with the red covered in larger yellow circles with black centers like large scales, and a white zig-zag connecting them. The hilt is shaped like the greek letter omega, mostly a circle, with the ends twisting outward rather than connecting. This section is solid black.
The thirteenth is named Ties that bind, and is shaped like a skeleton key that is made of light brown wood, with thin teeth in a complicated shape, with red ribbons tied around many of them, and on the hilt, with a scarf or bandana tied around the middle of the shaft. The hilt is a stylized rectangle with extra curves at the top and bottom, and a red diamond above it.
The fourteenth is named Time Splicer, and is mostly dark green, with the top section shaped like fingers with the thumb folded, holding a purple spike. The main section of the shaft curves in and out like repeating hourglasses, with dark orange circles in two of the sections, with ridges drawn on the green sections like tree bark. The hilt is a simple curved, solid purple hexagon, with a dark orange pentagon gem at the bottom as a pommel.
The fifteenth is named Token of Solitude, and it is the shortest of all of the weapons. It has a simple, silver blade that crooked back to form a skeleton key shape with three tines, and a pink hilt like half of a heart shape, with the handle wrapped in darker orange-pink.
The sixteenth is named Wolfsbane, and the head and blade are the same blue-grey with scattered white five-pointed stars. The blade twists in on itself, before forming a curved, random head like a battleaxe. The hilt is grey metal, with the handle wrapped in the darker grey. There is an acid green spike twisting and curving downward on the bottom off of one side to point downward.
The seventeenth is named From the Shadows, and is purple, black, and grey, with each color a different blade tied together with thin wire in three sections. Each is jagged, in an uneven, zig-zagging shape, with the handle alternating grey and black, with a purple pommel.
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