Do the hieroglyphs carved on the swords mean anything?
The Father’s sword’s hieroglyphs read, “Suffer no guilt ye who wields this in the name of Crom”. The Atlantean sword’s markings are meaningless. The script they used to write it is not real, they made it up. Did you make Valeria’s sword too? No. Valeria’s sword was cast in aluminum. They brought it to me and I reground it to clean it up, and I polished it to make it look like steel. In the beginning of the movie Conan the Barbarian, there is a scene where Conan’s father is forging his sword. Is that how a real sword would be forged? Well, you can, but you wouldn’t heat it up red hot and throw it in the snow because it would shatter. And usually when you quench something, that’s what cooling it is called, the oil temperature is about 120 degrees, and you’d want to quench it slowly. And you wouldn’t be engraving the little words, letters, in the blade. And he cast it, you wouldn’t do that. Ancient sword makers just got something that looked like metal and poured it into the mold. You can
