Excalibur Blessing

**Excalibur Blessing**, also known as the **Holy Sword of Blessing**, is one of the seven most powerful holy swords created in the Excalibur Project. It has the power to grant divine blessings and control the minds of pious Christians.

## Summary

Excalibur Blessing is one of the seven most powerful holy swords created by the Christian Faction after the Great War through a combination of advanced thaumaturgy by those with magic powers that reached the territory of the gods and antediluvian technology in an attempt to recreate the "true" holy swords created by Heaven.

After the Excalibur Project had ended, the sword was given to the Catholic Church along with another holy sword bearing the name [Excalibur] - The Excalibur Destruction. Due to its power, ever since its creation, it's been custom for it to be the main weapon and symbol of the pope's authority.

When Xenovia's holy sword Durandal was given to the Vatican to be repaired, the Excalibur Blessing, along with five other Excalibur swords, was taken back to Heaven to be reforged into powerful Enochian swords. Though, for unknown reasons, copies of their original forms were made and fused into Durandal under the orders of Raziel, who said it was a "gift" from the angels.

## Appearance

Excalibur Blessing is a majestic longsword made out of gleaming gold, which glitters with such elegance and radiance unlike anything on Earth. The crossguard is shaped like a small set of wings and has a small triangular plate with three gems embedded on it and glowing angelic runes etched around it.

Prior to its reforge, it appeared as a longsword with a golden guard that curved forward and the base of the base curved inward. It had a green plant stem with leaf petals engraved along the blade.

## Abilities

As a named holy sword, Excalibur Blessing is a powerful holy sword capable of vanquishing dark and/or demonic creatures regardless of their origins. It is considered to be one of the "prime" Excalibur swords, seven most powerful holy swords to be created in the Excalibur Project and is the nearest to a "perfect" recreation of the True Excalibur.

Despite this, however, the sword mainly functions as a ceremonial weapon or a sword of state, primarily used in rituals and religious ceremonies. The sword serves as one of the highest symbols of authority of the Vatican, almost on the same level as the Papal Tiara or the Keys of Saint Peter. It's later revealed by Raziel that the holy sword's true role is to choose a worthy figure among the candidates to become the new pope once the previous one dies, though this is only the rule after the Third Holy War.

While the sword is mainly used as a symbolic weapon, it does possess supernatural powers that are closely associated with Christianity. With it, the wielder can manipulate blessings, from controlling the blessed individuals, strengthening themselves by absorbing the blessings of others, or changing the effects of pre-existed blessings. For the most part, this power is used to induce blessing onto nearly anything that isn't dark or demonic in nature to produce positive effects, such as granting good health and fortune, long life, fertility, success, etc.

It also has the power of purification and can remove the darkness or evil from a person or object, the most predominantly of which being artifacts tainted by a demon's *miasma* or people controlled by their demonic powers. The wielder can use it to make things holy; set anything they wish as sacred with the holy attribute, purifying them from the mortal sin and defilement, and make them productive and conductive for spiritual blessings.

Later on, the sword's true power is revealed as the power to control, customize, and otherwise fashion parts of the mind of Christians such as perception, morals, thoughts, beliefs, memories, etc. in a variety of ways. Depending on how in tune the wielder is with the holy sword, this manipulation can greatly vary, from placing believers in a trance-like state similar to hypnosis, to the believers being completely subject to the wielder's control without any hint of them ever being under the wielder's control.

According to Dulio, this power only extends to Christians, regardless of which denomination they belonged to, though those of Christian backgrounds or former Christians can also be controlled, albeit with some difficulty. Strangely enough, the less pious a Christian is, the easier it is for the sword's power to affect them.

In addition, due to the scraps of divine metals embedded into the sword during its reforge, it becomes an Enochian sword and can be used to kill virtually all beings in existence.

## Trivia

* Despite not knowing about the reforge, Irina was able to notice the "Excalibur Blessing" imbued in Durandal was fake based on experience with the Excalibur Mimic.
* Like the remaining Excalibur swords reforged by the Fifth Heaven, a feather from a member of the Heavenly Council is sealed within the hilt. In its case, the feather belonged to Metatron, the First Angel and Elder Seraph of Faith and Piety.
* It is rumored that wielders of the sword can directly speak to the Holy Spirit residing inside the True Longinus and sense the presence of all the Divine Aeons.