Excalibur Nightmare

**Excalibur Nightmare**, also known as the **Holy Sword of Dreams**, is one of the seven most powerful holy swords created in the Excalibur Project. It has the power to create powerful illusions.

## Summary

Excalibur Nightmare 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 Protestant Church along with another holy sword bearing the name [Excalibur] - The Excalibur Mimic.

In 20XX, it was "stolen" by the fallen angel Kokabiel as part of the Grigori and the Four Great Seraphs' plan to create peace between the Three Factions. While being kept by Kokabiel's men, it was partially fused into a singular sword along with Mimic, Transparency, and Rapidly. After Kokabiel was defeated, Irina Shidou took it along with the other Excalibur swords back to the Vatican to be properly repaired.

When Xenovia's holy sword Durandal was given to the Vatican to be repaired, the Excalibur Nightmare, 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 Nightmare is an ornate longsword with a slender and sharply-pointed blade made of obsidian, which glows brightly in the dark with the angelic runes etched upon it. The hilt is wrapped in the flayed skin of a devil and a black orb is embedded in the pommel.

Prior to its reforge, it appeared as a rapier-like sword with a slender two-edged blade with a swirl-like pattern on the grip. It possessed a gold crossguard that resembled wings, and from the hilt protruded a long gold swirl pattern, almost resembling a more drill-like oriented covering half-way through the blade.

## Abilities

As a named holy sword, Excalibur Nightmare 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.

The holy sword possesses powerful Illusion Magic, which allows the wielder to create, shape, and manipulate illusions and/or hallucinations, causing the targets to see, hear, touch, smell, and/or taste things which do not actually exist or cause them to perceive things differently from what they truly are, with the illusions either either exist solely within the physical or mental perceptions of usually organic or sentient targets, or as external projections occupying material space, like holograms and mirages.

Skilled and experienced wielders can create complex and detailed worlds or place their targets within a variety of simulated conditions and circumstances. The illusions these wielders are able to create can even be powerful and realistic enough to become tangibly solid and physically interact with the target, their environment, or even affect reality itself rather than simply simulating Reality Warping.

In addition, the sword also possesses the power to create, shape, enter, and manipulate the dreams of non-Christians, including modifying, suppressing, fabricating, influencing, sensing, etc. the dreams and nightmares of others. They can produce and modify dreams, bestow nightmares or lucid dreaming, and promote pro-Christian propagandas within dreams.

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 Nightmare" 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 Phanuel, the Elder Seraph of Truth and Judgement.