The world of Game of Thrones is totally unrealistic. In this universe of fantasy with medieval accents, princes and princesses ride dragons, while beings from the North are able to resuscitate the corpses of humans and animals. In other words, there is more bizarre than want to melt down a sword to create two new weapons from the harvested steel… However, according to the expert Toby Capwell, this is an inconsistency that does not pass!
an expert judges the fate of ned stark’s sword (and it hurts)
As fans of Game of Thronesat the beginning of season 4, Tywin Lannister seizes the late Ned Stark’s swordwhich he entrusts to a blacksmith so that he can melt it in order to reforge two new ones, intended for his son Jaime and his grandson Joffrey. For the neophytes that we are, this does not seem to be an unrealistic operation, especially since we have already seen this process at work in many films and series. However, in an interview with our colleagues from Insider, Toby Capwell, an expert in medieval weapons and armorexplained that the process described in Game of Thrones would have completely destroyed Ned’s sword. Valyrian steel would have become incredibly brittleand from the first fight, the two men would have broken their swords.
Non, You can not do this. That’s not how you spin a sword, sorry. The idea of melting down a sword blade and recasting it in a mold, like what they do, that’s not possible. If you reduce iron or steel to a liquid state, you lose all its properties. If you melt steel in a mold, it’s cast iron and it becomes very brittle, and you cannot temper or heat treat it. You know, when you have a piece of iron ore, you heat it to separate the iron from all the silicates and all the other elements it’s mixed with. It’s never completely melted. It is not heated to its melting point. It is heated until a chemical reaction takes place in the ore, which separates the iron from all the other elements. The iron somehow falls to the bottom. Gunsmiths are very careful never to melt anything. You can’t melt armor to make a new one. I don’t care if it looks pretty on screen. It’s silly. I like some things Game of Thrones done with the armors, but it’s a fail. It’s a zero.
And before scrutinizing Game of Thrones with a magnifying glass, our colleagues fromInsider sought the opinion of archery expert Grizzly James regarding Legolas’ archery skills in The Lord of the Rings… And the result is not necessarily better!
By Melanie
Hello, this is Melanie. I have been writing articles at Hitek since August 2022. Graduated with a Master’s degree in Cinema (of which I still have a memory on Pirates of the Caribbean), I am passionate about films and comics (the X-Men of the 90’s, Jim Starlin, Crisis on Infinite Earths).
2023-08-13 07:48:01
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