I need something that can kill anything, up to and including godlike beings (this is for that same Science Fantasy story I told you about a few weeks ago, by the by), but it needs to be easily concealed. So no swords, probably. I thought of a knife, but that seems a little cliche. Do you guys think I can get away with it, or should I think of something more original?
edited 25th Apr '17 1:28:20 AM by ThriceCharming
Well, there's the lance
that killed Jesus.
You could make the weapon a flower, justifying it as the flower being the source of a godkilling poison, but then just have someone whack the flower at people. Or maybe a chariot that allows you to trample anything.
You could make the weapon itself conceptual, abstract or shapeless - to humans -, and when wielded by a physical being it takes on a physical form with some symbolism. For example: a sword made out of fire, except it isn't actually a sword, it just looks like a sword because humans can't look at the fourth, fifth, etc. dimensions, nor have enough arms and chakras to use it as originally intended.
Magic in one of my settings is just the laws of physics glitching out. If you try and back yourself into a corner in a weird crouching position and hold your position before relaxing, you'll end up flying off with incredible speed.
Let's all remember dear Steve who held that position for 12 hours. He resides now in our thoughts, and low earth orbit.
Want a fireball? Just throw a bunch of cats at your enemy and behold the Thermonuclear Catsplosion
.
Let us also spare a thought for King Darius, who thought he was learning an exploit of great power and was instead tricked into humping a wall for evermore
.
Don't even get them started on parallel universes.

the gods take forms similar to the creatures living on their land at the time of their birth, with the most numerous species having the biggest impact.
additionally, the template is something that has a tendency to show up anyway; Kalamc is said to look no different from his children, and Yencyr is quite humanoid for an old god. even Galcys, by far the least humanoid, still has some distinctly human traits. (even among templates of the created races, humans arent a one off either; men who travelled across the seas and came to new land soon discovered men from an entirely different point of origin than Kalamc.)
in other words, the new gods, who were born to lands already populated by humans tend towards a mostly human appearance both because humans are the largest population in the area and because they were very likely to have other human traits anyway.
edited 20th Apr '17 12:01:44 AM by Tarsen