FINAL FANTASY XVI - TOD MAKES INVICTUS SWORD

June 22, 2023

I am incredibly lucky because I love what I do and to be honest I enjoy every day, but sometimes I am too busy to enjoy the moment and the contract to make a sword for the latest Final Fantasy series XVI (out now!) was one of those. 

 

Every iteration of the game has the protagonist wielding an implausibly massive sword, a different one each time and for the release of this game I was approached to recreate the sword for real which was then going to be displayed in the Tower of London.

This last point more or less passed me by, or at least I didn’t really think about it; but I have now.  So I made Clive Rosfield's sword, INVICTUS, that is displayed for the next month (June 22 – July 19) in the Tower of London in the White Tower, the most infamous castle keep in the world.  Make no mistake, for guy like me, this is very cool indeed.  In this room is the best work, of the best armourers of medieval Europe. Pieces made for Kings. In amongst this amazing company I now have a sword I made (for a while), so yes, that is really very cool indeed.

So cool I had to make a film about it for my You Tube Channel with Matt Easton.  Check out the latest 'Weird Weapons' film on the YouTube channel.......
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