User blog:MilenHD/Beowulf vs Conan the Barbarian

Beowulf: The Geatish king, who slew three monsters with his great strength

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Conan the Barbarian: The Cimmerian who has become a warrior, pirate and king during his travels.

Who..is..Deadliest?!? To find out, our world class fighters are testing history's most lethal weapons. Using 21st century science, we see what happens, when two warriors go toe to toe. No rules, no safety, no mercy. It's a duel to the death, history will be rewritten, but only one will be crowned the Deadliest Warrior.

Beowulf
Beowulf is the protagonist of the Old English poem of the same name. He was a monster-killing hero and king, famed for his impossible strength.

Beowulf's father killed a member of a prominent family in Geatland, Beowulf's homeland; his family was unable to pay the weregild and would've been banished if Hrothgar, a Danish king, had not generously paid the weregild instead. Beowulf, after hearing of a monster, Grendel, that was terrorizing Hrothgar's land, set off for Denmark in order to kill the monster and repay his debt to the king.

Waiting for Grendel to arrive at the king's mead hall, Beowulf pretended to sleep. When the beast arrived, Beowulf ambushed him, using only his brute strength to wrestle with Grendel. After a long struggle, Beowulf tore off the beast's arm. The creature fled to his home in the swamp, where he died from his wound.

Grendel's mother, seeking revenge for the death of her son, attacked the hall, killing many of Hrothgar's men. Beowulf immediately sought to kill her as well, and swam into her underwater lair. Finding his weapons ineffective against the she-beast, Beowulf discovered a massive giant-forged sword in the cave, which he used to decapitate her. Beowulf would eventually return to his homeland, and become king. He ruled wisely for many years, before he would finally die from his wounds after a battle with a dragon that threatened his kingdom.

Beowulf defeated the monsters and his enemies with:

Short Range= Hrunting Mid Range= Sword of the Giant Long Range= Longbow Special= Naegling
 * Length: 3 feet
 * Hrunting is an iron blade, tempered in blood
 * Said to never fail, but it did exactly that against Grendel's mother
 * Massive sword
 * Very long, as it was made for use by giants
 * Powerful enough to cut through Grendel's mother, who Hrunting failed against
 * Weight: 4 pounds
 * Length: 6 feet
 * Range: 600 feet
 * Yew
 * Iron Arrows
 * Length: 3 feet
 * Naegling is a similar blade to Hrunting, albeit more decorative
 * Broke in Beowulf's battle with the dragon

Conan the Barbarian
Born in the snowy cap mountains, Conan was the offspring of a blacksmith part of a warrior tribe in the harsh land known as Cimmeria. Conan matured rapidly as a youth, due to the harsh environment and rigorous training, and became a well-respected warrior among his tribe at the tender age of 15. After raiding a rival civilization outpost with a group of his tribesman, Conan was enamored with a strange desire to explore the outer reaches of the Hyborian Age and quickly left his tribe to set off in his own adventures.

The young warrior quickly gained a reputation as a skilled thief, a savage barbarian, a mauradering pirate, and a fearless warrior-general throughout his travels; He faced a variety of threats ranging from immortal wizards to monstrous man-beast to the ferocious fire-breathing dragons that terrorized the land. In his later years, Conan became a well-respected king of a once tyrannical nation, but that only kept him at bay for so long before he yearned to adventure the outer lands once again. His name will be forever stamped as a legendary warrior of The Hyborian Era.

Conan slew his enemies on his travels with:

Short Range= Atlantean Sword Mid Range= Double-Headed Battle Axe Long Range= Longbow with Flaming Arrows Special= Morningstar
 * Length: 3 feet
 * Longsword made from a semi-mystical quality steel that is stronger compared to adament metal
 * It is said that the strength of this steel is so powerful, it can cut through stone and swords of inferior metals with ease
 * Length: 5 feet
 * Weight: 5 pounds
 * Steel
 * With tremendous strength comparable to Conan's, it can be wield one-handed
 * Weight: 4 pounds
 * Length: 6 feet
 * Range: 600 feet
 * Yew
 * Iron Arrows, set on fire
 * Weight: 6 pounds
 * Length: 3 feet
 * Steel

My Edges
Short: Edge Conan: Well Beowulf's hrunting broke and is possibly made of normal steel, while Conan's Atlantean sword will most likely destroy Beowulf's sword.

Mid: Edge Beowulf: Well both weapons are devastating in the users monstrous strength. I imagine the Sword of the Giant being a massive viking longsword, so I think it's both longer and faster than Conan's more devastating axe. While both can cleave a normal man in half, the Sword of the Giant's probably superior reach wins here.

Long: Beowulf: We saw on Deadliest Warrior that iron arrows aren't the most effective weapon, both have the same bow and the shots will be more powerful due to the users strength, but again we saw that fire arrows aren't that effective.

Special: Edge Conan: This sounds insane, but Naegling also broke much like Hrunting. and in Conan's hand the morningstar is more devastating than usual due to Conan's insane strength, he can most likely send a normal person flying, and he can most likely very brutaly injure Beowulf and break his sword.

X-Factors
Armor: Beowulf 85, Conan 96: Beowulf has a chainmail, big iron shield and iron helmet, on the other hand Conan has iron casted armor, consisting of a cuirass, shoulder guards and shinguards. He has iron helmet and shield despite smaller made of the same semi-mystical metal as his sword.

Strength: Beowulf 100, Conan 98: Beowulf has the strength of 30 men, he teared off Grendel's arm, he wielded the sword of giant with ease and wielding that massive iron shield along side the Sword of the Giant. Conan is no slouch either, in his hands the heavy weapons like axe and flails are scary, also lifting giant stones and pillars, snapping the beak of pterodactyl and fighting ape-mans with his bare hands and defeating them.

Experience: Beowulf 70, Conan 96: Beowulf fought in only two wars ( or so he claims) and he really fought Grendel, Grendel's mother, a sea monster and a dragon. Conan has fought as mercenary in wars, as pirate in the seas and he faced more opponents than Beowulf including humans, wizards, dinosaurs, giants, demons and ape-men on his adventures.

Brutality: Beowulf 87, Conan 95:  Beowulf was ruthless only against monsters in the poem, while Conan killed every single opponent that faced him, no matter human, dinosaur or monster.