Equipment: Hope's Weapons pt 1

Weapons: Hope's basic Boomerangs part 1

Appearances:  Final Fantasy XIII

Otshirvani boomerang from FFXIII

Time for a miniseries across the next few Thursdays. For this mini series we'll be looking at the various boomerangs that Hope wields in FFXIII. The naming theme for his weapons are avians. All his weapons have something to do with birds, either as a mythical bird or a character who deals with one. For this first blog we'll be looking at the first four of Hope's tier 1 weapons.

Airwing:

Air + wing. Pretty simple.  
 
An air wing is also a term used for any aircraft squadrons attached to non air-force forces such as the Navy or police forces. 

Hawkeye:

 Hawk + eye. Again pretty simple.

Also the name of a Marvel Comics character. Most famous in the recent Avengers movies.

Otshirvani:

Now we get onto something a bit more interesting. Otshirvani comes from Siberian mythology. He is a creator god of light. There is a tale of Otshirvani being sent to fight the great serpent Losy. This foul beast had covered the world with his poison, killing many humans. To kill the serpent Otshirvani took on the form of a great eagle. He thence swooped down on the beast, grasping him in his talons before dashing him on the rocks of the great world mountain. 

Ninurta:

Ninurta was an Akkadian and Sumerian war and hunting god. He commonly wields a bow or sickle sword. Ninurta himself is not nesisarily depicted as a winged creature though one of the more famous reliefs of him shows a winged Ninurta fighting the griffon like creature Anzu. The defeat of Anzu was by no means one of Ninurta's only achievements but is seems to be one of the more widespread myths. In one of the recorded tales the lion headed eagle Anzu steals the Tablet of Destinies. Ninurta is sent to get back the Tablet as it has an account of all living thing on it. Anzu uses the knowledge on the Tablet to nullify Ninurta's arrows. Eventually Ninurta is able to defeat Anzu by severing his wings and pinning them to the ground with arrows.

More on Anzu can be found here and translations of some of Ninurta's exploits can be found here.

Copy of relief from Nimrud depicting Anzu (middle) pursued by Ninurta (right)