if we are trying to make master-craft knights to trade, would not be a good idea make they as durable and/or make the manutention as easy as possible? since if give enough time is possible to a weapon to 'ascend' to a high degree(I believe that was one of the way to make a low artifact, I am blaming the warp for this effect) or, after sound-out, allowing the more loyal, skilled and rich of the noble of that planet buy custom knights (and only when they are custom for the family since we want they do gather 'points' to possible become stronger, and also help the decedents of that family), can we also do a sound out to see what else we can put in those things (example to the 'hero units' we put wards), this is more or less what I think that could help
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Not really, each knight is already made to the highest standards though I can't say I've thought much about how much customisation goes into each and I'm pretty sure we could start a project for warding Knight Titans...? Maybe.
How they end up in the hands of individual knight houses is up to the Aesir (we just make them) if that's even how they do it for all we know Sigurd just brings us contracts from the houses.
Going by Sigurd's back story it looks like he went around the knights and eventually his first knight (Borr's Fury) accepted him. Whether they were the knights of his house or all the Aesire's knights as a whole I know not.
As for customisation, I think knights are reconfigurable and modular (to an extent, I can't change a Castellen into an Errant), but even then again from Sigurd's back story it seems to be, a wand choosing the wizard scenario (or the knight choosing the precept) so the Aesire may just have to make do with what ever Knight says I like.
In any case "ascending" a relic is done in a few ways as far as I can see.
Materials/crafting, Badassery/age and BS.
These can be done in any and all of the above ways.
The Svartsfar and presumable any skilled enough craftsman can make a lesser relic this is the most common way.
Badasery/age is just that the older something is it tends to grow into a relic and if someone badass uses it, or it is used in a badass way by someone then it too ascends.
BS is the one where you just throw your hands in the air and say it workds just live with it, like the Black Crystal Blade and Drach'Neyn.
Still relics can be anything, but my guess is size matters, we only have one example of a relic knight Garm, which is a Knight from the DAoT that the Aesire have managed to keep all this time. We also have the Skidblangir, the Vanir battleship, which was their flag ship until they got the Gungir, which was also from the DAoT with a Ragnarok canon.
Relics also have tiers IIRC with lesser, medium, Greater? and artefact.
Oh, just a though, is true that this can invade the territory of the true artist of the 10 planets but, they have gigante weapons to be use by the knights? (I believe that yes they have, they are here too long to not have this idea of easy money of nobles) if so can we gather to see what the best things that a gigante robot need to use their stuff and doing that make the better pilot/robot/equipment that we can possible combine?
Generally the thing that Ascends is the core of the giant stompy machine (at least as far as Titans are concerned) that is important and grows, the machine spirit in other words. That's the important bit.
In any case your easy money scheme doesn't work as knights come with their guns attached
