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I’d let wiki give a rundown, but skilgannon has about three lines. Even Druss only has a parapgraph. Its a travesty I tells ya!

Quick bit of background on Skilgannon.

Wielding the Swords of Night and Day, both swords possesed by demons, and having trained from a young age with swordmasters and dancers to push his agilty as far as it could go, and then some. Skilgannon beat his swordmaster at the age of 14, and went on to greater feats when his foster family were killed during a coup.

He went on to be the general of an all conquering army, only once meeting his match on the battlefield. No-one before or since has come close to matching Skilganon. Barring His own magically cloned and enhanced son. And skilgannon beat him too.

Master of the dual wielding style, tactician and martial artist, without the swords he is merely deadly. With them, he is unbeatable.

So, presuming Drizzt with his swords versus skilgannon with his own… Who comes out on top?

What kind of info do you need?

I have both books that will tell you anything about his life nearby.Battles, feats, Gods, comparisons.

Baring in mind he lives in a realistic world, where if a single man faces an army he will die, and where sieges usually end in huge, if not total, casualties for the defended, Skilgannon has only died once, in his 70’s, mere feet away from the king of the opposing army, having lead a charge of around a hundred men into an army outnumbering them ten to one.

And he came back to life because of magic, thousands of years later, in a world ruled by magic.

He went on to outwit what was essentially an evil batman with magic and minions, two blasts from the past and an army of were-creatures.

..Oh, and the true love of his life wants his dead.

Oh, just wanted to say thank you Mr Admin for making this battle

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It is annoying at times how little coverage Gammels characters get online, especially with the wealth of information one can find on eragon, which as literature rates just below fanfic crossovers of DBZ and Pokemon.

The swords enhance skilgannons already impressive speed and skill to a higher level. With them in his possesion he had made mockeries of master swordsmen, and taken on 6 skilled warriors without a wound being struck against him.

What their penetrative capabilities are its hard to say, but their “buffs” alone make him a deadly foe.

On top of that they are superbly crafted weapons, both short sabers, so easily dual-wieldable.

He also has a small shuirken-like weapon, but I can’t see that it would have any effect in this match

*i said reason, i meant to say reasons

BTW, this is an example of a future rocket scientist:

“The better swordman wins.”

/sarcasm

As soon as you mess up….

Skilgannon doesn’t need armour, he is that fast! Does this armour cover his throat, his face, his extremities? No, then he’s dead!

also to your drawing his swords problems maybe the scabbards are slit along the top edge so he only has to draw them half way be fore he can pull them out
oh geez i just realized i spelled menzoberanzan without any help i got watch a ufc match or something

Like Jianna said after the battle with Boranius: ‘There is no-one he cannot beat. He is Skilgannon.’
i don’t know who the other guy is, yet. i’m will read one of the books he stars in. but there’s no doubt in my mind that should they meet, skilgannon would come out on top, he always does(even in his fifties he raised Hell).

@AHEM

i’m pretty sure that the swords of night and day not only increase his skills and speed and strength but also his senses which, by the way, are already buffed by the illusion of elsewhere.

If neither one of them used any magic, including using normal swords, they would be pretty evenly matched. Skilgannon is the best swordsman to have lived in his world in centuries, and for centuries thereafter. Drizzt is very close to being the best in his world, but his world has a higher limit on swordsmanship, which brings them to pretty darn even.

With their magic swords included Skilgannon gets the nod though. His swords are just simply far more powerful and improve the wielders abilities far more than Drizzt’s do.

With all magic included the nod goes to Drizzt since he has more than enough magic equipment and abilities to balance with Skilgannon again, plus he has a magic panther ally which has to be included because she is summoned via a simple magic item. Even the Skilgannon could destroy the panther easily, he still would have to deal with her while dealing with Drizzt, and that would be sufficient advantage for Drizzt to take him.

So my conclusion is that it depends on the rules of the match.

I don’t know much about that panther but Skilgannon has cut down joinings with relative ease, so Drizzt might as well not bother summoning it.

Skilgannon would take this battle because of his kinship to Decado the Ice killer. His bloodline says it all

hmm, you guys bring some very important points here.

But Skilgannon is anything but inexperienced. You see, some 40 years, or so, after the events of White Wolf, Skilgannon was killed in battle. He was about 70 and he still managed to kill the invading king. A thousand years later Skligannon was ressurected and played an important part in helping defeat The Eternal’s Army and bring peace to the Drenai world. Although there’s no such thing there.

In beetween his death and ressurection, Skilgannon spent his time in the Void (similar to Purgatory). In here he had to fight against demons and the such to survive and not be vanquished.

Basically Skilgannon has the fighting experience of two lifetimes and from his time in the Void.

Now the dodging crossbow bolts is an interesting problem. All I have to go on is comparisons.

Druss the legend, an axeman of unsurpassed skill and strength, though slower than Skilgannon, was able to cut an arrow from the air with a heavy, two handed battle axe. At the age of around seventy.

Skilgannon, in this match, would be in the prime of his life, with far better speed behind his arms and almost instantaneous reactions. Now this isn’t quite incontrovertible evidence, buts certainly worth considering. Is Skilgannon fast enough to cut a bolt from midair at range?

I just finished reading “The Swords of Night And Day” and i’m a big Gemmell fan. I’ve also read The Icewind Dale Trilogy so I know a little about the drow elf. Skilgannon as invincible as he seems would have been killed by Boranius twice if not for help. In their first fight he was saved by a soldier who threw a spear and distracted Boranius, and in the second fight the Joining Orastes had taken a sizeably chunk out of Boranius and he was not at 100%. In “The Swords of Night And Day”, Decado would have killed Skilgannon if he had not fought alongside him and come to honor and respect him. So there are two fighters who are more skilled than Skilgannon and he himself knew this. In a fight like this Drizzt would not use any of his magic or tricks just he didn’t use any when he fought Entreri the assassin. It would be a straight up blade against blade fight. The fact is that Drizzt has waaay more experience than Skilgannon. Some people speak of Skilgannon’s time fighting demons but he can’t even remember much of this so this would not count. And who are these demons anyway, are any of them impressive in any way? It would be a very good fight but if I had to pick a winner then I’d have to go with Drizzt as he’s just crazy and everyone knows crazy people always wins. And yes i’m crazy too

“Skilgannon as invincible as he seems would have been killed by Boranius twice if not for help”

Boranius, both times, was wielding magical weapons far in excess of Skilgannons own, so thats somewhat of an unfair comparison.

And I believe, so was Decado in the future. Skilgannon still held his own and more against the both of them, often giving back just as many wounds as he took.

“Some people speak of Skilgannon’s time fighting demons but he can’t even remember much of this so this would not count.”

Its more about his skill prior to that. He was fighting these demons for thousands of years, and its clear from the stat of his mind and soul (Both being strong even when he was resurrected) that he’[s barely had any ill effects. The demons have been spoken of before. The Rajnee for one, the Dukes for another. He’s lived that long in a world filled with horrors beyond imagining. And he’s lost none of his skill. Thats, to me, speaks of impressive skill indeed. More than enough to deal with an upstart elf.

All of Gemmells characters are like this. Men of legend in a world of fighters, indomitable spirits in mortal form that fight impossible odds and win, not through overpowered items or the power of love, but through sheer badassery. There is no books series I can ever recommend more than his version of the Trojan War.

Skilgannon is probably the best swordfighter in the set though. there are others who are fantastic (Bane the bastard, Culain the Lord of the Lance), but Skilgannon… he’s something special.

Have read both series,and its a close match, and as has been pointed out before, both fighters have faced better swords men, Drizzt with his father and Entreri (just) also do we know how good Jarxle really is? and Skill would have been bested by Boranious the weilder of the swords of blood and fire, Also i’d be inclined to say Decado might have been better too,

its too close to call and i’d go with drizzt purely on the fact he has mithrill armour,

what would be a good fight is Druss the legen and wulfgar!!!!!!

Hmm… Its never been known for armour to stand up to the Blades of Night and Day, indeed the swords have cut through magical crystal before now, but then there are no (to my knowledge) magical armours in the Drenai series, other than the armour of bronze.

Is it a special mithril armour, or “just” made of mithril?
As in, does it have other magical properties?

“It would cut through mithril without much problem like the crystal and other armours, however, its not so much the strength of the armour against the swords its the fact that in htese epic battles there are always nicks and cuts on each combatant because they cant get a stronge heavy hit, so i think the armour would give a fair bit of extra protection from light contact hits,”

Hmm, a good point. A really strong, direct blow would still likely be fatal, but against light nicks it might be an important advantage.

I’m currently leaning just slightly towards Skilgannon, maybe 6/10 victories for him. Hard match to call.

Erm, I still think Skilgannon has the edge here. Though it would be close, very close indeed. In the end I think that Drizzt would be on the defensive for most of the fight, but I believe the key factor in the end would be stamina, or rather the lack of.