Building the Avelyn

[your biological stepmom]

Greetings, fellow PC master race Dark Souls players!
I am a 17 year old studying engineer and physicist, son of an engineer and former woodworker, and a huge fan of Dark Souls. If you've ever wondered how an Avelyn works, I might have the answer for you.
I am currently working on a few theories regarding the mechanism inside the Avelyn. If I see enough support, I will work on a 3d model of the mechanism, and further yet, if I see that people take great interest, my father and I are going to build a fully functioning, real life, home-made Avelyn.
I have recently took to reddit where I have made a post about the Avelyn. If you have anything you want to ask or say, please refer to this link and tell me what you think about my project!
Thanks for your interest and your time,
-Snuggs
Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/52reg1/the_mechanism_of_an_avelyn/

[Mac 👁️ 👁]

I'd ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ love to see a real life functioning avelyn

[Mac 👁️ 👁]

But how..? Aint it 3 crossbows on top if eachother, 1 thing to trigger all 3 but they shoot a little while after eachother, a weird nearly impossible reload mechanic and much more crazy dark souls ♥♥♥♥?

[your biological stepmom]

Nothing is impossible! It's just going to take a lot of time to design and build.

[Marty]

Search up the japanesse (or chinesse, dunno) repeating crossbow, pretty sure that is what the avelyn is inspired by. The avelyn itself wouldn't really work, and if it did, it would be either weak or too slow to reload.

[your biological stepmom]

It doesn't need to be practical. It's from a video game! As much as I'm frustrated about unrealism in video games, when you create a weapon that appears in a video game you need to take into consideration that it's not going to be an ingenius weapon that can be really used, it just has to look cool. There are so many ways the Avelyn could magnificently fail and break apart, but all you need is one way that makes it not the worst thing ever and you've got yourself a weapon suitable for gaming.

[Vinyltavia]

You're gonna be my damned hero if you make this work.
Expect me to buy one and hang it on a wall with bolts included.

[Player117]

Woah, this is pretty ambitious project. Looking forward for it, OP.

[Vinyltavia]

*concerned obsession intensifies*

[Krono]

That'll be cool OP, even if it obviously won't function exactly as it does in the game

[Jamchow]

... *Subscribes to thread*

[your biological stepmom]

Thanks for taking interest! Once again, I'll porbably be more attentive to the reddit post than this one, but I'll still post major updates here. Make sure to spread the word!

[your biological stepmom]

Originally posted by Vinyltavia:

You're gonna be my damned hero if you make this work.
Expect me to buy one and hang it on a wall with bolts included.

I've mailed Bandai and asked them if selling those (if they ever even pass the prototype test) would be problematic. Waiting for a response.
At any rate, don't expect to see those up for sale. Even my lowest estimates imply building a single prototype, fanciness not included, would take immense effort, so the chance of building more than one is very low.

[Vinyltavia]

Originally posted by A Knight who says ni:

Originally posted by Vinyltavia:

You're gonna be my damned hero if you make this work.
Expect me to buy one and hang it on a wall with bolts included.

I've mailed Bandai and asked them if selling those (if they ever even pass the prototype test) would be problematic. Waiting for a response.
At any rate, don't expect to see those up for sale. Even my lowest estimates imply building a single prototype, fanciness not included, would take immense effort, so the chance of building more than one is very low.

i don't think you understand how bad I want one :\

[your biological stepmom]

Originally posted by Vinyltavia:

Originally posted by A Knight who says ni:

I've mailed Bandai and asked them if selling those (if they ever even pass the prototype test) would be problematic. Waiting for a response.
At any rate, don't expect to see those up for sale. Even my lowest estimates imply building a single prototype, fanciness not included, would take immense effort, so the chance of building more than one is very low.

i don't think you understand how bad I want one :\

As it stands, I am not entirely sure the aesthetics of the Avelyn are even possible, since it might prove problematic to design a crossbow as thick and heavy and still functional. I'll try my best, but don't expect to get one any time soon.

[Vinyltavia]

Originally posted by A Knight who says ni:

Originally posted by Vinyltavia:

i don't think you understand how bad I want one :\

As it stands, I am not entirely sure the aesthetics of the Avelyn are even possible, since it might prove problematic to design a crossbow as thick and heavy and still functional. I'll try my best, but don't expect to get one any time soon.

... i am a very patient man when it comes to good things that can wait.