Lady of the Lake achievement

[LEGACY]

As a female character, give a companion character a great sword.

For a long time I couldn't get this achievement to work. But I finally figured it out.
And because only 3% has this easy achievement I'm sure more people will find this useful.

The way to get this achievement is to place the Great Sword in the first / top spot of the inventory of a companion. The other 3 spots will NOT work.

[Odibey]

Thanks

[Son Goku]

Wow thanks that is really helpful.

[Junoh]

Thanks.

[White Knight]

Good to know. tnx

[Gridranger]

It was very helpful, ty. I experienced however that you could only get the achievement if you put the Great Sword in the first slot of the inventory of a companion that had no Great Sword before. If he had a Great Sword in his other slots before you put one in (or relocate that to) the first slot the achievement will not trigger.

It also worth to mention that the Great Sword can be in any condition, so not only the plain Great Sword, but chipped or temperd ones are fine to fulfill the achievement.

[hallowblade1]

This achievement is a bit bugued,
as a female char, I gave the same Great Sword to 3 or 4 male characters, always the same first slot, and only managed to get the achievement at the 4th character.

So I sugest to try again until you get it.
Good luck and have fun.

[Gamer Supreme]

Really? I got it the first time I played a female character, I didn't know it was such an elusive achievement

[White Knight]

Originally posted by Lowly Noob:

Really? I got it the first time I played a female character, I didn't know it was such an elusive achievement

I imagine most people find it confusing because when they hear "Lady of the Lake" and "a Great Sword", they automatically think of Excalibur. Since there are no "great swords" like Excalibur, even if they tried it with Nad and Draguandil, etc. it wouldn't work.

On top of that, you have the quirky specifics about which slot to put it into before you put it anywhere else.

So, if what you say is true, then you got lucky - good for you. Statistically speaking, a certain number of people had to have stumbled upon the solution accidentally.

This achievement is currently at 2.3% on global achievements...that makes it "elusive".

[Gamer Supreme]

Right, I don't think what I said warranted an insult on my intelligence, but the point was that it was unknown to me that there were so many specifics to getting the achievement. When I went to get it I just bought a Greatsword and gave it to Firentis.

[Serpol]

Thanks.

[Darth Burger]

Thanks from me also. Gave chipped great sword to Alayen; no achievement. Took all items from all his weapon slots, put the same sword in the first slot; instant achievement. Go figure.

[JtDarth]

Originally posted by White Knight:

Originally posted by Lowly Noob:

Really? I got it the first time I played a female character, I didn't know it was such an elusive achievement

I imagine most people find it confusing because when they hear "Lady of the Lake" and "a Great Sword", they automatically think of Excalibur. Since there are no "great swords" like Excalibur, even if they tried it with Nad and Draguandil, etc. it wouldn't work.

On top of that, you have the quirky specifics about which slot to put it into before you put it anywhere else.

So, if what you say is true, then you got lucky - good for you. Statistically speaking, a certain number of people had to have stumbled upon the solution accidentally.

This achievement is currently at 2.3% on global achievements...that makes it "elusive".

Oh look, another person who is assuming everyone plays VC.
Your imaginings only apply to the smaller portion of the userbase that started out with VC.
For those that played native, it is very obvious what sword is being referred to as 'a great sword'. Although, I'm not certain it requires a great sword to trigger, it may well trigger off of any two handed sword. Can't exactly remove the achievement to test what triggers it.

I got it by giving a two handed sword to Ymira, iirc, specifically to gain that achievement.

Furthermore, the wording of the achievement does not place any specific emphasis on the great sword bit, meaning, that it isn't intended for people to assume it to be a named legendary weapon, especially obvious since it is a native achievement, which may well be why people are having issues obtaining it, since they are liable to be playing mods or VC, while the achievement is likely restricted to specific two-handed swords from native.

There are other achievements that reference Arthurian legend, and none of them are so specific as to attempt to match up with the actual context of the legend.

[Ins]

When I gave the greatsword I had to wait for a while until the achievement triggered.
It took a few seconds of speeding up time.

[Nobbonius Knobby]

So I have a couple hours on mount and blade only about 100. But I only have 4 achievements. Do they get turned off with cheats enabled?

[JtDarth]

Originally posted by Mallet Care:

So I have a couple hours on mount and blade only about 100. But I only have 4 achievements. Do they get turned off with cheats enabled?

IIRC, yes. IIRC, it doesn't actually flag your save though, so all you have to do to re-enable achievements on an existing save is disable cheats.