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Everything between these two lines will show up - An Excalibur is a Long Sword-class weapon that appears in Golden Sun: The Lost Age and Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. In both titles, it is the rarest-occurring of the possible items that may be offered to the player whenever an Orihalcon is brought to the blacksmith of each respective game - Sunshine in Yallam or Obaba in Champa. It is intended as a weapon that comes close to the Sol Blade as one of the game's best weapons, with a base Attack increase of 180 approaching the 200 and 210-strong attack values of the Sol Blade and Darksword, respectively, and an Unleash effect named Legend that has a chance to triple its own resultant damage, damage derived from a physical strike that carries a sizable base damage increase to begin with. However, in The Lost Age, its comparative worth is slightly held back by the element of its Unleash not naturally aligning with the innate elemental alignments of any of the four Long Sword-wielding Adepts - Isaac, Felix, Garet, and Piers - but its worth suffers far more in Dark Dawn in comparison, where only Matthew and Tyrell can equip it, and three far less-valuable Unleashes have the chance to unleash instead of Legend because of the game's revised unleash system, leading to far more rarely-occurring bursts of enormous damage from this weapon than previously.

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