So he made new ones, but there was no reason to do them exactly the same, right?
Who holds Coinspinner knows good odds
Whichever move he make
But the Sword of Chance, to please the gods
Slips from him like a snake.
Coinspinner. The Sword Of Luck. Fantastic luck in fact. Since the Contract would have the Sword bound to him, it would just vanish from his grasp whenever things were going TOO good for him. Then the bad luck would hit.
The Sword of Justice balances the pans
Of right and wrong, and foul and fair.
Eye for an eye, Doomgiver scans
The fate of all folk everywhere.
Doomgiver was one of the more potentially powerful Swords, but Justice wasn't a concept he really understood that much. Well, he thought he'd done a pretty good job of duplicating the original sword.
Dragonslicer, Dragonslicer, how d'you slay?
Reaching for the heart in behind the scales.
Dragonslicer, Dragonslicer, where do you stay?
In the belly of the giant that my blade impales.
That one was a little more tricky. In the original world the swords had been in, dragons were just large heavily armored carnivores without intelligence. In the greater multiverse, dragons of that sort were actually a bit of a rarity. In the Naruto world - there weren't any dragons, though a few humans had dragon-like transformational forms due to jutsu or bloodlines and the like. So, Dragonslicer would kill snakes and similar creatures. That was a little more useful at least.
Farslayer howls across the world
For thy heart, for thy heart, who hast wronged me!
Vengeance is his who casts the blade
Yet he will in the end no triumph see.
Against typical genin or chunin, Farslayer would be overkill and not very amusing. On the other hand, a sword through the heart would be a temporary inconvenience to Madara or Orochimaru and a few others. No, there really wasn't a good reason to modify Farslayer. Naruto wouldn't be inclined to use it much anyway.
Whose flesh the Sword of Mercy hurts has drawn no breath;
Whose soul it heals has wandered in the night,
Has paid the summing of all debts in death
Has turned to see returning light.
Woundhealer was a sword that would fit in well with this setting. And it would be a lot funnier with people who could get squished and then show up again later.
The Mindsword spun in the dawn's gray light
And men and demons knelt down before.
The Mindsword flashed in the midday bright
Gods joined the dance, and the march to war.
It spun in the twilight dim as well
And gods and men marched off to hell.
The Mindsword was definitely one to modify, but that was easily done and carried some amusement values. Oh yes. That could certainly be modified a bit.
I shatter Swords and splinter spears;
None stands to Shieldbreaker.
My point's the fount of orphans' tears
My edge the widowmaker.
With that many Taijutsu specialists, Shieldbreaker's weakness against unarmed combat was a serious liability. Unless of course, Taijutsu itself counted as a weapon. It still wouldn't be very amusing though if it simply lopped off people's limbs. So having it dispel itself whenever the opposing weapon was gone would do.
The Sword of Stealth is given to
One lonely and despised.
Sightblinder's gifts: his eyes are keen
His nature is disguised.
No changes were really needed, it fit the setting pretty well without tweaking.
The Tyrant's Blade no blood hath spilled
But doth the spirit carve
Soulcutter hath no body killed
But many left to starve.
This one was a bit more difficult. With the summoning contract, the Sword would vanish when Naruto no longer put forth the 'maintenance fee' in chakra. Still, it really didn't seem to have much purpose going for it and was a decidedly unfunny effect. Still, it could be tweaked just a bit to make it a little less of a downer on the rare occasion it would come up.
The Sword of Siege struck a hammer's blow
With a crash, and a smash, and a tumbled wall.
Stonecutter laid a castle low
With a groan, and a roar, and a tower's fall.
This Sword also had no particular need to be tweaked to fit into the setting as it was. A supreme blade to use against Earth Release jutsu, adding that it could parry projectiles of stone was merely for the sake of completeness.
Long roads the Sword of Fury makes
Hard walls it builds around the soft
The fighter who Townsaver takes
Can bid farewell to home and croft.
The whole bit about being a savior of towns and forced to wander the roads didn't make a lot of sense, unless one was trying to appeal to the irony factor. Adding a function where bursts of insight concerning defense strategies could occur was merely trying to coax more use of it.
Who holds Wayfinder finds good roads
Its master's step is brisk.
The Sword of Wisdom lightens loads
But adds unto their risk.
Since this was basically a Luck-curse where the 'good choice' led to complications, there really wasn't a need to change things there either.
Toltiir wasn't really satisfied with these Twelve though. Well, he could always add a Sword to address those concerns later.
In the meantime he could focus on Tenten's Summoning Contract, which was:
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