The other thread was in Broken Trinity page so I though we need something similar here. So, thread about these 13 artifacts and speculation of which could be the remaining ones.

So first one was kind of shown to us, a balance between Glacier and Ember Stone.

No problem. I like ancient artifacts and figuring out connections and all, be they real or fictional.

Like finding real life witchblade

A little update: Sonatine's artifact drops from being potential artifact, it is in fact related to Weave, it turned into bluish orb in Witchblade #58
In other news, Pyromancer, drops down in artifact list due do being a fire power, as we already have Fire represented in form of Ember Stone.

But shifting through Darkness hoping to find said items name, I spotted forgotten power written by current Witchblade writer Ron Marz

So new possible one of thirteen - The Smoke Dragons (official name unknown)

Not quite sure how it's related, but it turned into this orb and the flew by some dead persons reviving them. These persons later went where the weave was buried, and got killed. So I'm guessing it was some small part of Weave.

Not that I could find.

KillerZ this is a great thread! Love the old artifacts of the Witchblade.

By the way, ain't the Samurai used by Jackie and Ian Nothingham part of the 13 artifacts? its the sword that absorbs souls.

The Bloodsword, yes that is one of the thirteen. Curator handed it to Finnegan after Broken Trinity event, and sent him on a quest to find balance of his own.

It seems that curator has some plans for Finn, for if he finds the balance, he then possesses 3 artifacts.

In subject of artifacts that triangle pic is awful familiar to Holy grail box, and the sign of illuminati. Or could it be something different, an opposite of Grail? ...seeing as the triangle is inverted..

aww, thanx guys, but Comicman deserves credit too.

A character named Shine battled Pezzini few times, but Witchblade called him Betoig. Is he a character Witchblade fought previously, or is he something more? Maybe one of the 13...

cool, I just noticed that Top Cow have used these 13 artifact icons before, in Universe comics, never noticed them before now.

Symbols on the TV set

found another powerful character, He seems to be Kain....Cain (however you spell that) the first murderer world ever saw, he has lived tens of thousands years he even planned to end the world. Right know he is known as Baron, he appeared in Arcanum comics.

Top Cow with it's artifacts is cool world, other comic publisher also have some sort of collection of powerful artifacts, but they don't integrate them into their world as much as Cows do. I personally like that connection hinting thing they have going as well, like villains named Kenneth Irons and Gavin Taylor in witchblade book appear in Ascension. Or Darkness bearer Lord Cardinale, he's head that was cut of in Medieval Spawn and Witchblade crossover appears in Arcanum issues, along with villain named Royale. Actually in Arcanum most of cow-verse characters quest appear: Cyberforce, Sara Pezzini, Leviathan from Weapon Zero. ...Now I got myself all hyped out, and need to search more connections.

Edit:
And a connection I found... I wanted to post another speculation about Weave but found something more, something that I missed earlier. In Evo one-shot Tarsem speaks of his past, he traveled back in time, but a bit too much, he ended up tens of thousands years. It's better to explain it with his own words from that comic.

 "Since then I lay, powerless and dreaming, until ironically a burst of your power awakened me.*"

and that * had an explanation "as seen in family ties crossovers years back". So we got a confirmation that that entity released from bonding Darkness and Witchblade, is in fact Weave, a child if you will. I had a suspicion about it, because the word-play used by Top Cow. Family Ties cross over ended with words "The game is only beginning", and Weave appeared in crossover "Endgame".

 

I started thinking again, about the first 7 and then the 13. What if, when devil talked to Tom Judge about the seven artifacts, there only was 7. But an old prophecy talked about 13, even had the scroll of 13 made. One day new artifacts started to appear: Weave was created by union of witchblade and darkness. Seeing how Spear of Destiny wasn't in original 7. maybe it received some extra power that rose it to the level of 13 artifacts...maybe we were even shown that...

Nothing come to mind when I look at that tattoo, seems Celtic though.

there are lots of rectangles, might be related to that artifact somehow.

Edit: now thinking more about it. It would be cool if Top Cow hinted about the remaining artifacts that way.

After rereading one of Top Cows comics, Cursed. I started to wonder what if the Osiris Amulet is one of the 13 as well, and how far is Shan finding in all the pieces.

Tiny update:

Who is this mysterious guy, and what is his relations to the thirteen.

Well what i understood from Witchblade #125, is that this guy represents the Darkness, hence him fighting the Angelus. It seems slighly odd though since it should be Jackie Estacado who stands there instead of the old guy, but since jackie kinda lost his Darkness powers and the writers said there wouldn't be any major cross-overs in this arc that they solve it this way?

" It seems that curator has some plans for Finn, for if he finds the balance, he then possesses 3 artifacts.

In subject of artifacts that triangle pic is awful familiar to Holy grail box, and the sign of illuminati. Or could it be something different, an opposite of Grail? ...seeing as the triangle is inverted..

Edit: And another potential artifact the Black Pearl aka Demon Gem. User can transform into different dragon-like creature, inhibiting super-human strenght and durability (withstands an explosion of a fuel truck). It was what first brought Lara Croft and Sara Pezzini together.

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Look at the tatoo of David Worthy . That was the symbole of the holy Grail itself or of the people wich drank from the grail something like that , and it looks very similar to the symbole of the triangle . So the theory that the triangle is the grail could be right.
 

The biggest questions would be what makes a given artefact one of the Thirtheen? I mean the bloodsword was created by a mortal, a shaman who bound a demon in the blade and yet it is considered one of the thirtheen. This leads to speculate origin has nothing to do with it. The Angelus and the Darkness are primordial creations from before humanity while the Bloodsword is clearly at least periphically a product of humanity as was the Rapture whom, if memory serves me right (please correct me if I'm wrong), was created by a mortal alchemist.  
 
I also wonder if these thirtheen artefacts are the most important items in the universe, could there still be items of lesser power? For that matter, are these purported 13 artefacts really the most important or just part of an ensemble linked by destiny? 
 
That said can anyone compile a list for me of the artefacts that have been officially recognized as part of the Thirteen?

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still I wonder, as said above, what makes an artifact one of the thirteen specially? What criteria and are there other similar artifact sets or other less important artifacts for that matter...