Gjallarhorn

About

Gjallarhorn is a fictional rocket launcher weapon introduce in the 2014 first-person shooter Destiny. The weapon is considered to be the strongest rocket launcher in the entire game that can be obtained either by purchasing it from Xur or as a random item drop in the game’s weekly strike missions.

Origin

On September 9th, 2014, Bungie released Destiny, where players can acquire Gjallahorn primarily via random item drop in the game’s weekly strike missions. The rocket launcher was designed by Feizel Crux as gift for the Guardians who fought at the battle of Twillight Gap. The weapon itself was forged using the armor of the Guardians who fell in battle. The rocket launcher can only be used by players who have reached level 20 or above and can be upgraded to increase the weapon’s stats.

Spread

Since its appearance, Gjallarhorn has been widely discussed on various websites, including Tumblr,^[1] 4chan,^[2] and reddit.^[3] On May 14th, 2015, Urban Dictionary user Kirito x 78 submitted an entry regarding the rocket launcher.^[4]
On June 20th, 2015 the Daily Destiny Videos Youtube channel posted a video of their top 5 funny reactions of players who obtained Gjallarhorn. The video gathered over 518.000 views in a month. On August 14th, 2015, Youtuber Mr. Fruit Gaming Channel posted a 60 second review of the rocket launcher which gathered over 138.000 views.

Gjallarhorn Day

On August 14th, 2015, it was discovered that Xur, one of weapon vendors in Destiny, was selling Gjallarhorn for the low price of 17 strange coins until August 16th. The discovery was reported by a number of news sites including Gamespot,^[5] Kotaku,^[6] The Verge,^[7] and VG24/7.^[8]

On the Destiny subreddit, users begun dubbing August 14th to be Gjallarhorn Day to celebrate the sell.^[10] On August 15th, redditor ghost posted stats regarding the subreddit’s traffic during the sell which gathered over 472 points (94% upvoted).^[9]