It is, of course, for my novel. Both weapons in questions are shaped basically rifles, as they are used by humanoids; I’d been using the word “shock-stave” for the electrical weapon but am considering changing.
For the electricity-based weapons, I’m vacillating between a phonetically-spelled variants of Mjöllnir and Gromoviti znaci. But I’d welcome other concepts.
For the fire weapon, I currently have nothing, as I decided to look into changing it only this morning.
The best possible word would be the weapons of fire and storm gods/demons Mjöllnir is nearly ideal, but I’d like to avoid adding another word from Norse (or Greco-Roman) myth.
I just thought of a variant of that: *Logi *was the name of the incarnation of fire against whom the trickster Loki lost an eating contest while in Jotunheim. It has the virtue of being brief but the drawback of being Norse.
Also has the disadvantage of sounding like something gross.
Surtr had a flaming sword - also Norse.
Gabriel was apparently the angel guarding Eden and also had a flaming sword.
from wikipedia: Vajra: the thunderbolt weapon of Indra, who is the God of Thunder and Lightning, akin to Zeus and Jupiter in Greek and Roman mythology.
Agniyastra: the fire weapon, incepted by God Agni, master of the flames.
There’s an old Swedish word you may be able to bastardize slightly: ‘torar’. Verb, present tense, basically means Thor’s up to his usual noisy and annoying stuff (lit. Thor-ing). Twist it a bit and you’ll get torir (TOO-rir), which has the added benefit of sounding more, um, Norse. Plus it’s not already taken;)
There’s also Rym or Hrym (English page doesn’t mention storms, the Swedish one does, however), the giant of storms that sailed the ship Nagelfar at Rangarök.
Fire related suggestions: from Egyptian mythology I offer Ptah, creator and god of fire. Stretching a bit, you could go for solar deities, such as the Vedic Surya (note similarity to Surtur) or my favourite so far, Svarog - the Slavic solar deity and spirit of fire.
To go a bit farther afield, there’s “Xiuhcoatl”, the “Fire Serpent” (or “Turquoise Serpent”), the atlatl wielded in some representations of Huitzilopochtli, Aztec god of war and the sun. The name also refers to a fire serpent that evidently was a distinct entity, a personification of drought and scorched earth related to the worship of Xiuhtecuhtli.
I can’t find the name of Surtr’s sword; so far as I can see it wasn’t named. Also, as you know the story I’m talking about, you might appreciate that there’s already an entire species named after a Norse character.
I’ve told you in PM why that actually works better than anything I had thought of. Does anybody know whether the first syllable of “vajra” is pronounced “vahj” “vej,” or “vayj”?