Hey, now everyone is really bright. I liked the somber dark colors of the second render better. You might try lighting the swords, doing a render, then doing an object mask. Cut the lights down to about 20% and do a regular render. Keeping some light on the swords will make the figures and clothes look like they're picking up some light from them. Open your lighted render in paintshop or photoshop and use the object mask to cut and paste the glowing swords into the lower lighted render. You could also do a fully lighted render and remove everything but the swords. You could kick up the haze in the atmosphere and make a halo around the light in the swords. Then just paste the lighted image over the regular at around 50% transparency.