Have you seen those warriors from Hammerfell? They’ve got curved swords.
Curved! Swords!
BIG. Curved penises.
Sword but very curved and yet not very famous
(Ethiopian shotel)Pretty famous among FromSoft fans.
Well i’m not one of them.
Just how long is that? I struggle to calculate it from what I see.
Blade is around 1 meter long.
That looks way longer
It do looks longer than it is because of proportions. It’s very thin and the handle is pretty short compared to European blades because the blade is also very light so it don’t need much counterweight.
Probably the round thing (a shield?) fooled us both. For me it looked like a two-hander.
This looks more like a scythe that doubles as a weapon to me
It was probably inspired by Egyptian khopesh since it was used in Ethiopia even before the kingdom of Axum. Thing is, the blade is sharp on both sides. So you could either use its inner side as big sickle to reach around enemy shield and try for the weak spots like neck, face or armpits, or if the enemy didn’t had a shield you could turn it to outer side and in this case it was similar to Persian shamshir in being excellent weapon against unarmored opponents.
Two more interesting thing about it was 1: the designs varies greatly, most were shorter and wider, the curvature also varied; and 2: it apparently worked quite well considering it has been in use for possibly over 2500 years and some Ethiopian emperors even organised special elite units wielding it.
Hey, have you seen those Japanese? They have curved swords. Curved… Swords…!
Persians absolutely malding right now.
Psst… hail Sithis.
Real swords have curves 😤
The same guy would write a five-page essay about how much similar curved swords like scimitars and sabres suck, and might actually die if he is shown a khopesh or a shotel.
are you trying to imply something about my boy shashka?
Well it’s no 1896 pattern light cavalry saber…
InFeRiOr ErOpEaN WeApOnS!1
To be fair it is sharp enough to cut through atoms and space time destroying the fabric of reality allowing you to turn back time to the Big Bang and reshape the universe in your image.
How about make it straight for a bit, then it do a little back curve near the end?
Althoigh this sword\katana discourse is all known at that point, I can’t help myself but adding rapier at the western side to spice things up.
Would rapier\katana comparison work better?
Why not both.
