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The Gaze of the Abyss
- Feb 2007
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- Alchemist and Neo-American Redneck Buddhist
- Frozen Northern Michigan, near Thunder Bay
- Where are the tweezers?
Re: Help me name my sword.
That's a lovely one!
A friend of mine has one very similar - but the blade on yours looks considerably longer. Very nice!
Got no help on a name, though.
P.S. Do you know how to use it?Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.
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Banned!
- Oct 2012
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It's a bastard sword so yes it's pretty long.
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I'm not an expert but I was quite a tom boy, so I played with toy swords (and even some blunt real ones) when I was younger. I need to build up a bit more strength to use this for any length of time tho. I'm rather tall for a girl, so it's not like I'm some tiny person trying to wield a long-sword.
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The Gaze of the Abyss
- Feb 2007
- 9295
- Alchemist and Neo-American Redneck Buddhist
- Frozen Northern Michigan, near Thunder Bay
- Where are the tweezers?
Re: Help me name my sword.
LOL - you'll be surprised. It isn't lack of strength right now, although it feels like it.
The actual thing you're experiencing is that you haven't practiced enought to coordinate your muscles to do specific tasks together - they're trying, but, like an unpracticed rowing teem, the end up pulling at cross purposes, wasting more energy than they actually use for the task. Once you get the basic movements down, you wil not feel a whole lot of muscle fatigue... until later.
If you haven't tried them, and might be interested in checking it out, I recommend Fighting with the German Longsword, by Christian Henry Tobler, for the so-called German style (my preference because I like German sounding terms better than Italian sounding terms), or The Swordsman's Companion: A Modern Training Manual for Medieval Longsword, by Guy Windsor for the "Italian style" (funny that Guy teaches southern style in Helsinki).
Both are excellent.
The sport is very popular with women - just try not to end up in battlefield wrestling - if you are small, it's pretty hopeless...Every moment of a life is a horrible tragedy, a slapstick comedy, dark nihilism, golden illumination, or nothing at all; depending on how we write the story we tell ourselves.
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Right now I'm toying with the name:
'Dusk Rarity'
Other ideas include:
'Zombie' naming it after what it will kill, lol.
'Vorpal' naming it after the blade that slew the jabberwocky.
I have two other swords.
One is called: 'The Wish'
The other is called: 'Odin's eye poker'
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I quite like Fluffy but no I couldn't.
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- "The best ideas often come from the worst minds."
Re: Help me name my sword.
Originally posted by MTNightJoane View Postit is a male or female? :-)
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After watching 'How to train your dragon' last night (an awesome film if you've not already seen it) I am a little tempted to call it 'Night Fury'.
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Also considering 'Avacyn' after the mtg card character. Mostly because she looks like Taylor Momsen and I'd like to name the sword after her but Taylor and Momsen are both rubbish names for a sword.
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- Aug 2012
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If it is a male, I think you should call him Akkarin But if it is a female??? Uh, I don't know... but Avacyn sounds great too!! (and it's very close to Akkarin)~ flowers are our only garments
only songs make our pain subside ~
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Sr. Member
- Aug 2012
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- aztec beliefs
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- No limit may be set to art, neither is there any craftsman that is fully master of his craft.
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Not really, he's a character from a great fantasy book I once read... and I just like sound of it, that's all.~ flowers are our only garments
only songs make our pain subside ~
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PF Ordo Hereticus
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Akroma
/10charlife itself was a lightsaber in his hands; even in the face of treachery and death and hopes gone cold, he burned like a candle in the darkness. Like a star shining in the black eternity of space.
Yoda: Dark Rendezvous
"But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."
John Rowlands, The Grey King by Susan Cooper
"You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve", said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; be content."
Aslan, Prince Caspian by CS Lewis
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