Why do Breton 1h swords have such large grips on their hilts?
Eraldus
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Seriously, they look so disproportionate in those swords... They have the same size of two handed variants, lol.
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CMDR_Un1k0rn✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Not gonna' lie but Breton swords look really cool on the hip.In-game username: Un1korn | Happy member of the PCNA UESP guild (Resident Daggerfall Covenant enjoyer) | Main & basically only character: Crucian Vulpin, Imperial Dragonknight of the Daggerfall Covenant, and Undaunted Bulwark (I tank) | Mountain bike enjoyer and vulpine appreciator | If you know me from PCEU: No | To ZOS: THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME BRING MY HORSE INTO BATTLE!0 -
Vulsahdaal✭✭✭✭✭
✭CMDR_Un1k0rn wrote: »Not gonna' lie but Breton swords look really cool on the hip.
Yeah, but did you see those warriors from Hammerfell? They have curved swords. Curved... swords...6 -
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✭✭Vulsahdaal wrote: »CMDR_Un1k0rn wrote: »Not gonna' lie but Breton swords look really cool on the hip.
Yeah, but did you see those warriors from Hammerfell? They have curved swords. Curved... swords...
I mean, I am one of those warriors from Hammerfell!
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SixVoltCar✭✭✭Look up the operating principles of a bull whip, and a lever. Then think of what sword combat is about.0 -
rynth✭✭✭✭✭Lol I know the handle is just about as long as the blade itself. Go with the Nord sword it’s much better out of a lot of the blades at least 1handed one isWhen asked what he would do for a Klondike bar. Grand Moff Tarkin said "why I would blow up Alderaan."0
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✭There are a lot of questionable and sometimes even stupid details about equipment and design overall. About horses, for instance. Did you saw their horses? Damn, why their legs are so broken? Or tassets they so like use in armor sets. What they supposed to protect? Why they are positioned so wrong? ZOS artist are talented, but, well, not educated enough in medieval history and biology, I suppose. Though, sometimes they do a really great job. Their gryphons, for example, are great.EU PC: @logarifmik | Languages: Русский, English
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Malprave✭✭✭✭They are a type of sword known as a *** sword. The grips allow for the use of one or both hands.0
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Alowishus✭✭✭Well, you know what they say about Bretons with big hands...ESO Wishlist: Housing (Thank you!) Jewelrycrafting (Thank you!) Hand-to-hand skill line.0 -
LennoxPoodle✭✭✭It's supposed to be a longsword I guess. Their blade is only a bit longer than that of an arming sword (one handed sword or mistakenly called longsword in many fantasy IPs) but the grip is more than double the length for full to handed use. They developed alongside plate armor, just like Breton armor, and were the two handed sword type of the late middle ages, true greatswords being a weapon of the Renaissance.
The "Illegitimate child" swords @Malprave probably was referring to are often considered a subtype of them, on the smaller end of the spectrum. It is stupid to use them one handed though. You loose every advantage you get from them and the longer grip can actually get in the way.
I guess they were trying to achieve the plate-armored knight aesthetic, to which the longsword actually belongs.0 -
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Hahahahaaaa... the censor a fantasy stape sword designation just because it contains a mildly rude word for a personage born of unmarried parents???They are a type of sword known as a *** sword. The grips allow for the use of one or both hands.
What's the world coming to when censorship has to "protect us" from THAT!
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Seriously, they look so disproportionate in those swords... They have the same size of two handed variants, lol.
There are real longswords with 10" (25.4cm) and even 12" (30.4cm) grips.
Long grips also allow smaller pommels (counterweights) to balance the sword, and that's the base physics since the dawn of humanity.1 -
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✭✭✭logarifmik wrote: »There are a lot of questionable and sometimes even stupid details about equipment and design overall. About horses, for instance. Did you saw their horses? Damn, why their legs are so broken? Or tassets they so like use in armor sets. What they supposed to protect? Why they are positioned so wrong? ZOS artist are talented, but, well, not educated enough in medieval history and biology, I suppose. Though, sometimes they do a really great job. Their gryphons, for example, are great.
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