HOME | DD
Lightning-in-my-Hand — Random Sketches Chap. 172: Weapons Of East Setim
Published: 2017-10-04 20:00:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 2405; Favourites: 100; Downloads: 15
Redirect to original
Description
Even more now. Going back to Setim, it's more Russian-esque weapons.This time, the weapons take on a more tribal flair, especially the Viriyashnovala. Both edges are sharpened, but the curving back edge is mostly aesthetic. The Hoira are actually adapted from daggers brought from the land of Xorem, where the inhabitants were proficient in hand-to-hand combat.
What Setians consider a rapier, Elenthrieli would call a thin bastard sword. In contrast, Setians call an arming sword what Elenthrieli call a machete.
The Sparrittik's strange shape is meant to be used for catching an opponent's blade; it isn't intended for main combat but as a secondary weapon held in the non-dominant hand.
These incorporations of foreign design is due to East Setim's populace being less xenophobic than West Setim's, and are more open to merging of different cultures and weaponry.
Related content
Comments: 7
Intriguing, and they all look fairly practical and realistic.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
In general I quite like these but some minor critique:
-cavalry swords are supposed to be longer than ones for use on foot, they need more reach to hit people from the mount. For historical reference look up roman cavalry and foot soldier swords.
- that's clearly not a rapier
- when one says army weapon, it generally means battlefield weapons, and the hoira looks more like a self-defence tool, like a buterfly sword.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
It's because of the terrain in Setim that army weapons tend to go shorter over time.
The rapier is not a weapon that originated in Setim; it actually was imported from Elenthriel and Mecusor centuries before the timeline of the Val Elenthriel series. Over time, they widened its blade and shortened it too, because traditional thin Elenthrieli rapiers became brittle in Setim's colder climate. They removed the basket hilts too, because hilts made of thin wire-like meshes also become brittle over the years in cold climate.
Most of the landscape in East Setim is dense forest (denser than our Siberian Forest), so that's why they prefer to adapt shorter weapons. The battlefields in Setim often are forests or mountains. You'd have trouble finding a traditional pike, polearm, or long claymore in East Setim; They don't have the luxury of open plains like West Setim does to have longer weapons.
Even the Viriyashnovala, though it's pictured largely here, is meant for one hand and acts more like a bolo or machete.
I hope I explained everything.
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
The temperatures sound quite extreme. Though it makes you wonder, don't the edges of these bladed weapons become brittle too? Wouldn't they chip easy then?
If the rapier wire hilts break so easy then I would've expected them to develop a solid saber-style guard.
That is all, really. Have you made a map if this world?
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
East Setian smiths have special ways of making their weapons resistant to cold weather, but still, Rapiers and anything smaller than fencing foils end up snapping earlier, since they were made thin to flex for their original purpose.
Setian rapiers don't flex as dramatically, but they can still thrust and cut all the same.
And saber guards like D-guards are more often used in Elenthriel and Xorem.
And for the map, here you go! (it's 2 years old, so its a bit crappy)
👍: 0 ⏩: 1
cool font. the thing has that fantasy world feel like Azeroth, and to some extent, remnant.
👍: 0 ⏩: 0
