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Originally Posted by VVulfe  Furthermore, it's my understanding that unlike western blades (and contrary to the image in popular culture) blade-on-blade contact would quickly result in broken Katanas. |
yes exactly, or at the very least.. a maleable spine holding together a bunch of razorblade shards...
I guess rapiers and barbarian blades were the only ones that ever touched often.. rapiers because they were primiraily a stabbing weapon, so the blade never acutally did much cutting, and barbarians because... well, they're barbarians..