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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 5805653" data-attributes="member: 59082">I call upon the collective knowledge of ENWorld gamers, literally millions of hours of gaming and obsessing with impractical things like pre-industrial weaponry. I invoke thy nerdlore!At this very moment I am working on a novel in which one character wields a sword that is similar to a katana, but straight and maybe a bit longer, both in hilt and blade (I'm going back and forth on the straightness, so think with both straight and slightly curved in mind). I am hoping to have this character carry it in his back, but have heard that the whole back-scabbard thing is a false literary and cinema device that looks cool but doesn't really work. I saw a video on Youtube about some martial arts nerd proving that you can pull out a katana from a back-scabbard, so I know it is possible, although katana's have curved blades and are a bit shorter than what I'm envisioning (if the typical katana blade is 28", I'm thinking 32" or so).So what I'm looking for is a mechanism whereby this character can wield a katana-esque weapon (probably straight and a bit longer) on his back and both pull it out of the scabbard quickly, and pull the scabbard off his back quickly and wield it sheathed (He prefers not to bloody it and likes to clobber people with the sheathed weapon; therefore I have to figure for a thick and sturdy scabbard). So there are three issues: 1) If unsheathing a slightly-longer-than-katana weapon is possible, and 2) a way in which the scabbard can be released from some kind of strap quickly, and 3) used sheathed without breaking the scabbard or sword within it (I imagine that this might be feasible hitting flesh but not armor or other weapons).Thanks!</blockquote>

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