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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 6629465" data-attributes="member: 6779310">Anyone wielding a particularly sharp long blade is not going to have a long blade for long, unless they've bought a particularly high quality blade and use it in the correct manner. (The Katana being the primary long blade that was in fact kept sharp - but the tempering techniques and the fighting techniques to allow this generally involve slicing the silk cording and the arteries. Finesse, not force. And insane quality control standards.)Besides, modern destructive testing (upon pig cadaver) repeatedly shows that a dull sword actually does more tissue damage and far more bone damage than a sharp one.</blockquote>