ANST - The Sword of State (info control)

[Shane B.]

Paul Mitchell wrote:
> 
> Galen here...
> 
> > Martin, Brian wrote:
> > >
> > > You can't miss it: the blade is black and there's a black Ansteorran
> > > star on the pommel.
> > > -Pendaran
> 
> Shane B. wrote:
> >
> > I believe it was a flamberge' [curvy edges] too wasn't it Sir Pendaran?
> >
> > Alastair
> 
> No.  It is an elegantly simple, double-edged sword, the sort I
> think of as simply a broadsword.  Intended for use single-handed.
> Entirely black.  Straight cruciform quillions, ending in small
> balls.  Hilt wrapped in black leather, with brass wire and brads.
> Disc-shaped pommel, enammeled gold with a 10-pointed black star.
> Wooden scabbard wrapped in black leather.
> 
> Alastair, I think you're thinking of the greatsword Finn Kelly
> picked up at Pennsic when he was King, and which he used while
> Orm & Megan were doing work on the "ebon blade", Ansteorra's
> Great Sword of State, during his reign.  That was a 6-foot
> flamberged greatsword, quite heavy.
> 
> - Galen
> 


BY JOVE YOU'RE RIGHT MATE!!!  *THAT'S* the sword I used to haul around
for the auld lad!!!

-  Alastair

- I was kind of wondering how interesting it would be to see someone
stealing that one!!!
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