ANST - The Sword of State (info control)
Shane B.
shaneb at icubed.net
Fri Jan 9 13:32:57 PST 1998
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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