Fuligin invented

brunians at brunians.org · 17 Jan 2008, 16:58 · from 2008-January.txt.gz

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From: brunians at brunians.org (brunians at brunians.org)
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:58:02 -0500 (EST)
Subject: (urth) Fuligin invented
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That sucker in the wiki article was as long as TE. Couldn't tell if it had
a mercury channel, but that kind of thing would be obvious. I have heard
of swords with sliding weights also.

So Severian wasn't joking when he said the horizontal stroke was harder
than the vertical one....


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> brunians at brunians.org wrote:
>> I believe that TE is based on an actual type of executioner's sword.
>
> Developed from the bastard or hand and a half sword in Europe although
> I've not come across a reference to anything quite as long as TE is
> described.
>
> Matthew
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