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Spear-sword!
Skallagrim (who I'm subscribed to!) has a post about a Zombie Tools artefact, The Spit. It's apparently inspired by the Zulu nklwa (a spear with a shorter handle, for close combat), but it just happens to match the weapon I imagined for the protagonist of The Retribution of Thengon. In the story, he's given a military-issue spear, but it gets damaged in its first combat outing, having the handle chopped by a hefty orc. Thengon is too hard-up to replace it, but decides to use it in its damaged state, hence his byname of Breakspear.
It's not quite the same, I imagine a weapon with a wooden handle, where Zombie Tools always makes solid steel monsters.
I thought it was potentially a very versatile weapon - you could stab it overhand or underhand like a spear, hack like an axe, or slash and stab like a sword. Slallagrim gives some epic moves here. I'm a serious fan.
It's not quite the same, I imagine a weapon with a wooden handle, where Zombie Tools always makes solid steel monsters.
I thought it was potentially a very versatile weapon - you could stab it overhand or underhand like a spear, hack like an axe, or slash and stab like a sword. Slallagrim gives some epic moves here. I'm a serious fan.
