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The Khawarezmians live on a rocky jungle peninsula which is covered almost entirely by incredibly thick, primordial jungle, filled with strange things which are not seen anywhere else, throwbacks to a time when jungles such as this covered the entire world, and were filled with the magic of the Outer World.
The Khawarezmian jungle is also very lacking in a resource which is extremely common in lands north of it in Ageratos proper- iron. The Khawarezmians ration what iron they have for very special purposes. For many things such as armor and weapons, the Khawarezmians do not use iron, instead using the pliant yet strong bone of a gigantic beast of the deep jungle known as the Root Behemoth.
To make paperswords, the Khawarezmians take splintery sheets of the bones of the Root Behemoth, and, through special processes, pare them down to paper-thin, translucent sheets (hence, papersword), gluing them together into bone-yellow blades of extremely thin bone. These swords are extremely light and fast to the hand, but they are also fragile, and used as slashing weapons rather than as blocking tools.
Magic/Cursed Properties
None. This is in the Special Weapons, Non Magical thread.
November 17, 2005, 20:22
November 18, 2005, 8:52
November 18, 2005, 9:27
What some people fail to realize a lot of old/ ancient cultures used simple techinques for weapons and armor. Not because they were technologically inferior. Look at the incans/ mayans/ aztecs. They built acoustically sound temples yet used wood and stone for armor and weapons. They made some of the most memorable treasures of gold and stone plus advanced math and calenders, yet had stone aged type of armorment.
Why? Because it worked and they had a lack of knowledge for smelting metals, much less the availability of ore to use as weapons.
February 12, 2006, 23:36
June 2, 2007, 6:18
June 2, 2007, 8:26
Question: they may be good for slashing, what about stabbing? Some creatures may not be repealed by surface wounds, a little depth-treatment can solve many issues. Will these swords fracture upon impact, and leave pieces of them in the wound? That could be nasty...
June 2, 2007, 14:44
October 22, 2007, 12:40
January 20, 2011, 11:00
The Scythians did something similar. Not having access to iron, they would make their "scale-mail" armor by slicing the hooves of (dead) horses into very thin strips, then sewing them together in an overlap fashion. Not quite bone, but similar idea
January 20, 2011, 13:09
An interesting concept, and I can;t help but wonder if they could perhaps reinforce these blades for stabbing by placing a slightly thicker slab of fire hardened wood (or obsidian stone?) at the center.
These would make for a memorable and interesting addition to any traders weapon inventory.