Well Hell

I got talked into going to Honor War this weekend. It wasn't that hard, really. New people to play with and a chance to blow the cobwebs off my melee skills? Oh, yeah. So I started getting my stuff together and figured I'd better check out the good old blade types list to make sure I was good to go. It's a good thing I did, too.

As you know, I've been working for the past couple of years with curved blades. About the only time I've used any of my straight blades in the last year was in warm-ups, and that was just so my opponents won't figure out my curved swords. Anyway, I'd planned on using my short curved this weekend just so I could work out the bugs with it but, when I looked at the blade types list for An Tir, they're not legal.

Okay, maybe it's not so bad. I know at a lot of the larger wars, out-of-kingdom visitors have to meet the weapon requirements for their own kingdom. So I go and check An Tir's rules. Nope. All visitors are expected to meet An Tir's weapon requirements.

I really wanted to play with my curved, but I figured it was okay. I still had 3 straight swords I could use. And then I read further. An Tir limits quillons to no more than 12 inches. I know my main straight sword meets that requirements, but my 40 for sure is more than 12 inches across and my back-up 36 is a bit on the long side too.

So I've got one sword I can definitely use. I'm still going to bring my curved swords, but I'm not holding much hope for that. At least on the plus-side, the sword I can use, I've been using for 10 years now.

We'll just have to see how the weekend goes.