Can You Draw A Sword From Your Back

• #3

From what I've seen, most back sheaths or baldrics merely comprehend the tip and the bottom pes or and so of the blade. Above that, the blade is exposed and lays against a back slice that runs to the shoulder. At the top of the sheath is a pair of hooks that holds the hilt. To depict you lot pull the sword off the hooks, enhance information technology about 12 inches or so until the tip is out of the sheath part at the lesser and than just swing the blade over your shoulder with a twist to exist sure information technology does non take hold of on the hilt hooks.

• #5

Historically, you don't. A back sheath was used but for transporting a weapon, and to actually use it in combat the warrior would take off the sheath (and possibly the backpack it was attached to) and so draw the weapon.

Of grade, this is fantasy, so there'south no reason that it ISN'T possible. You but need to take a method that overcomes the problem--such as a sheath with a 12-eighteen inch slit on the "height border", the hooks that Thonir described, or a magical sheath that makes the blade fit in a smaller area.

• #6

Also recall that the sheath tin can be placed diagonally across the back, a vi-foot sword isn't necessarily several feet above i's head.

• #seven

You slide the sheath off your shoulder, grab the sheath in one hand and the sword in the other. Unsheathe your sword, drop the sheath, and go kill stuff. Afterward the battle, you promise you remember where you dropped your sheath.

Or at least that's what I exercise... minus the killing function

• #9

I tin can't call back what book it was in... some B-form fantasy novel I read as a teen, I'g sure... but what I recollect near from the novel was that the large fighter guy carried his two-handed sword in a dorsum-sheath.

The scabbard was fastened to a loose 'belt' finer, that ran over his shoulder, across his chest and and then upward his dorsum again, looped over like a courier bag or like conveyance. (Or how a longbow is traditionally illustrated every bit being stowed).

To draw the sword, he would flip the belt over his head, and draw the sword with one hand while pushing the scabbard abroad with the other (and throwing information technology to the ground). He'd and so go back and collect it afterwards the battle.

• #12

AFGNCAAP said:

Here's 1 used for a ii-handed Claymore.

Looks very nice. 2 questions

Isn't ii handed Claymore redundant? I thought that Claymores were consistantly long plenty to require 2 hands to use.

Isn't that weapon pictured, although in Claymore style, too short to be a historically accurate Claymore? I thought they were all plus or minus half-dozen anxiety.

I'm no expert, so don't have this as gospel.

Terminal edited: Jul 26, 2004

• #fourteen

From what I've seen in some motion pictures, the greatsword can be worn across the dorsum for send. The greatword I use in particular is carried on the dorsum. When my fighter prepares for battle, he pulls the scabbard downward parallel across his waist and tightens a strap from which his sword will hang.
1 of my players has a Jovar in the Eberron entrada we are running, unfortunately that particular weapon cannot be sheathed. I effort to add some sort of realism to a fantasy entrada.

Final edited: Jul 26, 2004

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