La cape & l'épée...

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[theobservingself]

Just a girl crushing over Tom Burke as Athos in the BBC's Musketeers

[rubysunnday]

THE MUSKETEERS (2014 - 2016) 106 - The Exiles

[sanellydicarmens]

THE MUSKETEERS 2.10 | Trial and Punishment

[pandalikeelf]

season 1, episode 1: friends and enemies

[kathrynhoward]

ALEXANDRA DOWLING as ANNE OF AUSTRIA THE MUSTKETEERS (2014-2016)

[pandalikeelf]

season 1, episode 1: friends and enemies

[kathrynhoward]

ALEXANDRA DOWLING as ANNE OF AUSTRIA THE MUSTKETEERS (2014-2016)

[macaedh]

what the fuck ethan

[kvothbloodless]

I wish i had a context for this. But I really dont.

[pervocracy]

I was all ready to “um, actually” this, but, um, actually there’s about 3-4 grams of iron in a person, which x400 is 1.2-1.6kg, which is a smallish but not unreasonable sword. So. Math checks out.

[maxknightley]

How would you extract the iron, though? The more practical solution would be to kill a mere hundred men, then mix 1 part blood with 3 parts standard molten iron, imo. Cheaper and faster, while still retaining the edge that only evil magic can give you.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

Or, you could just make the sword of iron, and then use the blood to temper the blade.

[squeeful]

1.2 to 1.6 kilograms is a perfectly reasonable large sword.  Your average longsword was 1.1–1.8 kg and I don’t even remember if that’s including the weight of the hilt, guard, and pommel or just the blade.  Your more classic “knight sword” was a mere 1.1 kilograms on average; the blood of 400 men is more than enough.

This is using the comparatively crappy metallurgy of medieval Europe and their meh iron swords.  Move east to, say, contemporary Iran and make a scimitar using high carbon steel (~2%) for a .75 kilogram blade and you only need the blood of about 225 men.

[optimysticals]

So putting my thoughts in on this… because how could I not.

So you’ve exsanguinated your 400 guys to get the iron for your sword. Cool. But now you have 400 bodies lying around.

Why not put those to good use and cremate them. Use the carbon from those 400 bodies (you won’t need all of them) and now you can make a nice mid-high carbon steel sword.

Now you have a sword forged with the blood of your enemies AND strengthened with their bones.

[hedwig-dordt]

“high fantasy math” - the tag I should have expected to write some day.

[themarysue]

I’m so proud of everyone in this post

[redrosesshadowwolf]

Well I guess I have future plans I need to see come to fruition

[hehe471]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[memories-of-ancients]

Zweihander from Brunswick, Germany, circa 1580

from Hermann Historica

[themusketeersdaily]

Santiago Cabrera as Aramis in THE MUSKETEERS 1.03 “Commodities”

[kathrynhoward]

ALEXANDRA DOWLING as ANNE OF AUSTRIA THE MUSKETEERS (2014-2016)

[armthearmour]

A Swept-hilt rapier with a beautifully chiseled hilt,

OaL: 53 in/134.7 cm

Germany, ca. 1550-1600, housed at the Kunsthistorischesmuseum, Vienna.

[memories-of-ancients]

Katar with guarded hilt, from Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India, 16th century

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[120daysofsodomm]

[centuriespast]

Cassandra (from the Amberley Castle 'Heroines of Antiquity') (Amberley Queens) [c. 1506] Lambert Barnard (c.1490–1567) The Novium

[memories-of-ancients]

Enameled gold and carnelian hat badge adapted into a pendant, features head of John the Baptist, France, circa 1500

from The Art Institute of Chicago

[memories-of-ancients]

Enameled copper reliquary casket, French, circa 1250-1300

from The Kimbell Art Museum