The Ultimate Sword to End Them Rightly?

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If you've wondered about adding spikes on a pommel and/or sharp points to the quillons of a guard for an even more serious mordhau (the technique, not the game), you might be on to something... It wasn't common by any means but there is some historical evidence for such shenanigans.

Main source:
Maciej Talaga, 2015. A Kampfschwert from the 15th century – a reinterpretation of the so called 'Teutonic estoc' from the Princes Czartoryski Collection in Cracow, Poland
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Free medieval & Renaissance manuscripts about armed martial arts:
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If you're not familiar with the "End Him Rightly" meme:
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