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The champion Viego from the video game League of Legends wields the Zweihänder as his main choice of weapon. The Zwei Association from the video game Library of Ruina use Zweihänder swords as well as one-handed swords with the characteristics of a Zweihänder as one of their main choices of weaponry.
Ragnell has a golden blade. It is a broad and heavy two-handed sword, but Ike wields it easily in one hand and can use it to fire waves of energy at distant enemies. It was originally wielded by Altina, the founder and first Apostle of Begnion; the goddess Ashera consecrated the sword for Altina's service to her in war.
Each weapon has a unique "Rune Power" that can be activated for a short period of time when the player has enough rune power. Shields may be equipped along with the first three weapons of each class. Weapons of tier 4 and 5 are two-handed, and may not be used along with shields.
Hyohō Niten Ichi-ryū (兵法 二天 一流), which can be loosely translated as "the school of the strategy of two heavens as one", is a koryū (ancient school), transmitting a style of classical Japanese swordsmanship conceived by Miyamoto Musashi.
The Sword of Surtr – The weapon the fire giant Surtr wields in the battle of Ragnarok. The Prose Edda calls it a flaming sword, although in the Poetic Edda merely it is described only as a "bright blade." Tyrfing – A sword made by dwarves in the Elder Edda. It would kill a man when drawn and would eventually kill its wielder.
The changdao reappeared again during the Ming dynasty as a general term for two-handed single-edged swords. It was viewed very positively as an effective weapon by Qi Jiguang , who acquired a Kage-ryū (Aizu) manual from Japanese wokou , studied it, and modified it for his troops and used its tactics against enemies on the Mongol border c. 1560.
The miaodao (苗刀) is a Chinese two-handed dao or saber, with a narrow blade, long hilt, and an overall length of 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) or longer. The name means "sprout saber", presumably referring to a likeness between the weapon and a newly sprouted plant.
The term "single-handed sword" or "one-handed sword" was coined to distinguish from "two-handed" or "hand-and-a-half" swords. "Single-handed sword" is used by Sir Walter Scott. [11] It is also used as a possible gloss of the obscure term tonsword by Nares (1822); [12] "one-handed sword" is somewhat later, recorded from c. 1850. Some swords were ...