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In its sequel, Chivalry 2, the Zweihänder appears as a skin for the Greatsword. The multiplayer video game Mordhau features the Zweihänder. The Empire Greatsword in Warhammer Fantasy wield Zweihänder. Siegfried Schtauffen and Nightmare of the Soul Calibur series of fighting games uses various Zweihänder and Zweihänder-type swords.
It held the record for the fastest-selling Bandai Namco game up until it was surpassed by Elden Ring in 2022. [59] On May 10, 2016, Bandai Namco announced that Dark Souls III had reached three million copies shipped worldwide, with 500,000 in Japan and Asia, 1.5 million in North America, and one million in Europe. [60]
Hand-and-a-half sword, probably German, c. 1400–1430 [1] The English language terminology used in the classification of swords is imprecise and has varied widely over time.
A longsword (also spelled as long sword or long-sword) is a type of European sword characterized as having a cruciform hilt with a grip for primarily two-handed use (around 15 to 30 cm or 6 to 12 in), a straight double-edged blade of around 80 to 110 cm (31 to 43 in), and weighing approximately 2 to 3 kg (4 lb 7 oz to 6 lb 10 oz).
The shard is used to cut the One Ring from Sauron's hand by Isildur, Elendil's second son, while the sword is an heirloom of the House of Elendil, coming into Aragorn's possession as the heir to the thrones of Arnor and Gondor. It is reforged and renamed Andúril (Quenya: West-brilliance, usually rendered as the Flame of the West), fulfilling ...
The basket-hilted sword was a cut and thrust sword which found the most use in a military context, contrasting with the rapier, the similarly heavy thrust-oriented sword most often worn with civilian dress which evolved from the espada ropera or spada da lato type during the same period. The term "broadsword" was used in the 17th and 18th ...
In the European High Middle Ages, the typical sword (sometimes academically categorized as the knightly sword, arming sword, or in full, knightly arming sword) was a straight, double-edged weapon with a single-handed, cruciform (i.e., cross-shaped) hilt and a blade length of about 70 to 80 centimetres (28 to 31 in).
Minas Tirith is the capital of Gondor in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings.It is a seven-walled fortress city built on the spur of a mountain, rising some 700 feet to a high terrace, housing the Citadel, at the seventh level.