I Conceptual Idea For Dai-Katanna's

[Cogidubnus]

Yeah, just pontificating.

[Kodama]

I believe that Bethesda's excuse for a "different" katana is just an easy way out of the fact that they can't create decent looking katana, it is obvious to me that they are painfully aware of their incompetence.

[Cogidubnus]

It should be possible to make a sheath for Back-mounted weapons. Vagabondangel did it with the realistic katana mod.

[Kodama]

Indeed he has, so i suppose that it's not hard coded after all.
That is a good thing :bananarock:

[Ysne]

Or he/she got around the hard coding.

[Maleficus8953]

What i mean is wider and thicker...to clarify alittle.
i just think it would make it "look like it was made to kill",
More realistically suited to the task. A blade like that would look good in a sheath.
But if we made a sheath for the thinner blades our intent would be obvious, and there would be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Im not kidding.

[Kodama]

Well, i'm still thinking about the swords, how they should look like.
And if we should have more then one type, with different blade lenghts, we will see.

[Green @nt1-n00b]

well it would be plauseable to have Tanto's-Small Wakazaki's-Medium Katanna's-long Dai-Katanna's-Extra long as they had all of them in morrowind so they are all lore wise alowed into the game. I may have the tanto's and Wakazaki's Backwards i cant remember at the moment.
they would liabley have in general the same blade shape and handle just differnt lengths as well as a different one of those things just above the handle, as it sybolises who made them, the name flees me at the moment

[Kodama]

Yes, you are right about the sizes of the types :goodjob:

I would know because i have studied how to appraise japanese swords for over 10 years now ( Token Kantei)

And we will have all of those types, i was surprised when Bethesda did not include them in Oblivion.

[Maleficus8953]

Yes we will. i do think we should drive the realism of the blades.
hmmm...
Are we gonna stick with the old katana, wakizashi, and dai- katana, or make new swords?
I suggest from my noobish background we make new ones.
The half- katana- half-handle, half sword
the the scimitar- yes we all know what this is
"the bear killing sword" A sword fabricated more like a spear then a sword, but still technically a sword.
I beleive Cogy knows some more about japanese sword- names.....