Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20160317003430/@comment-5.71.132.143-20160317012218

Sorry, there will be no pictures - yet - but I will try to describe it as well as I possibly can.*Name: SilverThorn         
 * Wielder: Magentos Indigrave
 * Maker/Smith: Unknown/ Possibly Magentos?
 * Type: Sword Cane Dust Blaster (SCDB)
 * Weapon Derivation: Mostly how cool Ozpin looks with his cane, but also how cool sword canes are. Obviously all weapons are also a gun, so I included a small dust blaster for good measure.
 * Holstered/Inactive Form: Cane. Hilt has a knuckle guard like Ozpin's cane, but with a trigger on the blade side of it. Trigger unused in this form, but cane can still be used as a bludgeoning weapon. Dust is kept within the hilt, inserted through the pommel.
 * Form 1: Rifle - By extending the hilt to create a stock and pushing down the knuckle guard a couple degrees away from the cane to make a handle. Iron sights pop out from the cane, and a magazine with extra dust can be added a couple centimeters in front of the trigger. This can be used for the anterior hand as a grip in order to improve weapon control. While the knuckle guard is raised and the magazine is loaded on the weapon the rapier form cannot be used. The cane/sheath itself has a thin barrel running over it's length on the top edge of the blade, opposite from the knuckle guard.
 * Form 2: Rapier - Removing the concealed blade from it's sheath, often straight from cane form, the rapier form is achieved. Standard thin dual-edged blade, very pointy at the end. The sheath (the rest of the cane), can be dual wielded as a parrying and bludgeoning weapon in order to increase fighting effectiveness.
 * Form 3: Gun-Rapier - By slightly curving the handle, and pivoting along the guard towards the knuckle guard, the gripping angle is altered and the trigger becomes accessible. The diiferent grip angles achievably allows for a varied sword fighting style depending on the taste of the user, while also allowing access to the trigger, but in this form, without the extended barrel of the cane, the dust blaster is short barrelled meaning that the aim will suffer. Also the dust will interact with the blade, possibly giving an interesting spin to the melee combat but affecting aim of ranged attacks.
 * Dust Capacity: Any type, stored in both hilt and external magazine. This allows for the combination of multiple dust types to be used at once.
 * Ammunition: Pure dust, size of "projectile"/"blast" depends on length of time holding the trigger before releasing.
 * Usage: Rifle for long range, Cane when warming up, Rapier for a real fight, Dual wield rapier + sheath when facing serious opponent. Fighting style focuses on targeted strikes and counter-attacks, in typical fencing style (Like Weiss), but with more relaxed body movement as if handling a sabre. Using the sides of the sword to parry, and the tip to stab/slash. When cane is used then the attacks are more wild and violent, aiming to bludgeon opponent rather than cut gracefully. When dual wielding a mix of the two, and a lot of spinning is noticeable. The fighter's specific fighting style, focus on avoiding and counter-attacking rather than parrying or blocking, but parrying can be used if tactically advantageous. Moving/dodging backward will also be avoided, unless tactically advantageous, instead sidestepping is preferred.
 * Planned/Possible Upgrades: None planned, but considering changing the cane/rapier for a standard Sabre + Blaster, using the sheath of the sabre sword to dual wield as usual. But no bludgeoning weapon available.
 * Notes: The cane look ties in with the motif of the character Magentos, of 18th century aristocrat, taken as a mixture of the looks of Dante from Devil May Cry, and Heath Ledger's casanova. The rapier was also the weapon of choice of the time. The rifle and blaster in Silver Thorn resembles the look of 18th century muskets and pistols respectively, but without the reloading limitations.
 * The weapon also has intricate designs engraved both in the blade, handle and cane. On the pummel is engraved the Indigrave Crest.