Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-31058171-20170115195711/@comment-25936766-20170115234629

MiniDaggers wrote:

1a. How many people used double-edged compared to single?

1b. Crocea Mors appears to be a packaged deal, if the sword is that old I'd wager the shield being the same age.

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2. Camera techonology before and during the war sure. After the war where Mantle would share the tech due to the peace is a different case.

Ozking would likely still be alive for a time and would certainly be photographed if the tech was there. So unless he no longer had the sword.... I see no reason why a picture of it didn't exist.

3a. Barely anyone knows or cares about the SEWs anymore. The fucking King who ended the single biggest conflict in recent, if not all of, history is a completely different case entirely

3b. Who's to say he could trust her not to lie considering her father's reputation?

... The latter? 1a-Almost everyone with a sword to begin with, n that age. Most swords by that point were double-edge. If anything, someone who uses a single-edged sword would stand out more, depending on the kind of sword (a katana being single edge, for example, wouldn't be as outstanding).

1b-And how come He-Man never showed any sheath-shield? I'm calling BS on the sheath-shield actually being some "brother" of the sword.

PS: I just thought of something else.....what if Jaune's sword did belong to He-Man...but he did not use it for combat? Or alternatively, what if he used that sword for combat, but he became famous for using a different sword?

Like King Arthur. Nowadays, all stories say he wielded Excalibur. But originally, he didn't even have Excalibur, and later on Excalibur was completely different from the Sword in the Stone. In most versions back in the middle ages, Arthur used another, less special sword for combat, leaving Excalibur as more of a symbol.

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2- 1) Mantle could well have been sore losers to an extent. "Making peace" doesn't mean "Let's take a selfie! :D". They may have been willing to take pictures or share tech.....later.

2) If it was an age of peace, not to mention that He-Man was seen as a badass who just crushed Mantle, why would he go out with his sword? Everyone bowed to him, no one would dare oppose him. He had no reason to bring any weapons when going out, if he ever went out, unless he went outside the kingdoms, the last place anyone would want to take any selfies in.

3) Even if they did take pictures....who says they are of a quality good-enough that you can make a good comparison with an actual object? Lack of color, low number of pixels, etc. At most, you would be comparing a sword with an object whose vague shape resembles a sword but is not clear enough to say they are the same.

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3a-That's not the point there however. Surely, someone of Oobleck's supposed level of interest in history would have at least heard some tales about them. And would've asked the girl with the silver eyes about herself or her silver-eyed mother to see if at least a part of said legends were true, or if the SEWs were just legends.

Bear in mind, this is all based on your apparent idea of Oobleck being inquisitive in his search for historical truth.

3b-Benefit of the doubt? Her father has a questionable PR, doesn't mean Weiss herself is like him. At the very least he could've asked her to get any first impressions. Besides, after she stated part of her reasons to be a Huntress to him, he should've noted she was not like her father, and thus it was far less likely for Weiss to twist the facts about Nickel if he asked her about him.

Alright, He-Man is more important.....then why would there be less info about him than there is about Nickel? Why would the less world-wide important figure be more well-documented, like you said before?