Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-14138255-20141031002615/@comment-9090085-20141114024956

BenRG wrote: I think that Myrtenaster's blade is a lot heavier than a typical epée or even fencing sabre and can be used for cutting moves; indeed, Monty named it correctly by comparing it to the rapier, the heaviest and most advanced sword design in the fencing tradition. Nontheless, it is still essentially a fencing weapon and Weiss's fighting style reflects that. Compare that to Blake, who uses Gambol Shroud as a cutting weapon with a lot of curving cuts and parries. Acualy, if you pay attention, most of Weiss's strikes with Myrtenaster are slashes - the fight with the WF Leiutenant is a good example of this. She tried to stab him at several points, though, which he always dodged. I imagine she was using the slashes to chip away at his Aura and disorient him so she can land a hard hitting stab(which, to my very limited undersanding, is more-or-less how you're suposed to use a Rapier).

147.69.166.166 wrote: I was simply stating that Weiss and the other charaters could be using any number of fencing styles Technically you're right, but you're really muddling the terms.

There are a wide variety of Western sword fighting styles, which are generally referred to as "schools of fencing". But just about everyone here, when they say "fencing", is referring to Classical Fencing(which Weiess's style resembles), based largely off Renaissance-era dueling styles when the sword was losing it's place on the battlefield. We're probably not referring to Medieval-era battlefield swordsmanship, like the German school of fencing, which included fighting styles built around grabbing a longsword by the blade and using the hilt to bash people's heads in.

Really.

Alas, I only practiced Kendo(and that's just one of many Japanese schools), so I can't really talk about what specific school of fencing Weiss based her style after.

I don't think anyone here is suggesting Weiss is doing things wrong though; I think we're just curious as to how practical the Atlas School of Fencing would be in our world.