Talk:Weapons/@comment-1066054-20151116161016/@comment-27087951-20151117141825

Thing is, shields and sheaths are not weapons.

That's why I said it sounds confusing. Weapons are supposed to be offensive, they are made to kill, all of them. There is no "pure defensive weapon". There are defensive fighting styles, but not weapons. One can use shields and similar offensively, but they are not weapons per se, they are meant to protect the user, not to kill others.

A "pure defensive weapon" is like a beakless, wingless, featherless non-flying bird.