Dark Knights hold their swords like idiots...

[Noxifer]

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*cough* I like when people post responses to the OP half a year or more since they made that post, and after they've returned to the thread and posted updates that may or may not invalidate the original post.


That said... I haven't done much more than try out DRK myself, and I haven't looked that closely at the stance (since I play on my TV and thus sit almost 2 metres away), but... based on the screenshots earlier in the thread, I tried to copy it (without a sword), and both holding it and looking at the screenshotted stance (from the preview stream, I think?) it to me would feel more natural to be a stance preparing for an overhead chop thing. You know, as if the character was facing the other way, with the sword behind him. Probably based on (as Atoli mentioned) how the hands are gripping the hilt "upside down"-ish.
(And no, I don't have much IRL experience with fighting, either. Done a bit of kendo, and a tiny bit SCA heavy fighting, but not enough in either to feel confident in making statements regarding stances. So while the above is my instinctual feeling, it's not really based on anything other than that ^_^)

[Iagainsti]

*cough* I like when people post responses to the OP half a year or more since they made that post, and after they've returned to the thread and posted updates that may or may not invalidate the original post.

it was in my new posts. #nochill

[Noxifer]

it was in my new posts. #nochill

That tends to happen when threads get necroed ^^; Didn't mean anything bad with my comment, just wanted to point out that there's been development (from the OP's side) since that post was made. Sorry if my way of doing so came off as rude. In my defence it was kinda late at night and I was tired =)