Straight Swords for Samurai?

[Tsiron]

*cracks knuckles*

[Tsiron]

*cracks knuckles*

Well, ended up submitting 4 designs to the contest, 3 of which are straight swords for Samurai. I don't expect I'll win anything, but hopefully it communicates that there's demand?

Occurred to me just now though, they had the perfect opportunity to diversify Samurai's arsenal with Shadowbringers... The First's equivalent of the East is long gone, so aside from a stray antique or two it makes no sense that there would be "katanas" dropping as loot, while historically a lot of Norvrandt (especially Voeburt) was shown to have been more traditionally "fantasy", with kingdoms and princesses and knights etc. so they could've conceivably come up with and used two-handed longswords. The Crystarium Samurai Blade almost looks like it could've been one, even...

On top of everything, our character is no longer beholden to any teacher at this point in the narrative, so it's not outside the realm of possibility they'd pick up some more unorthodox weaponry along the way, right? The ghost of Musosai isn't going to manifest to slap non-katanas out of their hand.....

[ItMe]

Well, ended up submitting 4 designs to the contest, 3 of which are straight swords for Samurai. I don't expect I'll win anything, but hopefully it communicates that there's demand?

Yay~
I know the contest says you can't (or was it shouldn't) share your entries, but after the results can you post your art here?
I'd love to see them~

[Tsiron]

Occurred to me just now though, they had the perfect opportunity to diversify Samurai's arsenal with Shadowbringers... The First's equivalent of the East is long gone, so aside from a stray antique or two it makes no sense that there would be "katanas" dropping as loot, while historically a lot of Norvrandt (especially Voeburt) was shown to have been more traditionally "fantasy", with kingdoms and princesses and knights etc. so they could've conceivably come up with and used two-handed longswords. The Crystarium Samurai Blade almost looks like it could've been one, even...

Was thinking about this again and I'm still disappointed it either never occurred to them, or it did but they decided against it...

[Theodric_Thorne]

Was thinking about this again and I'm still disappointed it either never occurred to them, or it did but they decided against it...

If only they'd done that, then I wouldn't be so anxious about the results of the Weapon Design Contest. We could have had an expansion full of non-traditional SAM weapon options (aside from the relics) just to change things up. The Crystarium Samurai Blade was the only good example we got and even then it's still a saber, just a much better-looking one than its predecessors.