Lets Talk Dark Knight

[Ramsey]

Only FF11 has Dark Knights using scythes and you know how that can go on these forums. I'm against scythes because they are not a weapons. Only due to the renderings of Death, Grim Reaper, using a scythe to harvest souls is the only really anyone thought on it as a 'dark' weapon. Granted this is a fantasy, a scythe designed harvesting gain and a very clumsy hard to use 'weapon'. I would prefer Dark Knights to have swords if anything or, maybe, a flail. Flail or morning star could be really awesome for dark knights...

A morning star is kind of a clumsy weapon, but I suppose it's more practical than a scythe.

Though it's not entirely true that scythe and scythe-like weapons with curved blades (where the inside is the cutting portion) were never used in combat.





Most of these weapons were improvised farm tools, or meant for a particular use, but it's not totally unbelievable a scythe could develop in a culture as a weapon for combat. It's obviously a reference to imagery of a reaper though, and the associations with darkness and death that it shares with dark knight, as you stated.