Quote Originally Posted by Tsiron View Post
*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.....