Viper would of been better if it had a different name

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Localizations more often than not still called them Dragon Knights, and they did use spears.



They're literally your example.

Yeah because if you read the opening paragraph it gives a brief description which fairly clearly states they are not the only ones- 1st dragoons imply the existence of more - and the convenient date there shows they are 350 years late to invent the word. Any further investigation would only cement this.

Excalibur is both a sword and their hereditary weapon isn’t it?