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The next morning, Ramesses woke up feeling refreshed and devoured a meal left in his room. When the guards Prince Cyrillus assigned to shadow him didn't try to stop him, Ramesses ventured out of his assigned bedchamber and explored Prince Cyrillus' living quarters. Escape was at the forefront of his thoughts, but he didn't act on the unwise impulse since the collar was still around his throat and dozens of soldiers patrol the halls every few minutes. Nothing interested him until he found the prince's personal combat field. Arranged in rows of twelve, one hundred forty-four porcelain vases stood in the middle of several towering weapon racks. Twenty years wasn't enough to dilute the sweep of homesickness that Ramses thought he'd left behind. When he was still a vizier in Myksos, he'd built a similar enclosure for his own entertainment and he wondered what happened to the mansion he once called home. In Myksos, the vase game was a popular one. Also an Elthemian training method, warriors were expected to fight each other while balanced on the vases. Fighters were not allowed to touch the ground or break the vases. While Ramesses wondered whether the guards would allow him to test the weapons, Prince Cyrillus strolled out with a steel two-handed sword in his grip. Seeing Prince Cyrillus brush past him, still entirely ignoring him, Ramesses grabbed the prince's arm and asked, "Is there a reason you pretend I don't exist?" After gesturing for the guards to hold their swords…

Anglo Saxon weapons and armour In this research paper you will be reading about the history of a few weapons and armour such as axes, swords, spears, shields, maces, and armour. Anglo saxon means the people who lived in the general vicinity of england and some of the germanic areas and Im pretty sure you know what armour and weapons are, so I will just get to it. The first subject will be swords or “sweord” in old english it originated during the bronze age which is around 1600 B.C., the sword…

the armpit, neck or groin. Longswords were also known as hand-and-a-half and bastard swords. An entire martial art of sword fighting in Germany developed around the longsword. Falchion The falchion was a single edged, shorter, broader blade with a curve up to the point. Many Crusader knights carried falchions; the sword was somewhat similar to the Persian scimitar. Falchions could function both as axe and sword. Falchions were developed from farming tools and were considered peasant weapons;…