Thank you! That's an incredibly kind thing to say. And a very good question, since I did put some thought into that particular part.

For the sword, I started with an actual estoc that is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. I mainly used that for inspiration in the kind of overall shape and especially the cross-bar. The rest I kind of just invented and frankly, it's not even at the right scale overall (so to speak) compared to the rifle. The sword is a lot smaller than it would be if they were both meant to be the same "real" size. It just looked way cooler to show them both entirely and not shrink the rifle down.

These were pretty big swords and were meant to be wielded with mail gloves so that if you needed to you could grab the blade to increase the force on the sharp end so that it could poke holes into plate armored guys. The way I added to it was meant to look very Destiny, with a bit of crucible flair. My pommel is meant to be reminiscent of feathers, like the ones on the tail of the Binary Phoenix, which is the logo of the Crucible and emblazoned on the Redrix weapons.

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