Leon's Durandal and Balmung Twins

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CASE FILE: Custom Weaponry

Leon Eames IV
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NAME:
→ Durandal
→ Balmung Twins

TYPE:
→ Sword
→ Automail arms

FORM:
→ Xingese-styled two-hand sword. Lightened frame to allow for fluidity and flexibility in fighting style, only based on the old design.
→ Eames Corporation specialised combat automail

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BRIEFING:
→ Simply enough, Durandal is a blade of Cretan namesake that's definitively Xingese in style. With a wicked curve, reaching around four feet in total length, it's designed to have a lightened frame, to enhance fluidity and flexibility in fighting style. It has a wide edge, and is fashioned of carbonised steel, but patterned and ornately engraved.

Durandal was a gift, along with the mansion - a sword of fine craftsmanship and finer function. The edge is perpetually kept sharp, Eames never allowing it to dull - a man's blade is his life, Eames has realised, since moving to Xing and converting to the way of the sword. It's the only thing that matters when it truly comes down to it, whether your edge is sharper than the other man's.

Durandal best represents the coming together of Eames' Western heritage and his newfound Xingese conversion. It's used with a combination of Cretan, Amestrian, and Xingese ancient sword-fighting doctrines, and because of its weight, it's rather versatile. Smacking with the flat of the blade, of course, hurts, but the blade itself slices and functions well, able to hew limbs and shear through sinew without much pressure applied. It can be wielded in one hand, but it's unwieldy, lengthy, and far too heavy to be used effectively, so, really, this is just for carrying it at lower heights.

A lot of the time, Eames presses Durandal's point against the ground and rests his hands upon it, as one would with an oversized cane.

The pommel is made of some form of dulled bronze, engraved with various Xingese characters.

Eames was the one who actually dubbed it - the blade has some other Xingese name he can't recall.

→ The Balmung Twins are specially-designed Eames Corporation automail structures. The designs on them are painted on in gold, ornate tribal Xingese patterns, over a matte black coat on reinforced carbon polymers. Beneath even that lies an inner shielding of carbonised steal. The Twins themselves connect at Eames' stumps - below the elbow, but only marginally. They're as advanced as regular civilian automail models, but house a few surprises and weight has been shed to allow for flexibility in combat scenarios.

PICTURE:
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Durandal:

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Balmung Twins:

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SPECIAL ABILITIES:
→ Flash of the Blade - The Balmung Twins conceal two spring-loaded foot-and-a-half blades over the wrist mechanisms (one in each arm). When the arms are folded back, these blades can either shoot forwards - if Leon's fingers are extended - over his hands, or down, over his elbows, if his fingers are closed. These blades are tapered to a point, and useful for stealth kills or simply just as an alternative, should Excalibur for some reason become unusable.

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