I whipped this up out of boredom while keeping Snake company at an anime con. He's no one in particular, though he was an experiment with certain looks a character I'm working on could take. That cutlass hilt was a pain: though I love fanciful designs, I'm actually quite bad at them and they take a huge amount of work for me.
For geeks who actually care, the triple dagger in his off hand is a historical weapon designed for easier parrying and disarming of opponents. It is sometimes believed to be intended to cause rending damage, but this is simply untrue. It's an evolution of the late renaissance obsession with making their weapons really complicated. In fencing (and yes, despite the curved blade, a cutlass is a fencing weapon) daggers were generally used for parrying and merely replaced the more cumbersome shields of yesteryear.
For geeks who actually care, the triple dagger in his off hand is a historical weapon designed for easier parrying and disarming of opponents. It is sometimes believed to be intended to cause rending damage, but this is simply untrue. It's an evolution of the late renaissance obsession with making their weapons really complicated. In fencing (and yes, despite the curved blade, a cutlass is a fencing weapon) daggers were generally used for parrying and merely replaced the more cumbersome shields of yesteryear.
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As passionately as I do love Errol Flynn, no, I does research and shit, yo. I just I wish I could find better resources for the hard, real history stuff. I mean, ten billion books and websites will tell you the idiot stuff, like words for parts of a boat or what a rapier is, but when you want, say, an accounting of different forms of sailing craft of the period, or descriptions and names of different fencing schools, then you have, at best, half finished lists and no books in sight, at least that I can locate. :P
Didn't mean to be insulting, of course - so please forgive me if I was rude. It's just that Captain Blood is still a better movie than all three PotC films combined, for instance...
Hm. Angus Konstam seems like a pretty good author; I have 3 of the 4 books he did for Osprey, and I believe he has a huge thick hardcover out on piractical history and tactics.
Hm. Angus Konstam seems like a pretty good author; I have 3 of the 4 books he did for Osprey, and I believe he has a huge thick hardcover out on piractical history and tactics.
Konstam, eh? I'll have to look him up. I do like stories, but I hunger for the non-fiction, so I can trim the inaccuracies out of my work more. I'm sick of one source after another repeating the same faulty, often out-right untrue things over and over, too....
And no, I wasn't insulted, just cracking wise and what not. I enjoy our talks, really! And yes, Eroll Flynn is almost as hot as his movies were great, and PotC falls short in many regards. I do like PotC, but it's nothing compared to the real classics.
And no, I wasn't insulted, just cracking wise and what not. I enjoy our talks, really! And yes, Eroll Flynn is almost as hot as his movies were great, and PotC falls short in many regards. I do like PotC, but it's nothing compared to the real classics.
I enjoy all of those, especially brotherhood of the wolf. The whole era is good, doesn't even need boats. Pirates are just sort of the emblematic figures of the time, and even then were pretty hep cats around town, so they work as a good umbrella. I actually like everything from the late renaissance through the mid eighten-hundreds for this sort of thing. I actually get annoyed when people equate pirates to the golden age and act like anything before or after doesn't count.
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