You Don’t Messer Around With Jim

It’s just how things roll in our world of digital surveillance: You do one little post on the Espada Ancha, and suddenly it’s knives out. Long knives. Langes Messer. Suddenly every medievalist trader on the internet is trying to sell me a big ol’ hunting sword. There’s a few pirate cutlasses thrown in for good measure.

Then this dude pops up, as excited as a kid at Christmas:

Well, who could blame him? Somebody wants to send me a meter of well-crafted fighting steel, I’ll be pretty stoked, too.

The video is a worthy treatise on the virtues of the Langes Messer. The Langes Messer became the fashionable EDC sidearm 14th and 15th centuries Central Europe, which is a good reminder that, practicalities aside, the cool factor has always played a role in weapons choice as in other matters of fashion (like, say, your choice of hose and codpiece).

From what I can see, if you’re in the market for a really big knife that is aesthetically pleasing and historically accurate, Krieger Historical Weapons is your outfit.

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Speaking of things medieval…

I am staying away from the East India Co. Amazon Prime Rings of Power. Except for the Bear McCreary music, which I will surely love and simply transfer into some other realm of Fennario. Aside from the evident distortions of Tolkien’s world, well-documented across the interwebs, the trailers just don’t look good. How you can throw a billion dollars at a project and have it come off looking … bleh… is beyond me.

I had also intended to give House of the Dragon a pass. I think badly of George RR Martin for stiffing his readers for ages, and I jumped ship on Game of Thrones after Season 4, the last of the great seasons, well before it foundered epically on the rocks. But damned if this thing don’t look good. Besides, Lady Marilyn likes dragons.