Does it have two sheathes or something?
Maybe you can break it apart into two seperate longswords, and you put it together when you draw it to fight.
Meh, it's a stupid weapon anyway.
Maybe you can break it apart into two seperate longswords, and you put it together when you draw it to fight.
Meh, it's a stupid weapon anyway.
Not as simple as a double bladed lightsaber.
I just thought of something. How does a brilliant energy weapon not fall out of its sheathe? It passes through nonliving materials, doesn't it?
I suppose the sheath is made out of living flesh, then.
Anyway a brilliant energy weapon only has its bussiness end pass through matter, the handle would probably rest easy in an appropriate sheath.
As far as the two-bladed sword goes, you're likely to strap it to your back somehow similar to a greataxe or fullblade.
With most averaged-sized or small blades, the sheath or scabbard covers the entire length of the blade.
However, with most two-handed blades, the "sheath" is actually only a short folded flap of thick stiff leather with an open top, attached to a strap that sits crosswise on your back. The blade is "drawn" by lifting it just a little bit and them turning your wrist to slip it out of the covering and roll it around your shoulder to the front before lifting it up into position, rather than drawing it up and out of the scabbard.
If you had a two-bladed sword, you'd have it in some sort of short holder like a claymore across your back, where you can reach back over your shoulder and yank it free without much trouble.
Alternatively, you might have a "sheath"-shaped strip of leather attached to your back diagonally, with a very short scabbard-type bit on the lower end to hold one blade of the sword. Then, in the middle of your back would be a flap or some sort of hook or holder to rest the handle of the blade in, with some sort of separate short sheath that you could slide over the uppermost blade when you're travelling.
Either way, rather than reaching back over the same shoulder that the blade extends up over as with a claymore, you reach back over the other shoulder to grasp the blade near the middle.
Anyway a brilliant energy weapon only has its bussiness end pass through matter, the handle would probably rest easy in an appropriate sheath.
Maybe the Brilliant energy property is activated, i.e. by word or thought? This would make it a regular blade when you don't need the BE property.
As for a double sword, hmm... may be anything from two sheaths to a collapsible grip. I guess it depends on the design
.I just thought of something. How does a brilliant energy weapon not fall out of its sheathe? It passes through nonliving materials, doesn't it?
the blade is, the hilt isn't. The hilt stops at the top of the scabbard.
Sure, it makes people nervous and makes riding a horse complicated, but on the other hand, your weapon is always at the ready. When you get ambushed, who's ready? You are.
No problem
When the character draws the sword they reach over their shoulder and pull the sword over and out of the sheath, then release the "lock" to drop the what was top blade, and now the bottoms, sheath off it and you are ready to fight.
-Nerp
this very question may be the key reason behind why nobody in existance ever opted to mass manufacture this weapon. that and the fact that you end up chopping your hand off. dumb weapon.
Or the hands of the guys next to you. It's a decent weapon if you possess the skill and strength required to use it effectively, but it's not a weapon designed for mass-production.
What I REALLY want to see someone try to do is imagine how you would swing a double axe or a double flail, lol. I can ALMOST imagine something similar to a double sword, almost...