Hookblade

A hookblade was often used to punish or inflict pain on a target, piercing and often times hanging their bleeding bodies from high places. However, Hrothmund utilized an unconventional way of attack, attaching the pommel to a chain, and swing it around in wide arcs, almost like a flail. While some hookblades are curved like a sickle, those weaponized versions either were forged with a gentle curve before suddenly curving in the opposite direction into a sharpened tip or had an S-shaped blade, with a double-edged appearance and a piercing spike at the inward curving junction between the two. This allowed the wielder to utilize the piercing blade to puncture armor before twisting the rope or chain to turn the scythe blade outward and open throats with ease. Stronger metals even allow for hookblades to cleave through steel plate with enough force, and even act as an actual hook to latch onto large rocks and even boulders, and use them as flails before throwing them like one would with a sling.

Unlike most weapons, hookblades can be cast in a mold, which can then be modified before being hardened and sharpened to a lethal weapon. Some examples of ancient hookblades have steel shells fixed over an osmium or lead core, increasing their damage potential. This makes it relatively easy to craft, however molds for the weaponized hookblades are extremely rare and are often mistaken for child burial mounds or stone blocks, thus leading them to be destroyed by looters or unknowingly incorporated into walls or buildings.

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