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…like a shamshir or a szabla or a paramerion, but it's perfectly permissible to utilize these patterns as inspiration for your designs.
A high-end [Vulcani](https://agora.underspire.net/t/vulcani/36)[Vulcani](vulcani) sword is a thing of beauty as well as function: patterned alloys, reliquaries, inscriptions, beautiful guards, etc. Some of these weapons count as genuine…
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While firearms exist and are obviously more useful in certain situations, melee weapons such as swords survive for the same reasons they did in history along early firearms: status, tradition, dueling and ceremony. A Deshretan swordsmith would not necessarily be crafting weapons known from modern history like a shamshir or a szabla or a paramerion, but it's perfectly permissible to utilize these patterns as inspiration for your designs.
- A high-end [Vulcani](https://agora.underspire.net/t/vulcani/36) sword is a thing of beauty as well as function: patterned alloys, reliquaries, inscriptions, beautiful guards, etc. Some of these weapons count as genuine artifacts - heirlooms infused with exotic and unique qualities due to the expertise of their makers and the rarity of their materials.
+ A high-end [Vulcani](vulcani) sword is a thing of beauty as well as function: patterned alloys, reliquaries, inscriptions, beautiful guards, etc. Some of these weapons count as genuine artifacts - heirlooms infused with exotic and unique qualities due to the expertise of their makers and the rarity of their materials.
But at the other end of the spectrum, Suburba certainly has people wielding cruder weaponry such as machetes, butcher's tools, or even sharpened bits of scrap.