Spears are way harder to make a cool spectacle in fantasy though
Kinda reminds me of that scene in Indiana Jones where the guy is doing a load of flashy movements with his sword and he just gets shot in the face
You need to arm 100 guys? 100 spears is a lot cheaper and easier to train than 100 swords.
pokes oh hey didn’t see you from all the way over here.
Even for all who had swords, their primary assault weapon was usually some form of pointy murder stick, usually handheld and horse-propelled
The sword is the pistol of ancient times whereas the sprear is the assault rifle.
It was only folded so many times because the ore on Honshu is pretty low grade and had to have the carbon worked out of it more than European steel.
Obligatory “It wasn’t folded 1000 times, it was folded 11 times giving it more than a thousand folds.” Fun fact, the older traditional Japanese forges were basically assembled from mud found right there on the rivers where they found their low grade iron, and this process was kept alive by spiritualism and tradition conservatives, so it’s honestly a miracle they assembled anything long and sharp at all. Most of the iron in Japan is considered low grade Pyrite at only 46% iron, while other places in the world had access to Magnetite with up to 72% iron before any refining.
Wait, you mean it’s not because it gives me the ability to part steel plate in a single slash?
