Rapier

The rapier generally refers to a relatively long-bladed sword characterized by a complex hilt which is constructed to provide protection for the hand wielding it. While the blade might be broad enough to cut to some degree (but nowhere near that of the wider, slightly heavier swords in use around the Middle Ages), the long thin blade lends itself to thrusting.

The blade might be sharpened along its entire length, sharpened only from the center to the tip, or completely without a cutting edge. A typical example would weigh 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) and have a relatively long and slender blade of 2.5 centimetres (0.98 in) or less in width, 1 metre (39 in) or more in length and ending in a sharply pointed tip.

Variations

Item	Source is	Rare item	Is incomplete
Antique cup-hilted rapier	Terald's Tent	true	true
Antique swept-hilt rapier	Dunshade: Echo of Tears	true	true
Basket-hilt rapier with a dragonwood hilt	Squat Bungalow (2)	true
Basket-hilted matte black steel dueling rapier	Darkbox 414 prizes, Drathrok's Duskruin 419/Incidental loot, Pointed Ramarck's	true
Basket-hilted rapier with a bird-shaped pommel		true
Basket-hilted sword rapier	Edword's Accoutrements (2), Edword's Accoutrements (3), Edword's Accoutrements (4)	true
Bent rapier		true	true
Blued steel swept-hilt rapier	Squat Bungalow (1)	true	true
Blued-steel rapier with an obsidian and opal inlaid hilt	Curse of the Ghost Ship	true
Bronze rapier	Character Manager	true
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See also

• pasabas
• thrusting blade