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/End loot		true
Basket-hilt rapier with a dragonwood hilt	Squat Bungalow (2)
Basket-hilted matte black steel dueling rapier	Pointed Ramarck's, Drathrok's Duskruin 419/Incidental loot, Darkbox 414 prizes
Basket-hilted rapier with a bird-shaped pommel
Basket-hilted rapier with a wagon-wheel basket	Roaring Mouse Adventure Supplies (2), Roaring Mouse Adventure Supplies (1)		true
Basket-hilted sword rapier	Edword's Accoutrements (4), Edword's Accoutrements (3), Edword's Accoutrements (2)
Bent rapier			true
Black glaes rapier with an intricate swept hilt	Su Helmas 444: Make Haste!/Incidental loot	true
Blued steel swept-hilt rapier	Squat Bungalow (1)		true
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• pasabas
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