This will keep happening until Amazon starts cracking down on cheap Ferengi knock-offs with fake reviews.
This sharpener has no honour!
Made by some p’tahk no doubt.
Everyone knows you must sharpen them with real stones from the home planet, lubricated with the blood of your enemies.
I was looking at the market and noticed that the blood of your enemies was too expensive. Is olive oil a good substitute?
Have you seen olive oil prices lately? You enemies blood is definitely cheaper.
Olive oil is too thick and will go rancid and harden. Use mineral oils
I think this is one of those times when there’s really no substitute for producing your own.
If you can’t get fresh, instant is fine
I’ve definitely heard of people using it. Although I’ve also heard an oil with a higher smoke point may be better.
What kind of person sharpens a batleth? What do they think they are going to use it for?
Do they want to chop off random parts of their body?
The sharper the bat’leth, the greater the honor.
If using your enemies blood, yes. A electric sharpener alone… not so much.
What about Valyrian steel?
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Didn’t Rob Stark ruin his sword hitting a tree? Or maybe Caitlen kinda forgot about valerian steel?
Yeah but he didn’t have Valyrian steel only regular steel.
Didn’t his sword get melted to make the lannister ones? At the start of the episode after red wedding?
That was Ned Stark, Rob is his son.
Makes sense. The timing of it made me assume it was Rob’s sword, because it was just after the red wedding.
Normally I would rewatch and keep a close look for the details here, but… I’ll take your word for it
If you need a refresher, after Ned Stark gets executed, Tywin got Tobho Mott to melt down Ice into two swords. He gave one to Jamie called Oathkeep while the other one gave to Joffrey call Widow’s Wail (he was really a piece of shit). Joffrey uses that sword to cut the pies during the purple wedding and stuff.
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That’s still a relative statement right? It may not lose its edge as quickly as others, but eventually it’s going to happen.
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Not if George R. R. Martin doesn’t write any more books.
Valyrian steel is implied to have someone sacrificed and have their blood/soul bound into the sword, hence blood magic presumably keeps it sharp.
Is there any canon on the origin of the batleth?
Like, it’s a fake weapon, badly designed, intended to look cool. But in universe, what’s the history?
There’s multiple ways to give a canon reason a badly designed weapon is such a cultural icon. Maybe it’s based on the horns of a predator, or something like that, as an example.
I’m not a deep delver into such things, but I wonder if there’s an official history behind it.
Like you guessed it is a cultural icon. The emperor that united their home world used it.
In Star Trek lore, the Klingon Kahless created the bat’leth around CE 625. According to Klingon mythology, he formed the blade by dropping a length of his hair into some lava from inside the Kri’stak Volcano, then cooling, shaping, and hardening it in the lake of Lursor.[5] He then united Qo’noS, the Klingon homeworld, by killing a tyrant named Molor with the weapon, which became known as the Sword of Kahless.
See, that makes sense why it’s a less than ideal design. We have weird weapons here on earth that have significance, but aren’t ideal designs. The batleth is more of a hungamunga than a longsword :)
Ok, so it’s made of carbon fibre. But that can’t be the only ingredient.
I feel like there must have been a scene between Worf and his son where he explains it.
Probably, though the scene that came to mind for me was from the DS9 episode where Worf, Kor, and Dax find the sword of Kahless.
This guy Bat’leths:-)
What about klingon daggers? But even if, it can’t repair/improve klingon pain sticks, so it’s useless anyway
DANG IT! Well now I gotta find another one…
I haven’t found a blade yet that I can’t sharpen with my Lansky kit. It would just take a couple hours to get the thing razor sharp
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