The Quint - an unusual type XVIIIc Longsword 

Depends on the fantasy swords; Peter Lyons LOTR designs and Peter Johnsons pieces he designed for House Of The Dragon are spot on functional and as real as it gets. That crossguard in the video is taken by a fantasy sword anyway: it appears on a steel sword from the Witcher-III video game.

@@grunztiertransmutator770 I suppose there are fantasy swords and fantasy swords. In a sense the ones you mention aren't fantasy in the sense that they would ignore historical accuracy altogether.

I also don't see it as narrowly as it might have come across in the statement. But something about the piece should be historical so that it has an added value for you in the presentation.

I love real swords, but there are some fantasy swords I just love, too. The Atlantean Sword is so iconic and beautiful, even though it's absolutely stupid in its design, weight, weight distribution and application. I really don't like the "d&d swords" which have spikes sticking out everywhere and really oversized blades from comic designs, but some fantasy movie swords are really beautiful designs.

​@@W4ldgeist Albion has an atlantean reproduction. I don't think it's design is that bad functionally. I'm curious if there's any reviews of it professionally out there.

And very unique.

And its scabbard is a backscabbard ^^ handeled it before. Its crazy!

Witchers in books use short swords because Witchers are all about speed. They use short swords as talons, their battle style is more animalistic, witchers try to split enemy open with one fast strike. Also keeping short swords on the back actually works and it was also the only reason why 12 years old Ciri was able even lift the Witcher sword - it was just small. The games introduced long swords due to technical reasons - hitboxes work better with bigger weapons, most videogames use oversized swords. Unfortunately now everyone thinks that monsterslayer with massive two hander who spends half of his life in tight caverns, tombs and severs makes any sense... It doesn't, it never did 😂

Witcher is jsut a rip off of Elric of Melnibone

@@randomnickify - No, man. That's not right. 40" is way too long for a "short sword", and that was the number Sapkowski explicitly dropped when describing Sihil, the sword that Zoltan gifted to Geralt. It's not the zweihander monsters that show up later in the game, but it's not a short sword, either.

And scary

The man has skills. :)

I think Scottish and irish Longsword have different proportions as well !

We can see some sort of this shape with Galadriel in outcoming "Rings of Power")) but really low quality, and bad design, made looks like from solid piece of material, with no detachable hilt, crossguard, no pommel and so on.

Does the Paladin uses a flintlock gun?

@@wlg2677 No, but one of his allies is very fond of black powder bombs, ye olde original style: clay vessel packed with black powder and metal shot. Not as effective as the magic of the Divines, but still pretty brutal.

@@J.J.Spencer Ok. So there is blackpowder? Good.

Ich denke auch Schottische und irische Schwerter haben auch andere Proportionen !

I've seen reviews of other swords that used the same type of blade, and they were all surprised how well it handled for its weight -- but those had handles that were only slightly longer than the historical samples. This one uses the quint proportions and has a good, long handle, shifting the COG right down to the crossguard -- so for a strong man, manipulating a 5 lb sword with that kind of balance would be reasonable. He certainly makes it look easy and graceful. :)

Good question! But we have some indications that it should be so. The tip ends up exactly in the circular geometry (7circles) and the two hollow lines ends just in front of the tip...it seems that these propotion was real

@ got it.

it was...i try to fix that...i guess the intro and outro is always way to loud...and than all seem low in comparison to it

Have a look at the vid description...its a custom piece but maybe still for sale :)

Its not me...its the intro what is extremly loud...i will equalize it in the future :)