Weapon Profile
- Category
- martial
- Damage
- 1d6 piercing
- Range
- engaged
Properties
- finesse
- light
A short, straight-bladed weapon balanced for fast cuts in close quarters. The pattern predates the Continuum Crisis and survives across pre-industrial worlds: Aurelion duelists drill with chalked tips on academy floors, frontier town watch keep them under the counter, and Black Meridian cutpurses prefer them for the simple reason that a shortsword draws faster than a longsword in a corridor. Cheap, reliable, and lethal in trained hands.