#rondel dagger

[we-are-knight]

Raubritter, by Tomasz Ryger

[wearemercs]

City guard by nemui

[cutecuttlefish]

The sword of the day is the rondel dagger.

This was a short, stiff-bladed dagger that saw use in the late European Medieval period. The name comes from the shape of the pommel and guard, which were both disks. Though sharpened, it was exclusively designed for stabbing, a function facilitated by its relatively stiff blade. The rondel dagger saw extensive use as a sidearm among European knights, able to puncture through the weak points of the advanced plate armor in use at the time, like joints, thinner plates, and gaps.

[primordialfireforge]

Triangle rondel coming up nicely. Now just need to wait for the oil to dry so I can finish this one and add to my Etsy.

[wearefighter]

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[chainymail]

love how solid, unglamorous, utilitarian, and brutalist the rondel dagger is in the wider realm of daggers. Flat top because you need something to punch while you hammer the blade through steel. Rarely bears a sharpened edge because this is a weapon meant to puncture and wedge through gaps. It’s a basically a dressed-up railroad nail that rips through chain mail like cotton. It’s most useful in close combat when swords become cumbersome and a wrestling match needs to end in blood. We don’t need to use the term phallic okay cut to the chase that thing is a cock.

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[kultofathena]

Tod Cutler – 14th Century Effigy Rondel Dagger

Mid to late 14thC Rondel dagger. Featuring a flower shaped pommel and disc guard in bronze with a fluted wooden grip. A very strong double sided, diamond section blade. This type of ‘gentle’ motif of a flower was typical of knights of the 13th and 14th C. You can see motifs and daggers like this on effigy’s and artwork throughout the period. Later rondel daggers had a top ‘disc’ style guard as well but early ones had a more normal shaped dagger pommel as seen here. The unsharpened blade is crafted from EN45 high carbon steel and the guard is a composite of bronze and wood; the pommel is cast from matching bronze and the blade is peened over the pommel to complete the dagger. The grip is polished wood.

As well as the dagger being typical of the period it comes with a very distinctive ‘cupped’ leather sheath which has been shaped around the bottom rondel with a brass shaped shape with fluting and a heart motif cut out.

[bestparacordbeads]

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[elysianaut]

Swordtember 23

19. - Mask

A small sword, pierced through the brow of a metal mask. The Death Mask Rondel.

[blue-hi]

no thoughts head empty JUST landesknecht

[bethrnoora]

it's anachronistic fantasy bullshit, so i get to choose what kind of fun and special weapons the characters are carrying around

[contemptible-scoundrel]

waiter! oh waiter! another helping of transgender elf spit, if you please?

[a beautiful elf woman sidles over to me, tilts my chin up with her hand, and rams a rondel dagger through the base of my skull, killing me instantly]

[theinfamousdoctorf]

Okay, I just want to say that his last line was HOT as HELL

OKAY! I really appreciate you giving me an opening to talk about this! Because I thought of the line first. "The servant regarded him with contempt. "Make love to a god, then ask me why I would stab a stranger for him." And then I wrote the entire interaction AROUND IT so I could use it. A big chunk of the reason I decided to put him and Lord Eclipse in an actual relationship is because of the AU artwork by @thedenofravenpuff. The other part has to do with our Sun Prime and his love of Cult of the Lamb. Sun likes to be the leader in that game and play god with his followers lives. [Gee I wonder where Eclipse got that impulse from.] His dimensional double SSun wants to offer his own body on the altar for a particular type of sacrament. He's wielding a rondel dagger specifically because they were made to pierce armor. It's a symbol of how trusted [and loved] he is. Also ravenpuff specifically did some fanart of Lord Eclipse in EMHM so here's a link to it - https://www.tumblr.com/thedenofravenpuff/745922517917646848/finally-eclipse-gets-the-upper-hand-over-old-moon SSun is a standard DCA model except for having a more malleable face even then the primes with emotes on. [And the fact that he has two dicks and a sleeve] While Lord Eclipse has the star shaped void face Ravenpuff drew and is physically smaller then SSun.

[cutecuttlefish]

The sword of the day is the stiletto.

The stiletto is an Italian renaissance-era dagger with a long, slender profile and a needle-like point. It is a development on the rondel dagger, and initially served a very similar purpose; a backup weapon to pierce through gaps in armor while in extremely close quarters combat. It was also developed from a second weapon, called a misericorde, used to deliver mercy kills to downed knights through their heavy armor. The narrow blade could penetrate through chain mail at the armpit to reach the heart, or even stab through the eye slits of a helmet to kill quickly via brain injury. Later, the stiletto was adopted as an assassin’s weapon, easily concealed and able to pierce through heavy leather and fabric clothing. The strikingly narrow blade is so iconic that it remains a name for many different kinds of long, narrow features, like extremely thin high heeled shoes.

[littledeathh]

In-game the misericorde is classified as a slash/pierce weapon. It is also much longer than it would've historically been, which is wrong, because it is a carving weapon.

From around the 9th to 13th centuries chainmail provided the greatest protection, mostly around the head and torso. Around this time, "knightly" daggers still featured a flat surface. However, the intricate process of "braiding" chainmail made it a luxury.

Although chainmail deterred slashing, skeletons dated to this time show it was the legs that were targeted, by slashing the femoral artery. Often this was because knights favoured protecting their head and vital organs, with little else left to spend.

The advent of articulated plate armour around the 16th century provided more protection at a lower cost and replaced mail, thereby rendering slashing daggers ineffective. Thus, during the Late Middle Ages, daggers specialising in piercing through armour joints (underarm area; brain through eye) became more popular, such as the rondel knife/misericorde.

It should be noted that the proper way to use the misericorde wasn't necessarily to pierce, but to carve a circle repeatedly on the inside of the victim, as wide and deep as possible through a small hole, causing massive internal hemorrhage with minimal visible signs. Mincing away at their organs while they're still breathing.

It's designed to be stealthy and deadly. The misericorde often lacks sharp angles (like the flat of a sword) because it's just an ice pick.

They were angular, circular (rondel) or needle-like (stiletto). This is because, as a criminal or assassin, the dagger was often stored against your body. When you pulled the dagger out of your sleeve, you wouldn't want to cut yourself.

In conclusion, all knights wielded a piercing dagger in addition to their main weapon. Anyone could perform euthanasia. War surgeons have a (rudimentary, mediaeval) medical background and aren't simple mercy killers.

[necroticspider]

New gameplay footage for Dungeons of Blood and Dream! Battling against terrible torso men of the forest using only a rondel dagger.