What's that sword?

[Migel]

There have to be some sword experts around here. Is it entirely fictional? Is it a real sword type used in the past?
If this is fictional, are there swords this is based upon?

Also, where exactly is Senua from? "Northmen" sound like the Danish or the Swedish invading, which makes me want to assume she's from the british isles. She is being voiced by what seems like a german, so is she from germany?

Thanks.

[Papa Beerpool is back(ish)]

Senua is a Pict warrior so yeah, they are Brits. As for the northmen...They are Vikings since they used to raid the british isles. As for the sword.. Gramr is a norse legend. As for the type of sword...no idea

[Captain Tofu]

Are you talking about her first or second sword?

[Migel]

Originally posted by Captain Tofu:

Are you talking about her first or second sword?

First sword. I have Gramr now, didn't realize there were multiple in the game.
The first sword looks really interesting to me and I would like to know wether it really exists.

[NuclearSnail]

They say she's pict, but she's actually Icini, anybody with even a remote knowlage of iron age history should know that. And it doesn't even matter because both tribes were gone 1000 years before the vikings ever went viking. Yes viking is a verb. To vike. Or to go viking.
The first sword contains elements of real bronze age swords, but is meant to be an iron age sword, and is completely fictional. No sword in history ever looked exsactly like that.

[Azurem]

Originally posted by SpaceBones:

They say she's pict, but she's actually Icini, anybody with even a remote knowlage of iron age history should know that. And it doesn't even matter because both tribes were gone 1000 years before the vikings ever went viking. Yes viking is a verb. To vike. Or to go viking.
The first sword contains elements of real bronze age swords, but is meant to be an iron age sword, and is completely fictional. No sword in history ever looked exsactly like that.

The game says she's from Orkney. It was inhabited by Picts when the Vikings conquered it in 875AD. Why do you think she's an iron age Iceni if that's the wrong time period and location?

[Migel]

Originally posted by Azurem:

Originally posted by SpaceBones:

They say she's pict, but she's actually Icini, anybody with even a remote knowlage of iron age history should know that. And it doesn't even matter because both tribes were gone 1000 years before the vikings ever went viking. Yes viking is a verb. To vike. Or to go viking.
The first sword contains elements of real bronze age swords, but is meant to be an iron age sword, and is completely fictional. No sword in history ever looked exsactly like that.

The game says several times she's from Orkney. It was inhabited by Picts when the Vikings conquered it in 875AD. Why do you think she's an iron age Iceni if that's the wrong time period and location?

Must've missed that, where does it say that?
Not knowing armor or weapons from the era, all I could assume was that she is on the british isles, knowing that the Vikings raided there. At some point you were also walking towards the tree in a village of straw hats, that village was near the ocean on cliffs. Again, not an expert on when these things were trending. In the game there is a lot of direct references to those nordic gods, not sure how much that really sais about the point in time.

In conclusion: I know absolutely nothing.

[KatoDog11]

Originally posted by Azurem:

Originally posted by SpaceBones:

They say she's pict, but she's actually Icini, anybody with even a remote knowlage of iron age history should know that. And it doesn't even matter because both tribes were gone 1000 years before the vikings ever went viking. Yes viking is a verb. To vike. Or to go viking.
The first sword contains elements of real bronze age swords, but is meant to be an iron age sword, and is completely fictional. No sword in history ever looked exsactly like that.

The game says she's from Orkney. It was inhabited by Picts when the Vikings conquered it in 875AD. Why do you think she's an iron age Iceni if that's the wrong time period and location?

Thats what I thought. Felt like I was losing my mind for a second.

[Siege Starkiller]

To me it looks like a Chinese jian but how could that be possible?

[Killer Kitten]

I can't tell you anything about the original sword Senua comes into the game with and its very possible it was made up. The sword she gets after the trial is something called damascus steel. That can be seen in the swirling pattern in the metal.

But of course this is complicated because no one can really define actual "Damascus Steel." The name derives from Middle Eastern region which used specific techniques, but those techniques aren't the only way to get those swirling patterns in metal.

The vikings used a technique called "Pattern Welding" to somewhat imitate that pattern. To have a sword like that, would have been the mark of a high prestige.

[Illianael]

Just to add to this, the game files name it as 'Celtic', and the second sword as 'Viking'. Given the obviously huge amount of research no doubt it is at least inspired by a or some real swords, but with their own artistic direction.

[Zebedee]

Senua's first sword doesn't look too dissimilar to swords you see carved on Pictish stonework apart from it having that ring pommel, which brings to mind something more typically Irish. (Nod toward Dal Riata here?). There is a pommel I know of from the Orkneys from the 9th century, although it's silver and is either from Mercia or is made in imitation of that Anglo-Saxon style.

Second sword wouldn't look that out of place next to something like the Sword of Essen or similar. Although obviously the crossguard looks supersized.

Just 2c, and I don't have textbooks in front of me to do it properly, but I'd think the Ninjas would have started from a historical base and adapted from that.