So the Siebold shard doesn't make a whip?

[Vahnkiljoy]

Why the hell is he a whip mitama then....that makes no sense, unless his weapon comes from a farther reforge that I just haven't reached?

[Thorne]

There is little rhyme or reason on what kind of shards some of the mitamas give. Siebold gives a sword & shield shard despite having a chain whip skill, Myamoto Musashi gives a twin dagger shard despite having a sword skill, Yagyu Jubei gives a sword shard despite not having a weapon based skill at all...

...in short, it's "check a wiki" all the way. Here, this link might help:
http://anigemu.com/index.php/category/toukiden-2/

[labbing larry,,]

The real Siebold had an interest in acupuncture in Japan and introduced it and moxibustion to Europe. He's one of the very few western mitama however, so he still unfortunately gets categorized as an SnS shard. He was even gifted a katana as well, so there's really not a lot of logic to look for here.

[Vahnkiljoy]

Man that's just completely asanine.

[labbing larry,,]

Originally posted by Hardenberg:

There is little rhyme or reason on what kind of shards some of the mitamas give. Siebold gives a sword & shield shard despite having a chain whip skill, Myamoto Musashi gives a twin dagger shard despite having a sword skill, Yagyu Jubei gives a sword shard despite not having a weapon based skill at all...

...in short, it's "check a wiki" all the way. Here, this link might help:
http://anigemu.com/index.php/category/toukiden-2/

Miyamoto Musashi was extemely well known for dual-wielding, so there's a tiny bit of sense there. The katana boost is still very incongruous, though...

[Lioness 西施]

The Mitama weapons are loosely based on what these men and women were known for in real life. Omega Force is also exercising a good sense of humor with some of them.

Mitsuhide Akechi, for example, was known for being skilled with a rifle. When you combine this with the fact he was also a skilled liar and would later betray Nobunaga, resulting in the latter's death, you get a Mitama shard that makes a poison rifle. Cute.

Jubei Yagyu wrote a book on swordsmanship, thus his Mitama makes a sword.

Musashi is the quintessential swordsman, so it makes sense that he has boosts to the katana and his shard creates dual knives. Dual knives don't really feel like I'm using swords, they feel like knives. So, from an aesthetic point of view, dual knives make sense. From a gameplay point of view, boosts to the katana make sense.

Siebold, though, really should have made a rifle. It would have made the most sense to me.

[Prof.Paradox]

Originally posted by Vahnkiljoy:

Why the hell is he a whip mitama then....that makes no sense, unless his weapon comes from a farther reforge that I just haven't reached?

lol ik ik there a multiple mitamas that make no sense like that ik there was one that made i a cahin and sickle i believe he had liek fists skills or club skills and his portrait had a long sword like wtf XD