Skramasaksi
| Skramasaksi | ||
|---|---|---|
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| Basic Info | ||
| Cultures: | All | |
| Weight: | 3 | |
| Trade Value: | 344 | |
| Flammable: | No | |
| Required By: | Arrow, Birch-bark box, Blunt arrow, Fur Footwear, Fur Leggings, Fur Shirt, Fur cap, Fur cloak, Fur footwear, Fur hood, Fur leggings, Fur mittens, Fur overcoat, Grainflail, Juniper Bow, Leather belt, Leather cap, Leather cuirass, Leather forearm guards, Leather leggings, Leather shin guards, Leather shirt, Leather shoes, Light lever trap, Net, Paw-board fox trap, Pine Tree, Shortbow, Skin, Skis, Slender Tree Trunk, Slender tree trunk, Small deadfall trap, Stone Axe, Wooden bowl, Wooden cup, Wooden mug | |
| Combat Information | ||
| Skill Required: | Knife | |
| Blunt Damage: | 2 | |
| Edge Damage: | 3 | |
| Point Damage: | 5 | |
| Attack Bonus: | Little | |
| Defense Bonus: | Very Little | |
The skramasaksi is a weapon also known as "power-knife" since it is mainly used for combat.
It can be rarely found in Sartola's shops, and on Sartola's tribesmen.
URW Game Encyclopedia description
The official URW in-game encyclopedia (accessed by the F1 key) describes the skramasaksi thusly:
Also known as the "power-knife", "väkipuukko" in UnReal Language. "Väki" could be translated as "power" and "force", specially in the meaning of vital force connected with supernatural powers. The skramasaksi has a blade as long as 8" long.
Real life context
- Scramaseax - English Wikipedia article
- Väkipuukko/Skramasaksi - Finnish Wikipedia article
- Comparing one seax type with later historical utility knives
The scramaseax or scramasax (or just seax or sax) was a large, straight-bladed knife of European late antiquity and the early medieval period. Sax knives were multipurpose (tools and self-defence weapons). Their blades came with some variations in shape (regular or irregular) and edges.
The name is an old Germanic term for knife, appearing in early medieval languages such as Old English, Frisian and Frankish. Skramasaksi is the Finnish rendering of the term. There is also a more native Finnish term for this type of late Iron Age knife, väkipuukko. This term is often translated into English as "dagger", though the sax doesn't necessarily have to take the form of a dagger.
Gallery
Skramasaksi in-game
See also
- Northern Knife - Another type of large multipurpose knife, more common among the Northern cultures of the UrW game world.
