Sword form

Sword forms are movements or techniques used in sword-fighting in The Wheel of Time. A specific sword form will have a name and a movement that goes with it.
== History ==
=== Season 2 ===
While working at the Cairhien sanitarium, Rand al'Thor befriends the patient Errol, who is a blademaster. Rand asks if Errol could teach him a few more sword forms and Errol agrees, and then he demonstrates a few with his cane. Another orderly, Yann, makes a loud noise, triggering Errol. Rand comforts him and asks what he would hit him with first, and Errol names the forms he would use against him.
When Rand and Lan Mandragoran are at the Sun Palace waiting to see Siuan Sanche, Lan reaches to take Rand's sword from him, and Rand dodges the motion, pulling his sword and sheath into his hands. Lan smiles and identifies the sword form as "Heron dips the wing." He suggests to Rand that if he's going to use any sword form, to use "cat crosses the courtyard" - walk straight with all his muscles loose.
== Known sword forms ==
Sword forms that have been named in The Wheel of Time television series are:
* Cutting the Clouds
* Kissing the Adder
* Parting the Silk
* Reaping the Barley
* Heron dips the wing
* Cat Crosses the Courtyard - "keep your back straight, every muscle loose. As if hung from a wire at the top of your head."
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== References ==
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