Sword

Various swords serve as melee weapons in Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4, Fallout 76 and Fallout Shelter. The label of "sword" encompasses a wide variety of blades used for slashing and thrusting attacks.
As tools designed solely to kill humans, swords in the post-industrial era were usually ceremonial.Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Rulebook p. 112: "Swords have been in use for almost as long as wars have been fought and remained widespread as symbols of status and prestige amongst soldiers—particularly officers—across the world right up until the Great War. Many of the swords found in the wastelands are those used by Chinese officers during the Great War, often taken from battlefields as a trophy by American troops. Others are museum pieces or replicas from private collections, with many resembling the cavalry sabers used during the American Revolution." The post-War era saw renewed interests in swords.
==Variants==
===Wakizashi===
A wakizashi is a type of Japanese sword with a blade length between 12 and 23 inches (30 and 60 centimeters), similar to but shorter than a katana. The wakizashi is usually not a primary weapon for samurai and was often worn together with the katana. The pairing of a katana with a wakizashi is called the daishō. However, by 2241, the Yakuza gangs ignore this tradition and instead use it as a primary weapon. Additionally, some shishkebabs are modified wakizashis.
===Katana===
A katana is a type of Japanese sword with a blade length between 23.6 and 28.7 inches (60-73 centimeters), characterized by its distinctive slender, curved blade and long grip, separated by a flat handguard. Renowned for its utility in close-quarters combat, its origins go back at least as far as the Kamakura Period. In feudal Japan, katanas were generally wielded with two hands, to maximize the weight behind each strike, though some techniques and combat styles were performed with a one-handed grip. The katana was generally carried in a saya, a scabbard made from lightweight lacquered wood.
=== Chinese officer's sword ===
 
These swords are made in the style of 7th century jian double-edged straight swords. Produced by the People's Liberation Army specifically for use by its officers and issued in the Sino-American War, many were captured and came to the American home front as souvenirs; some even found their way into fifth columnist hands. Chinese officer's swords see occasional use in the wasteland.
* For unique Chinese officer's swords in Fallout 3 and its add-ons, see Vampire's Edge, Jingwei's shocksword, and the cut Clover's Cleaver.
* For the unique weapon in Fallout 4, see General Chao's Revenge. For the unique weapon in the Nuka-World add-on, see Sword of Wonders.
===Bumper sword===
The bumper sword consists of a rusty car bumper that has been flattened and sharpened into a thick, heavy blade. The license plate is still attached and an exhaust pipe strapped to the unsharpened end serves as a makeshift handle.
* For the variant found in the add-on Lonesome Road, see Blade of the West.
* For the unique bumper sword, see Blade of the East.
===Lily's Vertibird blade===
Lily's Vertibird blade is a huge sword fashioned from a Vertibird rotor strapped to a long tube of wood via leather straps. If asked how she obtained it, Lily Bowen states she found Daisy Whitman's downed Vertibird near Klamath and Leo told her how to make it.
=== Revolutionary sword ===
An antique spadroon dating back to the latter half of the 18th century. Used during the American Revolutionary War, these artifacts have made their way into the hands of wastelanders.
* For the unique relic in Fallout 4, see Shem Drowne sword.
===Cultist blade===
A ritual weapon of the Cult of the Mothman. An antler serves as a hilt, which is tied tightly to an inscribed slab of serrated black titanium.
===Scimitar===
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A sword with a curved blade, associated with Middle Eastern cultures. Used in Vault 4 to execute "death penalty," via cutting the rope around Lucy MacLean's wrists to exile her to the surface.
==See also==
* Knife
* Machete
* Shishkebab
==References==
 
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