Thread:Argali1/@comment-26863727-20161228082110/@comment-26863727-20170806032758

"So is mine. Well, one of the three big cities is, and to a lesser extent the other two. And I suppose, I come from a whole family of exceptional people. But back on topic. Your first mistake was trying to cut me with your knife, when in that situation throwing would have worked better. Well, unless the other guy was wearing..."

He searches and fails to find a word for it.

"...a [hauberk] or something similar. Whole other game, armored combat. In the extreme close quarters, I might not have managed to bat it away in time. On the other hand, you opened with a feint. That's good, but more experienced fighters often aren't fooled by them, so save those for those you think aren't four time champions of the Imperial Tournament of Masters."

(Tacitus, Marius' older brother, has won it ten times, and six times was fighting Marius for the title. For the last four years, he's been uninterested in proving that he's the best swordsman in the Empire yet again, due to a troubling obsession with books of magic, some of which originally came from the libraries of Orthanc and Minas Tirith's archives sometime after the War of the Ring. Some believe he may even be secretly practicing the sorcery contained within the pages.)