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[of_mindelan]

I can finally write and speak normally again.  I'm sorry for my rudeness the past several days.  It wasn't my intention.

[...yeah, she's still not all that chatty.]

[Gradually a drawing appears, in ink applied via brush.  It's more or less one of these women, though the drawing is decidedly cruder and more generic, and instead of straight-bladed

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[dragonking]

It seems familiar.

[He's mistaking it for a guan dao.]

[of_mindelan]

[Her writing becomes very careful and deliberate; Mindelan's instincts about gods are basically that they are to be avoided, that one demigoddess friend of hers and the Chamber of the Ordeal aside.]

These others say it looks like a naginata.

[dragonking]

That word is not what I would call it, but unfortunately I cannot remember the name of the weapon I was thinking of.

[notpissedoff]

A naginata.

[of_mindelan]

That seems right. Is there another name for it?

Thank you, Rain.

[notpissedoff]

That's the only name I know it by.

You're welcome.

[grab_my_bells]

Like someone said, a naginata. Women study it more than men, I think.

[The journal might translate this, in which case it's "pole weapon with curved blade"]

[of_mindelan]

[In canon, she knows the Yamani call it a naginata, but she and other nonYamani call it a glaive, which Wikipedia says isn't quite the same thing.]

That makes sense. Something like that would make it possible to compensate for a shorter reach, though I don't think the lady I saw had to worry about that.