You cant upgrade silver weapons either, or smith them, eventhough there is silver ingots :: facepalm ::

Every weapon in the game is unique in its design. Most of them are fantasy instead of Practical designs, but the point is that an Orcish Sword is not the same type/style of sword as a Daedric Sword, nor are Glass and Ebony swords the same type. Not even Steel and Iron swords are the same "type" of sword. Why should Scimitars get special treatment? They're merely a different kind of Sword.

In fact, Ebony Swords seem to be similar to the Talwar in design, with a single, curved blade, and point in line with the hilt.

For some reason now I want to be able to make ivory weapons.

I want cutlasses and whips.

If you just improve a scimitar with the perk and maxed smithing, they are great weapons. You would only be getting a few more points if there was such a thing as a daedric scimitar.

There is also a unique scimitar, if you do the DB quest on

I would like to have more variety in weapons.

Akaviri Katana, Akaviri Dai-Katana. Blades Sword.

Certainly. Skyrim suffers from lack of weaponry in many ways, scimitars being one of them. Another is the Skyforge and Silver weapon varieties, they for some reason omitted some types completely from these categories. I was looking for a silver warhammer and had to settle for a silver greatsword instead for my undead-killing needs. There's also no option to have Eorlund sell or craft Skyforge warhammers or maces, even though his line before then says he can craft you "any weapon type you want". That was really annoying to find out, and apparently there's no Ancient Nord versions of these weapons either.

Those type of weapons were only invented, when plate armour was introduced as bladed weapon became less effective. So it makes sense that ancient nord version doesn't exist. You also don't need a warhammer to take out werewolves who are in rags, and as for Skyforge, Eorlund is the best smith and makes his steel blade the sharpest in Skyrim. It doesn't take much skill to make a dull war hammer. I do wish the silver weapons were upgradeable using silver ingots though.

There weren't any blunt weapons before plate armor? Did not realize that. A club or a morningstar seems like it would be one of the simplest weapons to produce cheaply.

And actually, silver weapons don't have any special effectiveness against werewolves, but can provide a big bonus against undead. Not sure if this was an oversight on Bethesda's part or if the Silver Hand just doesn't know that werewolves aren't especially affected. And all I know is that Eorlund tells you he can make you any Skyforge weapon you want, then proceeds to show you like 4 options in the dialogue , I found it misleading.

Oh well, at least mods do and have fixed this stuff, including allowing silver weapon upgrading/crafting and different scimitars.

Have you seen any empire conquer masses of land with a Club in their hands?

I personally haven't seen any empires conquering anything . Supposedly the Persians used maces in their armies, but the Romans didn't very much. Warhammers and the like were primarily used for armored enemies, but most Dragur armor looks heavy enough to warrant blunt weaponry.

They have enough flesh exposed make blade weapons effective.

No Falchions had a broad blade like the Skyrim Scmitars, but weren't curved like these. So i think too that they mixed them.

Personally, IRL ebony gets me wood.

If you know what I mean.

Sword categories are always vague, but I think the curved... swords... you see in the game would usually be called a falchion in pnp RPGs. Here is a pic of a French one from the middle ages: http://www.a-work-of-art.net/pages/page06c.jpg

I've heard of tree-huggers, but this is ridiculous


I'm pretty sure they are scimitars in-game. That looks like a borderline weapon, the average falchion is something like http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/Falchion.jpg.

A Falchion is a militarised (sp) meat cleaver. It was designed to hack/chop through armor.

You mean one of these?
http://polarcoordinate.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/bloody-knife2.gif

The question is, if you had to put the kind of sword called a "scimitar" in-game into a real-life category, what would you put it into? The main characteristic is that it has a curve, and it has that thick section opposite the curve. Just from what I know about such stuff, you would call it a falchion rather than a scimitar. This page has some info and a photo: http://suffolkfreecompany.webs.com/swordandbuckler.htm

As that page says, there is a kind of famous one called the Thorpe Falchion, you can put that into google images. It is not as close as the image I posted earlier, but still close enough if you ask me.

Steel.