2958 Morning Star Vs Mace
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Technically, that’s a spiked club, not a morningstar nor a mace… But, eh…
I’ve always found that the technical descriptions change depending on where you’re researching. But I’ve always maintained that a mace is a fancy club of various designs, including flanged, sphere, or even just a long slender club. A flail is one or more spiked balls on a chain or just two poles linked with a chain, and a morning star is a spiked club of various designs.
Like swords, the definition is not so clear.
A mace is a blunt weapon, a type of club or virge that uses a heavy head on the end of a handle to deliver powerful blows. A mace typically consists of a strong, heavy, wooden or metal shaft, often reinforced with metal, featuring a head made of stone, copper, bronze, iron, or steel.
A morning star is any of several medieval club-like weapons that included one or more spikes. Each used, to varying degrees, a combination of blunt-force and puncture attack to kill or wound the enemy.
A club (also known as a cudgel, baton, truncheon, cosh, nightstick, or bludgeon) is among the simplest of all weapons: a short staff or stick, usually made of wood, wielded as a weapon since prehistoric times. The military mace is a more sophisticated descendant of the club, typically made of metal and featuring a spiked, knobbed or flanged head attached to a shaft.
So Rich is correct in calling it a mace, not a club. It’s just a very simple mace.
I thought that club doesn't have a clear head part, so that bugbear wields a spiked club in my opinion.
Mace has been quite a common occurrence in classical era when swords were too flexible or brittle due to lack of steel.
In medieval times it served as knights back up for sword – you can't really break it and it won't get stuck in enemy armour.
Morning star is a reference to spiked mace.
Spiked flails are not really classified as morning stars, IIRС. However flails were really unpopular weapon among knights so not many spiked ones actually existed due to complexity of manufacture.
Anyhow the only European exclusion from the rule that mace has defined head and club does not I am aware of is a quite rare bar mace type from England.
Has Dave seen this?
Because it reminds me of someone.
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Interesting, Sir Idries is a lefty. I see the mace, that is clear, but where is the morning star? Sir Idries is wielding a sword. Or did the title refer to the impending controversy as to whether that was a mace, or a morning star? *chuckle*
Maybe the swords name is "Morning Star’
May it be a nickname for sir Idries?
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