Post by Reese on Nov 30, 2011 23:01:59 GMT -5
Gorean Spear:
An ancient weapon that for some reason on Gor has retained the bronze head and not gone to that of steel like other weapons. Originally used as a hunting tool, it evolved into a powerful weapon of war, able to thrown or wielded with pinpoint accuracy. Very popular with massed infantry troops as a way of dealing with cavalry.
Quotes:
The spear was a typical Gorean spear, about seven feet in height, heavy, stout, with a tapering bronze head some eighteen inches in length. It is a terrible weapon and, abetted by the somewhat lighter gravity of Gor, when cast with considerable force, can pierce a shield at close quarters or bury its head a foot deep in solid wood. With this weapon groups of men hunt even the larl in its native haunts in the Voltai Range, that incredible pantherlike carnivore which may stand six to eight feet high at the shoulder. ---Outlaw of Gor, p 21
The tarnsman commonly carries, strapped to the saddle, a Gorean spear, a fearsome weapon, but primarily a missile weapon, and one more adopted to infantry. ---Assassin of Gor, p 366
It had a shaft of seven foot Gorean, a head of tapered bronze, some eighteen inches in length. At close range it can pierce a southern shield, shatter its point through a seven-inch beam. ---Marauders of Gor, p 210
Kailla Lance:
The perfect weapon when one wants to unseat an opposing cavalryman or terrorize ground troops. Though on Gor unlike earth the lance has retained it's lightweight and suppleness most likely due to the fact that it is not used against an armored foe. The kaiila lance gets its name from the simple fact that it is to be used from kaiilaback, for hunting purposes, as well as war.
Quotes:
The lances of the Wagon Peoples are not couched. They are carried in the right fist, easily, and are flexible and light, used for thrusting, not the battering-ram effect of the heavy lances of Europe's High Middle Ages. Needless to say, they an be almost as swift and delicate in their address as a saber. The lances are black, cut from the poles of young tem trees. They may be bent almost double, like finely tempered steel, before they break. A loose loop of boskhide, wound twice about the right fist, helps to retain the weapon in hand-to-hand combat. It is seldom thrown. ---Nomads of Gor, p 15
The kaiila lance is used in hunting kailiauk as well as in mounted warfare. It is called the kaiila lance because it is designed to be used from kaiilaback. It is to be distinguished in particular from the longer, heavier tharlarion lance, designed for use from tharlarionback, and often used with a lance rest, and the smaller, thicker stabbing lances used by certain groups of pedestrian nomads. The kaiila lance takes, on the whole, thwo forms, the hunting lance and the war lance. Hunting lances are commonly longer, heavier and thicker than war lances. Too, they are often undecorated, save perhaps for a knot of the feathers of the yellow, long winged, sharp billed prairie fleer, or, as it is sometimes called, the maize bird, or corn bird, considered by the red savages to be generally the first bird to find food.
The point of the hunting lance is usually longer and narrower than that of the war lance, a function of the depth into which one must strike in order to find the heart of the kailiauk. The shaft of the kaiila lances are black, supple and strong; they are made of temwood, a wood much favored on Gor for this type of purpose. Staves for the lances are cut in the late winter, when sap is down. Such wood, in the long process osf smoking and drying over the lodge fire, which consumes several weeks, seasoning the wood and killing any insects which might remain in it, seldom splits or cracks, Similarly, old-growth wood, which is tougher, is preferred over the fresher, less dense first-growth, or newer-growth wood.
Tarn Lance:
A longer, more slender version of the war lance, used, as its name would indicate, from tarnback.
Quotes:
The tarn lance, it might be mentioned, as is used by the red savages who have mastered the tarn, is, in size and shape, very similar to the kaiila lance. It differs primarily in being longer and more slender. ---Savages of Gor, p 44
Tharlarion Lance:
A longer, heavier version of the war lance, used from tharlarionback.
Quotes:
It is to be distinguished in particular from the longer, heavier tharlarion lance, designed for use from tharlarionback, and often used with a lance rest, and the smaller, thicker stabbing lances used by certain groups of pedestrian nomads. ---Savages of Gor, p 43
Harpoon:
More of a tool than a weapon it is essentially a spear meant for hunting and fishing. Barbed so that it will not pull out and usually secured with a line to retrieve the catch. On Gor, in the hands of a warrior, it too becomes deadly. Reference is made to two types of harpoons, the light harpoon and the long harpoon, both apparently used at different stages of the hunt.
Quotes:
I grasped the long harpoon. It was some eight feet in length, some two and a half inches in diameter. Its major shaft was of wood, but it had a foreshaft of bone. In this foreshaft was set the head of the harpoon, of bone, drilled, with a point of sharpened slate. Through the drilled hole in the bone, some four inches below the slate point and some four inches above the base of the head, was passed a rawhide line, which lay coiled in the bottom of the boat. As the hole is drilled the line, when it snaps taut, will turn the head of the harpoon in the wound, anchoring it. Suddenly, not more than a dozen feet from the boat, driving upward, rearing vertically, surging, expelling air in a great burst of noise, shedding icy water, in a tangle of lines and blood, burst the towering, cylindrical tonnage of the black Hunjer whale. ---Beasts of Gor
I picked up the beaded throwing board and the light harpoon, and fitted the harpoon shaft into the notch on the throwing board. The harpoon had a foreshaft of bone, with a bone .liead and point. A light rawhide line, of twisted tabuk sinew, ran to the head. In a flat. rounded tray directly before me, on the leather, there were coiled several feet of this line. At my right, alongside the outer edge of the circular wooden frame, bound with sinew, within which I sat, lay the long lance. ---Beasts of Gor
Trident:
Again originally a tool for fishing and hunting animals which progressed to hunting men and finally as gladiatorial weapons in ancient Rome. The Net and Trident man usually plays the waiting game hoping to tangle his opponent in the net before he strikes. As good as this system at first appears it becomes readily obvious that the net and trident man is sadly lacking in any defensive capabilities.
Quotes:
I could use some paga, said he. He had purchased the net in the morning with a trident, the traditional weapons of the fisherman of the western shore and the western islands. ---Raiders of Gor, pg 112
Another popular set of weapons, as in the ancient ludi of Rome, is the net and trident. Usually those most skilled with this set of weapons are from the shore and islands of distant, gleaming Thassa, the sea, where they doubtless originally developed among fisherman. ---Assassin of Gor
An ancient weapon that for some reason on Gor has retained the bronze head and not gone to that of steel like other weapons. Originally used as a hunting tool, it evolved into a powerful weapon of war, able to thrown or wielded with pinpoint accuracy. Very popular with massed infantry troops as a way of dealing with cavalry.
Quotes:
The spear was a typical Gorean spear, about seven feet in height, heavy, stout, with a tapering bronze head some eighteen inches in length. It is a terrible weapon and, abetted by the somewhat lighter gravity of Gor, when cast with considerable force, can pierce a shield at close quarters or bury its head a foot deep in solid wood. With this weapon groups of men hunt even the larl in its native haunts in the Voltai Range, that incredible pantherlike carnivore which may stand six to eight feet high at the shoulder. ---Outlaw of Gor, p 21
The tarnsman commonly carries, strapped to the saddle, a Gorean spear, a fearsome weapon, but primarily a missile weapon, and one more adopted to infantry. ---Assassin of Gor, p 366
It had a shaft of seven foot Gorean, a head of tapered bronze, some eighteen inches in length. At close range it can pierce a southern shield, shatter its point through a seven-inch beam. ---Marauders of Gor, p 210
Kailla Lance:
The perfect weapon when one wants to unseat an opposing cavalryman or terrorize ground troops. Though on Gor unlike earth the lance has retained it's lightweight and suppleness most likely due to the fact that it is not used against an armored foe. The kaiila lance gets its name from the simple fact that it is to be used from kaiilaback, for hunting purposes, as well as war.
Quotes:
The lances of the Wagon Peoples are not couched. They are carried in the right fist, easily, and are flexible and light, used for thrusting, not the battering-ram effect of the heavy lances of Europe's High Middle Ages. Needless to say, they an be almost as swift and delicate in their address as a saber. The lances are black, cut from the poles of young tem trees. They may be bent almost double, like finely tempered steel, before they break. A loose loop of boskhide, wound twice about the right fist, helps to retain the weapon in hand-to-hand combat. It is seldom thrown. ---Nomads of Gor, p 15
The kaiila lance is used in hunting kailiauk as well as in mounted warfare. It is called the kaiila lance because it is designed to be used from kaiilaback. It is to be distinguished in particular from the longer, heavier tharlarion lance, designed for use from tharlarionback, and often used with a lance rest, and the smaller, thicker stabbing lances used by certain groups of pedestrian nomads. The kaiila lance takes, on the whole, thwo forms, the hunting lance and the war lance. Hunting lances are commonly longer, heavier and thicker than war lances. Too, they are often undecorated, save perhaps for a knot of the feathers of the yellow, long winged, sharp billed prairie fleer, or, as it is sometimes called, the maize bird, or corn bird, considered by the red savages to be generally the first bird to find food.
The point of the hunting lance is usually longer and narrower than that of the war lance, a function of the depth into which one must strike in order to find the heart of the kailiauk. The shaft of the kaiila lances are black, supple and strong; they are made of temwood, a wood much favored on Gor for this type of purpose. Staves for the lances are cut in the late winter, when sap is down. Such wood, in the long process osf smoking and drying over the lodge fire, which consumes several weeks, seasoning the wood and killing any insects which might remain in it, seldom splits or cracks, Similarly, old-growth wood, which is tougher, is preferred over the fresher, less dense first-growth, or newer-growth wood.
Tarn Lance:
A longer, more slender version of the war lance, used, as its name would indicate, from tarnback.
Quotes:
The tarn lance, it might be mentioned, as is used by the red savages who have mastered the tarn, is, in size and shape, very similar to the kaiila lance. It differs primarily in being longer and more slender. ---Savages of Gor, p 44
Tharlarion Lance:
A longer, heavier version of the war lance, used from tharlarionback.
Quotes:
It is to be distinguished in particular from the longer, heavier tharlarion lance, designed for use from tharlarionback, and often used with a lance rest, and the smaller, thicker stabbing lances used by certain groups of pedestrian nomads. ---Savages of Gor, p 43
Harpoon:
More of a tool than a weapon it is essentially a spear meant for hunting and fishing. Barbed so that it will not pull out and usually secured with a line to retrieve the catch. On Gor, in the hands of a warrior, it too becomes deadly. Reference is made to two types of harpoons, the light harpoon and the long harpoon, both apparently used at different stages of the hunt.
Quotes:
I grasped the long harpoon. It was some eight feet in length, some two and a half inches in diameter. Its major shaft was of wood, but it had a foreshaft of bone. In this foreshaft was set the head of the harpoon, of bone, drilled, with a point of sharpened slate. Through the drilled hole in the bone, some four inches below the slate point and some four inches above the base of the head, was passed a rawhide line, which lay coiled in the bottom of the boat. As the hole is drilled the line, when it snaps taut, will turn the head of the harpoon in the wound, anchoring it. Suddenly, not more than a dozen feet from the boat, driving upward, rearing vertically, surging, expelling air in a great burst of noise, shedding icy water, in a tangle of lines and blood, burst the towering, cylindrical tonnage of the black Hunjer whale. ---Beasts of Gor
I picked up the beaded throwing board and the light harpoon, and fitted the harpoon shaft into the notch on the throwing board. The harpoon had a foreshaft of bone, with a bone .liead and point. A light rawhide line, of twisted tabuk sinew, ran to the head. In a flat. rounded tray directly before me, on the leather, there were coiled several feet of this line. At my right, alongside the outer edge of the circular wooden frame, bound with sinew, within which I sat, lay the long lance. ---Beasts of Gor
Trident:
Again originally a tool for fishing and hunting animals which progressed to hunting men and finally as gladiatorial weapons in ancient Rome. The Net and Trident man usually plays the waiting game hoping to tangle his opponent in the net before he strikes. As good as this system at first appears it becomes readily obvious that the net and trident man is sadly lacking in any defensive capabilities.
Quotes:
I could use some paga, said he. He had purchased the net in the morning with a trident, the traditional weapons of the fisherman of the western shore and the western islands. ---Raiders of Gor, pg 112
Another popular set of weapons, as in the ancient ludi of Rome, is the net and trident. Usually those most skilled with this set of weapons are from the shore and islands of distant, gleaming Thassa, the sea, where they doubtless originally developed among fisherman. ---Assassin of Gor