A basket hilt wraps the whole hand in a cage of steel bars. It came in when people stopped wearing gauntlets and still wanted to keep their fingers, and it turned the sword into something you could fence with bare handed. It also gives a smith an enormous amount of room to show off, which most of them promptly did.
Cages, liners and blades
Crimsoncage is thirty eight inches overall with a pierced steel shell guard, a red liner behind the piercing, a wire bound grip and a brown leather scabbard. Cagebrand is the Damascus one at the same length, with a blackened basket, brass banding and an etched triquetra panel. Nightcage runs thirty seven inches with a blackened cage guard, brass rosette rivets and an etched raven. Emberguard uses a pierced shell cut with a Helm of Awe, red panels and a knuckle bow over a thirty one inch blade. Vegcage is the short one, a Damascus basket hilt with a Vegvisir engraved brass cage, and Petalward is the outlier, a side sword at forty one inches overall.
They sit in basket and shell hilt swords, beside broadswords and the Highland blades in claymores.
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Hand Forged
Heated, hammered and ground by hand.
Engraving available
Names, dates or Norse runes on most pieces.
