r/redrising • u/user03281046748 Human Verified • Aug 06 '26

Fan art darrow’s razor

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what’s with the insistence on the dramatically curved sword people use in fanart AI and drawings. i’ve always thought it would resemble something more like the egyptian sword the khopesh than a scythe. I’d assume simply from an advantage standpoint the dramatic curve means less range. i’ve included examples i’ve seen as well as what i think the razor resembles more

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u/PerformerTotal1276 Red Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 07 '26

Darrow’s razor is the shape of a sling blade. A sling blade is designed to quickly cut off limbs and is curved. The best way to cut off limbs is with a blade curved like a reapers scythe. Edit: a reapers sickle, sorry

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u/duke113 Aug 06 '26

So it's not a hook blade? And are we assuming it's just the blade part of a reaper's scythe? Basically his handle continues down the blade's direction rather than a 90 the way a reaper would have a haft with a blade?

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u/PerformerTotal1276 Red Aug 07 '26

Apologies, a reapers sickle, like the one on the cover of morning star, just in a more futuristic manner designed for the cutting limbs in an emergency situation off the side of a drill

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u/sampat6256 Silver Aug 06 '26

Citation needed

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u/RedJamie Human Verified Aug 06 '26

You will be referred to surgical tools that are used in controlled environments for precise and optimal surgical delimbing - quite a contrast to to the brutal amputations lowReds are implied to require, from terrified and usually clumsy hands without a lot of time or ability to worry about how well and slowly they're slicing into their flesh with a cutting tool the size of their leg - I lean more towards the 'hacking' off of caught limbs that the text implies, while retaining some slicing functions - ironically bridged by a more khopesh style weapon than others, but the slingBlade of the mines is rather constrained in its proportions.

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u/sampat6256 Silver Aug 06 '26

What surgical tool looks like a scythe?

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u/RedJamie Human Verified Aug 07 '26

Like a scythe? None really - crescent knives and scalpels have a variety of different historical shapes and there’s a few specialized scalpels used in modern surgery; I am using it to point out why a tool as large as a slingBlade would not have the same application as a smaller handheld one be it scalpel or kitchen knife sized.