Short Blades

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The Short Blades skill denotes how adept your character is at using short bladed weapons. Although these weapons have the lowest base damage in the game, you can attack fast with them, and they do obscene amounts of damage when used for stabbing. This skill crosstrains with the Long Blades skill.

Aptitudes

At	Ba	Co	DE	Dg	Ds	Dj	Dr	Fe	Fo	Gr	Gh	Gn	Hu	Ko	Mf	Mi	MD	Mu	Na	Op	On	Sp	Te	Tr	Vp	VS
-1	1	-1	0	-1	-1	-1	0	N/A	0	-1	-1	8	0	3	2	1	-2	-2	0	0	-1	1	1	-2	1	-1

List of Short Blades

Name	Dam	Hit	Speed	Hands	Size	Missile	Throw	Dam Type	Prob
Dagger	4	+6	10	One	Little	None	No	Piercing	10
Quick blade	5	+6	7	One	Little	None	No	Piercing	2
Short sword	6	+4	11	One	Small	None	No	Piercing	10
Rapier	8	+4	12	One	Small	None	No	Piercing	10

The Captain's Cutlass is an artefact short blade that deals slicing damage.

History

• In 0.16, cutlass was renamed to rapier. Short sword and rapier damage type was changed from slicing to piercing.
• In 0.14, sabre was renamed to cutlass.
• In 0.9, knife was removed.

See Also

• List of short blades
• Table of species aptitudes
• Short blades selection strategy