A kit, not a curio

Mustered around

Psk Elite Katana

This piece is slow off the hip. The muster gives you something that answers first.

• The piece in hand

  $729.99

  Psk Elite KatanaLW-0861

  The piece named at the table.

  The blade the fight is built around. Everything else answers what it leaves open.

• The sidearm

  $309.99Leave

  Witham Viking SeaxLW-0926

  17.3" against the 39.4" in hand — it answers once the fight has closed.

  When the long steel is bound or beaten wide, the fight closes. Something short must answer inside the guard.

• The reach

  $574.99Leave

  Irish Hand And Half SwordLW-0917

  46" of reach. It holds the ground before the line ever meets.

  Ground held before the line ever meets. Reach is the cheapest mercy on any field.

• The board

  $159.99Leave

  Talhoffer BucklerLW-0793

  What you refuse costs nothing to heal.

  Half of every fight is what you do not take. A shield argues by refusal.

• The helm

  $534.99Leave

  Coppergate Helmet, 14gLW-0763

  Head first. Everything else is a wager on the head holding.

  The first thing a foe sees and the last thing that fails.

• The harness

  $444.99Leave

  Citadel Guardian Synthetic Armour Guardian Breast PlateLW-1000

  Worn steel. The difference between a wound and a story.

  Mail, plate or padded cloth — what stands between a body and the day it ends.

• The care

  $129.99Leave

  Roman Sandals, Dark Brown Size 7-1/2LW-0805

  Kept steel outlives the hand that carried it.

  An edge unkept is an edge lost. Oil, stand, sheath — the steel outlives its owner or it does not.