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Chinese Butterfly Sword

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New silver-plated dagger in the Secret Of The Silver Blades collection: the Chinese butterfly sword. It's usually translated as "sword" rather than "dagger", to distinguish it from folding balisong knives, and by virtue of the fact that the Chinese word "dao" denotes a slashing blade regardless of length. It's really a martial-arts dagger with a 11-1/2 inch long and 2-1/4 inch broad blade, which is a staple of about half a dozen schools of Kung Fu.

IRL they're always wielded in pairs, but of course this is not enforced in the game.

(Conversion to game units was calculated assuming that an average human in Skyrim is about 5'10" tall, i.e., about the same as a modern-day adult male.)

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