why is she holding the blade of her sword

Cup said:

why is she holding the blade of her sword

It's not the blade proper. I'm not sure about real life but it seems that a lot of games have swords with places to grip above the blade for the sake of a better grip for a killing blow or something. Can't find any evidence of that being put to practice in real life, but I may definitely be wrong.

Liszt6 said:

It's not the blade proper. I'm not sure about real life but it seems that a lot of games have swords with places to grip above the blade for the sake of a better grip for a killing blow or something. Can't find any evidence of that being put to practice in real life, but I may definitely be wrong.

Ricasso.

(It's technically still considered part of the blade.)

NNescio said:

Ricasso.

(It's technically still considered part of the blade.)

Thanks. I figured it was something real, but I had no idea what it was called and couldn't find it.