>> Wasn't there also some theory about it not drawing blood, this being a
>> Bad Thing for priests?
>
>> I'm not claiming there can have been any logic or relation to reality
>> behind this theory, but I've heard that it existed.
>
>It's a D&Dism, present as far back as the Red Box books. I've never come
>across any other reference to it.
I remember it from school history, well before D&D. It was certainly a major character type distinction in 1st edition D&D.
>The Templars were priests and knights and they certainly used edged
>weapons.
I think it may have been a historian's interpretation that gained the status of accepted fact without any real evidence to back it up.
I've certainly not seen a reliable source for the idea.
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