Axe are definitly one of the most important tool for all culture that have a winter because you need to make fire and to make fire
you definitly need wood (at least until around 1800 or more). And Axe is the tool for wood working.
Thus most of the men and even boys learned to use a axe because it's a matter of survival to use it.
No secret that when you don't have time to train warrior for battles you try to give them the weapon they have and know how to use.
The weapon axe and tool axe are pretty much the same.
I used to cut wood for my family in the past (being son of a farmer) and I can say that the way the axe cut wood it is really not a problem to use it as a weapon.
In "reality" the 2 bladed axes we see in some movies were not so much used and it was more the hatchett or the wood axe (2 handed) that were used pretty much because they were the "useful" axes of your work.
Manuel
- Original Message -----
From: Jane Williams
To: HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 8:21 AM
Subject: Axes
> We know that Sartarites have axes *as weapons*--it's sacred
> to Babeester Gor (and to earth cults in general), and it's
> one of the many weapons Orlanth stole. I would *assume* that
> if they have axes as weapons, they also have them as
> tools--but I suppose I could be jumping to conclusions there.
Oen object may not serve the same purpose, and they may even call
axe-weapon and axe-tool by different names. But axe-tool has been around
for such a long time in various forms (neolithic in the RW) that I'd be
very surprised if they didn't have them.
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