[Long description: Pointed off by the print, the stranger scans the horizon. That's when he spots it--- A thin trail of smoke rising from the distant mountains.]
Thank you for giving me new vocabulary, this led me to learn a lot about gigs and spear fishing! Now that I’m aware of them, his spear is very similar to two-prong gigs, also kakivaks and the heads of some toggling harpoons… the purpose is different but it’s a lucky design overlap, I’m thrilled it exists in a cooler and more functional form.
This bifurcated design is typical of some Sarikote and Diaspora weapons. They’re modeled after the heads of ur-beasts, like our friend Old Mora, the Salmon-Tailed Seal, the primordial Snake and Osprey. There are differences between them, but they’re all associated with death in some way, so depicting them in arrowheads, spearheads, swords, etc. is like… a way of respecting death and destruction as a form of creation, but also kind of an intimidation tactic, like “alright bub, I’m sending you back to your maker.”
(of course, in weapon form they don’t really have the utility of bidents, tridents, kakivaks, etc. as fishing tools… in the end maybe it’s a little rule-of-cool or zulfiqar-esque, but i dont know anything about martial combat ┐(´-｀)┌ )
ooh big spear, or is that a gig, a gigy spear, a bident perhaps
that’s an interesting harnessy thing it’s strapped to as well
Thank you for giving me new vocabulary, this led me to learn a lot about gigs and spear fishing! Now that I’m aware of them, his spear is very similar to two-prong gigs, also kakivaks and the heads of some toggling harpoons… the purpose is different but it’s a lucky design overlap, I’m thrilled it exists in a cooler and more functional form.
This bifurcated design is typical of some Sarikote and Diaspora weapons. They’re modeled after the heads of ur-beasts, like our friend Old Mora, the Salmon-Tailed Seal, the primordial Snake and Osprey. There are differences between them, but they’re all associated with death in some way, so depicting them in arrowheads, spearheads, swords, etc. is like… a way of respecting death and destruction as a form of creation, but also kind of an intimidation tactic, like “alright bub, I’m sending you back to your maker.”
(of course, in weapon form they don’t really have the utility of bidents, tridents, kakivaks, etc. as fishing tools… in the end maybe it’s a little rule-of-cool or zulfiqar-esque, but i dont know anything about martial combat ┐(´-｀)┌ )