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Indeed, a superb Pani sword, composed of matched steels, with its successive temperings, layerings, and edgings, usually the product of several smiths, which takes weeks to bring to its perfection, is booty of no small price. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 31, Sentence #44)

I saw that Tajima and the warrior with him, apparently he who had so liberally castigated the heedless, if not derelict, foragers, had been disarmed, as well as bound. Their weapons seemed now to be in the hands of, or sashes of, various of the intruders. It is frequently the case that brigands arm themselves from the spoil of their victims. Indeed, a superb Pani sword, composed of matched steels, with its successive temperings, layerings, and edgings, usually the product of several smiths, which takes weeks to bring to its perfection, is booty of no small price. Warriors will commonly kill a peasant who is found in possession of one. One supposes that a peasant is not entitled to such a weapon, that such a weapon should not be entrusted to a peasant, indeed, that it is forbidden to them, that it dishonors so fine a weapon if it should be so unworthily, so shamefully, possessed, and that a peasant, in any case, could not afford such a weapon, and so has stolen it, and, as warriors are reluctant to part with such things, on which their lives may hinge, that a warrior must have been killed to obtain it. The warrior might have been an enemy, to be killed on sight, but considerations of class, and propriety, become involved. - (Rebels of Gor)