Weaponmaster

The chief heroes of the Dietrich cycle are his weaponmaster Hildebrand with his nephews the Wolfings Alphart and Wolfhart; Wittich, who renounced his allegiance and slew Attila’s sons; and Heime and Biterolf.

He then bade them rise and leave us, which they did, as a fitterwoman with sleep still in her eyes stumbled through the double doors with the weaponmaster.

Beside him Fflad clumsily unsheathed the sword Cashma’s weaponmaster had given him.

They moved only in highly-trained trios, were equipped with weapons and shields not available from any common weaponmaster, and had skills in detention and death dealing which even a professional assassin might envy.

“[…] We’ll be glad to show you what we know.” “Splendid! Then you shall be weaponmasters and serve me doubly.” He turned and beckoned one of the swordsmen forward, a pale-haired man with deep-set green eyes. “This is Andariel, the leader of my personal guard. In the morning, he’ll fetch you, and he’ll show you what horses we have. Obviously your brother needs to rest.”

Also, the weapon is unique in that the user can easily hit himself with it if he miscalculates. Even black belt weaponmasters have been known to nail themselves painfully on elbow or noggin.

Old Pyk, the Freefighter weaponmaster, clucked concernedly while he wrapped bandage about Bili’s thigh.

We couldn’t stop Thrall’s army. We couldn’t even slow it down. All our wizards and weaponmasters were dead. The whole city bled.