Forged in Fire thread

The pins won't fit the holes when attaching the handle (and the epoxy is setting)

>it's a "woman talks a bunch of shit and loses in the first round" episode

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>tfw water quench
>tfw that guy just cut out the knife shape out of a lawnmower blade and sharpened it
>tfw the contestant has a thor's hammer necklace

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Kek EVERY TIME

>characters who did nothing wrong

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this dude just BTFO'd every single contestant that has and will participate in this show

>tfw that guy just cut out the knife shape out of a lawnmower blade and sharpened it
There's actually nothing wrong with this. You can make a really good knife just cutting the shape out of a table saw blade.

also this guy

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>quenching at too low heat
>"Significant rolls"
Gee what a surprise

thats not the point of the show
he was thrown out because he didnt forge anything

these are people that worship knives and swords

>Edge quench

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"Forged" is literally in the name of the show. It kind of defeats the point.

>im going for a tanto design

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>that guy who quenched his templar sword in holy water

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hes gay right?

Mr.Marcaida I'm BKS.

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That guy was a fucking nut.

>make your handle out of 2000 year old blessed wood made from the actual cross jesus was crucified on
>get 120 year old monk hand engrave a blessing on the blade
>make the guard out of the shin bone of a pope
>forget to sharpen your sword

maybe, maybe not. either way, he is easily top 5 most based contestants

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implying that shit wasnt cool as fuck
on a different note
>the claymore episode

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Fuck you, bugman. Go polish your wife's balls.

>water quench

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>40 minutes left
>"Imma start over"

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>it actually works out

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mfw

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>that episode they used the vermintide 2 screenshot

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Nothing necessarily wrong with that. All the blades are tempered overnight before the second round.
J. Neilson makes knives that way.

>Contestant wears a fucking kilt
God damn I love this fucking show, it's like the king of the nerds but for boomers

HOLY SIGMAR POST IT, WHICH FUCKING EPISODE AND WHICH SCREENSHOT

Falchion

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>"The seal won't set, better use all the flux"
>Using 4 times more steel than nesseary - "I ran out of time!"
>Get a spinning knife of death when trying to drill through the handle

>It's a coal forges episode

>pours too much white out in canister
>doesn’t let it dry
>why can’t I get the canister off?

>hidden tang
*tips fedora* "Mylady"

*catastrophic failures your blade*
nothing personnel

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>they have to make a damascus steel blade

BLESSED and SIGMARPILLED

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>that episode where they had to do fancy damascus patterns in the first half
not surprisingly they were all shit

>It's another "make knives from that pile of metal scrap over there" episode
those are the best

>it's a hungamunga episode

How can the presenter say 95 percent the same words in EVERY episode, and still seem like a based guy?

>literally any african weapon
>it's some retarded horse shit that looks an inbred version of the glaive from Krull

This

Anyone remember the episode with pairs and the final has a pair of males and a couple
the couple was so cute

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He's pretty based.
Apparently they allow the crew to use the shop if they feel like it, and one day Wil managed to do canister damascus with only some pretty basic training.

>that episode where they shoot spears from a potato gun

That great feel when the iconic weapon is a normal sword, like a long sword or viking sword

That horrible feel when the iconic weapon is some meme shield, blocking device or spear

Some guys just stand and wait in front of the forge while waiting for their billet to heat up.

lel
was that the one where one of them wouldn't fit?

based

Usually it's the based kiltfags

this, every time.

>t. Larpagan weirdo who's into an irrelevant art form
Lmao

This is the best
Actually women getting btfo in any setting is the best regardless

je
there were actually harpoons because I couldn't find them when I was looking for spears but they are here at 3 minute mark
youtube.com/watch?v=Rxm8Y1yJG5w

That is reality TV.
Things they want from their stars.
>unstable, prone temper tantrums
>willing to say anything/do anything to get attention
>have odd personality quirks
>has no self respect
This is true of every single reality TV star/guest. they are the worse type of people.

swords always get the most kino tests

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>nielsen really wanted to "mentor" the fuck out of the kid

>that blood trail
youtu.be/ftFhYUwrWb8?t=59

>1 hour 10 minutes to go
>"My blade is kinda short, but I guess its fine"
>1.5 hours later
>"You've failed reach parameters, I have to ask you to leave the forge"
>'Well, I leave with my head held high"

>a-at least I got some valuable experience

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>show up and start forging
>go out first round on a parameter failure
>probably there for an hour before plus 3 hours forging
>"I may not be moving on, but I made friends for the rest of my life"

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Kek

For me it's polearms
>head comes off and you can see the blacksmith almost drooling

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J. Neilson interview

>probably there for an hour before plus 3 hours forging
That's not how they film the show.

name a better contestant. you can't.

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>final round
>at home forge, some time to spare
>"Yeah this blade has [insert whatever problem you want here] wrong with it, but I don't think that'll matter for the contest. I'm calling it done."
>enter competition
>the very issue they pointed out and probably could've resolved is what does them in
Worst example I can think of was a spear where the handle was too thick and the guy knew it but didn't correct it, and in the final they couldn't insert it into the launcher because the handle was too thick, so he got disqualified. I understand that there can be a fear of messing something up by trying to fix something, but hell, if he'd just taken another hour or so to sand down the handle a bit.

Fuad is pretty cool

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probably the dude who ended up a judge

Still the whitest show on TV

Travis Wuertz also got hired after winning. He's on a spin off show though.

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Can't say I've ever seen a black blacksmith.

>>the very issue they pointed out and probably could've resolved is what does them in
What about that stupid lesbo who made it to the final round. I don't remember the weapon but she used homemade rice glue to secure the handle to her weapon for historicity and didn't try to redo it and use epoxy even though she noticed it had a little wiggle.
They didn't even test the weapon because it was deemed unsafe, lmao.

>quits an hour early
>blade shatters on the first strike of the toughness test
>inside grains look like sand
Why does this happen

There's a few, there's been at least 2 on Forged in Fire. There's probably a handful of non-white male ferriers who aren't interested in knifemaking.

>slight warp to the spine
>cuts to the judges panicking
>their expressions alone tell me he's putting the knife in the fucking vice

>later they're swinging the swords at suits of armor that look like templar knights
he got what was coming to him

I can remember there being at least 5. One was even brought back for a redemption episode.
There's been several Mexicans and latinos, a few Asians, a Native American and an Indian looking guy,

he has a youtube channel and made a sword for skallagrim

youtube.com/watch?v=_-saW7bsNvo

>It's an old boomer shit talks the younger crowd while failing round 1

Love this

Wil is just that cool. The times when he says "please surrender your weapon", but calls the weapon by its actual name, always throw me for a loop.

>it's an "old man finishes early and offert to help a struggling fellow competitor "

>some literal who with less than two years of bladeforging gets to the final round along with some old man with 30+ years of forge experience
>kid ends up winning
how does this happen

>"as you can see, I am still recovering from an injury, so my student will be performing the kill test"
What does Doug do in his spare time that leaves him so fucked up? Are martial arts really that dangerous?

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Didn't see this episode, what happened?

>the test dummy has blue blood ins this episode

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Probably my favourite episode is the one where they had a fat dude, and he was the most chill guy ever. He was taking his time for the knife to be perfect in the first two rounds, he wasn't freaking out, he wasn't running around, and when they do the little side bits he was like describing what he did and that's it. Then it gets to the home forge section and once again he's just sitting by his forge waiting to make his weapon, taking his time. Then when they tested it, it worked perfectly, And he wasn't even that excited he won. He was like "well that's nice" and that's it. Dude was pretty based.

the final challenge was to make a simple shield, and the fucker made the shield with an integrated gauntled for the arm, articulated and all

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>Doug Marcaida, an edged-weapons specialist, is a U.S. military contractor, martial arts instructor and knife designer for FOX Knives Italy.

Dangerous or not, depending on the injury it can take months to heal properly.

You can be injured but still combat capable. But when you do this for a living, you can't risk further, possibly permanent damage by stressing injuries further for no good reason.

Look at how long it takes to recover from common injures in various sports.

fucking kek

What is the good way to handle that? just reforge it?

russian got btfo'd and his channel is shit

what did he do?

It's artificial drama, when the blade is hot you can use a vice and try to bend it as it cools down. It's risky but not that risky.

I know he's an abs master Smith but I just don't like Jay nsilson, his smugness is unparalleled, and his attempts to be a tough guy smacking the blades around can't get past his nerdcore countenance. Asshole always taking PTO and disappearing. Ipreferred the mohawk and master they had as a replacement.

Made a lot of good choices, was really skilled and just super humble and respectful. Genuinely good dude who did a great job and deserved to win. Wholesome, fun uncle figure.

It's only really an issue because of the time constraint

>it's a coal forges, no design period, salvaged metals, no power tools and predetermined design parameters episode

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>smacks ice
>HRRRG
>URRRRHHGGHH
>GGRRHHHHH

i crack up every time they have to make folding knives they look so stupid

>be Jason Knight
>Doesn't legally change name to Jason Knife

Retard

>alright smiths keep in mind that your blades must fit the following perimeters
>the blade must be at least twenty seven feet in length with a tang of at least eight feet in a style of your own choosing
>it must be made using canister Damascus, you've been given three screws and a rusty length of barbed wire
>you have twenty minutes to complete this, keep in mind that in the second part of this challenge, you'll be attaching a handle to your blade to make a fully functional weapon
>good luck smiths, your time starts NOW

>IT'S NOT ABOUT WHAT YOU BLADE DOES TO THE ICE, BUT WHAT THE ICE DOES TO YOUR BLADE
>contestant's blade pulverizes the ice into nothing
>Neilson struggles to find any flaws before begrudgingly accepting the design is good
I can tell the smug little fucker is doing all he can to hold back from saying "i-i didn't like the handle" only because he knows Doug the Chad is going to handle the knife after him and say it fits well.

He has a cool shop in NYC. His blades were always excellent

>guy who was bragging about his skills uses the steel with the least amount of carbon he can find then wonders why it wont harden

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>win twice
>get hired forever because you're a nice, calm dude with good insight
Based Ben

Some people were just born to be greater.

>By the way, we will not be disclosing the testing your folding knives will be subjected to
What the fuck Wil?

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>it's the first female contestant in the history of Forged in Fire makes a kitchen knife episode

older dudes want to be cocky and show off

Just started watching the first episode he was on, he already seems like a great dude.

Ben owns

Wil is whacked out on coke half of the time

>man quenches his knife THREE times then tries to remove the bend on the vice
>is amazed when it snaps
or
>man without predrilled holes before quenching is amazed when his tang shatters several drill bits before snapping off

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I feel bad for the dude because he made a beautiful yari, and then used a fucking rake handle for the shaft.

>contestant picks up 24h epoxy

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>keep in mind that your blades must fit the following parameters:
>you will be making karabits made of teardrop canister damascus in the coal forges from metal on this 1984 Lincoln Mercury
>oh and by the way, you will have no design period for this challenge
>you haveonly three to complete this, keep in mind that in the second part of this challenge, you'll be attaching a handle to your blade to make a fully functional weapon
>your blades will then be subjected to an ice chop challenge to test their strength and then thrown at David Baker to test for edge retention
>you time starts NOW

So you'd choose Knife Armaments over Knight Armaments as a company name?

>handle attached using epoxy and no pins
>doesn't even participate in the challenges because it's deemed "too unsafe"

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>it will keel
>every contestants face

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>mfw

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Yeah that was heartbreaking, but he's one of the only ones I was interested in enough to look up his work after the show. If I was going to buy a custom fixed blade I would probably actually get one of his pieces.

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I like how he came back for another attempt and had coffee again

>irrelevant art form
>metalworking
You sure are a gay little fuckwit.

>some dude with long blonde hair wears a hammer necklace and asks thor to bless his weapon
>always goes home sad

What's the best thing you've ever seen on the show?

>congratulations, you are the first contestant to fail to meet the length requirements two rounds in a row

Gonna need a name boss

the claymore episode
it was just one twist after another

>Four competitors must forge weld blades for friction folders from tiny cubes of steel. After hammering through the testing, two smiths will return home where they will forge a German Zweihander. Due to its long length and use on the battlefield, they take their Zweihanders outside the forge to be tested, where only one will be crowned Forged in Fire Champion.
>the Zweihander is a blade depicted in the popular video game Dark Souls
>doesn't even show a Zweihander in the image

>vest
>tie
>pocket watch
>jeans
>kino facial hair

How based can one man be?

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i dunno about a particular thing but I generally love guys who talk big failing spectacularly.

a dude trying to weld together steel cable twisted it the wrong way and the shit flew off everywhere. how do you even fuck that up?

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I can't recall the episode but I believe someone came in like a complete hotshot, saying things like "I WILL be the next Forged in Fire champion" only to get fucking mogged in round one.

I like the episode where the man from Texas dresses just like Baker did and they offered him a job as Baker's stunt double for the show

Ryu

That guy in one of the early seasons who fucked up and just turned his broken knife into an Orc choppa.

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It was a neat workaround, but that guy was a total faggot and I'm glad he lost.

>it's a "contestants must forge a Hitler Youth Knife using pieces salvaged from the Holocoaster with human lampshades wrapped around the handle" episode
What the fuck were they thinking?

>it's a guy wearing a kilt and mjolnir necklace episode

Makes sense desu, kilt is just practical in that situation.

Wasn't that the first episode? No one met the requirements on that one.

What will they do when Big Blue finally dies?

It did in the middle of one competition (one of the tournament rounds iirc) and everyone just had to wait for the technicians to fix it.

>female contestant about to quench
>hot blade slips out of her tongs
>goes to catch it with her bare fucking hand
>mfw

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Well, that's one way to get your disability checks

Master and Apprentice challenge when Mark and Jessica made the Chinese Dao that cut through the carcass entirely. Her reaction when they won was super genuine and cute

>it's the Yea Forums championships episode where the contestants are Robert, Sneed, Mask, and Bateman

>be self professed Japanese bladesmithing expert
>one of the parameters is to forge a blade with a hamon
>oh yeah i got this
>turn in a wakizashi with absolutely no hamon
>shitkicking redneck just wings it and produces beautiful hamon
>mfw sent home after first round

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>Yea Forums has become such a shithole that when this newfag tries to think of four memes, he gets any of these instead of CIA

What's the worst thing you've ever seen on the show?

>hammers the billet
>weld breaks
>welds it
>hammers the billet
>weld breaks
>does another shitty weld
>30 minutes have passed
>hammers the billet
>weld breaks

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CIA is standing in for Wil, how the fuck could he be competing?

there was a guy on a recent episode that didn't even know how to use a wire welder. I don't remember if he was welding an extra piece on his blade or what, but he had like a foot of wire spooled out of the thing and it looked like a porcupine by the time he was finished.

what the fuck, that's ridiculous. Which episode was that?

>im gunna make a bowie knife

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S06E27 or E28 I think

>it's a bowie knife-kukri hybrid
>Jason Knight stares at it in disapproval during testing

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Shitkicking rednecks built this country

this guy was pretty good

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>"make a knife in your signature style"
>every single contestant makes a seax

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the episode where they design bayonets to fit on rifles and the one fucking retard made a curvy/wavy blade bayonet

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Is that the guy who also won knife or death?

I haven't watched it in a while but is it still true that whoever has the best beard wins the finals?
There is absolutely a correlation between beard quality and forge quality.

yeah

I've also noticed that every time someone mentions they are inspired by thor or vikings or anything pagan related they end up leaving in round 1/2.

Homo found

that apron is so fucking kino

Dude owns

He seems pretty cool.

Power rankings

Some random redneck who lives in the middle of nowhere > Metallurgy industry professionals > tacticool bros > lifelong hobbyists with 30 years experience > viking larpers

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I think of the Amerimutt memes every time I see those guys.

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It's season 6, ep 28. This was what his axe looked like when he was done, guy was holding the welder at arm's length and just kinda waving it across the piece at random.

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Is that what your girlfriend said last night?

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We don't think about you at all. I doubt I could even point to your shitstain on the map.

holy fuck that looks like absolute ass

I wish the production values were just a tiny bit higher. I can't go back to any competitive reality shows after being spoiled by Final Table

>ignorant dupe makes the other guys point

"your blade must be between 10 and 14 inches long with a full tang with the overall length not exceeding 22 inches
who the fuck is going to make a foot-long tang and a 10 inch blade

It's hard to make someone's point that way, when their point seems to be 'we are superior...even though we've never had a civilization worth a damn and you've ruled the world for 80 years now'

might be a little riskier on a blade you made out of a rusty leafspring in an hour

Nobody normal makes weapons as a hobby

The sad part is they gave him that knockoff show on Discovery channel

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>EU version has no human dummy
>mfw finnish

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Most guys start it as a hobby. All the ones worth their salt do it as an actual profession. The professionals aren't sitting there all day making wall hangers. They're pumping out knives that are actually used by people in other trades and professions. They're also doing other kinds of metal work. Knives dull and they break. Someone out there is making replacements.

are you a jewish banker?

I'm Gaelic and Dutch, mostly. And have a background in the nuclear industry, mostly doing QC

>me
I had ancestors on the Mayflower, at Valley Forge, at Anitiem. Ancestors in both world wars, on the American side. America is thoroughly the land of my forefathers. This is my civilization, and it's greater than any petty little kingdom yours helped carve out.

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a man living his life to the fullest, unconcerned about the matters of others

a child riding the coattails of people so far removed from him by time, genetic drift and lifestyle that he has as much in common with them as he does with the people he is trying to impress on the internet

>its a spear final episode
>loses because the shaft breaks

Wish they'd let them bring extra shafts, half the reason spears were the main weapon of war for so long is because it was cheap and easy to replace a wooden shaft when it broke.

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Still better than this shit

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My boomer dad loves this show. Unironically makes him want to pick up smithing as a hobby.

It's not hard or expensive to get into. You can make a decent knife with scrap meta, an angle grinder, some lump charcoal and a file.

Probably the Navy episode. Every single smith was fat and useless.

>mfw both broke during testing

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based leaf

that episode where the dude's forge burned down was shit. the first round featured every single person fucking up somehow

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Why did they use Crusader sword on Crusaders?

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The recent episode where none of the contestants met parameters in the first round and the guy who got eliminated was because he went to the hospital.

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>already have the kino name of Knight
>change it because some pleb user wanted to make a shitty pun

>"contestants, you may be wondering why there are five of you and only four anvils. Well, that's because before the first round even begins, you will be judged on whether or not you are worthy of competing on this show"
>"the first test is...penis inspection"
>women are visibly worried
>"you penis must be between five and eight inches long and be at least two inches thick at its base, featuring a pair of pommels (that is, testicles) and a waxed shaft"
>"keep in mind, one of you will be going home before the first forge is even lit. I'll turn you over to David Baker to begin testing your weapons in a hardness test."

You tried

Based Ilya. GOAT smith.

Lmao I was right wasn't i?
And yeah metalworking is obsolete
Robots can do a better job for all our
practical metal needs

He's a dork
Don't copy him or his dress style
Everyone will just think you're a loser
>wtf are you talking about he's so manly and sophisticated
No. All that archaic aesthetic just comes off as an old hipster

That bronze age aesthetic was really something.

>flamberge episode
>shows character from ds2 in majula

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>samurai robe
>headband
>"umm, well in the first round I'm gonna go for a wakizashi design"
like clockwork

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