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The Blue Blood Stylus is a short dagger with triangular-sectioned blade that is strong, slender, and sharply pointed. Favored by the nobility, the name seems to stem from the word "stylus," a small pointed instrument used since ancient times for writing and drawing on wax tablets. Because this easily concealed weapon was designed exclusively for delivering thrusts, it was often prohibited in peacetime in towns and cities. Nevertheless, it was a very widespread weapon in the period when mail and leather were used in civil life to protect the body, because it could easily pierce these defenses with a swift stabbing blow.
The blade being triangular made a piercing wound that was harder to heal and much easier for infection to set in, so that even a wound could be potentially fatal.
Overall length is just shy of 11 1/4 inches.
The blade is 6 1/4 inches long.
Made of steel