>Hmm, has anyone see the sword that Utena uses convey her an advantage?
> So far it's just done a really good job of channeling her power
>("Dios Power! Make Up!"), which the dojo practice sword did as well...

Except in the fact that it is an incredibly finely crafted weapon, to the point where she felt as comfortable wielding it immediately as she did after using the Sword of Dios for some time. Other than that, we have yet to see it give her any advantage, other than her comfort with wielding it. Emphasis on yet.

>I don't think we've seen what a Valkyrior rune sword can do yet...so
>perhaps we should not speculate?

No, I doubt we've seen the full extent of it's powers as of yet. And I'm certainly not going to speculate, not with Gryph writing this. He has a way of confounding speculators.

>Also why would Kate or Len need/want a rune sword? Gryphon certainly
>doesn't need one.

I'm not implying that they would want/need one for the power that a rune sword contains (I'm not sure of the source material for this in particular, so I'm fuzzy on what it might be able to do) but more for the quality of the craftmanship. Like I said in my previous post, Corwin is the son of the weaponsmith of the Valkyrior, and even as young as he is, I'd be willing to bet there are few swordsmiths or weaponsmiths in general, in Midgard or Asgard, that are his equal or better. His mother certainly, and a few of the other gods, perhaps some mortals. But Corwin would be happy to spend his time making a sibling a astonishingly fine weapon, so why would they not ask him for one? Gryph's swords have sentimental value, and he's had them for a long, long time, otherwise he might trade up as well.

I'm not trying to argue with you, I'm just trying to make a clarification, cause I think that I perhaps didn't convey what I meant as well as I could have in my last post.

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