>>Quick question, why and how did Kaitlyn get "Kotetsu no Sasayaki".

She was given the sword by her kenjutsu master (that would be her father) when she advanced to the journeywoman phase of her Asagiri Katsujinkenryuu training. He, in turn, acquired it from a Hibernian weaponsmith named Dannen Ironbridge, a maker of fine and beautiful blades, by the usual method. (At the time, Corwin was not yet a qualified weaponsmith. I'm sure he wants to make Kate a sword, but as she doesn't particularly need another one, he'll just have to wait. :)

This would have been sometime during her freshman year at the Institute, since it's mentioned she didn't have the blade yet during the previous summer.

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