Talk:Dishonored: Death of the Outsider/@comment-16533050-20170612183103/@comment-26536672-20170612230818

The notion of knives as weapons taking on the connotation of being short is a fairly recent phenomenon. For the most part, they could be just about any sword with a single edge and curved tip. Just look at the German Kriegsmesser, translating literally to War Knife yet clearly not intended for spreading jam over toast.