Mistborn · World

Dueling Cane

item

Slender wooden staff roughly six feet long fitted with metal caps on both ends for striking and blocking. Standard weapon for Allomancer Thugs in combat situations.

Category: item
First appears: Book 2 · Ch. 36
Books: 4

The dueling cane is one of the most enduring melee weapons of Scadrial, evolving alongside the world itself. In the era of the Final Empire's collapse it appears as a slender, six-foot wooden staff capped with metal, a favored weapon of pewter-burning Thugs and the staff-fighting style of skirmishes in Luthadel. Three centuries later, in the industrializing Elendel Basin, the cane has shortened into a thick wooden baton or fighting cane with a knobbed end, carried by constables as a non-lethal tool and wielded with flair by Wax's partner Wayne. Its persistence reflects how older martial traditions survive even as firearms come to dominate.

Evolution

BOOK 2The Well of Ascension
Slender wooden staff roughly six feet long fitted with metal caps on both ends for striking and blocking. Standard weapon for Allomancer Thugs in combat situations.
BOOK 4The Lost Metal (The Mistborn Saga)
BOOK 5Shadows of Self
Thick wooden baton with knob on end, used as non-lethal weapon by constables
BOOK 7The Lost Metal
Wooden fighting cane used as melee weapon