Deathbringer: Mercenary Sword    $78  Expedited Shipping Available! E-mail service@strongblade.com or call 866-7SWORDS On Sale!    Please select the model that you would like to purchase, Then click on the Add to Cart button. Hand-and-a-Half Sword of the Death Dealers   Model# SBA-DEATHBRINGER  $78      Engrave this item for $15.   (Originally $109) |     In Stock - Ships in 1-3 days   Tempered Deathbringer What's this?   Model# SBA-DEATHBRINGER-T  $129       Out of Stock   Sharpened Deathbringer: Mercenary Sword Tempered   Model# SBA-DEATHBRINGER-T-S  $144       Out of Stock   Scratch and Dent Deathbringer, Tempered Sharpened (Minor Imperfections on blade)   Model# SBA-DEATHBRINGER-T-S-SD  $99       Out of Stock   Scratch and Dent Deathbringer, Tempered (Minor imperfections on pommel)   Model# SBA-DEATHBRINGER-T-SD  $60       Out of Stock   Accessories Additional Care and Cleaning Kit (All SBA swords come with one standard)   Model# SBA-CAREANDCLEANINGKIT   $3.5       In Stock - Ships in 1-3 days   Side Hanger Baldric - Small to Large   Model# SBA-BELT-BALDRIC   $39   (Originally $64) |     In Stock - Ships in 1-3 days   Merceneries History is full of mercenaries. From the Spanish military genius El Cid to Owain Lawgoch, leader of the "Red hand" Free Company that fought against England in the Hundred Years War (which was actually 116 years long -- go figure), mercenaries have had a profound effect on the world. Wars have been won by mercenaries, cities and kingdoms have fallen to them and kings have been made by them. The Vatican has employed the Swiss "Helvetian" mercenaries as guards for centuries. The German landsknechts were some of the most feared mercenaries in history. They were so skilled with their pikes, swords and arquebuses, that they were paid double the going rate for most mercenaries. There have been skilled mercenaries from almost ever continent at one time or another in history, and though the ones who have fought in major battles get most of the press, it is the silent, wandering mercenaries that attract the attention of fiction writers. From the sell-sword Bronn, of George R. R. Martin's wonderful A Song of Ice and Fire series, to Kitiara Uth Matar, hired blade and sister to Raistlin and Caramon in the famous Dragonlance stories by Margaret Weiss and Tracey Hickman, mercenaries have always tugged at our imaginations and brought wicked smiles to our lips.

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