Ryyk Blade

About the Ryyk Blade

The Wookiees forge these from the heartwood and metal of Kashyyyk into curved cleaving blades scaled for arms far longer and stronger than a human's. A ryyk blade, or ryyk katana in the old traditions, is a mark of honor as much as a weapon, often passed through a family and wielded in the ritual combat and hunts that structure Wookiee society. In a warrior's grip it is a devastating slasher, the long curved edge built to open a charging predator or a slaver's line with a single powerful stroke. Smaller species can wield one, but the balance fights them, the blade meant for the reach and raw might of a two-meter Wookiee. Chewbacca's people carried such weapons into the wars against the Trandoshans and the Empire, honor and edge inseparable.