Jesus, calm down Donald McBane. What kind of hellish nightmare child of a rapier and a broadsword is this?

[he squints at the drawing again, steadily starting to believe it might not actually be real. what would be the point of segmenting? boxcutters are segmented to discard when they get blunt, but a sword like this...? wouldn't it just break on heavy enough contact?]

I mean, a fencing sword will cover strong, flexible and light but you're not gonna kill anyone with it. Unless you shove it right into their eyeballs.