Torryltales, step away from the thesaurus... The swords kind of make sense though, don't they? When you're on the dragon, they'll be doing most of the fighting, and when you're not, you have a bunch of wards protecting you so there's no point staying in the back, so you'll want to use a close range weapon. The problem in this series only occurs when Murtagh and Oromis start sword fighting on the backs of their dragons.
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The swords kind of make sense though, don't they? When you're on the dragon, they'll be doing most of the fighting, and when you're not, you have a bunch of wards protecting you so there's no point staying in the back, so you'll want to use a close range weapon. The problem in this series only occurs when Murtagh and Oromis start sword fighting on the backs of their dragons.