Albion's Knecht Kriegsmesser

When Elden Ring released and I heard there was a messer on it, I was hyped. As a HEMA student and Langesmesser enthusiast, I always wanted

one of my favourite swords avaliable in one of my favourite franchises.

And, belive me, I was really disappointed. As many other have pointed

out (like Marcus Vance, off the top of my head), this game's

"Grossmesser" is a weird, oversized, Turkish Pala-esque sabre. I mean, I

still used it to finish my first run, but it was a disappointment

nevertheless.

So recently I started playing around with texture and model importing, after finding a very nice model of the famous

British 1788 Heavy Cavalry Sword and so I decided to learn how to make

mods for once and for all. I found this nice model, by Julian Blane in

Sketchfab, of the Albion Knecht and ported it into Elden Ring.

For those who don't know, the Grossmesser or Kriegsmesser (translating into

english as Great Knife or War Knife) was a kind of sword developed

during the late medieval period as a two-handed version of the

langesmesser (Long Knife, yeah, they were very original). The

langsmesser itself was a type of single-edge (usually with a short false

edge) sword, following the same typology as a falchion, frequently used

in central Europe, particularly in the Holy Roman Empire but also

extending up to England (where it was called a hanger, curtleax or

cutlass). The messers are characterized by their knife-style hilt

constructions (essentialy having a knife handle instead of the more

typical sword handle) and a metallic piece called nagel (nail) that

protected the hand. In essence, Kriegsmessers were single-edge

longswords with very cool utilitarian handles.

As I pointed before, this model in particular was inspired on the Knecht, a very high end

sword model produced by Albion in the USA. It's a mainstay of

Skallagrim, a sword and HEMA based youtuber and it's a really beautiful

As for the mod itself, I have to correct the model a bit still, for the nagel is in the opposite place. I may have moved it

around unknowingly during the porting. Furthermore, there's no unique

inventory icon for the new model, as I don't have the skills to make

one. And I would also love to apply an extra texture that came with the

model, if able, but I'm no programmer so I don't hold a lot of

confidence.

Still, I hope someone finds this mod cool and decides to use it. And, if someone wants to fork it, just cite me and the model

maker as collaborators.

- Julian Blane, sketchfab (modeling, the hard part indeed), model published with CC Attribution license.

- Yanh Kreist