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Chapters 4 and 5 - Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer

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The Guild of Torturers - A Review

The sword that we're talking about here is specifically an executioner sword. The key feature is that the head is totally blunt and that only the sides of the blades are sharpened. It tells us to the security in the Guild of Tortures, at least if you're on the inside and in apprentice, it's not so hard to sneak around. And because we now see how he does it here, we can believe he does it later without needing to go into the table.

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