Daggers and Quivas

  • Quiva--A flat bladed double edged knife balanced for throwing, about a foot in length, used with great skill by the Wagon Peoples, but also found throughout Gor. commonly found strapped to a Rider's kaiila in a group of seven quivas
  • Dagger--Any one of thousands of styles of blade worn across Gor…. A generic name for any knife not specifically mentioned. Commonly worn openly on a belt, though sometimes hidden in a boot or sleeve as a hold out weapon. Used by both Free Men and Women of Gor for a miriad of functions including a last ditch, personal means of self-defense.

Quotes and Pics


"I was most fond, perhaps, of the balanced saddle knife, the quiva; it is about a foot in length, double edged; it tapers to a dagger like point. I acquired, I think, skill in its use. At forty feet I could strike a thrown tospit; at one hundred feet I could strike a layered boskhide disk, about four inches in width, fastened to a lance thrust in the turf." ---Nomads of Gor, page 67

"All men of Torvaldsland, incidentally, even if otherwise unarmed, carry a knife at their master belt."--- Marauders of Gor, pg 50

"the quiva itself is regarded, on the whole, as more of a missile weapon than a hand knife" ---Nomads of Gor, page 124

"Most quivas, incidentally, are wrought in the smithies of Ar". ---Nomads of Gor, page 124

"At her waist she wore a jeweled scabbard, protruding from which I saw the ornamented, twisted black of a Turian dagger; Free Women in Torvaldsland commonly carry a knife"--- Marauders of Gor, pg 156
The quiva of the Wagon Peoples is a fast and efficient weapon.... normaly thrown but also able to be used in hand to hand combat, slowly but surely the use of this knife is spreading across Gor...

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