alfvaen | Complexities of Collapses

My friend Darren pointed to towards Rinkworks' Fantasy Novelist's Exam, which is, supposedly, a list of things which will doom your fantasy novel into the status of irretrievable dreck. Since whoever it is patently has a dislike of Robert Jordan, and I patently don't, I didn't get much out of it, except for an interesting link to an essay on how much swords actually weighed. Which is to say, they are much lighter than most sources actually say they were(including, wonder of wonders, the AD&D Player's Handbook)--no more than 3 kg(6 lb) for even the largest greatswords.