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[General Fiction] Why do so many characters throwaway a sword just cause the tip or top half of the blade os broken when the rest of it is still useful as a blade ?
gpt
Often enough when a blade is broken, there are larger structural damages going on. Seldom do you see a perfect clean snap, usually there's issues with the tempering, a bad job at welding, or a bad fold somewhere. Delamination is also possible resulting in a weak point. In any case, even if *part* of it broke, you can't be sure that there's no *other* damage that could cause it to fail catastrophically at some point.

Often in these cases, the character is either on a battlefield were they can grab a different weapon from a fallen combatant (not that they do all that often) or else in a situation where they have to run away. If they need to run away, the extra weight is just a bother and again, a risk to use in combat.

Now there's plenty of cases where perhaps the sword may still be fine after being broken, especially in a case of emergency, but it's generally not the sort of thing a trained warrior is going to rely on. Much better to discard the broken weapon and rely on a secondary weapon, grab a fallen weapon, or get away and get a new one when it's safe.