Talk:Olivia Viridi/@comment-4773581-20140121152721/@comment-4773581-20140126163821

It's probably a bit of a late suggestion, and you might have already thought of doing it yourself, but making it so that the blades are facing outwards in bow form instead of inwards is a good idea. If you go for a compound bow the pulleys can go on the unused backs of the blades, which would put them in the middle of the gladius form and out of harm's way, and if you go with the traditional tension method then you can just put some flexible metal rodamajigs along the backs.