Souba

The Souba (双刃, Sōba?) is a weapon in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children used by Kadaj, leader of the Remnants of Sephiroth.

The Souba is a katana with two reinforced parallel blades, set a small distance apart. The design's intent is to trap an opponent's blade between them and disarm them. Kadaj wields Souba as a normal sword when confronting Cloud in the City of the Ancients, but fights holding it in a reverse grip when fighting Cloud in Midgar. Despite it being much smaller than the Fusion Swords, Kadaj battles Cloud with the Souba with no apparent handicap, taking advantage of the dual blades' wider striking range to more easily deflect Cloud's attacks.

The blade is lost in the ruins of Midgar during his final battle with Cloud, but after Kadaj reforms into Sephiroth and is subsequently defeated, it regenerates with him. Following his death in Aerith's Great Gospel, both Kadaj and the sword vanish into the Lifestream.

Like how Kadaj is a Remnant of Sephiroth, his weapon can be viewed as a segmented and salvaged version of Sephiroth's signature Masamune. Kadaj carries a specially designed scabbard for the sword across his lower back; two parallel sheathes joined by a block between the mouths of the objects.

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Dissidia Final Fantasy Opera Omnia[]

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Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade[]

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Final Fantasy Record Keeper[]

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Final Fantasy Brave Exvius[]

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Etymology and origin[]

Souba is Japanese for "twin blade".

Historically, if a tachi is considered too unwieldy and cumbersome, it can be shortened in a process called suriage. Many currently existing katana from older or famous smiths tend to be suriage or even o-suriage (removed even from the tang area) blades. If a katana is damaged by fire or broken, it can be reshaped and given new life with the process known as saiha, which refires and gives a blade a new hamon, which is considered the "soul" and indicator of health of a katana, and a new cutting edge. Saiha blades tend to come from even important katana, and are considered lesser than if the original smith did the work as its original hamon is now lost, but are still valued over "dead" or broken katana.