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Originally Posted by jason taylor
What you do is twist hot bars together while forging and hammer them flat and pour the blood on. This was what we now call pattern wielding and it is sometimes still used to make decorative blades, except for the blood (hey that would make a great mystery-horror). I did not look up how they do the carbon now but I am sure there are more sophisticated means.
Forging from the blood of one's enemies is not practical if you killed them on a battlefield. Of course if you wish to line up prisoners and whack them at leisure like some Ninevite king that would work.
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How much blood do you need at a time?
Because a modern day smith might know you can take a pint at least (possibly more) from your bound enemy and then put them back in a cage for a while to recover so they can contribute to many, many blades before they die.
And for a mystery-horror it would have the advantage that the kidnapped red-head your PCs are looking for might still be alive by the time they figure out who has them.