I have two questions on the subject actually:
My fantasy novel's second act is about to end with a great big battle, and a character gets hit in the throat with a circular shuriken-like weapon with a 3-inch diameter. What would it take for this to cause a lethal wound? How quickly would the victim be dead or incapacitated if hit in an artery, or the larynx?
And my main character has a horribly scratchy, ugly voice. I want to make it the result of an old wound. Could he have survived something that had such an effect, in a world with mostly medieval-level medicine? I dunno, a stabbing that nicked his larynx, a blow to the throat, a violent strangulation, or something along those lines.
My fantasy novel's second act is about to end with a great big battle, and a character gets hit in the throat with a circular shuriken-like weapon with a 3-inch diameter. What would it take for this to cause a lethal wound? How quickly would the victim be dead or incapacitated if hit in an artery, or the larynx?
And my main character has a horribly scratchy, ugly voice. I want to make it the result of an old wound. Could he have survived something that had such an effect, in a world with mostly medieval-level medicine? I dunno, a stabbing that nicked his larynx, a blow to the throat, a violent strangulation, or something along those lines.
