The idea for “Artanis” was born from a need to seek new forms of expression — forms closer to nature, to organic shapes, while at the same time breaking away from the established canon of how we understand a “blade” or a “knife.” Artanis is a blade from a distant world, a world where nature is an essential part of existence and possesses a powerful force that governs the balance of all things. Artanis is a blade that is also an artifact — a forgotten fragment left behind, for the world to which it once belonged vanished centuries ago.