The Yarkbalka was a weapon of Eastern Middle-Earth, a heavy straight bladed Bastard Sword with two triangular projections about ¼ of its length from the tang.The original Yarkbalkas were forged by the legendary Hero Yark Balka of the farthest East, they were symbols of the Order of the Silver Sword, elite warriors of a lost eastern Empire. However later the Yarkbalkas became a sword-type widely imitated throughout the far eastern Lands.