[@chayden13] Ah, as i suspected.
You are going for the route i thought you were.

Perhaps a select few of your smiths can make swords like this one?
[img]http://www.caswellstudios.com/SwordPages/Pictures/swords/Baileyswordfull_1.JPG[/img]
Pattern welded swords, it was the shit before spanish steel. It was tougher, more flexible and lighter than regular iron swords. Just better in every way.
(And they look great too!)

Thing with them is that they take a lot of time and skill to make, and when spanish steel came along the old ways was not practical. Since spanish steel is just better steel on a large scale.
Pattern welding is primarily to circumvent poor materials, when the material is good to begin with that isn't necessary.

In Formaroth the equivalent of spanish steel might be Cawanor or Alenius steel. (I myself like the sound of Cawanor steel.)
In medieval europe the spanish steel became the standard for basically all weapons. IIRC spanish steel might be a more modern terminology, and might not be what the medieval people called it.
It basically boils down to if Duncan likes to call it something special. Otherwise it would just be "steel", everyone does it in that way. Does it have a special name? Probably some nerdy metallurgy people who argues over the name and origins.
Does anyone care apart from those? Nope.

Another name for pattern welding is Damascus steel.
A technique that skilled smiths can do. If they have the knowledge. It's not a complex technique, it's just that you need to know how it works. And as with all things, knowing a skill and mastering it are two very different things.
There might be a few smiths here and there outside the forests who can do it. Mostly because some smiths tend to (historically) be heavily family oriented, hanging on to old traditions.
Or some smith might have travelled to a clan and witnessed how it was done. Now selling similar blades to people who like the look of the blades.

As for the misunderstanding with long swords and whatnot.
She has a sword. It's a nice sword :)

(One can nerd down with terminologies for swords all day long, what one calls a longsword another will call a bastard sword. While both might be correct to some degree it seldom matters. And as far as i know even museum personnel often have different opinions. Making the whole affair even more tedious.)