Sword

"A rather nasty-looking sword."

- description of Sword

The dao is a low-tech skill weapon in Deus Ex.

This wepon can be found,on the roof of the VersaLife sky scraper,in a stash in the Hong Kong market, and in the hands of Triads doing battle in canal road.

They are in other places like on the smugglers boat and in the luminous path compound laying around and in the hands of luminous path soliders.

Background
The dao is a Chinese broad-bladed sword used by the Triads in melee and as their traditional weapons in Hong Kong, with a more intensive use since the installation of a system of acoustic sensors able to detect gunfire by 2052.

In China, the dao is known as one of the four major weapons, referred to as "The General of All Weapons".