User blog:Le Rottweiler/Why does Ranger have an ax?

I don’t understand why Ranger always commences with an ax. There appears to be no official explanations for it. Furthermore, the axe is sanguinolent, which implies that it was already used.

Here’s an idea: During Operation Counterstrike, some monster—perhaps an Knight or an Ogre—brought an axe as a weapon, but nevertheless the enemy was despatched. Ranger may have displaced his combat knife, so he collected the ax that he found.

There’re no enemies in the vanilla game who sport an axe, so this makes my explanation problematic. Nonetheless, I can’t conceive a superior one.