The Sword

Origin: All
Calling: Champion
Starting ability: ✪Riposte

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Starting items: Straightsword OR Sicklesword

You’re skilled with both a sicklesword (also called a scimitar or a khopesh) and a straightsword. You’ve learned to wield these blades like an extension of your arm. You start with the following ability:

Ask the Guide:

Where and by whom was this blade cast?
How skilled are they with a sword?
Is this problem better solved by a broad cut or a precise thrust?

✪ Riposte

Starting ability

While wielding a sword, your counterattack has a +2 bonus, or a +3 bonus if you wield two swords.

Abilities to Learn

✪ Arcing Slash

Mark of STRENGTH

Requires Sicklesword or Axe. While wielding one of these weapons, choose ONE of the following benefits:

You inflict an additional -1 grace and -1 life on a lethal hit, OR
You can Attack two foes close to one another

✪ Precision Thrust

Mark of AWARENESS

Requires Straightsword or Spear. While wielding one of these weapons, you can take -1 awareness before making a standard melee Attack. On a lethal hit, you inflict extra life damage equal to your core Awareness.

✪ Swordfighter's Prowess

Mark of GRACE

Add 1 to the calculation that determines the size of your Move Die.

✪ Sword Practice

Mark of GRACE

As an endeavor when you rest, Move yourself and gain sword-focus equal to your result. When you counterattack with a sword or use a Sword ability that calls for you to take -1 awareness, you can instead spend 1 sword-focus.

✪ Threshing Dance

Mark of GRACE

Requires ✪Arcing Slash and Sicklesword. Take -1 strength and -1 awareness and make three melee Attacks with your sword against one or multiple foes in the Fray, each attack ➟following from the last. Each attack has a -2 penalty and can’t benefit from Arcing Slash. Only the final attack can be countered.

If you know ✪Two-Sword Stance, you can make an additional attack.
If you know the Dance lore, you can take -1 dance-focus to make an additional attack (stacks with above).

✪ Two-Sword Stance

Mark of GRACE

Requires two Swords. While you wield two sickleswords, two straightswords, or one of each, you gain the following benefits:

Your active guard bonus is +2.
You can take -1 awareness and a -2 penalty when you make a standard melee Attack or counterattack to make one additional ➟following Attack against the same foe, also with a -2 penalty.

✪ Vital Point

Mark of AWARENESS

Requires Dagger or Straightsword. When you Attack with a dagger or straightsword while close to a foe, the attack inflicts extra life damage equal to your core Awareness.

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