The Sword

Requires: ✧ Strength
Origins: All
Start with: ✪ Riposte, straightsword OR sicklesword

You’re a true swordfighter. If you start with this lore, you’ll need to choose a blade.

A straightsword is a leaf-shaped bronze blade. It’s primarily made for thrusts, but can also be used to slash or even slit throats in a pinch. A sicklesword is a curved bronze blade, just a bit longer than a straightsword. It’s made for slashing, rather than stabbing.

Sickleswords lend themselves to more advanced Sword abilities than straightswords. However, straightswords are more versatile and can even be used with abilities from other lore types, like ✪ Quick Thrust from The Spear lore.

Axes, with their curved blades, are often wielded as cruder versions of sickleswords and can be used with some of the abilities here.

You start with the following ability:

✪ Riposte

✧ Strength When you dodge or block an attack, take -1 guard or awareness to make a free counterattack with a sicklesword or straightsword.

Abilities to Learn

.5xp new ability | 10xp with attribute increase

✪ Run and Cut

✦✧ Agility Requires sicklesword or axe. When you attack with a sicklesword or axe after running toward or Outflanking a foe and hit, your attack inflicts an additional -1 guard.

✪ Two Blades Stance

✦✦✧ Agility Requires two sickleswords. While you wield two sickleswords, you gain the following benefits:

Gain a total max Guard bonus of +2
Your Riposte counterattacks have a +1 bonus.

✪ Threshing Dance

✦✦✧ Agility Requires ✪ Run and Cut, sicklesword. On your turn, take -1 stamina and make a number of sicklesword attacks up to your Agility score. Each attack has a -2 penalty.

This ability doesn’t work with jump-attacks or Outflanking.
Only the final attack provokes counters.
You can target multiple foes with this ability, so long as they’re in the same span.

If you wield two sickleswords, make an additional attack with a -2 penalty.

✪ Sword Mastery

✦✧ Intellect Gain +1 max Awareness. Your intense studies of swordfighting bear fruit. You can take -1 awareness to gain a +2 bonus to a sword attack. You must declare this ability before rolling the attack.

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