The Blade: Calibration
When the world was young, when Primordials ordered the Unconquered Sun to prepare to do battle for them in the Games of Divinity, before the Three Spheres Cataclysm, a short daiklave was wrought.
Wrought of Starmetal, Moonsilver and Soulsteel, eschewing all Orichalcum, the blade was made to reject the sun's light, and all it's blessings. But in turn, it sought out those blessed of the sun in especial, hated them, hungered for their essence, more. Blessed by Five Days Darkness with his favour, those who underestimate the sharpness of this blade seldom live to regret it.
Anyone using this blade to parry a Solar or Lunar gets a +2 non-charm bonus, as it very much wants to 'interrupt' those that treated it badly. The blade's memory is faulty, and it does not clearly remember dragon-blooded or sidereals mistreating it, focusing its ire on Lunars and Solars. Similarly, it gains the following evocations:
Elegant Fugue Strike
Cost: 3m, 1i; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-only, Mute, Stackable
Duration: One scene
Prerequisites: None
A swordsman faces the woman wielding the Calibration, blade of forgotten souls. Suddenly, the Blade is stained red. He feels blood drip from a stinging cut in his side. But when did she wound him? How did she strike him? He cannot recall. Much of swordplay lies in adjusting your defense so that a strike that pierces your guard once cannot do so a second time. With this Evocation, when the wielder successfully delivers a decisive attack, she erases her opponent’s memory of her technique so he cannot keep her from doing it again, imposing a −1 penalty on that target’s Defense against her decisive attacks until the next time she lands a decisive attack without using this Evocation. The penalty can be stacked up to a total of (Essence) times. Treat memory-excising gambits and normal decisive attacks as interchangeable for purposes of this Evocation. If used in conjunction with another gambit, the penalty only applies against that particular gambit.
Cost: 3m, 1i; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Supplemental
Keywords: Decisive-only, Mute, Stackable
Duration: One scene
Prerequisites: None
A swordsman faces the woman wielding the Calibration, blade of forgotten souls. Suddenly, the Blade is stained red. He feels blood drip from a stinging cut in his side. But when did she wound him? How did she strike him? He cannot recall. Much of swordplay lies in adjusting your defense so that a strike that pierces your guard once cannot do so a second time. With this Evocation, when the wielder successfully delivers a decisive attack, she erases her opponent’s memory of her technique so he cannot keep her from doing it again, imposing a −1 penalty on that target’s Defense against her decisive attacks until the next time she lands a decisive attack without using this Evocation. The penalty can be stacked up to a total of (Essence) times. Treat memory-excising gambits and normal decisive attacks as interchangeable for purposes of this Evocation. If used in conjunction with another gambit, the penalty only applies against that particular gambit.
Calibration's light
Cost: 5i; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisites: None
Cost: 5i; Mins: Essence 1
Type: Simple
Keywords: None
Duration: One scene
Prerequisites: None
Summons a copy of Calibration, made of light energy. Just like Five days darkness is the shadow of the Unconquered Sun, Calibration is that blade's shadow. Where Calibration is a creation of the material world, Calibration's Light is pure sorcerous energy mixed with essence.
Item type
Unique Artifact
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