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This Pair of Daiklaves have slightly enhanced stats and significantly useful abilities: they would be fine tools for any Dragon Blooded practitioner of [[Snake Style|Snake]] or [[Crane Style]] and could be invaluable to the celestial exalt who had mastered both styles and wished to feign to be a Dragon Blooded. 

= Serpent And Heron =

Forged in the waning years of the [[First Age]] by one of the most skilled [[Terrestrial]] artificers creation has ever seen this matched pair of [[Hook Daiklave]]s are built from [[Green Jade|Green]] and [[Blue Jade]] respectively. They are meant to work together as the perfect aids to the practice of [[Snake Style|Snake]] and [[Crane Style]] martial arts, but more than that to be used in the achievement of the [[The Ghost/Snake Crane Secret|Snake Crane Secret]] whereby the two styles combine to create something greater than ether one alone. 


== History ==

The two Daiklaves have a tumultuous and storied history and those who have used them swear that the blades have minds of their own, though no evidence of such can be found by even the most extensive charm use. 

=== Creation ===

The Story of the Serpent and the Heron begins in year 3535 of the Old Realm with a strike of Jade on the now lost Island of Malasaragara: a massive island which was washed away by the [[Balorian Crusade]]. The strike was unusual because the jade beds discovered held mixed Blue and Green Jade, which was abnormal to find mixed together and more abnormal still to find in the islands of [[The Ghost/The Far West|The Far West]] This jade strike was of course reported to the [[Deliberative]] and miners were sent to cut it up and haul it off for use as coinage and in artifice. 

This is where our [[Dragon Blooded]] artificer enters the picture: [[The Ghost/Runelisu Xunika|Runelisu Xunika]] was at this time legend among the Dragon Blooded as a creator of wonders who rivaled the Solars in her genius, having created many great artifacts of Jade including designing, engineering and constructing a Jade Royal Warstrider without the assistance or involvement of any Solar Exalted. This amalgam of Blue and Green Jade from the strike on Malasaragara got her head whirring and she procured three talents or so of the stuff to work with on a new project. 

She locked herself in her workshop on the south shore of the Blessed Isle for six months and spoke to no one, while she drew up plans and then emerged with a sheaf of plans and took herself off to [[Deheleshen]] to requisition some time in the [[Factory Cathedral]] there.