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Writhing Specter Blade
Artifact Level ~ 4
Commitment ~ 8 motes
A writhing specter blade is a soulsteel weapon forged in a slightly different process than usual. Souls are smelted into Soulsteel, which is then forged into items. With a writhing Specter Blade, not only are additonal souls added during the forging process, but they are not 'properly' bound in the sense that they are not fully incoporated into the weapon. Rather they are mostly bound and capable of grasping, screaming, howling, biting and expressing their feelings about their painful imprisonment, which they will do whenever the blade is removed from its scabard. Those capable of perceiving ghosts or dematerial beings will notice a writhing, fleshlike miasma constantly surging from and around a drawn blade. Anyone coming within reach of the weapon is subject to the ghost's ire, and limbs and maws will briefly materialize and lash out at whatever is close by. Regardless of whether the wielder is attacking or defending, the ghosts trapped within the blade will make an attack against his opponents in step 9 of combat resolution. Similarly, if the weapon is not in its scabard, anyone but the attuned wielder who touches it will be subject to similar attacks once every tick. In addition, motes drained by the blade are stored into a resevoir. This resevoir has a capacity of 12 and motes may be reflexively spent to increase the accuracy and damage of the Ghostly Strikes on a 1 mote per 1 die basis. No more than the wielder's permenant essence in motes may be spent on a single strike.
The original Writhing Specter Blades were all based off of reaver daiklave designs, and like most reaver daiklaves have a single hearthstone setting. It is certainly possible for other weapons to be fashioned in a similar process. Making a weapon into a Writhing Specter Blade adds two to its artifact rating.
Writhing Specter Blade || ||Spd||Acc||Dam||Defense||Rate||Tag|| ||1E ||-||-||-||-||-||-|| ||1E PC ||-||-||-||-||-||-|| ||2E ||5||+5||+9L/3||+0||2||O|| Stats include the Soulsteel MM bonus
Ghostly Strike-Accuracy 10, Damage 6L
