Wardancer

War Dancer The Wardancers are most often Elves, but sometimes other Races train this Discipline. The War Damcer Disciplne is a variation of the Warrior Discipline. Important Attributes: Dexterity and Strenhght Racial Restrictions: Obidimen,Trolls,Dwarfs Karma Ritual: To begin his/her Ritual the War Dancer draws a circle with 12 feet in diameter around a stick which he stabs in the earth. Then he/she draws her weapon and cries like a bird of prey, jumping up and down within the circle. The Ritual takes ½ hour to get fullfilled. Artisan Skills: Body Painting, Wood Carving First Circle Talents Avoid Blow Karma Ritual Melee Weapons(D) Throwing Weapons Wood Skin Wound Balance Secons Circle Talents Air Dance Anticipate Blow(D) Durability (7/6) Third Circle Talents Missile Weapons Storm of Blades Fourth Circle Talents Thread Weaving (Blade Wevaving)(D) Mystic Aim Fifth Circle Initiative: Increase the Wardancer´s Initiative by 1 Talents Lizard Leap(D) Borrw Sense Sixth Circle Spell Defense: Increase the Wardancer´s Spell Defense by 1 Talents Whirling Death(D) Gliding Stride Seventh Circle Karma: The Wardancer may use a Karma point using Dexterity only. Talents Unarmed Combat Down Strike Eight Circle Woven Mist: With suffering 1 point of Strain the Wardancer may make a mysterious attack. When attacked mist surrounds the opponent. The opponent gets harried for the duration of Woven Mist. Woven Mist lasts for the attacker´s rank in melee weapons rounds. The Woven Mist may be used also with a missile or a throwing attack, not with an unarmed. Talents Eagle Eye Stopping Aim Ninth Circle Physical Defense: Increase the Wardancers Physical Defense by 1 Talents Life Check(D) Cat´s Paw Called Shot Tenth Circle War Dance: For 3 points of Strain the Wardancer may move over the heads of his/her enemies to escape a pinning or when he/she is fighting more than one foe. To do so the Wardancer makes a Lizard Leap test aginst the highest Initiativestep of the enemies. He/she gains 3 steps tothe Melee Weapons Talent. The Physical Defense is increased by 3 in the following round, because he/she is behind the foe and the enemy is too surprised by this action. Talents Lion Heart Lion Spirit Eleventh Circle Recovery Test: The Wardancer gains an additional Recovery test per day. Spell Defense: Increase the Wardancer´s Spell Defense by 1 Talents Sprint Speak Language Twelfth Circle The Shadow´s Coil: The Wardancer makes graceful moves, strides and jumps. The Wardancer automaticly avoids a number of blows in his Melee Weapons talent by a quarter. Each avoid costs the Wardancer 2 points of Strain. Unfortunatly the Wardancer cannot attack in this turn, because he/she is too occupied with avoiding the attacks of the enemy. This a very useful ability in holding up enemy. Talents Vitality Earth Skin Thirteenth Circle Physical Defense: Increase the Wardancer`s Physical Defense by 1. Spell Defense: Increase the Wardancer´s Spell Defense by 1 Talents Defense Stone Skin Fourteenth Circle Karma: Increase the Wardancer´s total Karma points by 25. Karma: The Wardancer may use Karma points using all attributes. Enhance Blade: By paying 2 points of blood magic the Wardancer gains the Enhance Blade ability. For a point of Strain the Wardancer may enhance the lenght of the weapon up to his rank in melee weapons in yards. The encumn of the weapons does not change, but the damage lowers by -1 per 2 yards. Talents Aura Armor Spot Armor Flaw Fifteenth Circle Physical Defense: Increase the Wardancer´s Physical Defense by 2. Spell Defense: Increase the Wardancer´s Spell Defense by 2. Recovery Test: The Wardancer gains 2 Recovery tests per day Initiative: Increase the Wardancer´s Initiative by 2. Talents Multi-Strike Ethereal Weapon TALENTS OF THE WARDANCER Storm of Blades Step Number: Rank+Perception Action: no Skill use: no Rquires Karma: yes Strain: 2/blade Discipline Talent Use: none This is very very unique talent and belongs only the Wardancer Discipline. The Wardancers are very aware of teaching it to Humans of other Disciplines. Storm of Blades is a very useful talent in attacking more than one opponent. The Wardancer can create magical twinblaes to his blade. When the Wardancer strikes an opponent, he/she may make a Storm of Blades test against the spell defense of the foe. If it succeeds an flash of lightning in form o fa blade may be created by the Wardancer. Then the Wardancer makes an other storm of blades test against the spell defense of the nearest foe. If this test succeeds too, the flash strikes this opponent and makes damage equal to the Wardancer´s damage step-1. This may be done equal to the character´s rank in storm of blades. Each opponent may be target of this lightning once per combat. If the character uses this talent he/she has to pay the costs until he/she fails a test or runs out of Karma or gets unconscious. The Wardancer pays a Karma point and 2 Strain for each blade. Whirling Death Step Number: Rank+Dexterity Action: yes Skill use: no Requires Karma: yes Strain: 1 Discipline Talent Use: Wardancer A whirling death is an attack which is made instead a normal melee weapon attack. The weapon has to be sword. When attacking the character swings his/her sword. While whirling the sword enters the astral plane. The victim takes normal damage but only mystic protects against the damage.When attacking the user must roar like a lion and must have enough place to swing his blade, so the attacker must have a space with 7 feet in diameter. The karma point that must be spent is not added to the hitting, but the character may add the additional karma die.