Katana skill

Skill 'katana'.

• Group: 'weaponsmaster'.
• Costs: mana 300, moves 100.
• Available to classes: samurai 60

A samurai who has reached a certain level of life experience can forge a unique sword, katana. This sword is the soul of the samurai, his honor, which must not be tarnished. A samurai who loses his sword is doomed to eternal disgrace before himself and other samurai.

Format: katana

This craft is taught in no guild: a samurai must first earn its secret through an old rite of the masters in New Thalos. Only then can he forge the blade with his own hands, from the proper materials at a burning forge. Such a katana belongs to its maker alone and will not suffer another's hand: an outsider cannot wield it properly. It keeps its own edge -- sharpening itself, growing keener from battle to battle. Set down upon water, the blade rests on the surface rather than sinking. Only a samurai who is also a blacksmith forges a blade that lasts forever: without the trade, the katana crumbles within days, along with all it has gained in battle. An older blade accepts a blacksmith's hand too, as soon as its owner wields it. A samurai may carry two katanas of his own, one for each hand, and a third won't be forged while he has two. He can name each of them: katana name Name. The name is cut into the nakago, the tang under the hilt, once and for good, on an unnamed katana he carries, a wielded one first. It is one word of 2 to 16 letters from a single alphabet, and only a new blade can take a new name.