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Flycatcher

This form is well-known to the occasional Aligned Spearmaiden. It allows one to achieve a sort of resonance with one's memories of the desert, allowing one to experience the sum of one's value for the desert in a heady rush. One can use field knowledge of the silky flycatcher, a crested desert bird, as a focus or a sieve for this experience so that one will be able to find in it the ethos of the Maidens of the Spear. This, in turn, will allow one to manifest a yari, a fighting spear.

The more one learns about the desert, the more one will be able to perfect this form and the blade that flows from it. In addition to the quality of the blade itself is the fighting spirit contained within it: one can capture the essence of the desert in novel -- and, at higher levels of perfection, esoteric -- combat maneuvers.

Like all Aligned weapon manifestations, it will last either until banished, until one no longer has the order energy to maintain it, or until one disincarnates. To banish a yari, concentrate on returning the form within it to a potential state.

Knowledge Requirement

be a Maiden of the Spear

Facility Formula

15% of ego plus 15% of intelligence plus 15% of lexiturgy skill plus 7.5% of enchantment skill plus 7.5% of conjuration plus 50% of desert fieldcraft skill

Facility Range

0 to 350

Energy Costs

100 spiritual and 6 order

Process to Actualize

think about the flight pattern of the phainopepla

Attacks Granted

Lash - Strike at an opponent with a yari, quickly, to make a clever bypass of their defenses. (15% perfection)

Scar - Make a twisting strike with a yari with the intent of causing as much pain as possible, even at the expense of causing physical injury. (30% perfection)

Splinter - Strike with the back end of the shaft of one's yari, crushing one's opponent and knocking them off balance. (45% perfection)

Desert Rose - Strike with a yari with the power of crystallized desert stand and stone. (given at about 70% perfection this attack makes order and crystal damage)

Desert Sun - Strike with a yari with the heat of the desert sun. (given around 75% perfection)

Desert Moon - Strike with a yari with the strange energies of the desert moon. (given around 90% perfection)