The skill of Tenacity is a versatile and powerful martial art, practiced by the Wayfarers and focused solely upon the use of handaxes. The Wayfarer's strikes are both accurate and devastating, and are lent broad usefulness by the handaxe's utility in both close and ranged combat. The handaxe, in this fashion, is an expression of the mindset of the Wayfarer: infinitely adaptable, and relentlessly brutal to one's enemies.
| Skill | Rank | Percent | Description |
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| Proficiency | Inept | 0 % | Cut down your foes with your mastery of axes. |
| Envenom | Novice | 0 % | Coat your weapons in deadly venoms. |
| Parrying | Apprentice | 0 % | Block incoming strikes with your weapon. |
| Avert | Adept | 33 % | Protect the skies with your vigilance. |
| Crossblade | Skilled | 33 % | Catch their weapon and send them reeling. |
| Obstruct | Gifted | 33 % | Looks like you aren't going anywhere. |
| Repel | Expert | 33 % | Punish them for their feeble attempts. |
| Retrieval | Fabled | 66 % | Draw your weapons from their broken body. |
| Opportunity | Mythical | 50 % | Innately sense attacks of opportunity. |
| Chop | Inept | 0 % | Mercilessly strike your foe with your weapon. |
| Sweep | Capable | 0 % | Slam their knees with your weapon. |
| Lacerate | Adept | 0 % | Rend their very flesh. |
| Bash | Adept | 66 % | A swift smack with the blunt end. |
| Dropstrike | Skilled | 0 % | They'll never see it coming. |
| Whirlwind | Gifted | 66 % | Lash out at all enemies in your vicinity. |
| Punish | Expert | 66 % | Cut them right to the bone. |
| Ravage | Virtuoso | 33 % | A vicious, lasting blow to a limb. |
| Ambush | Fabled | 33 % | Leap at your foe from afar. |
| Execute | Transcendent | 0 % | Finish the deed with a brutal execution. |
| Lob | Inept | 0 % | Fling your axe at an unlucky foe. |
| Assault | Apprentice | 50 % | Toss your axe with brutal force. |
| Cripple | Capable | 50 % | Shatter their limbs in a single blow. |
| Retrieve | Skilled | 66 % | Pull your foe in a bit closer. |
| Toss | Gifted | 0 % | Fling your weapon into the air for later. |
| Carve | Expert | 0 % | An unexpected strike to the gut. |
| Embed | Virtuoso | 66 % | A cruel addition to a healing wound. |
| Devastate | Fabled | 0 % | Pitch your axes to break down barriers. |
| Slaughter | Mythical | 0 % | Strike down your enemies with dual axes. |
| Proficiency | |
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| Syntax: | |
| Description: | Usage: RETURNING <ON |
| Envenom | |
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| Syntax: | ENVENOM <weapon/LEFT/RIGHT> WITH <venom> WIPE <weapon> |
| Description: | With this ability, you may layer venoms on an edged weapon. Each time that weapon
hits somebody, one venom will poison your opponent, and disappear from the weapon. Venoms work on a last-on, first-off basis, so if you put xentio on a weapon, and then put voyria on, the voyria would come off first, and the xentio second. You must possess a rag with the venom in order to apply it to a weapon. In order to get rid of the venoms on a weapon, simply WIPE <weapon>. |
| Parrying | |
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| Syntax: | PARRY <limb> or PARRY NOTHING |
| Description: | This ability allows you to parry an attack aimed at one of your limbs, providing you
wield a weapon or item that allows you to do so. You can parry your head, torso, left or right arm, and left or right leg. You will be unable to parry if you become prone (see HELP PRONE). Being fallen is excluded from this list. |
| Avert | |
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| Syntax: | |
| Description: | Usage: AXE AVERT <ON |
| Crossblade | |
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| Description: | This ability is passive.
If you have a handaxe in both hands - that is, none currently in the air - your successful parry attempts will fuel your rage, increasing your fury. In addition, hitting an enemy's own parry with your melee attacks will increase your fury. |
| Obstruct | |
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| Syntax: | |
| Description: | Usage: AXE OBSTRUCT <ON |
| Repel | |
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| Description: | Usage: AXE REPEL <ON |
| Retrieval | |
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| Description: | This ability is passive.
You'll now concentrate on retrieving your weapons after they're thrown. If your attack strikes a prone target, you will recover your balance faster from the strike. |
| Opportunity | |
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| Description: | AFFECTS: Players only
Usage: AXE COUNTER After a successful dodge, you will have a short window of time where you may chop into your attacker with an axe, however it will deliver no venoms. This ability may be done off balance. |
| Chop | |
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| Syntax: | |
| Description: | AFFECTS: Both players and NPCs
Usage: AXE CHOP <target> <bodypart> [<venom>] Swing your handaxe at a target's bodypart, quickly delivering a venom in the process. This attack uses a single axe. |
| Sweep | |
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| Description: | Usage: AXE SWEEP <target>
Swing your axe in a low arc, knocking your foe to the ground so long as they suffer from some affliction to their legs. This attack uses a single axe. |
| Lacerate | |
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| Description: | Usage: AXE LACERATE <target>
Gouge your foe's skin deeply, causing haemophilia and bleeding. The amount of bleeding is increased for each leg and arm that is broken. This attack uses a single axe. |
| Bash | |
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| Description: | AFFECTS: Both players and NPCs
Usage: AXE BASH <target> This quick blow with the blunt end of your weapon will rattle your victim, causing damage to their head as well as rendering them undeaf. If already undeaf or below 70% health, this blow will also cause dizziness. This attack uses a single axe. |
| Dropstrike | |
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| Syntax: | |
| Description: | Usage: AXE DROPSTRIKE <target>
Leap from high above and deliver a terrifying blow to your enemy. If your intended victim falls below 33% maximum health as a result of your strike, they will perish as your axe cleaves them in two. This threshold increases to 50% if their torso is broken. |
| Whirlwind | |
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| Syntax: | |
| Description: | Usage: AXE WHIRLWIND [<venom>]
Swing your axes in a wild arc, hitting everyone present. You may specify a venom to use with this attack. |
| Punish | |
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| Syntax: | |
| Description: | Usage: AXE PUNISH <target> <ARMS |
| Ravage | |
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| Description: | AFFECTS: Both players and NPCs
Usage: AXE RAVAGE <target> This precise strike with both axes will lacerate a foe's body, causing them to suffer significant harm whenever a restoration salve is applied. The effect will last for a short time. Each time they take damage from applying a restoration salve, the damage dealt will increase and the time it takes to cure itself will be reset. Should a bodypart become broken or mangled while they are ravaged, then the affliction will be removed. This attack uses both axes. |
| Ambush | |
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| Description: | Usage: AXE AMBUSH <target> [<venom>]
Should your foe be in an adjacent location, you can leap upon them and deliver a surprise blow, inflicting a venom and knocking them off balance. If you are enraged, you will knock over anyone who might block you, and break through any walls in your path. |
| Execute | |
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| Description: | Usage: AXE EXECUTE <target>
Should your foe be lying helpless with a broken head and at least one other broken limb, you may remove their head from their body in a single, brutal stroke. The wind-up for this strike is somewhat obvious, and as a result any other aware opponent will dodge it entirely. This attack uses both axes. |
| Lob | |
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| Description: | AFFECTS: Both players and NPCs
Usage: AXE LOB <target> [<venom>] With a quick flick of your wrist, you can fling your axe at a nearby target, striking them for damage and delivering a venom in the process. The speed of this strike prevents you from properly targeting any body part. This attack uses a single axe. |
| Assault | |
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| Description: | AFFECTS: Both players and NPCs
Usage: AXE ASSAULT <target> [<venom>] [<bodypart>] Heave your axe forward and smash a targeted body part, causing damage and delivering a venom. This will weaken the targeted body part for two seconds, causing any melee axe attack afterward to do more body part damage to it. This attack uses a single axe. |
| Cripple | |
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| Description: | AFFECTS: Both players and NPCs
Usage: AXE CRIPPLE <target> <LEFT |
| Retrieve | |
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| Description: | Usage: AXE RETRIEVE <target>
Throw one of your axes, attempting to hook and retrieve your intended target from your line of sight. |
| Toss | |
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| Description: | Usage: AXE TOSS <target> <HIGH |
| Carve | |
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| Description: | AFFECTS: Both players and NPCs
Usage: AXE CARVE <target> Fling your axes together directly at your target's gut, causing vomiting and trauma to their torso. If the target already has vomiting or a broken torso, they will be stunned and fall to the ground. This attack uses both axes. |
| Embed | |
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| Syntax: | |
| Description: | Usage: AXE EMBED <target> <limb>
PULL AXE FROM <target |
| Devastate | |
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| Description: | AFFECTS: Both players and NPCs
Usage: AXE DEVASTATE <target> [<venom>] Rain your axes down upon your foe, destroying first any shield defense present, then destroying any aura of rebounding. If only one is present, you will continue with a brutal axe strike. If neither is present, however, you'll fumble the attack entirely. |
| Slaughter | |
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| Description: | AFFECTS: Both players and NPCs
Usage: AXE SLAUGHTER <target> <venom>] <venom>] Unleash a devastating thrown strike with both handaxes, delivering two venoms and damaging your foe. A prone foe is a much easier target, and as a result will reduce the return time of the axes for this attack. This attack uses both axes. |