Chirography (skill)

Skill Rank Percent Description
Actuate Inept 0 % Charge your weapons with the power of shadow.
Annul Inept 0 % Purge a shadow effect from your weapon.
Reaping Expert 50 % Glean power from your strikes.
Lawid Expert 50 % Strike a foe with magical force.
Owinta Virtuoso 0 % An explosion to make ashes of them all.
Telvi Virtuoso 66 % Chill your foe to the bone.
Iyedlo Fabled 0 % Cut through like butter.
Aneda Fabled 66 % A bolt of shadow to rend the skies.
Cull Mythical 0 % Swift extinction.
Atdum Mythical 50 % A lance of swift shadow.
Lurk Mythical 75 % Let shadow lie in wait.
Ingather Transcendent 0 % Shadow is sourced from all around.

Marks

Skill Rank Percent Description
Duskosa Inept 0 % The mark of shared suffering.
Nalay Novice 50 % Absence of shadow to see by.
Bimre Apprentice 0 % Shake them to their core.
Dirne Apprentice 0 % Break their focus.
Azu Capable 0 % Cut them down to size.
Livfa Capable 50 % The overseer's mark.
Lura Adept 0 % The crushing mark.
Baludu Adept 66 % Numb their limbs when you strike.
Nipdo Skilled 0 % A mark to attack thought and magic.
Doyfo Skilled 50 % A mark of connection.
Atele Gifted 0 % A dread omen to torment them.
Adil Gifted 50 % Stun them so ferociously they see stars.
Wasi Expert 0 % Sunder rebounding auras.
Vusbadu Virtuoso 33 % Annihilate your foe's defences.
Wilave Mythical 25 % Rivers of blood from sources of pain.

Actuate Charge your weapons with the power of shadow
Syntax: ACTUATE <weapon/LEFT/RIGHT> WITH
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Details: Mark your weapons with different empowered marks, causing different effects when an enemy

is successfully hit with them.

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Annul Purge a shadow effect from your weapon
Syntax: ANNUL <weapon/LEFT/RIGHT>
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Details: Remove all marks placed upon your weapon.
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Reaping Glean power from your strikes
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Details: This ability is mostly passive.

Supplementary syntax: BLADE CHARGE <weapon

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Lawid Strike a foe with magical force
Syntax: BLADE SCRIBE [<weapon/LEFT/RIGHT>] LAWID
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Details: "lawid" (noun, adjective) - magic

Release the stored essence to strike your foes with magical energy.

- One handed weapons will deal less damage, but are thin enough to cause bleeding. - Two handed weapons will deal more damage and damage your enemy's torso.

If your weapon is below a certain amount of essence, the damage will be halved.

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Owinta An explosion to make ashes of them all
Syntax: BLADE SCRIBE [<weapon/LEFT/RIGHT>] OWINTA
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Details: "owinta" (noun, verb) - explosion, to explode

Consume your blade's essence to cause an explosion of energy, damaging your opponent with fire damage and setting them ablaze. More essence, more boom.

* One-handed weapons will deal half the damage of two-handed ones.
* Two-handed weapons will also produce a roaring sound that strips deafness.
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Telvi Chill your foe to the bone
Syntax: BLADE SCRIBE [<weapon/LEFT/RIGHT>] TELVI
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Details: "telvi" (noun, adjective) - cold, north, northern

Exchange the essence in your blade to consume heat, chilling or freezing your opponent.

- One handed weapons will freeze them by one level. - Two handed weapons will freeze them by two levels. Their feet will also be frozen to the ground, based upon essence expended.

If your essence is insufficient, the ability will not work.

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Iyedlo Cut through like butter
Syntax: BLADE SCRIBE [<weapon/LEFT/RIGHT>] IYEDLO
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Details: "iyedlo" (verb) - move smoothly, flow, drift

Convert the essence within your weapon to pierce through the air and any resistance it might meet. This will allow you to recover balance more quickly when using the Duplicity and Fell abilities.

Please see either AB RIVING DUPLICITY or AB RIVING FELL for more information on those abilities.

You must have enough charge within your weapons in order to use this ability, and will fully drain all charge from any weapons in your hands.

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Aneda A bolt of shadow to rend the skies
Syntax: BLADE SCRIBE [<weapon/LEFT/RIGHT>] ANEDA
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Details: "aneda" (noun) - cloud

Provided you and your enemy are not indoors, this ability will expend shadow essence to attract a lightning bolt for them, after a delay. They will enjoy a blast of electricity.

If you are using a one-handed weapon:

 * You or the target will need to not be indoors.
 * If the essence is over 90, it will cause epilepsy when it strikes.
 * The damage will be halved.

If you are using a two-handed weapon:

 * You or the target can be indoors.
 * It will always cause epilepsy.
 * If they have epilepsy already, it will upset their balance instead.

The less essence, the slower the bolt will find them.

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Cull Swift extinction
Syntax: CULL <target>
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Details: An enemy suffering from disrupted mental and physical balance, with body crippled,

paralysed... is not an enemy. They are no longer anything, and should be culled.

Provided those requirements are met, the death will be immediate.

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Atdum A lance of swift shadow
Syntax: BLADE SCRIBE [<weapon/LEFT/RIGHT>] ATDUM
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Details: "atdum" (noun) - shadow

Sacrifice your essence to strike your target with pure shadow. No damage will be inflicted, but the shadow will bring any effects or venoms to your enemy regardless.

You must have sufficient essence to use this, and it will consume all essence available.

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Lurk Let shadow lie in wait
Syntax: LURK <target>
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Details: Mark a target for shadow, signifying their weakness. Should a single instance of damage

where an extra 50% would result in their death, then shadow will finish the job. There will be no corpse remaining.

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Ingather Shadow is sourced from all around
Syntax: INGATHER [ON/OFF]
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Details: Offer yourself to attract shadow. For a drain on your willpower, your shadow essence will

fade half as quickly, supplemented by the shadow you trade mind for.

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Duskosa The mark of shared suffering
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Details: "dusko" (noun, verb) - hurt, harm, injure, injury, wound
       "sa" (noun, plural suffix) - two, pair, both

This is an actuated effect.

Mark your blade to damage both your enemy and yourself for a percentage of their current health as shadow damage.

This can affect denizens, however it cannot score critical hits.

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Nalay Absence of shadow to see by
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Details: "nalay" (noun, verb) - flame, to enflame, to light

This is an actuated effect.

Drain the shadows from the room, creating a sort of light, for a limited time.

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Bimre Shake them to their core
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Details: "bimre" (noun) - fear

This is an actuated effect.

This mark is the beginning for something greater. Other marks require bimre to be upon your target to work.

Only one Revenant may mark a target at a time.

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Dirne Break their focus
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Details: "dirne" (noun, verb, adj.) - break, broken, crack, disrupt

This is an actuated effect.

A mark to disrupt the balances of those struck.

First goes their body, making it harder to writhe from entanglement. Second goes their mind, making it more difficult to focus.

This mark requires Bimre to be set on your target.

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Azu Cut them down to size
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Details: "azu" (noun, verb) - sever, cut

This is an actuated effect, which will wear off over time if left uncured.

The first strike will cripple their legs, preventing escape. The second strike will cripple their body, reducing their damage output by half.

This mark requires Bimre to be set on your target.

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Livfa The overseer's mark
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Details: "livfa" (verb) - oversee, supervise, watch over

This is an actuated effect.

This mark draws attention. For a period of time, those struck will be unable to become invisible, hide, or even become incorporeal.

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Lura The crushing mark
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Details: "lura" (verb) - crush, smash

This is an actuated effect.

Crush them.

This mark, proportional to the base damage stat of your weapon, will increase damage to your opponent's limbs.

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Baludu Numb their limbs when you strike
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Details: "balu" (noun, verb) - feeling, feel, perceive
       "du" (noun, particle) - not, opposite, none

This is an actuated effect.

This mark will obstruct signals in the limbs of those struck, numbing them. If the opposite limb is crippled, the numbed limb will act as though it is crippled as well. Otherwise, it is but an annoyance.

The only valid limbs in this scenario are arms and legs, not pseudopods or tentacles.

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Nipdo A mark to attack thought and magic
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Details: "nipdo" (noun, verb) - think, thought, ponder, consider, mind, brain

This is an actuated effect.

With this mark you may feed the mana of those struck to shadow.

If your foe should bear the mark Bimre, the feeding will be greater.

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Doyfo A mark of connection
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Details: "doyfo" (noun, verb) - bridge, connection, attach, connect

This is an actuated effect.

Leave a bit of yourself with your foe via this mark, similar to your shade, but with malicious intent.

One marked so will be free of equilibrium and balance to perform the following upon: Diagnose, Wounds, Gauge, Assess

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Atele A dread omen to torment them
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Details: "atele" (noun, adj.) - sign, portent, omen, ominous, dire

This is an actuated effect.

Dread. Anticipation with fear.

Once set upon your foe, they have a doom set upon them, ready to burst outwards and attack their mind after 30 seconds. This effect can be triggered early by knocking your opponent to the ground.

Other marks will combine effects to the impending burst by striking them with it before it triggers.

The following may be added: Atele, Adil, Vusbadu, Nipdo, Doyfo, and Livfa.

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Adil Stun them so ferociously they see stars
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Details: "adil" (noun) - star

This is an actuated effect.

A burst of shadow to stun them. Simple. Effective.

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Wasi Sunder rebounding auras
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Details: "wasi" (noun, verb) - flaw, imperfection, mistake, to damage, to make a mistake

This is an actuated effect.

This mark will consume the rebounding aura defence of your foe.

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Vusbadu Annihilate your foe's defences
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Details: "vusba" (noun, verb) - protection, shelter, to protect, to guard

"du" (noun, particle) - not, opposite, none

This is an actuated effect.

This mark will consume a defence from your opponent that did not originate from themselves.

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Wilave Rivers of blood from sources of pain
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Details: "wilave" (noun) - river

This is an actuated effect.

If your foe bleeds, this mark will draw more from them, both in pain and blood. Blood calls to blood.

The more they bleed, the more poison damage they will take, and the more bleeding will be added.

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