blood of subanartifact / weapon / short sword"Here are the three most frequently asked questions we get about the Blood of Suban."
Q: If the Blood of Suban fires photon waves, does it take energy from you? A: The B.O.S does need energy, but the on-board matter transmuter turns ambient energy into solar energy that powers the waveform emitter. Q: What does it sound like when you're hit by it? |
A: Our Forerunner testers give us many different answers. Some say it sounds like a scream you hear in your bones. Others say it sounds like a dying star. Still others say it reminds them of a knife shaped like a B flat.
Q: Can the Blood of Suban be used as a musical instrument?
A: The B.O.S was not designed to be a musical instrument. That said, we at the Antilles Exoscience Corporation are in the business of giving Forerunners options, not taking them away."
Q: Can the Blood of Suban be used as a musical instrument?
A: The B.O.S was not designed to be a musical instrument. That said, we at the Antilles Exoscience Corporation are in the business of giving Forerunners options, not taking them away."
History/Lore:
When the Great Coup occurred in the Legion, lines were drawn and alliances fractured. Having always been keen to see Agdayne break free of his dependence from the treacherous Atriox, Silset and Oebrin found themselves united under the Primus Agdayne's leadership. Eager to use their mastery of weaponsmithing to new and more honorable ends, the brothers collaborated on a modified short-sword that would take on both the role and the soul of Agdayne's homeworld, Suban, and adapt key attributes of Silset's most beloved armament, the gladius. The result is a master-crafted Blood of Suban that fires carefully condensed photons capable of great damage. When the blade was presented to Agdayne fresh out the forge, it was rejected brutally, resulting in the fallout of Silset and Oebrin and their eventual joining of the Forerunner Order. This was seen as a great loss to the Seperatist Legion and one of many controversial mistakes Agdayne had made after becoming Primus.
Appearance:
The Blood of Suban takes the appearance of an ornate, opalescent short-sword with a highly reflective blade and white handle, made entirely out of platinum. It almost resembles a gladius in shape but can be used as a longsword when enhanced with Blade of Light. Due to the extreme heat produced by the photons of the blade, the hilt is composed of a non-conductive material.
Abilities/Traits:
Piercing Light: Release photons of light stimulated at a matching frequency of whatever it needs to shatter, directed along the length of the blade and released with a great thrust. The space around you will ripple, rings of pressure surrounding a white laser beam that both shatters and melts. You can control the frequency/wavelength or any other attribute, making the laser visible to the human eye (or not) or changing its color and course. Because it travels at the speed of light, this attack cannot be dodged after it is unleashed. A target can only dodge beforehand by watching the movement of the blade and taking evasive maneuvers.
*Find a fair maiden to place a chaste kiss upon the pith of the blade in order to unlock its true potential.
Lift the blade up to your face vertically, then turn it so that the flat is aiming at your face. Kiss the steel and slash it down, activating its second stage. Once it's released, the hilt will appear to grow decorative wings and the blade itself will become so white that it's transparent--clear, akin to glass. You gain access to three new powerful abilities as you achieve total control over photons in a staggeringly massive radius.
When the Great Coup occurred in the Legion, lines were drawn and alliances fractured. Having always been keen to see Agdayne break free of his dependence from the treacherous Atriox, Silset and Oebrin found themselves united under the Primus Agdayne's leadership. Eager to use their mastery of weaponsmithing to new and more honorable ends, the brothers collaborated on a modified short-sword that would take on both the role and the soul of Agdayne's homeworld, Suban, and adapt key attributes of Silset's most beloved armament, the gladius. The result is a master-crafted Blood of Suban that fires carefully condensed photons capable of great damage. When the blade was presented to Agdayne fresh out the forge, it was rejected brutally, resulting in the fallout of Silset and Oebrin and their eventual joining of the Forerunner Order. This was seen as a great loss to the Seperatist Legion and one of many controversial mistakes Agdayne had made after becoming Primus.
Appearance:
The Blood of Suban takes the appearance of an ornate, opalescent short-sword with a highly reflective blade and white handle, made entirely out of platinum. It almost resembles a gladius in shape but can be used as a longsword when enhanced with Blade of Light. Due to the extreme heat produced by the photons of the blade, the hilt is composed of a non-conductive material.
Abilities/Traits:
Piercing Light: Release photons of light stimulated at a matching frequency of whatever it needs to shatter, directed along the length of the blade and released with a great thrust. The space around you will ripple, rings of pressure surrounding a white laser beam that both shatters and melts. You can control the frequency/wavelength or any other attribute, making the laser visible to the human eye (or not) or changing its color and course. Because it travels at the speed of light, this attack cannot be dodged after it is unleashed. A target can only dodge beforehand by watching the movement of the blade and taking evasive maneuvers.
- Blade of Light: This attack is actually two in one, but they are indistinguishable from one another. The blade becomes irradiated with Light and lengthens to three/four times its width and length. This is mostly illusionary as photons are held in torpor around the blade, making it appear larger when it actually isn't. When an enemy attempts to parry the massive blade, he/she finds there is nothing physical to parry and the Blood of Suban will simply pass through. This creates a perfect opening for its user to thrust. Alternatively, the blade also contains enough photons to sear your opponent at close range, so ignoring it will also end in excruciating pain.
- Illuminate: The blade grows blindingly white, bathing the entire area in a flash that makes your opponent's eyes water. Staring at the blade here would be like looking directly at the sun. Mostly used to temporarily confuse and disorient opponents or as a flashlight in darkness. The blade can also flash each time it strikes or is struck, further blinding the opponent.
- Distortion: By bending light with your blade, you can make an object (or yourself) invisible. This does not prevent enemies from using other detection methods such as sound, touch or energy sensing.
*Find a fair maiden to place a chaste kiss upon the pith of the blade in order to unlock its true potential.
Lift the blade up to your face vertically, then turn it so that the flat is aiming at your face. Kiss the steel and slash it down, activating its second stage. Once it's released, the hilt will appear to grow decorative wings and the blade itself will become so white that it's transparent--clear, akin to glass. You gain access to three new powerful abilities as you achieve total control over photons in a staggeringly massive radius.
- Rain of Punishing Light: Fire a beam into the heavens, illuminating the clouds for a brief moment as though the sun were setting. From horizon to horizon, the clouds momentarily become a beautiful shade of gold, sunlight peeking through the cracks in those clouds. This not only has a soothing affect on temperamental weather, which is its first ability (to pacify), but its main intent is to sculpt photon blades in the sky. They will rain down, bristling and white, a downpour that can gun down your opponent until they have nowhere left to run. Can destroy stalwart or stubborn defenses in an onslaught.
- Pillar of Light: Call down a large column of golden light from the heavens that will engulf you in a radius. You cannot be attacked or influenced inside of this light unless the attack being sent at you is made of a hotter form of solar energy. If it is anything else--spiritual, conceptual, it will burn away into cinders. Solar/heat resistant attacks are also able to momentarily exist within this barrier, but will likely only take another few moments to burn away to no byproduct. As somewhat of a double-edged sword, the wielder also cannot attack or influence anything outside the column either. This technique does drain the wielder's energy quite quick, so you cannot maintain it for long, and if cast over the point of accessible energy, the Blood of Suban will shatter into glass pieces.
- Lights Final Judgement: An immensely powerful technique, but one that requires setup time. It can be further boosted by the stored photons in the blade. Once activated, points of light slowly begin to twinkle and appear in a sphere around a localized area. The sphere can be as large as you want, although the bigger the sphere, the longer it takes to setup, but you can move freely and attack during that period as it self-constructs itself. After awhile,t eh shell of the hollow sphere grows denser and when the points of floating light are separated only by a few inches of space, it is complete. Contact with any of these points is like being hit with a giant burning hammer - the victim is burnt, and hurled to the center, trapped within the sphere. The wearer unleashes a white-hot laser beam from the blade right into the sphere, and the beam begins bouncing around inside the sphere. You can pulse-fire the beam to create millions of weaker reflecting beams or thousands of stronger ones. The sphere shatters, cracks webbing across its surface, then explodes in a strobing disco-effect, releasing lasers of light that rip their way through anything they touch like light channeling through a magnifying glass a hundred times over. After all the beams have been spent, the world should have thousands of molten trenches in it within a city-long radius.