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| ==Description== | | ==Description== |
| A repurposed farming tool, the reaving mattock has a heavy steel head and a stout oak handle inlaid with tempest jade. What a mundane mattock does to hard or frozen soil, the reaving mattock does to the weapons and shields of enemy soldiers. They are potent weapons in the hands of either a skilled veteran or a novice fighter. They are unsurprisingly popular with the agriculturally-minded [[Yeomen of the Marches]] and with the [[Varushka|Varushkans]], and much less so with the citizens of the [[The League|League]], [[Dawn]] and [[Urizen]] due to their associations with farming. | | A re-purposed farming tool, the Reaving Mattock has a heavy steel head and a stout oak handle inlaid with tempest jade. What a mundane mattock does to hard or frozen soil, the Reaving Mattock does to enemy soldiers, leaving them bleeding to death or crippled. They are unsurprisingly popular with the agriculturally-minded [[Yeoman of the Marches|yeomen of the Marches]] and with the [[Varushka|Varushkans]], and much less so with the citizens of the [[The League|League]], [[Dawn]] and [[Urizen]] due to their associations with farming. |
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| These weapons were amongst the first weapons crafted by the Imperial Orcs after they joined the Empire, many of whom were familiar with them from their time in the mines or working the farms. They have remained a popular choice, especially with those orcs who prefer to spend their time slaughtering their barbarians cousins rather than embracing the strict discipline of the Imperial armies. | | These weapons were among the first weapons crafted by the [[Imperial Orcs|Imperial Orc]] [[Crafting_skills#Artisan|artisans]] after they joined the Empire, many of whom were familiar with similar tools from their time in the mines, or working the farms. They have remained a popular choice, especially with those Orcs who prefer to spend their time [[Imperial_Orcs_economic_interests#Reavers|slaughtering their barbarian cousins]] rather than embracing the strict discipline of the Imperial armies. |
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| ==Rules== | | ==Rules== |
| * '''Form:''' [[Combat#Two-handed Weapon|Two-handed Weapon]]. Despite the name any two-handed weapon may be a reaving mattock.
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| * '''Effect:''' Once per day you may call [[Combat#SHATTER|SHATTER]] with this weapon. | | * '''Effect:''' Once per day you may call [[Calls#IMPALE|IMPALE]] with this two-handed weapon. |
| * '''Materials:''' Crafting a reaving mattock requires seven ingots of [[Materials#Tempest Jade|tempest jade]]. It takes one month to make one of these items. | | * '''Materials:''' Crafting a Reaving Mattock requires seven ingots of [[Materials#Tempest Jade|tempest jade]]. It takes one month to make one of these items. |
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| <!---Flavour text from Pel Pearcey, butchered mercilessly by Andy RAff --->
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| <ic>Brint rolled over weakly, groaning in pain. He looked up at the dark clouds above, sure that he saw the face of his grandmother forming in them, wispy hands reaching out, face disapproving. “The discipline of the legions might have saved your family.” she whispered. “Your battle-lust his doomed them both.”
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| He couldn’t hear anything from the world around him; the blow that had split his skull had seen to that. He’d not even seen the attacker that had felled him; hit from behind as he ran to his tent to fetch his weapon.
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| His wife … his legion ... he had to protect them She was a good bonesetter, but slightly built and while she wielded herbs with great skill she was not a soldier. Tannat had insisted on remaining alongside him and the reaver band, despite the rigours of a long pregnancy. The warlord had shrugged and told her she knew her own mind best; if she thought she could keep up, then he would not stop her accompanying the band.
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| A shadow loomed over him blocking his view of the clouds; a fur-clad orc with a blade taller than he. The barbarian looked down at him and spat, a thick glob of phlegm landed on his barely breathing chest. The barbarian snorted and raised the blade high in the air, preparing to end Brint's life.
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| The blow never fell.
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| Brint didn’t hear the scream but everyone else did - anger mingled with fear and the sound of it cutting through the echoes of battle. A small figure burst from the tent wrapped in simple robes, a petite female orc who looked barely older than twenty summers, the wailing of her newborn sounding behind her.
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| “Leave. Him. Be!” she snarled, her voice little more than a whisper. She had a farming tool over her shoulder, almost comically too large for her. She hobbled toward the barbarian standing over her prone husband.
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| The barbarian orc her laughed and hefted his weapon, bringing it upfor a killing blow. She raised her tool to meet the jagged sword of the barbarian, screaming defiance.
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| As their weapons met the barbarian looked on in shock as its prized blade was shattered into shards of steel which sprayed across the camp. He fumbled to draw his long dagger. Before he could draw it a pair of arrows thudded into his chest and sent him sprawling to the floor. The last thing he saw was Tannat standing over him, legs spread, almost overbalancing as she swung the bloody mattock up to bring it down on his face with murderous force.
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| Sweat plastering her hair, Tannat drove the mattock deep into the ground by Brint's head, grabbed him under his shoulders, and started to drag him back towards the healer's tent, swearing that if he lived she would make him sorry he had ever been born.</ic>
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| [[Category:Magic Items]] | | [[Category:Magic Items]] |
| [[Category:Two-handed Weapons]] | | [[Category:Two-handed Weapons]] |
Description
A re-purposed farming tool, the Reaving Mattock has a heavy steel head and a stout oak handle inlaid with tempest jade. What a mundane mattock does to hard or frozen soil, the Reaving Mattock does to enemy soldiers, leaving them bleeding to death or crippled. They are unsurprisingly popular with the agriculturally-minded yeomen of the Marches and with the Varushkans, and much less so with the citizens of the League, Dawn and Urizen due to their associations with farming.
These weapons were among the first weapons crafted by the Imperial Orc artisans after they joined the Empire, many of whom were familiar with similar tools from their time in the mines, or working the farms. They have remained a popular choice, especially with those Orcs who prefer to spend their time slaughtering their barbarian cousins rather than embracing the strict discipline of the Imperial armies.
Rules
- Form: Weapon. Takes the form of a great weapon. You must be wielding this weapon to use its magical properties.
- Requirement: You must have the Weapon Master skill to bond to this item.
- Effect: Once per day you may call IMPALE with this two-handed weapon.
- Materials: Crafting a Reaving Mattock requires seven ingots of tempest jade. It takes one month to make one of these items.
