Elemental Blade (411)

Elemental Blade (411) Mnemonic [ELEMBLADE] Base Duration 20 + (MnE ranks × 3) swings Added Duration None Span Solid Block Offensive Magic - Weapon Enhancement - Enhancement   Subtype Weapon Enhancement  Weapon Enhancement Enchantment, Flares  Enhancement +20  Weapon Requirements Non-Scripted, Non-Flaring  Availability Any normal weapon

Minor Elemental Spells Elemental Defense I (401) Defensive Presence (402) Utility Lock Pick Enhancement (403) Utility Disarm Enhancement (404) Utility Elemental Detection (405) Utility Elemental Defense II (406) Defensive Unlock (407) Utility Disarm (408) Utility Elemental Blast (409) Attack Elemental Wave (410) Attack Elemental Blade (411) Offensive Weapon Deflection (412) Attack Elemental Saturation (413) Attack Elemental Defense III (414) Defensive Elemental Strike (415) Attack Piercing Gaze (416) Utility Elemental Dispel (417) Attack Mana Focus (418) Utility Mass Elemental Defense (419) Defensive Magic Item Creation (420) Utility Elemental Targeting (425) Offensive Elemental Barrier (430) Defensive Major Elemental Wave (435) Attack

Elemental Blade (commonly referred to as "eblade") provides a plain weapon or runestaff with a +20 bonus to enchantment and one of 5 types of elemental flares: air, earth, fire, water, or lightning (see below for identification means).

Weapons and staves must be completely free of most item properties, including other flares and scripts (functional or non-functional). However, Elemental Blade may be cast on master-fletched arrows (which have an innate +5 bonus above the material's bonus), and invar-based items (innate +2 bonus) at the base version of the spell. Weighting on a weapon will reduce the effectiveness of Elemental Blade, including reduction to the AS bonus, flare potency, and/or charges, and any weapon that assesses at heavy weighting or higher will not be able to be ebladed at all. Elemental Blade can be cast on blessed items.

Training in an Elemental Lore specific to a desired flare will allow a caster to eblade enchanted weapons. Furthermore, attuned casters receive the benefits of the flares always matching the caster's attunement (as opposed to receiving a random element with random attunement), and, when properly trained in the corresponding Elemental Lore of that attunement, the flare damage imposed receiving a minor boost to critical weighting.

Duration:

# of swings = 20 + (MnE ranks × 3)

Scroll or magical item:

# of swings = 20 + (applicable Arcane Symbols or MIU ranks × 1.5)

Charges will be depleted on both attacks and successful parries.

Uses of eblade

Eblade is commonly used to easily obtain a weapon with a certain flare in order to use it in hunting grounds that require it. For example, using weapons in the Gossamer Valley requires those weapons to be fire flaring: Two out of three creatures are immune to damage otherwise, and the Ice Elementals on Mount Aenatumgana will freeze non-fire-flaring weapons, causing injuries to your hands.

In a pinch, using ebladed weapons is handy to still have a reasonably enchanted very cheap weapon when hunting risks losing the weapon, e.g. due to enemies that can disarm you.

Removing eblade

There are a few sources that can remove an eblade, which is useful if you're looking for a specific element (such as fire flares for hunting Mount Aenatumgana or Gossamer Valley):

• You can sing Song of Unravelling at it. This will always remove the eblade, and costs 13 mana.
• You can cast any of the 3 dispels at it: Elemental Dispel, Spirit Dispel, or Mental Dispel.
• Certain creatures have a chance to dispel an eblade when you hit them: Glacial morphs, for example.
• Use the weapon until it runs out of charges.

Element Identification

An ebladed weapon will be surrounded by a scintillating (white, brown, red, blue or silver) light. Use the LOOK verb to see this. E.g., LOOK my dagger <The dagger is surrounded by a scintillating red light>. Each color is symbolic of one the five attuneable elements.

Each element has an inherent damage type that can cause associated critical injuries. Casting Elemental Detection (405) at the weapon will give a message specifying the damage type. E.g., <You sense that the dagger has a magical enhancement of its ability to hit, and will deliver intermittent blasts of fire.>

Element	Color	Critical Damage type
Air	White	Vacuum
Earth	Brown	Impact/Vibration
Fire	Red	Fire
Water	Blue	Cold/Ice
Lightning	Silver	Lightning/Electric

Lore Benefit

Training in any Elemental Lore (only one lore is considered) allows Elemental Blade to be cast on enchanted weapons, with otherwise the same restrictions. The threshold of an enchanted weapon that can be ebladed is based on a seed 3 summation per +1 of the enchant.

• If the caster is randomly attuned, the cast will only work if the cast's random element matches with an element that the caster has adequate training for.
• If the caster is attuned to an element they are not appropriately trained for, the caster will have to attune random and depend on trial and error to get the right element.
• If the caster is attuned to an element they are appropriately trained for, the caster will always get the flares desired and the weapon will receive a minor boost to the critical weighting from the flares.

For example, if a caster is fire attuned, but does not have appropriate training in Fire Lore, but does have a high number of Air Lore ranks, they will need to ATTUNE RANDOM, and the weapon will only accept lightning or air flares.

For casters attuned to lightning, it will use their Elemental Lore, Air or Water (which ever is higher) to calculate their respective lore ranks to determine the enchant bonus for which the spell may be used.

Appropriate Elemental Lore ranks	3	7	12	18	25	33	42	52	63	75
Enchant that can be ebladed	+1	+2	+3	+4	+5	+6	+7	+8	+9	+10
Appropriate Elemental Lore ranks	88	102	117	133	150	168	187	207	228	250
Enchant that can be ebladed	+11	+12	+13	+14	+15	+16	+17	+18	+19	+20

Use with Chromatic Circle (502)

Chromatic Circle (502) will cause targets to be surrounded by an element and training in an Elemental Lore will cause targets to incur a DS penalty to successive weapon attacks when the weapon's flare damage type matches the magic element surrounding the target AND the caster has ranks in that lore. Upon activation, the target will remain vulnerable for a duration of 15 seconds OR 2 attacks, whichever comes first (see Chromatic Circle spell page for full lore requirements). This use is of particular interest to war mages.

Alchemy Recipes

Some scintillating prismatic oil
Eastern version	Western version
Add pure oil Add 2 doses of fairy primrose Simmer Add 2 doses of elemental core Boil Add powdered bright bluerock Infuse Chant Elemental Blade (411)	Add pure oil Add 2 doses of fairy primrose Simmer Add 2 doses of elemental core Boil Add powdered green starstone Infuse Chant Elemental Blade (411)

Although the recipe says scintillating prismatic oil, the end result is actually glowing prismatic oil.

Resources

• Blessing and eblading arrows (guide)
• Elemental lore review (saved posts)