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Manablades are a form of magic tool used as a weapon.
General Information
A manablade is a weapon that is sustained and grown by feeding it mana. This can be done by feeding it feystones of defeated feybeasts and feyplants as well as giving it ones own mana or the mana of others.[1]
Nobles providing mana for someone else's mana blade is something that rarely ever happens. While procuring mana from someone else can have great benefits for the blade beyond merely growing it, mana is valued very highly and thus not given unless considerable compensation is provided. Furthermore, there are many risks involved in letting others pour mana into your mana blade.
The potential benefits are growing the blade,[1] gaining additional affinities, and gaining enchantments. A skilled mana wielder can pick specific ones among their own elemental affinities to pass onto the blade, or invoke specific enchantments.[2]
The risks are that if the provider were to pour more mana into the blade than the owner has put into it, it will overwrite ownership to the provider.[1] Furthermore, in case of inexperienced mana users or a lack of concentration, the blade might be enchanted with random effects related to what the person was thinking about while pouring the mana.[2]
Unlike the swords that most nobles use via transforming their schtappe into a blade, manablades are an actual physical object. Their physical core is made to about the length of a short sword or dagger. It will retain this length while sheathed thoughout its existence. Only upon being drawn does the blade elongate to the full length the owner has grown it to.[2]
The first mention of a manablade is when the fighting style of Angelica is mentioned who focusses in physical enhancement and as such uses a manablade since her techniques complement the manablade quite well.[1]
Known Users
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Ascendance of a Bookworm. Part 3 Volume 3. Chapter 12: Angelica and the Coming of Spring
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ascendance of a Bookworm. Part 3 Volume 4. Chapter 6: Angelica's Manablade