Jade Spirit Sword

Jade Spirit Sword
The sword takes the longest to master, but it is the most rewarding of all weapons. Like Chi itself, it combines sharp and gentle aspects, hardness and softness, clarity and illusion. Generations of grandmasters have praised the sword and devoted themselves to passing on the weapons greatest potential to their students. All soon discovered that it is not the arm or the mind that makes the sword great, but the heart. Do not struggle against what comes naturally to you, but live in accordance with it. This style is the culmination of centuries of efforts, the secret to become the true master of the sword – and to let the sword master you. All techniques of this style can only be used while fighting with a sword.

Basic Technique:
1: Sword-Heaven
The sword can be furious or calm, seething or admiring. There is no emotion or concept that cannot be reflected with the swords movements. Like Heaven, it is grand, and encompasses all underneath it.
•Choose any weapon type, with the exception of Paired, Ranged or Unarmed. Until the end of the round your sword adds the characteristics of that type of weapon to its own. This allows you to claim the weapon bonuses of both, and to combine
different types of styles as if it were a special weapon.
Advanced Techniques:

2: Dragon in Flight
Your sword swiftly flies forward, striking at enemies and cutting a path through troubles.
•You have a +5 bonus to Speed. If you have a Passion or Inspiration Hyperactivity and act in accordance with it, you may use your initiative result to Cover Ground.

2: Iron Bows before the Tiger
With a ferocious lunge, the sword pierces through all obstacles like a tiger’s talons through flesh.
•You have a +5 bonus to Damage. If you have a Passion or Inspiration Hyperactivity and act in accordance with it, your opponent doesn’t add his armor to his Chi total if you make a Rippling roll.

2: Snake Hiding in Grass
The deceptive and cold sword lashes out suddenly, hard to predict and impossible to take lightly. Its hidden power can only be gleaned by counting its endless victims!
•You have a +5 bonus to Strike. If you have a Passion or Inspiration Hyperactivity and act in accordance with it, your attack still inflicts one Ripple if it misses by 5 points or less.

2: Soaring Phoenix
The sword dances lightly around the battlefield, brushing aside threats like motes of
dust.
•You have a +5 bonus to Block. If you have a Passion or Inspiration Hyperactivity and act in accordance with it, you may Reply if your
defense exceeds the attack by at least 10 points.

3: Blade of Infinity Strokes
Your attacks fuse together into a single, endless assault that flows like a river.
•You have a Secondary Strike.

3: Flawless Blade
You know your weapon perfectly, like an extension of your own body.
•Reroll an attack roll.

3: Iron Heart Clarity
Fighting is an expression of conflicting desires and ambitions. Warriors reveal their true selves through their actions! Your understanding of blades brings you understanding of their wielders.
•Use this technique after one of your attacks is blocked or you block an attack; it doesn’t matter whether the block is successful or not. The opponent reveals to you her current River and how much Chi she has left, including elemental chi, but not including Corrupt Chi or enlightened chi.

4: Scything Moonlight Cut
Your sword becomes like pale light, a diffuse shining that reaches through the darkness and illuminates the world.
•This attack is an Area Attack. It is automatically selective without the need to Flood a die from the River. If you have a Passion or Inspiration Hyperactivityand act in accordance with it, opponents struck by this attack suffer one additional Ripple.

4: Tenfold Steel Guard
You move your sword so swiftly around you that you are encased in steel at all times, like armor woven from swordplay and chi.
•You have a +15 bonus to Block and a +10 bonus to Toughness.
•If you have a Passion or Inspiration Hyperactivity and act in accordance with it, this technique has round-long duration.

5: Sword-Mindset
The supreme sword and the supreme warrior are not separate beings. Just as the sword followed the guidance of your heart, your heart now follow the guidance of the sword. Harmonious and natural, your power becomes all encompassing!
•Round-long duration. You may spend two Chi per round to extend the technique’s duration another round; you must spend the Chi at the beginning of each new round.
•For the purpose of Jade Spirit Sword techniques, you are considered to be acting in accordance with a Passion hyperactivity. Each round, you may use one second-level Jade Spirit Sword technique which you know at no cost.