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Favored Blade
Skill type:	Skill
Skill subtype:	Utility
Primary user:	Swordmaster
Requirements:	a weapon
Syntax:	Automatic

Swordmasters, who spend their entire lives in the use of swords, are in a unique position to appreciate the peculiarities of an individual weapon. Favoured blade allows a swordmaster to go beyond one hundred percent with his weapon skill, typically a sword. He will gain improvements with it as any other weapon, though greater peaks of mastery will grow harder and harder as he grows closer to the weapon. While there is in theory no limit to how much there is to learn about an individual weapon, practical considerations usually prevent this from being a reality. Of course, it is difficult to learn more of a blade against an inadequate opponent; no gains will be seen unless the opponent is of equal or greater level to the swordmaster.

The swordmaster's bonus percentage is per-weapon; he can have more than one favoured blade at any given time, but unless he is meticulous, they will all have different bonuses. He may view his progress with his chosen at any time that he is wielding it by using the skills command.

A swordmaster wielding his favoured blade will have a chance to be fully capable in combat even while blinded, proportionally to his skill with this weapon.

See also: Devotion