Weaponmastery

Masters of melee weapons, knights with the weaponmastery skill are a force to be reckoned with.

Weaponmasters can select a specialisation based on the weapons they wish to use, either dual cutting, dual blunt, two-handed, or sword and shield.

Dual cutting

Proficient in the use of two cutting weapons, knights with this specialisation use scimitars or battle axes to decimate their foes with damage and venoms.

Abilities in the Dual Cutting Specialisation

Ability	Description
Predict	Predict when your blows will damage their limbs.
Raze	Attack the defences that would keep your weapons out.
Duality	The ability to wield and use two weapons simultaneously.
Lunge	A deep, piercing blow from an adjacent location.
Impale	Sink your blade into an opponent.
Razeslash	First penetrate his defences, then give him the sharp end.
Cleave	Rend your opponent's body in two.
Mastery	Through intense concentration, increase your blade mastery.
Disembowel	Tear the entrails from a target.

Dual blunt

Master of destruction, these specialists obliterate an opponents limbs with flails and morningstars.

Key abilities: Momentum, Whirl, Skullcrush, and Pulp.

Two-handed

Wielding the largest weapons available, these warriors conquer their enemies with bastard swords and warhammers.

Abilities in the Two-handed Specialisation

Ability	Description
Continuation	Shrug off afflictions like the trivialities they are.
Slaughter	Dispense with your opposition.
Overhand	Split their skulls with a mighty blow.
Carve	Carve through your victim's defences.
Splinter	Splinter the defences protecting your opponent.
Perceive	Perceive the state of your opponent.
Underhand	Deliver a devastating rising stroke.
Upset	Bring them down in a tangle of limbs.
Hew	Deliver precision strikes against your opponent's limbs.
Pulverize	Pulp your opponent's limbs with crushing blows.
Focus	Alter your technique.
Cleave	Rend your opponent's body in two.
Skullcrush	Crush their skulls.
Recover	A true knight will die on their feet.
Devastate	Destroy their limbs utterly.
Impale	Sink your blade into an opponent.
Disembowel	Tear the entrails from a target.

Sword and shield

Using their shields for both offence and defence, masters of the sword and shield specialisation are a foe to fear. They are also armed with longswords and broadswords.

Abilities in the Sword and Shield Specialisation

Ability	Description
Rend	Rend the flesh of your foes.
Raze	Remove the defences that would keep your weapons from your foe.
Smash	Deliver a crushing blow with your shield.
Combination	Link your blade and shield attacks into devastating combinations.
Drive	Deny them of breath with a precise strike to the throat.
Slice	Speed is the mark of a true master.
Impale	Pin them to the ground with your blade.
Concuss	Rattle their brain with a mighty blow.
Trip	Send them sprawling.
Club	A brutal display of power.
Cleave	Rend your opponent's body in two.
Dedication	Your dedication to victory can overcome all barriers.
Ferocity	Channel the ferocity of battle.
Strike	Unleash your ferocity against your foe.
Guardbreak	Exploit holes in their guard.
Disembowel	Tear the entrails from a target.

Picking/Changing a specialisation

Picking and changing a specialisation is a simple task:

SPECIALISE IN <specialisation>

If you're already specialised, and wish to change, you can use the above command to change it. There is a fee of one hundred lessons to change a specialisation.