Type: Relic Weapon
Rank: Forbidden
Range: N/A
Chakra: N/A
Damage: 80
Description: The Sanguine Maw is a two-handed and double-edged axe crafted from Tiamat’s ivory bones. At the base of the grip is a single crystalline orb flickering with black and white energies representative of a fully powered weapon core. The axe is bound to the Boar seal and can be summoned to the user or sealed passively at their discretion. When wielded with two hands the user can, at the cost of a move, swing the axe to inflict 80 damage.
Intrinsic Traits:
Sanguine Affinity (I-III): Fortifies the user’s vitality, enhancing their health by an additional 20/40/60 points. (II)
Roiling Blood (I-III): The intensity of battle augments the user’s power. Increases all damage by 10/15/20% of Health Points missing from biography’s maximum Health, up to a maximum of 40. (II)
Fortified Anatomy (I-III): Enhanced physical durability confers the user a passive damage reduction to physical-based techniques. Reduces physical damage taken by 10/20/30 points. (II)
Exsanguination (I-II): Exsanguination is a devastating ability that combines the power of Roiling Blood with the user’s own overwhelming life force, augmented by the Sanguine Maw. The ability manifests on the Maw as blood, a physical representation of the user’s own lost health. When unleashed it forms a crescent blood wave, launched at the speed of twice an S-Rank Water Release technique and neutral to all techniques it clashes with. It has a long-range reach. The damage it inflicts is correlated to 125%/150% of Health Points currently missing. Tier II Exsanguination passively affords the user a 50% reduction to all effects of Health Fatigue. This passive is not active when Exsanguination is on cooldown. Can be used twice per battle, once every ten turns. (I)
Blood Brawler
A warrior born in blood and battle. Alters the appearance of Sanguine Maw into that of a one-handed axe, allowing its swings to be performed with a single hand.
Sanguinary (B-Rank, active): A skill that enhances the benefit conferred by Fortified Anatomy, exchanging its passive benefit for a significantly increased physical damage reduction. The drawback is that it increases the damage intake of Spiritual-based techniques by 50%. This ability lasts for three turns and reduces physical damage by 30/50/80. Can be used twice per battle, once every three turns. While on cooldown the effects of Fortified Anatomy remain inert.
Bloodied Veteran (A-Rank, passive): Passively strengthens Roiling Blood, increasing its damage enhancement to 30/40/50% of the user’s missing Health Points in exchange for it only being applied to Taijutsu and Bukijutsu. Cannot be applied to elemental Taijutsu.
Reborn in Blood (S-Rank, passive): When the user’s Health Points fall to zero they will passively gain a single point of health back, allowing them to continue fighting. Can be activated once per arc.
Tunnel Vision (S-Rank, active): For a moment the user is able to ignore the effects of Health Fatigue and pain entirely, becoming an unrelenting scourge. This technique lasts for two turns or until an enemy is not within short-range of the user. Can be activated twice per battle.
Blood Render (F-Rank, active): Converts Exsanguination into a devastating close-quarters ability. The technique remains the same with the exception of the blood forming on the axe and remaining on it, unleashed in short-range in a massive explosion of blood. Increases damage done to 175%/250% of the user’s missing Health Points.
Scarlet Virulence
A bloodborne plague spread from user to foe. Alters the appearance of the Sanguine Maw into a red and black two-handed axe dripping blood from its edges.
Vile Disease (B-Rank, passive): A virus born from the user’s blood. The user is immune to the effects of Vile Disease. The disease is released from the Sanguine Maw through its techniques and swings, most notably the blood that drips from its edges passively. The disease infects through a single moment of contact, inflicting 20 damage per turn indefinitely until cured with an S-Rank Medical Ninjutsu or A-Rank Yang/Utu technique.
Wave of Blood (A-Rank, active): A technique that produces waves and streams of blood from the Sanguine Maw, inflicting 60 damage and passively applying Vile Disease to any living target it touches. Costs the user 20 Health Points to activate.
Unholy Empowerment (S-Rank, passive): Converts the damage bonus of Roiling Blood into a powerful boon toward the user’s Scarlet Virulence abilities, and other techniques that manipulate their blood. Increases the damage bonus to 30/35/40% of missing Health Points.
Blood Familiar (S-Rank, active): Forms a familiar from the user’s blood, granting it 200 Health Points at the cost of 50. The familiar moves at a base speed of 17 and is able to use Vile Disease, Wave of Blood, and Exsanguination. Its Taijutsu inflicts 80 damage at the cost of a move, increased by 20 points of damage for every 20 points of Health lost.
Vector of Infection (F-Rank, passive): A passive augmentation to Vile Disease, increasing the damage it deals by an additional 20 points. It also saps the strength and agility of the victim, reducing their speed by 70% of its base and causing the Vile Disease to spread each turn to any other living target within 20 meters of their position, with the only exception being the user.
Endless Devourer
Consume the life of your foes. Alters the appearance of the Sanguine Maw into two one-handed axes.
The Butcher (B-Rank, passive): The user’s Bukijutsu with the Sanguine Maw siphons the life of the target they strike, whether the damage is inflicted or not. Each strike siphons 5% of the base damage of the technique used, unless it is evaded outright.
Empowered through War (A-Rank, passive): Whenever the user gains excess healing through The Butcher they activate Empowered through War, increasing their speed by 2.0x their base and all damage they do by 20. Lasts for two turns or until the user’s Health Points fall from their maximum.
Open Wounds (S-Rank, passive): When an opponent falls below 20% of their maximum health they will gain an Open Wound, causing them to bleed 10 Health per turn that can only be stopped when they fully heal themselves again. This bleed increases in potency to 20 and 30 points per turn when their health falls below 50 and 80% of their maximum health respectively.
Consumption (S-Rank, passive): A passive technique that accumulates any excess healing acquired through The Butcher. Excess healing is defined as any healing that goes beyond the user’s maximum health capacity. This healing is stored, up to 80, and can be added to Taijutsu or Bukijutsu technique as a boost to its damage, including Exsanguination.
Extinguish (F-Rank, active): Activated within the same timeframe as Exsanguination, causing any damage it inflicts to increase the rate of The Butcher from 5% to 15%.