Memories of the Sword

This spell is a part of the Lost Memories spell chain and is found in the Lost Memories rune stone.

The sword is the most studied knowledge in the history of Nor'Ova. More has been written about how to wield one, more generations have spent more hours practicing the art of it, more wars have been fought by people whose entire identity was organized around the mastery of it than any other single discipline. The warrior's knowledge is vast, well documented, and preserved in Memory with the particular richness of something that has been practiced and refined across centuries.

The praeteriamancer reaches through Memory and finds all of it, not one warrior's knowledge but the distilled essence of what warriors have always known, the accumulated expertise of countless lives spent in the study and practice of combat. Every warrior skill flows through them for the duration with the ease of something that has been done so many times by so many people that Memory can reproduce it without effort. The praeteriamancer moves differently while this spell is active. They carry themselves differently. They are, for the duration, someone who knows exactly what to do with a weapon in their hand. When the spell ends that certainty departs, and they are once again someone who is very good at reading the past which, they would note, is a different but equally valuable skill.