Samurai Blade Mastery

General Info

Talent category	Weapon Mastery
Method of purchase	During gameplay or character creation
Personality traits	Honourable

Requirements

Required base stats	Brawn 6+, Grace 6+, Size 6+, Discipline 7+
Required skills	Swords 75+, Polearms 75+, Daggers 50+
Banned traits	Dishonourable

Description

This talent gives you a +25 bonus to your Swords skill when using a katana or wakizashi, a +25 bonus to your Daggers skill when using a tanto and a +25 bonus to your Polearms skill when using a naginata. This bonus will not show up in your score, but is instead added afterwards (meaning that it isn’t counted towards improvement difficulty or skill maximum). Note also that weapons you have the appropriate Mastery for take half damage when they strike other weapons in combat, and have their encumbrance reduced by one.