You understand the necessity of being adaptable in combat. You tailor your strikes and forms to the foe you face. When you square off against a single opponent, you work to counter its attacks and make swift attacks in answer. When faced with multiple foes, you adopt a more reserved approach, deflecting the strikes as they come in and then using your enemies’ numbers against them when you finally hit back.
Level 3 Enlightened Blade
Attributes Choose two attributes and increase both by 1.
Characteristics Defense +2, Health +5
Stances On your turn, you can use your movement to enter a stance granted by this path but only if you are wearing leather or no armor. You remain in this stance until you enter a different stance granted by this path, you use an action to rush, you leave the stance (not an action), or you become incapacitated.
Dueling Stance While in the Dueling Stance, you make attack rolls for melee attacks with 1 boon if you are adjacent to no more than one creature. In addition, when a creature would attack you, but before the dice are rolled, you can use a triggered action to impose 1 bane on the attack roll.
Horde-Breaker Stance While in the Horde-Breaker Stance, you have a +1 bonus to Defense for each hostile creature that can reach you (maximum +4). In addition, when you attack with a melee weapon and get a failure on the roll, you deal half damage to a different creature you can reach.
Level 6 Enlightened Blade
Characteristics Health +5
Nimble Footwork If you are in the Dueling Stance when a creature in your reach moves away from you, you can use a triggered action to move up to half your Speed. If you are in the Horde-Breaker Stance when a creature moves into your reach, you can use a triggered action to attack that creature with a melee weapon you are wielding, but you make the attack roll with 1 bane and the attack deals half damage.
Level 9 Master Enlightened Blade
Characteristics Health +5
Enlightened Stances While in Dueling Stance, increase the number of boons granted to your attack rolls to 3. While in Horde-Breaker Stance, the maximum bonus to your Defense increases to +6.
Stance to Stance Once per round, when you move at least 2 yards on your turn, you can switch from Dueling Stance to Horde-Breaker Stance or vice versa.