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Event Build: The Aberrant Blade

Tags: #Character Build Archer  #Character Build Warrior  #Character Build Pilgrim  #Race:Redguard  #Rank:Event Mythic  #Hall of Fame Build  #Event:Crossworlds 
  • February 17, 2015

    Only 31 likes? That's a travesty.

    This might be the quintessential Redguard lore build on the site. Absolutely fantastic, I really can't praise it enough.

    *A slight correction. I'm assuming you mean Leki's Ephemeral Feint for the special move. I do love how you're using that in the build though.

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    February 17, 2015

    Absolutely, although to be fair it slipped right under my radar. For a long time I've waited for a Redguard build to fully embrace the Hunding/Musashi connection and I believe this is it.

  • Member
    February 17, 2015

    Wow... Thanks Matt! . Quintessential Redguard lore build!? I just had a tooth pulled, but this praise makes me forget about that lol

    I did mean Leki's Ephemeral Feint; thanks for catching that rather embarrassing slip-up, I'll fix it now. The move really did tie everything together. 

  • Member
    February 17, 2015

    @Phil, thank you! I've been wanting to bring Musashi into Skyrim for so long! I hope it pleases!

  • Member
    February 17, 2015
    Love it! Though I'm a bit confused by your perkspread. Did you take all perks up to the final ones listed or something? I'm afraid I don't really follow it.
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    February 17, 2015

    Thanks Raidriar! Yeah I just listed chosen perks that ended each branch of perk-tree I went down. I wanted to save room, and I figured we are all familiar enough by now with the perk trees that It'd be intuitive. 

    If its really not cutting it, lmk

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    February 17, 2015
    Yeah, just wanted to check.
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    February 17, 2015
    Casey, you have captured the badassness and philosophy of Musashi perfectly, makes me wanna go out and read his writings
  • Member
    February 18, 2015

    Even stockbrokers read it! I've seen an edition tailoring his philosophies to wall-street stuff lol.To save you some searching, I'll point you towards my favorite and most accessible texts if you get the chance:

    1.)A very fine biography, condensing multiple sources 

    2.)One of my fav. Translations of the Five Rings

    3.)A biography and his writings. The Five Rings translation on this one is excellent, and annotated with valuable insight by the author who is a modern practitioner himself. The biographical material is pretty extensive, but I feel its all covered better within the book in link 1. 

    When someone says they wanna learn about Musashi, I love to oblige, so feel free to ask any questions man! I can talk about Musashi 24/7 lol.  (cough*my profile pic*cough) 

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    February 18, 2015
    While looking for names to do a bit of a tweaked playthrough of this, you gave me inspiration to make a build based on another Japanese legend, The One Eyed Dragon