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== Merits ==

<br />Languages 3: Riverspeak(n), Low Realm, Old Realm, Skytongue.
<br />Artifact 3: '''A Leaf of Szoreny''' (3-dot Starmetal, Chalcanth, and Vitriol Skycutter)
*This hard-to-observe skycutter is a jagged, mirror-shined blade with handles of eerily clear leather, that drips a vitriol which seems to gather and stifle color. Barely perceptible on the flat of the blades, except in guttering twilight, the harsh light of Ligier, or certain alchemical preparations, sutras of the  Broken-Winged Crane flow across the blade.  Forged in repayment of an ancient favor by Avuela, it is at its core a genuine leaf of the Silver Forest, layered over with moonsilver and the essence of four and fourty Agata slain in their roosts in Szoreny's root-boughs.  The glassy core of the handle is denatured firmin-needle, and the nigh-invisble leather wrap is tanned from the hide of one of Ahlat's sacred bulls, bleached of all color before death under the harsh light of Ligier and the shadow-song of Erembour.  Bound to the Leaf is a simple scabbard of impossibly black boar-hide, which smoothly admits the blade despite the jagged shape that should tear it apart.
*Until recently, it was a sacred relic to a hidden cult of Ca'ar-Iqqesh, known in modern days as the Harvest of Twisted Seed, but in the first age bearing the epithet Worm Within the Wires.  How it came to be in possession of the mortal cultists of a second-circle demon, when it had originally been granted to Kagami, the City of Mirrors, is unknown.  Ca'ar-Iqqesh is not even one of Kagami's souls; it instead is the progeny of Bostvade, the Quicksilver Highway.

*A Leaf of Szoreny mostly uses Spring Razor's evocations and stats other than being a Skycutter instead of a Daiklave, and may have additional powers of stealth. It is resonant with any being to which Moonsilver or Vitriol are resonant (Solar, Lunar, Infernal, any sort of Akuma, or demon).  A character resonant with the blade who attunes to A Leaf of Szoreny gains Howling Lotus Strike at no cost. The Leaf of Szoreny boasts two hearthstone sockets hidden by illusion among its mirrored facets.
*'''Evocations'''
**>Howling Lotus Strike (Spring Razor 620)
**>Venom-Intensifying Stroke (Spring Razor 620)
<br />Artifact 3: '''Belt of Shadow Walking''' (page 602)
*All stealth rolls at +3
*10m to turn into living shadow for 1 scene
**Pass through tiny cracks
**Diff 2 to notice in direct light, otherwise invisible
**Standard immaterial advantages and disadvantages while in shadow form
**Can transform worn/carried items but not other beings
<br />Familiar 1: '''Piq''' the albino mink
<br />Contacts 3: '''Immaculate Order''' - monks, missionaries, etc