Veles, the Weapons Master
If learning how to wield a weapon is what you seek, then becoming a Veles is the perfect option. As you learn to become a Veles Master, you should take care in the paths you choose and plan ahead. If you fail to keep your eye on your weapon, you may find it lost.
A Veles is best equipped with the following stats:
- Dressage
- Stamina
- Strength
Rules for Veles Lessons
Please reread the rules on the Cursus Honorum page to ensure your understanding of how these lessons are to be completed.
Please be sure to complete Choosing Your Cursus Honorum before starting these lessons! (Found on the Cursus Honorum Page)
Level One
- As a foal did you enjoy sparring with other foals or did you find it less than enjoyable? Did you fight as often as you could or did you avoid it?
- Requirements: 4 stats.
- To become a weapons master, you need weapon. Right now you don’t have much on hand but maybe a rock or stick will doo for now? Find a first weapon for your Ballator.
- Requirements: 4 stats.
- You come across a Veles taking down a bear. What do you think of them? Their weapons?
- Requirements: 4 stats. A Group Horse or Veles Master must be depicted.
- You’ve come to the realization that you must find a weapon and perhaps a teacher in order to become a Veles master. Where do you decide to go? Do you have aplace or person in mind or are you just hoping to find something?
- Requirements: 5 stats
- In order to become a Weapons Master, there is a test that they must pass. They will be given 3 questions that must be answered.
- Please create a thread in the Cursus Honorum forum using THIS form in order to complete your test.
Prizes for Completing Level One:
- One of the Following: 1x Medium Melanistic Pelt or 1x Medium Albino Pelt
- One of the Following: 1x Leather Horn Cap or 1x Horn Goads
- Steady Hooves
- Gives 5% more damage in fights
Level Two
- On your journey, you come across some ballators who are being harassed by some wild animals. You decide to save them. What do you do?
- Requirements: 4 stats
- A Veles master watched how you took care of the animals and thought you had the skills to become a Veles. What do you take of this Veles. Do you accept their proporal to be your teacher?
- Requirements: 4 stats. A Group Horse or Veles Master must be depicted.
- The first major step to becoming a weapons master is training your body. Holding weapons is straining on your body and even the strongest warriors can have trouble holding a weapon for too long. How do you train your body?
- Requirements: 5 stats.
- You must be light on your feet. In order to do that you must be well-balanced. Do some balance training exercises One suggestion is walking across rocks on a river rapid, but anything goes,
- Requirements: 4 stats.
- For this lesson, please link to a Ballator that your Ballator really wants to fight some day. Is it a highlord, a troubadour, or maybe just some other Ballator? Why this one in particular?
- Please create a thread in the Cursus Honorum forum using THIS form in order to complete your test. Be sure to link to who your ballator wants to fight someday and briefly explain why.
Prizes for Completing Level Two:
- One of the Following: 1x Mouth Guard or 1x Fang Goads
- One of the following: 1x Strength Potion or 1x Intelligence Potion
- Keen Eyesight
- Gives 10% more damage in fights
Level Three
- As a weapons master, you must have some fears. What are these fears? What do you do to get past these fears?
- Requirements: 4 stats
- Now that you have conquered your fears, your teacher believes that you are almost ready to become a master yourself. Your teacher challenges you to spar them.
- Requirements: 5 stats.
- Your teacher is impressedd by your progress and says that to be a weapons master, you must have a weapon suiting of that title. It should be a weapon that represents who you are as a Ballator and weapons master. What does it look like?
- Requirements: 5 stats.
- You are one step closer to becoming a Murmillo master, but there is one last thing you must do in order to prove yourself. Your ballator must hunt down one of the Ancient Kings in Regale’s Glade.
- Requirements: 5 stats
- This prompt can double as a hunt but must follow the rules of the hunting system.
- As your final lesson, you must define what your fighting style is. Do you like fighting head or do you prefer to hang back a bit? What is your preffered weapon?
- Please create a thread in the Cursus Honorum forum using THIS form in order to complete your test. Be sure to describe your fighting style including your weapon of choice.
Prizes for Completing Level Three:
- One of the following: 1x Bloodlust Potion or 1x Battlecry Potion
- One of the following: 1x Ballator Fang or 1x Broken Horn
- Deep Cuts
- Gives 15% more damage in fights
Veles Mastery - Choose Your Specialty
It’s been a long tiring process and youre finally near the end. There’s just one last step you need to take before you’re considered a Master.
Do you choose to go the route of light and follow in the paths of righteousness, giving yourself up for others?
Or do you choose to go the route of darkness and follow in the path of injustice, following only yourself and those like you?
Bonum
To choose the path of light your ballator is choosing to place their faith in Aether and Tyndariai. To demonstrate this, your ballator must craft a Badge of Light. To craft it, you will need the following:
- 1x Medium Albino Pelt
- 1x Leather Horn Cap
- 1x Mouth Guard
- 1x Intelligence Potion
- 1x Battlecry Potion
- 1x Broken Horn
Use this form to turn these items to craft a Badge of Light and officially become an Andabata Bonum Master.
As an Andabata Bonum Master your ballator will get the bonus from Andabta Level 3 as well as:
- Slippery
- 50% chance an attack on them will miss
Malum
To choose the path of darkness your ballator is choosing to place their faith in Hannibal and Ares. To demonstrate this, your ballator must craft a Badge of Darkness. To craft it, you will need the following:
- 1x Medium Melanistic Pelt
- 1x Horn Goads
- 1x Fang Goads
- 1x Strength Potion
- 1x Bloodlust Potion
- 1x Ballator Fang
Use this form to turn these items to craft a Badge of Darkness and officially become an Andabata Malum Master.
As an Andabata Malum Master your ballator will get the following bonus:
- Frenzied Strikes
- 25% increase in damage given
