Elven Weaponry - Katana

Description

This mod rework the katana. It's now a unique finesse weapon that you can upgrade with the help of certain old blacksmith's anvil. It growns from common to legendary, earning new powers in each step. As the upgrades are tied to progress in the game, it will feel naturally and you'll have (hopefully!) a weapon in line with your progress.

Upgrading make it powerful (But still, not OP and try to keep game balance). That power comes with a cost (sorry, I like balanced), for each upgrade you need to feed it a unique base game magic item, that will be lost forever. Oh, I should mention that i choose particulary powerful items. It isn't Gale, that can eat anything.

Before people start yelling at me for destroy they'll hard earned rewards, fear not. There's an optional "friendly" file that will upgrade the katana but not destroy the item. The weapon progresion will feels natural all the same, as you still needs to get the item and combine it at the anvil, but it will be free.

And of course, I also add a file that add the items to the tutorial chest. If you install the mod midgame can also use it to get the anvil and the katana version they need to start the progress, if they are no longer available in your game.

To start your journie buy the "Old Katana" from Arron at the grove. It's a shit weapon at the moment.

To improved it look for Giniel's anvil and the neccesary magic item (see location below for the item list). Use combine option with the anvil, place katana in firts slot, item in second and combine.

Very Important warning! Always put katana in firts slot (left) and item on second (right) (see screenshot). If you don't do it that way you may loose your katana, loose your item even with the friendly version and all other kinds of weird results (like duplicate katanas and no items, no improvement at all, use your imagination...)

From 1. 3 main and 1. 2. 1 for friendly this is fixed

From 2. 0 There's new standalone (not upgradable) katanas. They are a bit weaker than the main one, but you won't need to sacrifice items to get them.

Some of them are smaller non versatile light katanas that use shortswords proficiency (see screenshots).

Location

For the initial katana and the anvil:

-Old Katana: Sold by Arron at the grove. A long rest may be needed for it to appear after install the mod.

Note that old katana is tag as unique, so i don't clutter Arron inventory with a useless weapon. If you install the tutorial chest addon the old katana will be at Arron or in the tutorial chest, depending if you firts visit Arron or summon the