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Thread Rank One
Key Knowledge: The owner must learn the item’s Name.
Effect: The lance is Damage Step 7. It becomes immune to damage from fire and from the effects of spells or abilities that damage it. This latter property also keeps the lance from splintering when leveled against an opponent when making Charging Attacks.

Thread Rank Two
Effect: The owner gains a +1 bonus to Initiative tests.

Thread Rank Three
Key Knowledge: The owner must learn the Name of the lance’s creator.
Effect: The owner gains +1 rank to Sure Mount. The lance becomes extremely resilient; tremendous force can bend, but not break, it. Even the strength of a dragon twisting the lance in its talons cannot harm the lance.

Thread Rank Four
Effect: The lance is Damage Step 8.

Thread Rank Five
Key Knowledge: The owner must learn what type of wood the lance haft is constructed from and where it was grown.
Effect: The tip of the lance can become glowing, red-hot. For 1 Strain, the owner rolls a bonus Step 3/D4 Flame die on the next Damage test.

Thread Rank Six
Effect: The owner can use the following special maneuver:
On the Hook (Owner, Melee Attack): The owner can spend an additional success on an Attack test against an opponent who is not significantly larger than themselves to cause a Knockdown test against the target with a Difficulty Number equal to the Damage dealt.

Thread Rank One
Key Knowledge: The owner must learn the item’s Name (Rok Tak Mar).
Effect: The shield’s initiative penalty improves to -1.

Thread Rank Two
Effect: When the wielder roars, the lion on the shield roars with them. The wielder gains +1 rank of Battle Shout.

Thread Rank Three
Key Knowledge: The owner must learn who first bore the shield (Mirka Baso).
Effect: The shield’s initiative penalty improves to 0.

Thread Rank Four
Effect: The wielder gains the Hear me Roar ability. As a simple action, the wielder may spend 1 strain to gain +2 to a close combat attack test against a target they have successfully Battle Shouted.

Thread Rank Five
Key Knowledge: The owner must learn what battlefield the shield first graced.
Deed: The owner must go to that battlefield and hold a memorial for Mirka Baso.
Effect: The lion on the shield roars in support of courage. The wielder may use a free action to spend 1 strain for a +3 bonus to a test to throw off the effects of fear.

Thread Rank Six
Effect: Hear me Roar now adds +2 to the damage test, as well.