Exodite Dragon Masters

The mythic weapons after which moonblades are named were said to sing louder with every soul thread they severed. Some Clanblades emulate this haunting dirge, surging from prey to prey with the screams and ar terial sprays of their foes ever in their wake.

Those Clanblades fated to endure the deadliest trials master their control of the scaleshield’s energies. They become skilled in imbuing their own psychic gifts through its haptic controls, projecting a warding nimbus of empyric energy that can cast aside what should be the most grievous of wounds.

With preternatural reactions and expert tilts of their scaleshield, the Clanblade is capable of angling the refracted energy of an honourless foe’s shots right back at them.

It is the Clanblade’s ritual role amongst their triad to lead the charge into their prey. The most storied exemplars hit their targets like a celestial lance, speed itself honed as much as any weapon in their arsenal.

Clanblades sharpen their martial skills by hunting some of the most dangerous dragons. These are creatures of such speed and strength that only those with reactions swift enough to blunt and deflect their first strike ever survive the encounter.

Those who think to outmanoeuvre hunting groups of Dragon Masters are rapidly tracked down by the triads’ exceptionally dexterous marksmen. Leystalkers unlimber, load, aim and fire their long rifles in single, graceful movements on the move, already seeking out their next target before the first victim falls.

Leystalkers are constantly on the move. They scout the triad’s hunting ground, seek the foe’s position and test their strengths, all while slipping through the enemy’s clutches again and again. Their skills have led a number of the Exodites' foes to believe them some kind of insubstantial spirit. While the enemy's paranoia grows, a Leystalker is already drawing a bead on them from yet another unexpected angle.

Some Leystalkers read hidden paths in a world’s ley lines for more than themselves. They trace the route of a precision shot so that it lances through gusting fumes and lashing vegetation, whispering safely past allies and into the most vulnerable spot of a foe’s defences.

Where lines of power converge – whether the vivid leys of an Exodite world or the muted energies of natural flows – Leystalkers can access sensory perceptions of incredible breadth and acuity. Few enemies can approach such a site held by a Leystalker without detection.

Masters of merging with their environment and invoking the cloaking energies of hidden ley lines, Leystalkers can fade from the scrutiny of those attempting to hunt them as if mantling themselves in a supernatural gloaming.

A keening lament emitted by a Stonesinger signals their abhorrence of the foe. It rises in a reverberating wail until the air around the enemy and the ground beneath them shudder. Those without the agility to retain their footing risk being claimed by sudden crevasses, struck by tumbling rocks or mired in viscous flows of formerly solid matter.

The Stonesinger weaves a psychic skirl of purification. Toxins are purged and anguish is soothed as the longlost Maiden Moon is invoked.

Quickening the slow rhythms of plant life, unnaturally motile vines and roots burst forth, marking sites as under the Stonesinger’s dominance.

With swirling zephyrs, the psyker blurs their allies’ forms to shield them.

A Stonesinger’s eldritch gesture can command eruptions of rocky shards or liquefy once solid ground to engulf the foe.

Dragon Masters are superior mounted marksmen. At high speed, they intuitively exploit slivers of calm amidst their drakesteeds’ gait to deliver pinpoint shots into stunned foes.

In rapid hit-and-run lunges or daring thrusts through enemy lines, the poise and balance of Exodites and their dragons at speed are legendary.

Dragon Masters on the hunt are frighteningly evasive predators. The expert riders, as well as their reptilian mounts and hunting beasts, weave and coil to elude the foe’s attacks.

Drakesteeds are large and ferocious beasts, utterly deadly when their slashing talons and rending fangs are magnified by crushing impact.

Dragon Masters have endured long lives of gruelling trials. Their deep reserves of spiritual resilience harden them against many hurts.

The preternatural agility and corded muscles of drakesteeds enable them to rapidly reposition in a single, nimble motion.

With the scent of blood and fear in the air, the Exodites will willingly unleash their carnivorous dragons’ most vicious and feral instincts.

Dragon Masters’ command of their drakesteeds is paired with the exceptional dexterity and athleticism of their own species. In defence of their clan’s future, Dragon Masters can perform incredible feats of manoeuvre while surging through hostile territory.

These unique suits of mesh armour incorporate the glittering, crystalline scales of elder dragons and can withstand even esoteric assaults.

Potent talismans may invoke celestial myths, bear the blessings of clan lords, or carry arcane technology and psychic sigils. Such tokens instil a resolve to fight for the clan with exquisite grace and finesse.

Exceptionally rare crystals from the hardest to reach maiden worlds focus the shots of the Exodites’ laser weaponry into searing beams.

Spirit stones carrying the souls of a former triad are priceless artefacts whose occupants provide wisdom to their living peers. Should the bearer of such treasures fall in battle, their comrades fight all the harder to recover their stone and those of the long departed. Such a collection of the clan’s most powerful souls cannot be allowed to slip into the enemy’s profane clutches.