Dismember

Skill Tree	Axe
Cost	150 sp
Requirements	21 Strength
Base Cooldown	30
ID	Axe_Dismember

Activated; cooldown 30.
You make an attack with your axe at an adjacent opponent. If you hit and penetrate at least once, you dismember one of their limbs at random and they start bleeding (1-2 damage per turn. toughness save; difficulty 35). Additionally, your axe attacks that penetrate have a percentage chance to dismember: 3% for one-handed axes and 6% for two-handed axes.

The dismember skill grants a passive chance to dismember with axes when landing a penetrating hit on an opponent, as well as an activated ability that does the same. The active ability can only be used with an axe in the primary hand.

This skill works separately to the serrated mod or the dismembering relic powers (glazed/fatecaller), each providing their own chance to dismember. It is worth noting that the weapon mod and the relic powers are slightly different, not requiring their hits to penetrate in order to dismember.

Ability Cooldown

Dismember's cooldown (CD) in rounds depends on the user's willpower (WI) attribute:

WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD
9	41	15	32	21	23	27	14
10	39	16	30	22	21	28	12
11	38	17	29	23	20	29	11
12	36	18	27	24	18	30	9
13	35	19	26	25	17	31	8
14	33	20	24	26	15	32	6

Factions That Teach Dismember

Dismember is not taught by any of Qud's persistent factions. However, procedurally generated factions such as village factions can teach randomly chosen skills as part of their water ritual.