Short Blade

Short Blade

	Short Blade
	50 sp
	0 Agility
	ShortBlades

You are skilled with small one-handed knives and blades.

Short Blade is the base skill for the Short Blade skill tree. All daggers use this skill. If a short blade performs a critical hit, it will inflict Bleeding on the target if they are able to bleed.

Skills in the Short Blade skill tree

Skill	Cost	Stat	Prerequisites	Description
Short Blade Expertise	0	0 Agility		You get +1 to hit with short blades. Also, you make primary-hand attacks with short blades as if your quickness were 25% higher.
Jab	100	17 Agility		When you wield a short blade in your offhand, you make offhand attacks twice as often. This bonus applies to organic hands (natural and mutated) but not robotic hands.
Bloodletter	150	17 Agility		Your short blade attacks that penetrate have a 75% chance to cause your opponent to bleed (0-1 damage per turn. toughness save; difficulty 20 + your agility modifier). The opponent saves to stop bleeding each round, and the save difficulty decreases by 1 each round. This effect can stack a number of times equal to 1 plus your agility modifier.
Hobble	150	21 Agility		You make an attack with a short blade in your primary hand, looking for a weak spot in your opponent's armor. If you hit, you penetrate exactly once and hobble them (-50% movespeed for 16-20 rounds).
Pointed Circle	100	23 Agility	Juke	Whenever you juke an opponent while wielding a short blade in your primary hand, you make a free attack. If you have Bloodletter, the attack's chance to cause bleeding is 100%.
Rejoinder	250	25 Agility		Once per turn, when an opponent misses you with a melee attack, there's a 40% chance you make a free attack with a short blade you're wielding.
Shank	250	27 Agility		Activated; cooldown 10 (primary) or 20 (offhand). You make a melee attack with a short blade in your primary hand (preferred) or offhand. If you hit, the attack gets +2 penetration for each negative status effect your opponent suffers from.

Weapons That Use the Short Blade Skill

• bronze dagger
• carbide dagger
• crystalline jile
• crysteel dagger
• desert kris
• filigreed cleaver
• flawless crysteel dagger
• folded carbide dagger
• folded carbide wristblade
• fork-horned helm
• fullerite dagger
• gaslight chisel
• gaslight kris
• iron dagger
• obsidian kris
• steel butcher knife
• steel dagger
• steel kukri
• steel potter's knife
• steel utility knife
• vibro dagger
• zetachrome dagger

Factions That Teach Short Blade

Short Blade 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.

Creatures That Have Short Blade

• Agate Severance Star
• Aoyg-No-Longer, servant of Ptoh in the Cosmic Wood
• cave spider
• chitinous puma
• cloneling
• Dardi
• Eskhind
• giant centipede
• girshling
• glow-wight apotheote
• glow-wight cultist of Agolgut
• glow-wight cultist of Bethsaida
• glow-wight shepherd of Agolgut
• Goshling
• Graftek
• greater voider
• Lulihart, hindren pariah
• mindrone
• Naphtaali stalker
• rimewyk
• scorpiock
• spark tick
• Tau-No-Longer
• trining lamprey
• twinning lamprey
• voider
• Wandering Tau

Trivia

Prior to the Deep Jungle feature arc (2.0.203.18), a variety of "short sword" weapons were available in-game, including the bronze short sword, iron short sword, steel short sword, carbide short sword, folded carbide short sword, and fullerite short sword. For the most part, these weapons were identical to daggers of the same material, but weighed slightly more. The Deep Jungle patch removed short swords from the game, leaving daggers as the primary short blade weapons.