Carian Retaliation

Type

Ashes of War

Default affinity

Magic

FP cost

8 FP

Skill

Carian Retaliation

About this Ash of War

This Ash of War grants an armament the Magic affinity and the following skill:

"Carian Retaliation: Swing the shield to dispel incoming sorceries and incantations, transforming the magic into retaliatory glintblades. Can also be used in the same way as a regular parry."

Usable on small and medium shields.

Pidia's shop in Caria Manor

Liurnia of the Lakes

Starting Site of Grace: Royal Moongazing Grounds

Before you go

• Defeat Loretta to reach the roof approach.

1. Reach the western Liurnia road and follow it north through Kingsrealm Ruins. Strike the illusory wall blocking the road at the northern end, then continue past Iji at Road to the Manor.
2. Ride toward the large manor while avoiding the magical strikes falling along the approach. Activate Main Caria Manor Gate grace at the entrance.
3. Inside, follow the courtyard path northwest toward the building in the far corner. Fingercreepers hide among the plants and beneath the ground; do not stop on a buried hand.
4. Enter the building with the seated spirit and climb its stairs to Manor Lower Level grace.
5. Take the elevated walkways east and continue straight along the main route at the first junction. Spectral soldiers appear along the bridges. Reach the far building and take its lift up to Manor Upper Level.
6. Leave the upper grace, pass the wolves in the garden and climb the main stone stairway toward the Troll Knight and sorcerers.
7. Continue up the stairs beyond the troll and Pages to the large circular courtyard. Defeat Royal Knight Loretta, then activate Royal Moongazing Grounds grace.
8. Leave Loretta's arena into Three Sisters and follow the southern cliff above the manor roofs. Use the visible lower roofs and wooden platforms to descend, then climb down into the room above Manor Lower Level.
9. Speak to Pidia in his upper room and buy Carian Retaliation for 3,000 runes. If his puppets have already killed him, collect his bell bearing and give it to the Twin Maiden Husks to recover his shop.

Notes

• A successful spell catch costs 8 FP and creates three hovering Magic blades. An ordinary melee parry uses no FP, and an empty sweep does not charge you the spell-catch cost.
• It has the same melee parry timing on compatible small and medium shields. A medium shield does not shorten its parry window in the way the basic Parry skill does.
• The active parry window lasts about 0.2 seconds. Some boss attacks need several successful parries before a critical opening, and attacks that cannot be parried remain unsafe to meet with it.
• Each blade has fixed base Magic attack power of 270 and deals 3 stance damage. Intelligence and shield upgrades do not increase that base attack power.
• Shard of Alexander and Spellblade armor improve its Magic skill damage. Magic damage bonuses also apply; a staff's Sorcery Scaling and Graven talismans do not improve a weapon skill.
• The blades do not carry the shield's status or coating. Godfrey Icon does not help because the skill cannot be charged.
• Spell catches and melee parries are different results. A melee parry alone does not create the three blades, and not every projectile can be caught.
• The blades wait for a target in range and then fire. Creating them replaces other active phalanx-style hovering blades, so they do not stack into one large combined phalanx.
• A mistimed parry can give a poor partial block with heavy stamina loss. Do not treat the shield animation as a substitute for a normal guarded block.
• This is the shield skill sold by Pidia, without a staff or memory-slot requirement. Seluvis's sorcery of the same name is a different spell with different damage behavior.
• Compatible weapon classes: Small Shield, Medium Shield. A weapon with a fixed skill cannot use this Ash of War.
• Its default affinity is Magic. The supported choices are Standard, Heavy, Keen, Quality, Magic and Cold; the appropriate whetblade is needed for additional options.