Stellar Sword

The Stellar Sword is a sword in the Castlevania series. It is the blade of the legendary swordsman Maxim Kischine. It is actually comprised of five blades. These blades can be stacked on top of each other to form a single blade, or fanned out to form a star-shaped throwing weapon.
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==Background==
The Stellar Sword was the blade of the legendary swordsman Maxim Kischine, a friend and rival to Juste Belmont. Although Maxim was a formidable warrior, the sword also possessed an innate ability and great strength; it allowed the user to multiply themself, with the summoned shadows instantaneously rending any foe to pieces.
This weapon was one of several famed weapons later awarded to Jonathan Morris by Eric Lecarde, who utilized the inherent properties in the blade to annihilate enemies.
==Game specific information==
===Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance===
This sword is Maxim Kischine's default weapon. In its closed form, it is a sword faster than Juste's Vampire Killer, although not as strong as the whip. Maxim displays several talents with it, the most notable being an attack launching shadows of himself across the screen for massive damage.
Maxim can remove the blades from the sword's sheath and fan it out in its star-shaped open form. This can be used as sub-weapon that is thrown in an arcing path that returns to him like a boomerang (sometimes referred to as a Shuriken).
While he doesn't appear to be using his sword during his Double Spirit attack, its ability of producing duplicates of himself, which the sword would later allow Jonathan Morris to do, suggests that it is somehow related to the sword. In this attack, he creates two spirit duplicates of himself while the sword is sheathed to his back, and the duplicates proceed to attack everything on the screen with flying kicks and punches.
===Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin===
The five blades of the Stellar Sword are configured differently in Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin than in Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance. All blades converge at the tip of the sword and four of them spread out in an umbrella-like configuration around the central blade. This weapon is awarded to Jonathan Morris after completing the "Almighty" quest given by Wind, asking Jonathan to obtain and master every tool of the vampire hunter's arsenal. The Stellar Sword is one of the best sword weapons in the game. Even though it lacks in attack power compared to some of the more damaging weaponry in the game, it does possess the Holy element, which given the tendency of enemies being weak to that element, is an attribute often worth sacrificing said attack power for.
Jonathan is also capable of performing a powerful teleporting attack with the sword, as its Critical Art allows him to simultaneously appear in front of all enemies onscreen and deliver a fast, empowered slash.
==Item Data==
==Gallery==
===Animations===
HOD Stellar Sword.gif|Closed Form from Harmony of Dissonance.
HOD Throwing Star.gif|Open Form from Harmony of Dissonance.
HOD Maxim Special.gif|Double Spirit from Harmony of Dissonance.
POR Stellar Sword.gif|Stellar Sword from Portrait of Ruin.
==Trivia==
*This weapon is called the Stella Sword in Japan. Stella is Latin for "Star".
*In Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance, the weapon can be hacked in the sub-weapon slot for Juste and Simon, though they cannot utilize its attack. If Juste has the star sub-weapon and picks up another sub-weapon, the dropped star visually turns into a High Potion. Collecting this High Potion will make Juste obtain the unusable Star sub-weapon.
**Reversibly, Maxim can use cheats to pick-up sub-weapons but is unable to utilize them except his own star sub-weapon.
Category:Holy Assets
Category:Swords
Category:Harmony of Dissonance Items
Category:Portrait of Ruin Items