Oath: Bladeharper

==Description==
Oath: Bladeharper is one of the 16 obtainable Oaths in Deepwoken. It's known for the user's ability to gain extreme proficiency with its slash-based attacks, and the ability to massively buff its offensive means by landing consecutive hits or sacrificing health.
The Oath is a result of the player conducting a Reflection Ritual at the Sky Statues scattered around the Luminant. The user makes a Vow with their own weapon, to spend the rest of their future with their own blade, out of the many futures presented to them during the Reflection Ritual.
==Obtainment==
# The Oath requires a total of 75 Medium Weapon points, or a total of 90 cumulative points allocated throughout any Weapon stats, alongside 25 AGL or STR. The weapon equipped by a player must also not be Fists, else the interaction will not start the Oath quest.
# Interact with one of the numerous Sky Statues located throughout both Luminants. This will transport you to Blade Within.
# Defeat Mind's Reflection (a 1:1 copy of yourself, including weapon, Talents and mantras) to obtain the Oath.
## It will use all mantras you have, not just the ones you have equipped. It's best to get rid of unwanted mantras via Deep Shrines if you're not ready.
## It seems to not have the same mantra modifiers that you may have. For example: Frostdraw's Warden Blades can become bigger using stratus stones but the mirror will have the original size and possibly the original level (not tested).
## The mirror has 3 lives meaning you have to kill it multiple times to get the Oath and its progression. The indicator for each death will be it teleporting back to the middle whilst venting. It ragdolls onto the floor allowing you to execute it after you are done.
## If you manage to deduct a life, you WON'T heal off the kill and it will respawn. Lock in. 
For a more in-depth walkthrough, consider watching this video.
File:SkyStatue.png|Sky Statue near Erisia
File:Sky statue near erisia location.png|Sky statue near Erisia location
File:Sky Statue Etris.png|Sky Statue behind Lord Regent's Manor in Etris
File:Lord Regent Sky Statue Map.png|Lord Regent Sky Statue on map
File:Sky statue 3.png|Sky Statue on a cliff near Songseeker Church
File:Eastern Luminant Statue.png|Songseeker Statue on map
Bladeharper can be reobtained if you Oathbreak it.
== Progression==
The Oath can be progressed through interaction with the different other Sky Statues and defeating Mind's Reflection again with each, up to three times, granting the player up to 2 mantras and corresponding Talents. 
* Obtaining the Oath grants Lithe Step and Palm Strike.
* The second Sky Statue yields Soaring Storm and Untouchable.
* The final Sky statue will give Reveal, Float Like A Butterfly, and Decimate.
==Effects==
Upon obtaining this Oath, two snake bracelets will wrap around your arms.
File:Bladeharper Visual.gif|Bladeharper visual
==Abilities==
*Lithe Step - Passive 
**When Sprinting, roll-cancel and instantly vanish and surge with unmatched speed
*** Makes the player briefly invisible, similar to Rush of Ancients.
*** Lithe Step will not provide immunity frames to your dodge, but grants a noticeable speed boost during it.
File:Lithe Step - Passive.gif
*Palm Strike - Combat Mantra 
** Slice your opponent with your palm. 
** You are slowed down when using this mantra. 
** If True Strength is active, an additional flurry of slashes is created, ascending both you and your target into the air.
File:Palm Strike .gif|Without True Strength
File:Palm Strike True Strength.gif|With True Strength
*Soaring Storm - Passive
**Empower your uppercuts with the way of the blade, after Lithe Stepping,, flourishing, or landing an oath ability.
***Applies to all forms of uppercuts, including Mantras such as Rising Flame, modified Skyshatter Kick, or certain weapon criticals such as the Wraithclaw.
File:Soaring Storm.gif
*Untouchable - Passive
**By landing consecutive hits on your opponent without taking any damage, reveal your True Strength for a short duration. 
*** Upon proccing Untouchable, enter the True Strength state where your uppercuts, air attack, and Oath mantras are empowered.
*** To proc the Talent you must land 5 hits with any weapon, meaning m1s or criticals. Multi-hit criticals like the Curved Blade of Winds 1H crit or the Trident Spear critical will proc the Talent upon 5 hits of the critical landing.
File:Untouchable.gif
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*Reveal - Utility
** Pour your heart out, and reveal your true strength.
*** Toggle On and Off the True Strength state.
****In the True Strength state, you do not need to proc Soaring Storm to access the empowered uppercuts.
*** While in the True Strength state, you passively build up Wither (reduced max HP) on yourself.
*** This takes about 4 SECONDS TO ACTIVATE. Use it wisely, or not at all.
File:Reveal.gif
*Float Like a Butterfly - Passive
**While having True Strength active, cancel your air dash to enter a frenzy of slashes.
**Its movestackeable with any mantra that can be casted mid-air.
**It has a cooldown of 5 seconds.
**Deals 30 Oath and Physical damage.
***Despite Developers and update logs saying that this attack deals "true damage," it actually does Physical and Oath damage, this means that if you have more Physical damage resistance than Oath damage resistance, you'll resist the full damage based off your Physical damage resistance.
**Only accessible when True Strength is active.
File:Float Like A Butterfly.gif
*Decimate - Combat Mantra
**Cut through your opponent. 
**If True Strength is active, this attack will extend to nearby enemies. Fists cannot use this mantra.
**Autogrips players if low enough or knocked.
File:Decimate.gif|Without True Strength
File:Decimate True Strength.gif|With True Strength
== Strategy ==
The mirror is a bot and so it does not come up with tactics and plans before the fight, it simply uses abilities periodically and swings its sword.
Before even fighting the mirror, it is best for you to have some sort of mobility, because the Statues can be quite difficult to get to. (Except for the one behind Lord Regent's palace). Strong Leap and some agility could work.
It is recommended to have mantras for this fight and a high Attunement level as it allows you to use your mantras more often then it will, but do not spam, as it can parry or dodge some moves. Stay calm and use your Ether wisely in order to overwhelm the mirror. If you have played the game for a while then it should take probably a little longer to have the mirror killed.
When fighting the mirror keep in mind that it has all of your Talents and such, but there are times when it can do something that you haven't seen before. The mirror gains the next progression of the Oath whilst fighting it; For example on the second fight they will possess only Soaring Storm and Untouchable when fighting so plan accordingly. 
The mirror parries quite often along with dodging your moves at times, but it does not vent unless it loses a life. It also has a tendency to stay just outside of your range (and in turn you will stay just outside of your mirror's), so use this opportunity to hit it with mantras.
If you still have difficulty fighting it then try switching to a weaker weapon, though this is not recommended as this can slow down your ability to kill the mirror and causes you to rely mostly on your mantras. But on the other hand, this causes the mirror to also be weaker as it also deals less damage but if you are hit too much then it is just better for you to distance yourself and wait for the mirror to make a mistake and fight back.
Finally the most important piece of advice, stay calm, as you would with any and every enemy in the game. Good luck in your fights.
==Trivia== 
*BLADEHARPER ABILITIES DO NOT SUPPORT PVE SCALING.
*The statue in the centre of the Blade Within will be your equipped weapon.
*The Oath bracelets were formerly called "Snakerings" (as viewed from the Dye Packet), which was later changed to "Bladeharper Serpents".
*Its obtainment method is inspired by the way in which Ichigo Kurosaki, the protagonist of BLEACH, obtained his "Bankai" ability.
*The NPC's moveset doesn't change if you die and go back to fight it again. It seems to reuse the AI from Maestro.
*This Oath may be related to Isshin: both are elegant blade-wielding combatants with a snake motif.
*The bracelets may have been inspired by Minos Prime from ULTRAKILL, or Lavos from WARFRAME; both characters are shown wearing snakes/snake-like bracelets around their forearms.
*Currently, this is one of two Oaths where you cannot skip progression with knowledge, the other being Chainwarden.
**This is probably due to the Oath being new and the progression skip hasn't been implemented, or has been fully forgotten about.
*The slashing effects closely resemble the "Cleave" and "Dismantle" abilities of Ryomen Sukuna from Jujutsu Kaisen.
*The animation for Reveal closely resembles Elden Ring's Ash of War Seppuku with both giving a buff in exchange for health, possibly being a reference to the Souls-Borne franchise.
** The animation for Reveal is also quite similar to Dante from the Devil May Cry series stabbing himself to use his Sin Devil Trigger form.
* Decimate can be used with fists if you re-equip the Mantra with a Mantra Table, rejoining will make you unable to use it. (Currently to be fixed, as in: you shouldn't be able to use decimate with fists)
== Gallery ==
File:Bladeharper Dyed Red.png|Bladeharper dyed red
File:Bladeharper Visual With More Light.png|Bladeharper Angled
File:Blade Within.png|Blade Within
==Navigation==
Category:Oaths