Griffin Steel Sword Sets

The Griffin Steel set of swords is a closely guarded secret of the School of the Griffin built around the premise of growing with the witcher's skill level through the various different experience rankings. The School enchanted their swords as well as their gear to strengthen signs used when wielding a certain amount of the gear and swords.

## Griffin Steel Sword- Base

### Appearance

Featuring a side ring and simple upward-facing quillons, the grip was a simple dark brown, almost black color and the pommel featured four coat of arms style Griffins in the 'rampant' style.

### Characteristics

This sword is made of ordinary steel and was enchanted using a monster eye and monster brain to increase the intensity of a witcher's signs and to make a witcher gain more knowledge and skill when fighting humans and nonhumans.

## Enhanced Griffin Steel Sword

### Appearance

The sword is similar in appear to its base form but features a lighter grip separated halfway down by a metal ring, and the quillons feature a ball an inch away from the ends.

### Characteristics

Using the base sword to build off of, this sword is forged using dark steel and was enchanted further using powdered monster tissue and a monster claw to increase the intensity of a witcher's signs when compared to the base sword but the experience bonus a witcher gains when fighting humans and nonhumans is the same as the base level.

## Superior Griffin Steel Sword

### Appearance

The sword is similar in appearance to its enhanced form but features a darker grip with two additional metal rings, one near the pommel and one near the crossguard and the quillons feature a ring now an inch away from the ends and tipped by a ball. The side ring now features three balls near the center on the outside.

### Characteristics

Using the enhanced sword to build off of, this sword was further reinforced with more dark steel then enchanted with a vial of monster blood and a unit of monster feathers to increase the intensity of a witcher's signs and to make a witcher gain more knowledge and skill when fighting humans and nonhumans, the addition of new ingredients add a strange lucky effect to the blade which results in the sword inflicting higher levels of critical damage when hitting weak points.

## Mastercrafted Griffin Steel Sword

### Appearance

The sword is similar in appearance to its superior form but features a pitch-black grip with metal sections, in three parts. The quillons feature a double ring ending with a ball. It now has a double set of side ring now features three balls one larger near the center on the outside. The fuller now has three fuller sections along the length of the blade.

### Characteristics

This sword has been reinforced with dimeritium, a monster egg, and a siren's vocal cords were enchanted to increase the intensity of a witcher's signs and to make a witcher gain more knowledge and skill when fighting humans and nonhumans, the addition of new ingredients add a strange lucky effect to the blade which results in the sword inflicting higher levels of critical damage when hitting weak points more often.

## Grandmaster Griffin Steel Sword

This sword is only wielded by the Grandmaster or Grandmistress of the School of the Griffin, its design diagram is only known to the Grandmaster Blacksmith/Armorer in Beauclair in the duchy of Toussaint, and later to the personal smith of the Grandmaster in the employ of the School of the Griffin.

### Appearance

The blade now features the gentle waves of a flamberge 3/5th up the blade and is covered in runes 4/5ths up the blade. The crossguard now features clover-like ends.

### Characteristics

This sword has been reinforced with incredibly rare and expensive enriched dimeritium ingots, a monster's heart, and a unit of monster essence enchanting it to increase the intensity of a witcher's signs and to make a witcher gain more knowledge and skill when fighting humans and nonhumans, , the addition of new ingredients add a strange lucky effect to the blade which results in the sword inflicting higher levels of critical damage when hitting weak points more often. Its cutting power is increased making it easier to dismember a target.