CPAC Items, Histories and Information

The following is a list of several of the Items featured in the CPAC Story and Their History

## Unique Items

### The Grandmaster's Katana

During the First Great War, the leaders of the four allied nations gathered in a Laboratory in the Green territory. Their they found the body of the original Praxis-6, it was from this body that the Grandmaster's Katana was forged. At the meeting the first members of the Night Warriors laid claim to the right arm and metallic brain of the deceased Praxis, severing it off and returning it to their new home in the mountains.

The greatest blacksmiths and weapons experts of the new nation spent days and even weeks forging and reworking the arm's metal into a blade, boiling the arm and the brain in the same cauldron. When the attempts to forge the weapon failed the first, and superstitious, Grandmaster of the Night Warriors performed a blood ritual as he believed a bond was required between man and blade in order for the metal to remain strong. The Grandmaster held his arm over the cauldron of molten metal, he then cut his palm open with one of his daggers, letting the warm blood drip into the cauldron and intertwine with the metal.

After this the bonding process mysteriously became far easier, with the blood sacrifice seemingly allowing for the metal to be sustained in one form. When the metal finally cooled and held together, a katana was crafted, the forger's presented it to the Grandmaster who happily took it as his own blade. The Grandmaster went on to use this katana in battle with the Sentinel armies, soon discovering that the blade had the incredible ability to not only kill Praxis Sentinels, but also to unleash a burst of energy capable of destroying any surrounding sentinels within a large radius of the blade.

The blade has been passed down from Grandmaster to Grandmaster for centuries, with the Night Warriors believing that the souls of the deceased Grandmaster's all live inside the blade, increasing the strength, wisdom and futility of it's user.

The current holder of the blade is Cyclone Stabryla.

### The Reaper's Staff

In the closing days of the First Great War, an epic battle was waged by the Green and Red Kingdoms against the Sentinel forces led by Praxis Eight, who were still licking their wounds from the Battle of Tiger's Keep. The battle lasted for several days, taking place on the banks of the Riotti River. The Green and Blue forces were able to trap the Sentinels on either side of the river, surrounding them and mowing them down with relative ease due to the recent discovery of Sentfire-Steel Swords.

The battle came to an end when Clover-King Fortuna engaged Praxis Eight in direct combat. After a hefty battle along the river bank, which led to both warriors becoming heavily wounded, King Fortuna used his remaining strength to plunge the blade of his new Sentfire Sword into the torso of Praxis Eight. The Praxis Sentinel immediately collapsed dead, as did the Clover King.

Following the battle the Red Kingdom, recalling the creation of the Grandmaster's Katana, quickly secured the body of the dead Praxis and transported it to a team of their finest alchemists in their capital. The Alchemists utilised every remaining part of the Praxis' body, from it's limbs, it's blood and even it's brain tissue. The team grew especially curious of a small spherical organ, no larger than a tangerine, located toward the top of the Praxis' spine . Eventually they came to the conclusion that the small spherical organ was linked to the ability shared by all Praxis Sentinels, the ability to control the movements and even minds of their lower troops at will.

After around a month of experimentation the Alchemists, working with a team of skilled blacksmiths, created the Reaper's Staff. The Staff gave it's wielder the ability to control the minds of Sentinels, even Praxis-Sentinels, and seemed to be a weapon that could end the war and the Sentinel race overnight. However, when the Prince of the Red Kingdom decided to wield the Staff into battle, at first it worked perfectly at turning the Sentinels on each other and shutting down the brains of individual Sentinels. However his first attempt to harness it's ability on a grand-scale caused a great tragedy to unfold.

It turned out that the Staff did not only have the capability to control the minds of Sentinels, but also humans. Without realising that the staff had also accessed and infiltrated the minds of his troops, the Red Prince attempted to use the staff to shut down the brains of each Sentinel on the battlefield with a single attack. Although being largely successful at fulfilling it's goal to wipe out the Sentinel forces, the Staff also shut down the brains of every human troop on the battlefield within a 40 mile radius, killing them instantaneously. The Red Prince was also knocked unconscious by the incredibly powerful attack he had dealt, and suffered permanent brain damage.

The Red King, after seeing the tragedy that occurred on the battlefield, had the Staff locked away in a secure vault beneath his castle, only to be used as an absolute last resort. The Red Prince later awoke from his coma, though he could only speak in an ancient Sentinel language.

No one knows what happened to the Staff after the Colour Wars, many Myths and Legends talk of how it disappeared. The one most commonly accepted by historians is that after several generations had passed the last Red King ordered the Spear to be transported off to a hidden vault somewhere in his kingdom, before the nation became the RR and rejected the rule of the newly founded ACP. This would seem to mean that the spear is located in old-RPF territory.

## Weapons

### Sentfire Swords

Sentfire swords are Swords forged from the reworked metal of a Sentinel's body or limb. They hold increased effectiveness against Sentinels compared to normal swords or bullets, and are capable of wounding and often killing Praxis sentinels.