![]() ![]() This increases to 3 times/day at 3rd level, 4 times/day at 5th, 5 times/day at 7th, and 6 times/day at 9th. ![]() The weapon is enchanced this way for up to a number of rounds equal to the shining blade's level plus his Charisma modifier (if any), but only so long as the shining blade is holding the weapon. Shocking Blade: Twice per day as a standard action, a shining blade can cause a melee weapon he is holding to become a shock weapon, dealing an extra 1d6 points of electricity damage on a successful hit. Level 5: Shocking Blade 4/day, Holy Bladeĭivine Spellcasting: At each even-numbered shining blade level, the character gains new spells per day (and spells known, if applicable) as if he had also gained a level in a divine spellcasting class to which he belonged before adding the prestige class level. Level 1: Shocking Blade 2/day, Spellcasting Progression Weapon Proficiencies: Simple and martial weapons.Īrmor Proficiencies: All armors (light, medium, and heavy) as well as shields (excluding tower shields).Ĭlass Skills: Concentration, Craft Alchemy, Craft Armor, Craft Weapon, Diplomacy, Heal, Lore, Parry, Spellcraft Spellcasting: Able to cast 1st level divine spells. Very few multiclass arcane spellcasters, rogues, or monks feel drawn to the shining blades. Some members of the order believe that a minimum of training as a cleric, combined with the intense martial discipline of the fighter is ideal to achieve the goal the shining blades seek, while others follow a single class exclusively. Most shining blades are clerics or paladins. The shining blades is an order of knights dedicated to prowess in melee combat, which is achieved through prayer, devotion, and asceticism. Those among their deity's followers, both clerics and paladins, who aspire to become weapons in their deity's unending war against evil hope one day to enter the shining blades. This book should be required reading for anyone with an interest in Swift and eighteenth-century Ireland.A Shining Blade is taught a focus on promoting good through the use of armed force. The introduction and notes manage to contribute an understanding of Swift and his world to both specialists and general readers, alike. It brings together, in ways that no previous work does, a vast range of writings on Irish subjects, from pamphlets to broadsides, economic writings, sermons and poems that show Swift's deep involvement with eighteenth-century Ireland's colonial condition and the human consequences it brought. "This splendid volume represents the culmination of the work of an entire generation of Swift scholars, led by the two editors, to re-locate Swift in the Irish world in which he lived and worked for the vast majority of his politically-charged life. To have so substantial a selection of his writings on Ireland and Irish affairs, in prose and verse, intelligently assembled, concisely introduced, and helpfully annotated by two distinguished Swift scholars will prove a considerable boon to students and teachers of Irish writing, postcolonial studies, and English literature alike." - Ian Campbell Ross, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies, Trinity College Dublin "Once considered a classic English writer, Jonathan Swift has in recent years been increasingly read and understood as one of the major figures of Irish - as well as world - literature. ![]() Created for everyday use, Swift s Irish Writings will quickly find its way into the hands of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as into the libraries of18th centuryscholars and Swift enthusiasts." - Sean Shesgreen, Distinguished Research Professor of English Literature, Northern Illinois University and author of The Criers and Hawkers of London and Images of the Outcast: The Urban Poor in the Cries of London The masterful introduction, written in a lucid, forceful style that recalls Swift s own prose, knits the author s verse and prose (some anthologized here for the first time) into a fabric that evokes the Dean as the Anglo-Irish master he is finally recognized to be. All are deftly annotated to allow readers to understand the works historical contexts and to identify contemporary references. The book s contents, forty plus pieces of prose and poetry, are superbly edited to produce texts that are easy to read and faithful to the eighteenth-century editions they are drawn from. "This splendid anthology is a treasure-house of texts illuminating all facets of the Irish Swift andfoundational to understanding the Dean s landscape. ![]()
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