Nord Axe

Nord Axe

A finely detailed axe, for finely cutting down your enemies.
Type	Axe
Damage	176 Slash 90 Chop
Stamina	16 primary, 28 secondary
Block	66 block armour 20 block force 2x parry bonus
Weight	2
Durability	400
Crafting Station	Frost Foundry
Station Level	4 (Black Forge)
Crafting Materials	1x Cast: Nord Axe 5x Liquid Frost
Biome	Deep North
Spawn ID	`spawn AxeGold`

Nord Axe is the one-handed axe of the Deep North. It deals 176 slash and 90 chop, so it fells trees as well as it fights. Instead of crafting it outright at a forge, you pour a cast around a mould found in the biome and then harden it in a Frost Foundry.

How to Craft

You make it in a Frost Foundry from:

1x Cast: Nord Axe: poured at a level 4 Black Forge from Bloodgold, Timberwood and its mould.
5x Liquid Frost: frozen down from Ice in a Frigid Kiln.

Name	Image	Biome	Crafting Station	Spawn ID
Cast: Nord Axe		Deep North	Black Forge	`spawn AxeGoldUncooked`
Liquid Frost		Deep North	Frigid Kiln	`spawn FrozenFuel`

Mould

You find the Mould: Nord Axe in the Deep North:

It drops from the trash piles you smash in the Winding Tunnels.
It lies in the buried chests at Memorial Sites.
It sits on the weapon stands on the last floor of Mörkhalla.
It turns up in the barrels of Abandoned Villages.

When to Use It

This is an end-game weapon: you can only progress through the Deep North once Fader is dead.

Upgrades

You can upgrade it twice at the Black Forge. Each step needs the station one level higher than the last: the first costs the per-level amount and the second costs twice that. Quality 4 would cost four times the per-level amount, but it needs a level 7 Black Forge, above the forge's current maximum of 6, so that row is not yet available.

Quality	Crafting Station	Slash	Chop	Durability	Resources
1	Frost Foundry	176	90	400	1x Cast: Nord Axe 5x Liquid Frost
2	Black Forge (Level 5)	186	93	450	10x Bloodgold 5x Timberwood
3	Black Forge (Level 6)	196	96	500	20x Bloodgold 10x Timberwood
4	Black Forge (Level 7, not yet available)	206	99	550	40x Bloodgold 20x Timberwood

Variants

Weapon	Damage	Elemental Damage	Essence	Spawn ID
Nord Axe	176 Slash	-	Base weapon	`spawn AxeGold`
Frostfire Axe	144 Slash	12 Fire, 88 Frost	Frostfire Essence	`spawn AxeGold_FrostFire`
Thunderblood Axe	186 Slash	45 Lightning	Thunderblood Essence	`spawn AxeGold_BloodLightning`

Properties

The primary attack is a three-hit combo, with the last hit dealing double damage. The secondary is a slow overhead chop that also reaches tree stumps too low for a normal swing.

It blocks with 66 armour and parries at 2x.

It gives -5% movement speed while it is in your hands.

At quality 1 it deals 176 slash damage, 176 in all. Jotun Bane, the hardest-hitting weapon of its kind before the Deep North, deals 120 at quality 1, so the Nord Axe hits 47% harder. Each upgrade adds 10 slash, which takes it to 196 slash, 196 in all, at quality 3.

A primary attack costs 16 stamina and the secondary costs 28. Its hits knock enemies back with a force of 60.

It weighs 2 and has 400 durability, rising to 500 at quality 3.

It blocks with 66 armour, or 132 on a well-timed parry at 2x. Blocking a melee attack knocks the attacker back with a block force of up to 20.

Against the creatures of the Deep North, slash deals full damage to Elakings, the Eyeless One, Deep North Greydwarves and their Shamans, Skeletons, Hexen, Krigen, Captive Fulings, Imprisoned Dvergr and Kall Fimbulbringer. It deals reduced damage to Barka, Fallen Warriors, Gammeltrolls, Shapeless and Tiny Pulps and Moose.