12/18/2023 0 Comments Spewer wiki![]() ![]() They can be thrown singularly or all at once with great accuracy and speed, Kirei notably able to prepare and throw a single Black Key in 0.3 seconds and perform four separate throws in 0.7 seconds. Those who wield them often hold multiple Black Keys at once in a "fan formation" between the fingers of each hand, and an expert like Kirei Kotomine can wield up to four in one hand. As such, it is said to be a niche weapon favoured only by pious believers, with most Executors preferring to use the Ash Lock instead. ĭespite being a basic weapon of the Holy Church, they are mostly considered to be a symbolic weapon for Executors that not many favor due to the difficulty in learning how to handle them and their weak attack power. With low effectiveness as swords despite their appearance, and their great length, their true usage is exclusively as throwing weapons likened to bullets rather than for swordplay. ![]() The part that looks like a handle is actually the cut-out page of a manuscript: Executors use their own Magical Energy to harden it into the shape of a handle so they can carry it around with them.ĭuring combat, they pour their Magical Energy into it, switching it over into Automatic Baptismal Mode, which just coincidentally happens to look like a blade. But while they may look like blades, they're actually prayers: Sacraments of the Holy Church, created with the lament for the dead litanies, as their base. Weighing one kilo, Black Keys are too thick and oddly-balanced, feeling heavier towards the tip, to use as melee weapons in general, and they seem more like Dirks made into swords or arrows even to someone who does not know of their true nature. They take the form of long and slender rapier-like swords with blades measuring over one meter and extremely short hilts, looking more likely to be used to thrust than slash at the opponent although Hansa Cervantes shows them to be capable of slashing through concrete. Since then, in the Church, Black Keys became an enthusiasts' weapon "used by choice for devoted adherents only". In 1450, with the advent of the printing machine invented by Gutenberg WP, the Black Keys had a slight recovery in their popularity, but unable to compete with the simplicity of guns, they demoted from a main-weapon to a sub-weapon that "you could pass off as having in place of a talisman". As civilization developed, and firearms could be produced, the number of Black Key users started decreasing. However, since they are hard to use, as the years went by they became inadequate in facing the ever strengthening Dead Apostles. īy the 9th century, Black Keys settled into their current form, as the most outstanding Scriptural Weapon, beloved and used widely. Instead of adding on anti-heresy effects by inscribing a weapon with prayers, the groundbreaking idea was to instead turn the scripture itself into a weapon, making it a deadly anti-heresy poison. This was the Scriptural Weapons, of which the Black Key was the first to be created. Īt the time, someone hailed as the pinnacle of swordsmen whilst also a priest proposed a weapon that was "mass-producible, easy to transport, with immediate effectivity that kept casualties to a minimum". However, the Church would bankrupt itself by doing this each and every time. The most effective measure was shutting them into a building or forest, setting it aflame, and burning it until their blood was used up. But in that era, there was no high-firepower weapon capable of eradicating a Dead Apostle's body in a single strike. In 300 A.D., an era said to be when Dead Apostles were the most rampant, turning them back into corpses and reverting them to dust was the Holy Church's mission. ![]()
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