'One of the ancient Erdtree incantations. Creates a mighty horn on the caster's shoulder to gore foes from a low stance. Charging allows the caster to barrel into foes before delivering the final attack. This is a manifestation of the Erdtree's primal vital energies—an aspect of the primordial crucible, where all life was once blended together.' The Aspects of the Crucible are the canon's oldest school of incantations, older than the Golden Order, older even than the doctrinal Erdtree faith. They are not magic in the technological glintstone sense ; they are bodily reaffirmations of the Crucible itself, the primordial Erdtree-state in which all forms of life co-existed undifferentiated. To cast an Aspect is to grow a fragment of that older body for the duration of a swing.

'One of the ancient Erdtree incantations. Creates a supple tail that sweeps through foes before the caster. Charging enhances potency. This is a manifestation of the Erdtree's primal vital energies—an aspect of the primordial crucible, where all life was once blended together.' The Aspects' liturgy was preserved by the Crucible Knights, by the misshapen Tree Sentinels who later inherited the Knights' role, and by the few Erdtree priests who remembered what the Order's later orthodoxy preferred to forget. The Tarnished may learn the canon's four full Aspects, Horn, Tail, Breath, and the rarer Wings, and use them as if the body they cast on were briefly the body of a Crucible-era ancestor. The horn gores. The tail sweeps. The breath burns. Each is a small act of remembrance for what the Erdtree's pruning unmade.

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Item / MiscAspects of the Crucible: Horns

One of the ancient Erdtree incantations. Creates a mighty horn on the caster's shoulder to gore foes from a low stance. Charging allows the caster to barrel into foes before delivering the final attack. This is a manifestation of the Erdtree's primal vital energies—an aspect of the primordial crucible, where all life was once blended together.

Item / MiscAspects of the Crucible: Tail

One of the ancient Erdtree incantations. Creates a supple tail that sweeps through foes before the caster. Charging enhances potency. This is a manifestation of the Erdtree's primal vital energies—an aspect of the primordial crucible, where all life was once blended together.