Editing Sae'kes Taelien (section)

== Taelien's usage of the sword ==

After being badly injured in a fight against [[Vaelien]], Aendaryn, the former wielder of the sword, told [[Eratar]] to take care of Aendaryn's son, Taelien, and to give him the Sae'kes when Taelien was ready. Eratar in turn asked some [[Rethri]] friends of his to keep Taelien safe for him and gave them the Sae'kes. Taelien grew up being told that the Sae'kes was his birthright, but without any information about why.

When he was little and not yet allowed to use the sword, he took it anyway while his adoptive parents were sleeping, drew it and destroyed their house on accident due to the swords annihilation aura. In later years he trained to activate as many runes of the sword as he could to compress that aura and as such have better control over the sword. That training helped strengthen the dominion connections in his body. In a fight against [[The Wandering War]] in [[Stealing Sorcery]], he realizes that he can switch the hand with which he holds the sword, first charging some of the runes with one hand, then some with the other, allowing him to activate all seven runes.

Taelien uses [[Metal essence|metal sorcery]] to lock the sword in its scabbard, so that no one except him (or someone else with metal sorcery) can draw it.

Every time that Taelien uses the Sae'kes it leaks some annihilation essence into his body, giving him an aura that annihilates everything around him and a supply of annihilation essence that he can use. The blade's aura does not hurt him despite cutting almost everything else.

That causes Eratar to think that Taelien is the sword's spirit or that they are otherwise connected, which he tells Taelien at the end of [[Defying Destiny]].

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