Iron Battle Axe

Iron Battle Axe
Production overview
Manufacturer:	Humanity
Weapon type:	Axe
Impact:	High
Magazine:	Variable
Specifications
Ammunition type:	Solar Light
Damage:	Solar
Range:	Melee ; Short (wave)
Service history
In service:	Iron Lords ; Vanguard
Affiliation:	Saladin Forge ; The Crow ; The Guardian

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A relic from the days of the Iron Lords, the Iron Battle Axe channels energy from an external source through a series of capacitors embedded in the blade. These capacitors enhance Solar Light, allowing the user to trigger focused blasts at their enemies.^[1]

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The Iron Battle Axe is a powerful weapon, signature of the Iron Lords that changed the Dark Age. When Solar Light is channeled within the weapon, the axe amplifies it and enhances it, turning into an instrument of destruction.

Gameplay[edit]

The Iron Battle Axe can be used by the player in the Story Mission The Iron Tomb, in the Archon's Forge, and in the second phase of the Quarantine Patrol mission. The weapon can be swung quickly with a light attack that deals very high damage. The heavy attack button slams the axe into the ground to release a devastating wave of Solar fire. The Iron Battle Axe can run out of energy, losing a great amount of damage, but can be recharged by absorbing fire from nearby braziers.

History[edit]

The weapon has been synonymous with the Iron Lords for their whole existence, but most of its copies were lost after their dissolution. Saladin Forge would keep one as his signature weapon, surviving into the modern age, and others were recovered by Guardians that explored the Plaguelands during the SIVA Crisis.^{[citation needed]}

Lord Saladin would continue to bear his Battle Axe after his return to the city during the Clash of the Chosen, and brought it with himself when he joined the Imperial Cabal.^[2] In this occasion, he also left another Iron Battle Axe to The Crow. The Hunter would in time learn to use it, even bringing it with himself into The Pale Heart to use against the Witness.^[3]

After several excursions across the Plaguelands, the Guardian would breach Bunker WAR-6 to stop Maya Sundaresh from launching and using a Golden Age Warsat to expand the influence of her Echo of Command. Upon breaking open this Warsat, it was discovered it was being powered by something from another timeline. This power source was that of the Quicksilver inside an Iron Battle Axe named Wolfsbane. This weapon would then be claimed by the Guardian.^[4]

Trivia[edit]

The Iron Battle Axe is one of three relics that was added with the Rise of Iron expansion, along with the Shock Cannon and Null Cannon.
The axes from the Twilight Arsenal Super uses the same animations as the Iron Battle Axe for its light attacks.
Crow appears to be able to summon his Iron Battle Axe as one would a Paracausal weapon such as a Golden Gun or a Sentinel Shield as he summons it out of nothing to hold off the Witness's transformation.^[3] This is unlike both versions playable Guardians can use which are either dropped as a Relic or stowed on their backs as with Wolfsbane.
The Iron Battle Axe is the first Relic to become a full fledged weapon with the addition of Wolfsbane.

Gallery[edit]

Crow brandishing his Iron Battle Axe
Wolfsbane, an Iron Battle Axe from a parallel timeline restored and upgraded with Quicksilver
Wolfsbane's Nano-Assault upgrades activated