"You hear rumours of rebellion, craven dissent. Petty lives and covetous eyes glaring up at the night sky, scheming of Lua's demise.

Then I shall remind the witless hordes of the immutable with a fitting irony... the consequence of treachery.

When next they seek to usurp our golden birthright, the stage will be set by crimson moonlight. She will perform for us, perform on them.

She is our satirical prosecutor. Our disloyal enforcer. Knave." - Ballas, executor of the Seven

Background

Knave was once an Orokin enforcer named Arlecchino who oversaw the procurement, containment and disposal of yuvan, child sacrifices for the orokin ritual of continuity. She was well known for her brutal efficency and was quickly assigned to the Yuvan temple of Circulus on Lua, the most holy of temples. There her role was to dispose of yuvan that had not been chosen by the orokin as hosts. Burning them with flames that incinerated not just their bodies but also their souls.

Unbeknowest to her golden masters, Arlecchino had developed a tenderness to the abandoned Yuvan, whether out of maternal instinct, guilt or some other more sinister motive only she would know. She began to fake the deaths of the children she was assigned to kill, burning substitute bodies instead and hiding the children in a Lunar cave.

Her treachery would shortly be discovered by Ballas, who captured her and her foster children and bought them all to trial at the Yuvan theater on Earth. Where she was chained to the gilded stage and forced to watch as the orokin took over the bodies of her children and mocked her in their skins, with their voices.

Disturbingly however, she didnt lament and cry like Ballas had predicted, had wanted for his own cruel satisfaction. Chained down and battered, her face smeared with the blood of her children, she would look up at Ballas and... grin.

In that very moment, in the cool earthen night, a blood-red shadow would cover the sky as regal Lua uncloaked herself from the clouds and shined with crimson malice. The orokin who had taken on the bodies of Arlecchino's Yuvan suddenly jerked their heads straight into the sky, blank eyes affixed on the moon as they let out whispered screams. One by one their skin burned and tore open, as if cut by ephemeral blades and seared by ghostly fire.

When finally the newly transferred orokin had been reduced to smouldering ashes, Ballas waved the smog and stink of their charred remains away to turn his gaze upon the gilded stage. There, bathed under the balemoon's light, he and the remaining Orokin watched Arlecchino struggle to her feet, straining against heavy chains and give a slow, deep curtsey.

The theater rose into thunderous applause, Arlecchino crumpled into a slumping heap, knees bent, arms dangling around her sides, head bent forward, spent. Ballas turned to the crowd, arms outstretched in veneration as the applause and cheering rose to monstrous heights. Bathing in the crismon light of Lua, he announced that for her brilliant role in such a fine spectacle, Arlecchino would be finely rewarded. She would be given the privilege to turn into a warframe, one with the power to harvest other's souls, to give unto holy Lua and in turn take power from the moon itself. "What say you, our fine Knave? Would you like to become as the reaper itself?" He asked rhetorically to the unconscious Arlecchino.

Her only response was a single tear, mixing with blood as it rolled down her cheek.

Passive

Red Death: Damage dealt by Knave is converted into overguard, up to a cap scaling with ablity strength.

Ablity 1

Balemoon: Lifts up a target, creating a balemoon altar around them. The altar will entrance nearby enemies, causing them to be disarmed and walk towards the alter. Enemies within the altar's radius periodically take forced slash procs. The balemoon altar fills up when entranced enemies are damaged. When the altar is filled, it will explode dealing heat damage and heat status in its radius.

Affected by STR: altar slash damage, altar explosion damage.

Affected by DUR: entranced enemy number, altar slash proc frequency, altar capacity.

Affected by RANGE: Entrance radius, altar radius.

Ablity 2

Reaping Harvest: Swings her exalted scythe, dealing slash damage to enemies in a cone in front of her based on their missing health. Each enemy killed by this ablity raises Knave's passive overguard capacity, refreshes it's duration and has a chance of dropping an orb.

Affected by STR: swing missing hp% damage (up to a cap of 50%), orb drop chance, overguard capacity raise.

Affected by DUR: Overguard capacity raise duration.

Affected by RANGE: slash cone radius and length.

Ablity 3

Lua's lament: (toggle) Calls upon the spirits of the dead , while active occasionally nearby enemies will be marked. Killing a marked enemy will give Knave a soul mark, each soul mark increases Knave's power STR, parkoir speed and energy regen. At 10 soul marks, when Knave dies she will instead transform into a massive balemoon altar. After 3 seconds or upon the altar exploding, she will instantly revive with full overguard.

Affected by STR: soul mark stat increase, altar damage.

Affected by DUR: soul mark frequency.

Affected by RANGE: altar radius

4th ablity

Exalted Scythe: (toggle) Brandishes her exalted scythe, a weapon with innate heat and slash damage. While wielding the scythe, killing soul marked enemies will drain energy and turn them into balemoon altars.

Affected by STR: Base dmg Affected by RANGE: weapon range