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The Storm Strider is undoubtedly one of the greatest and most unusual accomplishments of the Cygnaran Armory’s stormsmiths. At rest, the great machine might be mistaken for a fixed weapon platform—but those who see it moving across the battlefield never forget the sight. A raging electrical storm envelops the machine, blinding those that stare too long as it gathers its voltaic charge. The stormsmiths who operate the metal giant from its open deck move amidst an unending cacophony of lightning strikes and thunderclaps. Crackling electrical discharges constantly arc between the spinning workings of the Storm Strider and its platform until they are unleashed from its lightning cannon.[1]

The stormsmiths of the Cygnaran Armory labored for years to refine the Storm Strider’s electrical generators, storm chambers, and related devices. They built ever-more powerful weaponry and stretched the perceived limitations of the destructive properties of voltaic energy, finally breaking through those expected barriers completely. The lightning cannon was the ultimate result of this increasingly theoretical research: a weapon so powerful and requiring such a massive storm chamber it was initially believed to be unrealistic for battlefield use. The project’s engineers were determined, though, and they soon devised a novel design for a self-propelled mechanikal platform for transporting the weapon. The Storm Strider was born. The Storm Strider is a total weapons system; all the energy it generates can be applied without waste. Although most of this energy is channeled into the powerful lightning cannons, excess voltaic discharges flicker across the body of the machine, charging the very air in its vicinity. This ambient energy has the effect of drastically increasing the accuracy of storm weapons discharged nearby, turning blasts of electrical energy into brilliant eruptions of voltaic fury. Lightning arcs across the earth with every blast to annihilate anything in its path—even near-misses can rip apart those unfortunate enough to be standing near.[1]

The destructive potential of the Storm Strider is matched by its unassailability. Surrounded by a powerful magnetic field and equipped with powerful kinetic accumulators, it transforms hostile fire into additional energy for its own powerful voltaic conductors. Enemies who somehow survive the withering electrical fire find their attacks with sword and mace are to no avail. The scent of ozone fills the air as the tremendous energies of the weapon surge through its attacker, irresistibly pushing them away.