Survivor's Epitaph

Survivor's Epitaph
Attributes
Season	14
Type	Hand Cannon
Slot	Kinetic
Ammo	Primary
Rarity	Legendary
Damage Type	Kinetic
Archetype	Precision
Description	"A weapon hides nothing. It is what it is. Whether it wants to be or not." —Saint-14 to Shaxx
Statistics
Impact	78
Range	32
Stability	56
Handling	43
Reload Speed	45
Rounds Per Minute	180
Magazine	12
Zoom	14
Inventory Size	47
Aim Assistance	74
Airborne Effectiveness	10
Recoil	83
Bounce Intensity	17
Bounce Direction	Tends Right

Acquisition
	Complete Crucible matches and earn rank-up packages from Lord Shaxx.
	Crucible Possible drop from match completions.
	Crucible Gear Possible drop.
	Lord Shaxx Focused Decoding.

Survivor's Epitaph PvP Stats

Survivor's Epitaph is a Legendary Hand Cannon.

Perks - Curated Roll

Intrinsic

• Precision Frame - Recoil pattern on this weapon is more predictably vertical. Fires quickly with high accuracy.

Barrel

• Extended Barrel - Weighty barrel extension.
  • Increases range
  • Decreases handling speed
  • Moderately controls recoil

Magazine

• Ricochet Rounds - Rounds ricochet off hard surfaces.
  • Increases Stability.
  • Slightly increases Range.

Trait 1

• Quickdraw - This weapon can be drawn unbelievably fast. Handling is improved.

Trait 2

• Snapshot Sights - Faster time to aim down sights. Stability is increased.

Perks - Random Rolls

Intrinsic

• Precision Frame - Recoil pattern on this weapon is more predictably vertical. Fires quickly with high accuracy.

Possible Barrel

• Arrowhead Brake - Lightly vented barrel.
  • Greatly controls Recoil.
  • Increases Handling Speed.
• Chambered Compensator - Stable barrel attachment.
  • Increases Stability.
  • Improves Recoil Direction.
  • Slightly decreases Handling Speed.
• Corkscrew Rifling - Balanced barrel.
  • Slightly increases Range and Stability.
  • Slightly increases Handling Speed.
• Extended Barrel - Weighty barrel extension.
  • Increases range
  • Decreases handling speed
  • Moderately controls recoil
• Fluted Barrel - Ultra-light barrel.
  • Greatly increases Handling Speed.
  • Slightly increases Stability.
• Full Bore - Barrel optimized for distance.
  • Greatly increases Range.
  • Decreases Stability.
  • Slightly decreases Handling Speed.
• Hammer-Forged Rifling - Durable ranged barrel.
  • Increases Range.
• Polygonal Rifling - Barrel optimized for recoil reduction.
  • Increases Stability.
• Smallbore - Dual strength barrel.
  • Increases Range.
  • Increases Stability.

Possible Magazine

• Extended Mag - This weapon has a greatly increased magazine size, but reloads much slower.
  • Greatly increases magazine size.
  • Greatly decreases Reload Speed.
• Alloy Magazine - Faster Reload when the magazine is empty.
• Appended Mag - This weapon's magazine is built for higher capacity.
  • Increases magazine size.
• Armor-Piercing Rounds - Rounds cause extra damage to shields and overpenetrate targets.
  • Slightly increases Range.
• High-Caliber Rounds - Shots from this weapon knock the target back farther.
  • Slightly increases Range.
• Ricochet Rounds - Rounds ricochet off hard surfaces.
  • Increases Stability.
  • Slightly increases Range.
• Flared Magwell - Optimized for fast reloading.
  • Slightly increases Stability.
  • Greatly increases Reload Speed.
• Light Mag — Improved reload and range.
  • Increases reload speed
  • Slightly increases range

Possible Trait 1

• Tunnel Vision - Reloading after defeating a target greatly increases target acquisition and aim down sight speed for a short duration.
• Heating Up - Final blows with this weapon increase accuracy and stability while improving vertical recoil for a longer duration.
• Firmly Planted - Increased accuracy, stability, and handling when firing while crouched.
• Quickdraw - This weapon can be drawn unbelievably fast. Handling is improved.
• Surplus - Substantially increases handling, reload speed, and stability for each fully charged ability.
• Outlaw - Precision kills greatly decrease reload time.
• Feeding Frenzy - Each rapid kill with this weapon progressively increases reload speed for a short time.
• Ambitious Assassin - Greatly overflows the magazine based on the number of defeated targets before reloading.
• Killing Wind - Final blows grant increased mobility, weapon range, and handling for a short duration.
• Slideshot - Sliding partially reloads this weapon's magazine and temporarily boosts range and stability.
• Subsistence - Defeating targets partially reloads the magazine from reserves with an increased amount of ammo.
• Rapid Hit - Rapid precision hits temporarily increase stability and reload speed.

Possible Trait 2

• Moving Target - Increased movement speed and target acquisition when moving while aiming down sights.
• Adrenaline Junkie - This weapon gains increased damage and handling from final blows with grenades or this weapon.
• Frenzy - Being in combat for an extended time increases damage, handling, and reload for this weapon for an improved duration until you are out of combat.
• Osmosis — Using your grenade ability changes this weapon's damage type to match your subclass until you stow it.
• Eye of the Storm - This weapon becomes more accurate and boosts handling as your health gets lower.
• Snapshot Sights - Faster time to aim down sights. Stability is increased.
• Wellspring - Kills with this weapon generate ability energy. This energy is divided between your uncharged abilities.
• Multikill Clip - Reloading grants increased damage based on the number of rapid kills made beforehand.
• Thresh - Killing combatants with this weapon generates a small amount of Super energy.
• One for All - Hitting three separate targets increases damage for a moderate duration.
• High-Impact Reserves - Rounds at the end of the magazine deal more damage.
• Kill Clip - Reloading after defeating a target grants increased damage for an improved duration.

Origin Trait

• One Quiet Moment - Grants increased reload speed when out of combat.

Lore

"A weapon hides nothing. It is what it is. Whether it wants to be or not." —Saint-14 to Shaxx

To be the first Eliksni to bask in the presence of the Traveler since the Whirlwind was an honor that Mithrax, Kell of House Light, never imagined for himself. As he stood on the Tower walkway below the scar left in the wake of the Almighty, he meditated on the choices in his life that had led to this point. He wondered if there was a unifying thread binding all those events together. But he would have no time to ponder such things.

A shadow crept over Mithrax: broad shoulders, a curling horn. Seeing the stark outline of Lord Shaxx looming on the stairs elicited centuries-old instincts, and it was temperance that kept Mithrax's hands from his weapon.

"I didn't expect to actually find you here," Shaxx said as he continued down the stairs with slow, plodding steps. "Were you there?"

"What?"

Shaxx came to stand beside Mithrax at the railing. "Were you there?" he asked again. This time, he pointed, without looking, to a place on the horizon beyond the Traveler.

Mithrax followed Shaxx's gesture with his eyes. He did not understand.

"The Battle of Six Fronts," Shaxx insisted, with uncharacteristic softness. "Do you know how many Fallen I killed there?"

Mithrax bristled at the question, and he felt that instinctual urge to reach for his weapons again. But the presence of the Traveler and the question that nagged at the back of his mind stayed his hands. "How many?" he asked, not wanting to know the answer.

Shaxx deflated, folded his arms over the railing, and rested his considerable weight against it. "Hundreds," he said quietly. "All of them died afraid."

Mithrax felt Ether mixing with bile in the back of his throat. His limbs trembled, rage burned in his gut, demanding manifestation. But he tempered his anger, sighed so deep that the Ether on his breath was briefly visible as an iridescent cloud.

"How many Humans have you killed?" Shaxx wondered.

"Too many," Mithrax answered, and even that felt insufficient on his tongue; the thought of it twisted his insides around. He sighed again, deeper this time, and Shaxx watched the sublimated Ether glitter in the dim light.

"When I heard you were in the Tower," Shaxx said, "I thought I'd just throw you over the edge of the wall. I thought about the people I watched die at the hands of your Houses over the years. The Lightless torn limb from limb during the Dark Age." He snorted out a rueful laugh. "Then I started to think about them."

Silence hung in the air for a moment, long enough for Mithrax to ask: "Who?"

"Three scavengers. Huddled together in a collapsed storm drain. They had stolen food during a… a time of famine. Maybe it was for themselves, maybe another settlement, maybe family…" Shaxx shrugged. "I killed them. All three, with my bare hands."

"My victims were Humans too," Shaxx clarified, and the Kell felt his anger twist into confusion. "I was a Warlord in the Dark Ages. Convinced myself of the necessity of my own barbarism by painting it with noble colors. Those loyal to me built a legend that masked the blood and the rot. But it's still there." He tapped his fingers against his breastplate. "Deep down."

The shadows had become long, stars now visible in the sky, and the Traveler was cast in half shadow.

"There was a ship," Mithrax eventually replied. "It may have been soldiers. Civilians. I do not know." He looked away from the Traveler as he spoke. "I led a boarding party onto it. We slaughtered any who resisted and rounded up those who surrendered."

Shaxx turned to look at Mithrax, a wordless question in his faceless mask.

"We argued what to do with the prisoners. Some suggested we keep them as warning-trophies. Others said to barter with them." Mithrax looked away, shoulders sagged. "But I was young. Impatient." He closed his eyes. "I opened the airlock. It seemed the simplest solution."

Both soldiers sank into silence again and remained so as the last glimpse of sunlight descended beyond the horizon. Shaxx sullenly took his leave, and Mithrax was left with the remnants of anger and confusion, and paradoxically—an answer.

He saw then the thread of choices leading to this moment. The choices that led to the Great Machine and away from a fate like Eramis had suffered. It was something both he and Shaxx learned to accept in spite of a lifetime of experience telling them otherwise.

Mercy.

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Patch History

• 4.1.0
  • Starting in Season 17, all playlist weapons from Beyond Light and later will drop with the appropriate Origin Trait.

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