Steel's abilities with her axe are completely plain and have no aetheric ties whatsoever. Even the flashier attacks such as Overpower and Storm's Eye are more just animations without much stock taken in to the special effects tied to those attacks.
This is pretty easy with Warrior, since a great deal of the attacks are about a martial discipline controlling one's fury and power. Even the reference and ability of Inner Beast I read more as a technique than something that makes me glow or allows me to tick off other abilities that make me glow.
Despite the myriad colorful explosions that erupt with every strike, I see Steel's axe-work in my head-canon as pure martial maneuvers. Nothing more.
This is pretty easy with Warrior, since a great deal of the attacks are about a martial discipline controlling one's fury and power. Even the reference and ability of Inner Beast I read more as a technique than something that makes me glow or allows me to tick off other abilities that make me glow.
Despite the myriad colorful explosions that erupt with every strike, I see Steel's axe-work in my head-canon as pure martial maneuvers. Nothing more.
