Royal Decree

Back to Weapons 'His' Royal Decree is a shotgun that replaces the Snake Charmer, it's acquired by conquering Malum's fears in the Abyss during progress of the Lore/Story.

Statistics
Damage : 16 (Normal, Per Pellet), 100 (Shadow Shot, Per Pellet) Pellet Count : 20 (Normal), 4 (Shadow Shot) Damage Scaling : 1.25x while in Shadow Walk, Scales up to 3x as soon as Shadow Walk is about to turn off Magazine Capacity : 2 Reserve Capacity : 40(Base), 80(Backpack) Rate of Fire : One shot per reload or 1 Shot every 0.45 seconds Penetration Power : 102% (Normal), Infinite (Shadow Shot) Headshot Multiplier : 135% Bullet Spread : 9 (Normal), 1 (Shadow Shot) Bullet Velocity : 800 (Normal), 1400 (Shadow Shot) Bullet Fall-Speed : 0.03 (Normal), 0.001 (Shadow Shot) Bullet Damage Fade : 500% (Normal), 100% (Shadow Shot, RAW) Unique Ability : Damage dealt with the Royal Decree charges up the Shadow Gauge that is shown above the weapons total ammo capacity as a purple number. Certain values of the Shadow Gauge release wisps that deal knockback/stun to enemies and very small damage when firing and Shadow Gauge can be expended to activate Shadow Shots or Shadow Walk.

Controls
Primary Fire : Fires both barrels. Secondary Fire : Transfers 40 Shadow Gauge to 3 Shadow Shots Weapon Ability : Activates Shadow Walk for 100 Shadow Gauge and gives 6 Shadow Shots

Unlock Condition
SPOILERS Unlock Conditions '''Have The Outcast and return to the HUB to find a shadow wisp in the Kitchen, Enter the Abyss and complete it. The weapon will be waiting for you on the Table in the Kitchen upon your return.'''

Lore
This section is for the In-game Lore Files from the HUB. They can be considered spoilers if you have yet to unlock them for yourself.

His Royal Decree "A Shotgun left for me by Malum before he left to find out how to get to where Mthuulra is, it definitely used to belong to him as I can feel his soul almost pouring from the skull near the grip." "Damaging enemies with this seems to gather shadow essence within the weapon and I can expend that to power up the weapon to imbue the shots from the weapon with the essence, making the shots much stronger and accurate." "I can however instead, expend all of it at once to do what I can assume is Malums ability to Shadow Walk, moving quickly and quietly through things. As the effect is wearing off I can feel a powerful force coming over me as it happens, any damage I deal in correspondence to the amount of time I have left in Shadow Walk increases exponentially." "If I fire the weapon while at high Shadow Essence it creates a small wisp that seeks out and flinches enemies with low damage." "Anything with a 'Soul' that is killed with this weapon seems to have an effect depending on what kind of Soul it is, Human, undead or otherwise." "Other than those features it's a very well built shotgun and it's extremely light for its size and build."