In Elden Ring: Nightreign Axes are short-range, high-damage weapons that favor raw aggression builds. Their fast startup and decent stagger potential make them a good choice in close combat. However, they lack reach and can be outclassed by more versatile weapon types.
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Battle Axe
Axe • Lvl Required 1
Weapon Skill: Wild Strikes
Swing armament with wild abandon. Hold to continue swinging. Can be followed up with a normal or strong attack.
A thick, heavy blade attached to a handle. A versatile, standard weapon. Capable of powerful attacks thanks to the weighty blade, these weapons are also regarded for their powerful charge attacks.

Celebrant's Cleaver
Axe • Lvl Required 3
Weapon Skill: Wild Strikes
Swing armament with wild abandon. Hold to continue swinging. Can be followed up with a normal or strong attack.
Cleaver decorated with many-colored fabrics. Ceremonial tool used by dancers during the festivities of Dominula, Windmill Village. Crafted from human bone.

Forked Hatchet
Axe • Lvl Required 1
Weapon Skill: Quickstep
Skill prized by the crafty and fleet of foot. Perform a quickstep maneuver that allows for circling around lock-on targets.
Peculiar hatchet wielded by imps. The gently undulating forked blade is known as an "imp's tongue" and causes blood loss.

Hand Axe
Axe • Lvl Required 1
Weapon Skill: Quickstep
Skill prized by the crafty and fleet of foot. Perform a quickstep maneuver that allows for circling around lock-on targets.
Commonly known as a hatchet, this smaller variety of axe is an everyday work tool. Despite its short reach, it is easy to handle, exceling in successive attacks.

Highland Axe
Axe • Lvl Required 3
Weapon Skill: War Cry
Give a war cry to rally the spirit and increase attack power. While active, strong attacks change to charging attacks.
Single-sided axe used by the warriors of the highlands. Brave combatants begin battle by crying out their names.

Icerind Hatchet
Axe • Lvl Required 7
Weapon Skill: Hoarfrost Stomp
Stomp hard to spread a trail of freezing mist on the ground. The mist applies the frost status effect.
A hatchet with a frost-coated blade. One of several gifts given by Castle Sol in the distant north. Known as "freezing fog," the blade is thought to be a dragon's scale. Inflicts a powerful frost effect.

Iron Cleaver
Axe • Lvl Required 3
Weapon Skill: Wild Strikes
Swing armament with wild abandon. Hold to continue swinging. Can be followed up with a normal or strong attack.
Fairly large iron cleaver, commonly used by the maltreated Misbegotten. Steeped in resentment, these weapons are swung wildly and relentlessly, often after rushing up to foes.

Jawbone Axe
Axe • Lvl Required 1
Weapon Skill: Wild Strikes
Swing armament with wild abandon. Hold to continue swinging. Can be followed up with a normal or strong attack.
Axe made from a herbivore's skull. Weapon of the ancestral followers who disdain metal. This axe is more of a bludgeon; it forgoes a bladed edge, instead using the beast's molar teeth to buffet foes, dealing strike damage.

Ripple Blade
Axe • Lvl Required 3
Weapon Skill: Wild Strikes
Swing armament with wild abandon. Hold to continue swinging. Can be followed up with a normal or strong attack.
Unique weapon wielded by young Albinaurics, this sword is modelled after the ripples that are thought to be the origin of their species. Its attack power is greatly enhanced with one's arcane attribute.

Rosus' Axe
Axe • Lvl Required 7
Weapon Skill: Rosus's Summons
Raise the axe aloft to summon those lost in death. Three skeletons will appear at a distance and attack in tandem before vanishing.
Usher of Death, Rosus, who shows the path to the catacombs throughout the Lands Between, is depicted on this ritual axe. The dead easily lose their way, and have always been in sore need of a guiding hand.

Sacrificial Axe
Axe • Lvl Required 7
Weapon Skill: Wild Strikes
Swing armament with wild abandon. Hold to continue swinging. Can be followed up with a normal or strong attack.
Hatchet used in ancient sacrificial rite. A Deathbird is depicted as a malevolent deity. The power of the rite yet lingers.

Stormhawk Axe
Axe • Lvl Required 7
Weapon Skill: Thunderstorm
Imbue the armament's wing-blade with lightning and swing it around to create a tempestuous lightning storm. Follow up with an additional input to perform up to two spinning attacks. The lightning will stay on the blade for a while.
Battle axe designed to resemble a hawk, with its wings comprising the blade. Signature weapon of warriors who strive to remain one with the storm, despite being so far from their place of birth. Their hearts are proud, and thereby easily undone.