Rebuke

Version 0.34: This article is up to date for the latest stable release of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.

It shields the wearer if their last action was a melee attack (+10 SH) and redirects blocked melee attacks to other nearby enemies.

The sundering brand, exclusive to Staves, does the following:

After attacking, grants +10 SH for 1 turn.
When blocking melee attacks, the attack will be redirected towards the lowest HP enemy that is adjacent to the original attacker.
- It cannot redirect attacks against the original attacker.
- Cleaving is disabled on redirected attacks.

Monsters get +10 SH regardless of whether they attack or not.

Sources

Sundering can only generate and exist on Staves. It is available through both random generation and through a scroll of brand weapon.

Sundering was introduced, along with the other weapon type specific brands, in 0.34.

Brands
Melee weapons	General	Antimagic • Chaos • Distortion • Draining • Electrocution • Flaming • Freezing • Heavy • Holy wrath • Pain • Protection • Reaching • Spectral • Speed • Vampiric • Venom
	Weapon type	Devious • Valour • Concussion • Sundering • Entangling • Rebuke
	Artefact	Curare • Deathbane • Dragon slaying • Reaping • Silver
Launchers		Antimagic • Chaos • Draining • Electrocution • Flaming • Freezing • Heavy • Holy wrath • Penetration • Speed
Throwing weapons		Atropa • Curare • Datura • Disjunction • Poisoned • Silver