Ashin Cardé Varanin
Are you on the square?
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: A personal weapon for
Taeli Raaf
, Darth Arcanix - Image Source: Yi Wei, with mild edits by me
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: The Aksifas (project lead: Azel Moran)
- Affiliation: Taeli Raaf
- Market Status: Closed market
- Model: N/A
- Modularity: No
- Production: Unique
- Material: Masterforged phrik, bronzium-plated phrik fittings, Irza Zarwa hide grip, Zasa Raura venom
- Classification: Sword
- Size: Average
- Weight: Average
- Masterforged phrik
- Envenomed edge (very powerful paralysis toxin)
- Durable leather grip
- Nearly indestructible apart from the leather grip; you'd need to throw the sword into a star or hold a lightsaber against it for several minutes to destroy it.
- Carries a powerful paralysis venom, suitable for tranquilizing anything from a massive Sithspawn to a Jedi Master with a single cut. (Actual effect is up to the targeted PC, etc. etc. etc.)
- Superb balance for one- or two-handed use.
- Comfortable grip for heavy or sustained use; will not get slippery if bloody.
- Absolutely nothing about this sword is impeded or damaged by ysalamiri, void stone, or Force Light. It doesn't even give off a detectable dark side signature unless you touch it.
- The thin ornamental bronzium plating on the phrik ornaments will melt in contact with a lightsaber, potentially scattering droplets of superheated metal.
- No special cutting ability beyond being a very sharp sword - no energy fields, vibrogenerators, monomolecular edges, etc. Its hexagonal cross-section is meant for strength, not razor sharpness.
In 864 ABY, Taeli Raaf provided Ashin Varanin with an Arika Kitiuras body in return for a personal sword.
The master swordsmith Azel Moran took point on the project. The sword he created had special utility for a beastmaster alchemist: it uses the paralysis venom of one of Raaf's own Sithspawn, the quasi-felinoid Zasa Raura, to paralyze unruly specimens for transport. The blade is flat-ground with a hexagonal cross section. Its grip is fine-scaled, ultra-durable leather from an Irza Zarwa (another of Raaf's Sithspawn), capable of standing up to glancing lightsaber strikes.
Master Moran strongly recommends using a rare Svolten rhyolite whetstone to maintain the edge after each battle. He had the Aksifas leatherworkers include a small, snug pocket for such a whetstone on the scabbard, which is Irza Zarwa leather like the grip.
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