Approved Melee Weapon Tosochkashai, the Dark Seether

[Darth Carnifex]

• Intent: Update Carnifex's Sith Sword
• Image Source:
  
  • Custom Commission
  • Headers - Teresa Zambrano | Darth Pellax
• Canon Link: N/A
• Permissions: N/A
• Primary Source:
  
  • Derriphan the Devourer - Previous Submission

• Manufacturer: Darth Carnifex
• Affiliation: Darth Carnifex
• Market Status: Closed-Market
• Model:
  
  • Tosochkashai (the Dark Seether) - True Name
  • Derriphan (the Devourer) - Former Name
  • Gliod'limkil (Great Render) - Epicanthix Name
  • Haran'kad (Annihilation Sword) - Mandalorian Curse Name
• Modularity: Yes; Limited - Tosochkashai is not modular in the traditional sense, as its alloys, alchemical bindings, and soul-forging are inseparably fused. Only Carnifex, through dark rituals and rare materials, has ever altered it, and even then only by strengthening what already existed. At most, surface runes, blood-poison lacing, or minor ritual enhancements can be adjusted, but its core cannot be changed without unraveling the blade itself.
• Production: Unique
• Material:
  • Zîrkaris Core Framework
  • Blood-Forged Aurodium Filigree
  • Obsidian Voidshards Inlay
  • Kazqyâtyit-treated Sarrassian Iron Exterior
  • Tal'Beskar Cutting Edges, Laced with Devaronian Blood-Poison
  • Black Electrum Hilt
  • Integrated Electronic and Alchemical Nodes

• Classification: Sith Greatsword
• Size: Extremely Large
• Weight: Extremely Heavy

• Zîrkaris Core Structure - At the heart of Tosochkashai lies a semi-sentient Zîrkaris alloy that refuses entropy. This material enhances Force resonance, grants structural indestructibility, and allows the blade to anchor itself in psychic space. It serves as a spiritual spinal cord for the soul-trapping energies that flow throughout the blade.
• Blood-Forged Aurodium Filigree - Veins of ritual-tempered Aurodium run through the hilt and blade, enhancing its ability to bind, torment, and consume souls. These strands glow faintly during combat, pulsing in rhythm with the pain of nearby enemies or dying victims. They strengthen the bond between blade and wielder, reinforcing dominance through sacrifice.
• Obsidian Voidshard Inlays - These pitch-black shards, embedded along the jagged fracture and crossguard, nullify Light Side intrusion and sever psychic threads. They enhance the Black Eclipse Severance effect, disrupting spiritual cohesion and resisting astral projection, mind links, or Force healing. The shards hunger silently alongside the blade.
• Kazqyâtyit-Treated Sarrassian Iron Shell - The outer chassis of the blade is made from a fortified, alchemically-sealed form of Sarrassian Iron, reinforced with Kazqyâtyit. It renders the sword lightsaber-resistant, thermally stable, and able to resist Force-based disintegration. The material gives the blade its unnatural weight and soul-pressure field.
• Tal'Beskar Edges, Laced with Devaronian Blood-Poison - The edges, forged from impossibly hard Tal'Beskar, retain a supernaturally keen sharpness. They are coated with Devaronian Blood-Poison, potentially inflicting burning agony on contact and delirium upon wounding. Even glancing cuts echo with suffering in the Force.
• Jagged Fracture Edge - Shattered in the Wellspring of the Force, the broken blade tip now ends in cruel, uneven fangs. These serrated edges can tear through armor and potentially cause wounds that resist healing, especially through the Force. They resonate with unspent rage and emit low, ghostly moans during combat.
• The Phantasmal Fang - At moments of heightened wrath or soul saturation, the jagged broken tip of Tosochkashai becomes momentarily completed by a glowing red phantasmal extension, a blade of raw metaphysical energy. This Force-forged projection flickers into being like a ghost-flame, allowing for precision thrusts or reach extension. The spectral edge carries no weight but delivers immense cutting power, potentially bypassing armor and even striking incorporeal entities.
• Leviathan Blister Trap - Tosochkashai devours the souls of those it slays, trapping them in a torturous internal plane. These trapped spirits empower the blade and offer fragments of knowledge or foresight to Carnifex. Each soul increases the blade's spiritual pressure and incites its growing sentience.
• Sonic Discharge Cell - Every strike unleashes ultrasonic waves that can rupture flesh, rattle bones, and distort internal organs. This sonic force has the potential to bypass a good number of armor types and can potentially destabilize structures at close range. It is especially devastating when combined with Force-augmented blows.
• Lightning Capacitor Core - Internal coils of black electrum absorb Force lightning and store it for later use. This energy can be redirected through strikes, turned into area-of-effect arcs, or expelled in a directed burst to overload electronics or disrupt Force abilities. The energy crackles visibly along the blade.
• Soul-Bonded Signature - Bound exclusively to Darth Carnifex's essence, the blade responds only to his command. He can summon or dismiss it at will, perceive through its point of contact, and feel its pain as his own. Any unauthorized wielder suffers psychic backlash or possession by the blade's will.
• Eternal Hunger - The blade exerts an oppressive spiritual field, radiating dread and despair within a wide radius. Force-sensitives and the spiritually inclined are prone to experiencing vertigo, hallucinations, or panic. The aura strengthens with each soul consumed.
• Black Eclipse Severance - Strikes against Force-sensitives can eclipse their connection to the Force, temporarily cutting off access or severely disrupting it. Victims describe the effect as being plunged into an internal void, as if their power were swallowed by a black sun. The effect lasts longer if the strike is charged with lightning or performed at the blade's peak resonance.
• Rupturing Feedback - The blade stores kinetic and plasmatic energy from parries and impacts. This charge can be unleashed in the next attack, rupturing shields, stunning Force constructs, or breaking through alchemized barriers. The effect grows exponentially with repeated use.
• Parasomatic Memory Drain - Any wound inflicted allows the blade to siphon surface thoughts, memories, and emotional impressions. Carnifex can access these sensations instinctively, often using them to mock or unnerve his foe mid-duel. Particularly traumatic memories may empower the blade further.
• Howl of the Damned - When swung with sufficient rage, the sword emits a banshee wail composed of the trapped souls' agony. This unholy shriek can disorient foes, can cause physical nausea, and can even temporarily destabilize Force concentration. The scream is inaudible to droids and most non-sentients.
• Cataclysm Edge - When charged with lightning and rage, Tosochkashai has the potential to breach physical or energetic barriers. Alchemized gates, ray shields, and even Force-created walls may fall to a single catastrophic strike. The blade's broken tip serves as a wedge, concentrating destructive pressure.
• Dirge of the Shattered God - During prolonged slaughter, the blade sings in a subharmonic frequency aligned with Sith thaumaturgy. This dirge emboldens nearby Sith and dark side users, sharpening their aggression and enhancing Force recovery.
• Gravity Anchor Nodes - Micro-gravitic emitters in the hilt allow the sword to become immovable when planted. Carnifex can use this to brace against charges, pivot his entire body around the embedded blade, or stabilize it for ritual acts. The nodes activate only at his command.
• Necroplasmic Buildup Surge - As the sword consumes spirits, it accrues necrotic energy that can be unleashed in a violent explosion of shadowflame. This surge damages corporeal foes and disrupts Force ghosts, reanimated dead, or spirits possessing others. It leaves an area metaphysically "scorched."

• Indestructible Core - The Zîrkaris alloy framework makes the blade nearly impossible to break, resisting entropy and physical ruin alike. This ensures that the sword can endure ages of combat without ever dulling or fracturing further.
• Soul-Devouring Power - Every life claimed is trapped within, their torment nourishing both the weapon's will and Carnifex's dominance. This transforms the sword into an ever-growing reservoir of spiritual pressure, compounding its lethality over time.
• Force Severance - The Obsidian Voidshards empower the Black Eclipse Severance, allowing Tosochkashai to temporarily cut enemies from the Force. Victims experience it as an abrupt drowning in emptiness, their powers swallowed by a black sun that leaves them terrified and vulnerable for a temporary duration.
• Adaptive Energy Harnessing - By storing kinetic impacts, lightning, and even sonic resonance, the blade accumulates destructive potential to unleash explosively. It punishes aggressors who clash against it, turning defense into catastrophic offense.
• Aura of Dread - Its oppressive field of despair can weaken enemy morale, induce panic, and create hallucinations. On the battlefield, even hardened warriors may falter before striking distance is closed.
• Phantasmal Fang - The broken tip's spectral projection extends Carnifex's reach in combat and pierces incorporeal beings. This gives the weapon an unpredictable edge, forcing even spirits and Force ghosts to respect its bite.
• Cataclysmic Breach - When charged with rage and lightning, Tosochkashai's Cataclysm Edge can sunder Force walls, ray shields, or even alchemized barriers. This makes it as much a siege weapon as a dueling blade.

• Extreme Weight - The Kazqyâtyit-treated Sarrassian Iron and Tal'Beskar edges make Tosochkashai almost unnaturally heavy. Without immense strength and Force augmentation, the weapon is unwieldy to the point of uselessness.
• Sentience and Hunger - The sword's soul-devouring nature fosters an expanding, semi-independent will. If left unchecked or deprived of Carnifex's dominance, it could lash out, influencing or outright possessing those nearby.
• Poison Volatility - The Devaronian Blood-Poison laced into the edges is dangerous even to the wielder if mismanaged. A single misstep or prolonged exposure during repair or ritual could cause delirium, agony, or corruption.
• Energy Overload Risk - Though it absorbs lightning and kinetic force, there are thresholds where excess energy destabilizes the blade. In such cases, it may discharge violently without control, harming allies or corrupting the surrounding battlefield.
• Howl of the Damned Feedback - The banshee shriek disorients foes, but in close quarters it may also unsettle allies and strain Carnifex's own focus. Prolonged reliance on this effect risks drowning the battlefield in chaos that spares none.
• Necroplasmic Instability - The surge of shadowflame from consumed souls is immensely destructive, but if unleashed recklessly it can scar even the wielder's surroundings. Structures, allies, and sacred Sith sites are all at risk of collateral devastation.
• Gravity Anchor Rigidity - When the nodes are engaged, the sword becomes immovable even to Carnifex until the command is released. If exploited at the wrong moment, this can leave him briefly fixed in place, vulnerable to coordinated assault.

Forging weapons in darkness is an inheritance as old as the Sith themselves. Steel and fire alone are never enough; their greatest blades are infused with will, suffering, and power, each one a fragment of the Dark Side's endless memory. Though this craft often slipped into silence, its echoes returned whenever bold alchemists pried open the secrets of forgotten vaults. In more recent times, it was Rave Merrill who rekindled the ancient fire, blending lost Sith sorcery with her own genius to fashion artifacts of terror.

Her greatest triumph was Daesumnor, a blade that could peel a spirit from its mortal vessel. Yet Daesumnor was not unique. At the same altar of creation, Merrill gave rise to a sibling weapon: Derriphan, the "Devourer," named in the primeval tongue of the Sith.

While Daesumnor passed into the keeping of Lord Kryptus, Derriphan remained hidden until Kaine Zambrano came seeking. Though he was too late to wrest Daesumnor for himself, his hunger would not be denied. In barter for the Holocron of Belia Darzu, he gained possession of Derriphan, and Merrill released her creation into his keeping.

In Zambrano's hand, the Devourer drank deep. Wars, purges, and massacres fed it beyond measure, until the sword's interior became a prison of screaming shades. Over time, the Dark Lord scored its length with runes of warding, grim scars of alchemy that made it hateful to the Light. Thus, it was carried at his side across the years as both weapon and testament.

But destiny delivered its undoing. In the sacred font known as the Wellspring of the Force, Zambrano, by then enthroned as Darth Carnifex, crossed blades with Thurion Heavenshield. Their struggle was titanic, and in that crucible, the sword was shattered. Its host of souls was released in a flood of anguish, and Derriphan was left weakened, a broken fang.

Carnifex refused to repair the ruin. Instead, he preserved its fracture as a trophy of memory, a reminder of the rare moment where the tide had not bent wholly to his will. Yet he would not leave it defenseless. Through forbidden metallurgy and new sorcery, he strengthened its frame with Zîrkaris alloy, cloaked it in Kazqyâtyit-sealed Sarrassian Iron, edged it in Tal'Beskar drenched with Devaronian poison, and seeded it with Obsidian Voidshards. Though its tip remained jagged, the reforged weapon was stronger than before, hardened against future sundering.

Reborn, the weapon received new names. Among the Sith, it was known by its true name, Tosochkashai, the Dark Seether. To Carnifex's own Epicanthix kin, it was Gliod'limkil, the Great Render, while the Mandalorians cursed it as Haran'kad, the Annihilation Sword. Each name carried weight, each whispered in dread by those who had seen its work.

Today, Tosochkashai endures not as Carnifex's primary weapon, but as his second fang. He favors his lightsaber for the immediacy of dueling, yet wields the Seether with telekinetic mastery, directing it to strike from oblique angles, to harry opponents, or to deliver killing blows while his saber holds their guard. On the battlefield it moves as if alive, whispering, shrieking, and moaning with the voices of those it has claimed since its reforging.

The sword is no longer Derriphan. It is something else entirely: a weapon broken, remade, and twisted beyond its first birth; a true reflection of the Dark Lord who carries it.

 

[Krass Wyms]

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