- Intent: A personal weapon for Darth Mori to replace the destroyed Talon of Typhojem
- Image Source:
- Brotherhood of the Maw Symbol:
Darth Solipsis
- Sword Artwork: Long Sword, Olga Panas
- Border Image: Me
- Brotherhood of the Maw Symbol:
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source:
- Talon of Typhojem
- Force Weapon (in the context of imbuing specific force powers into weapons)
- Sith Sword
- Sith Runes
- Manufacturer: Darth Mori
- Affiliation: Darth Mori
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: N/A
- Modularity: No
- Production: Unique
- Material:
- Sarrassian Iron, Alchemized
- Shi'ido sourced hardened leather, Alchemized
- Classification: Sword
- Size: Large
- Weight: Heavy
- Trenchant: As with most sith swords, Faithless retains an edge that will, under most circumstances, never dull and is of considerable sharpness that supersedes traditionally forged blades due to the process of sith alchemy allowing Mori the freedom of control in the construction of the sword right down to the molecular structure of the blade.
- Singularity: Unlike traditional sith swords, Faithless goes against the grain and incorporates an integrated tutaminis imbued along the runic markings that make up the length of the blade rather than the mirrored effect of other sith blades - that is, to say, that rather than reflecting blasters off of its reflective surface Faithless instead absorbs blasters and laser-based weaponry into itself in a similar manner to how other sith swords attract and absorb force lightning while also altering the mechanics behind how the blade performs that task, as well.
This provides a minor tradeoff of discarding the physical properties that allow a sith sword to act as a one-to-one substitute for a lightsaber without the force in favor of an imbued ability that gives a wider advantage with the potential drawback of being at the mercy of blasters and the like if in the presence of Ysalamir or something else that might strip the sword of the ability to utilize its force imbued qualities. This force-enhanced ability goes a bit further than simple blaster absorption and electric containment, however, and extends to other sufficiently coherent light-based weaponry - like lasers - or force abilities, those that are traditionally countered by tutaminis in particular. - Accretion: Like the Talon of Typhojem before it, Faithless was designed as a source of corruption in the force - its purpose, however, is not to convert the ambient force energies present in the space around the sword to dark, but to transmute any energy caught by the singularity imbuement in the sword itself from whatever its then-current state was in relation to alignment into neutral force energy and then to dark. This dark side energy is then released into the sword's immediate surroundings with the purpose to saturate the area with the dark side of the force.
- Never Dulls: Faithless is forged through sith alchemy, a process which alters the molecular make-up of the blade and imparts force-related as well as physiological benefits with one of these benefits being an edge at peak sharpness that will never dull through the normal wear-and-tear it might see.
- Absorptive: The imbued tutaminis creates a phenomena in the blade of the sword which causes it to absorb energy and energy-based projectiles, ranging from things such as force lightning to blasters.
- Dark Side: Absorbed energy is converted into dark side energy and then released from the blade into its surroundings to saturate the area with the dark side of the force.
- Force Reliant: As one might suspect with a sith sword that has discarded the normal superconductor phenomena of more traditional sith swords in favor of a force-imbued power the Faithless becomes little more than a very sharp, very normal, sword while in the presence of, say, Ysalamir - completely incapable of either absorbing energy related attacks or reflecting blasters like a run-of-the-mill sith sword might. Less complete countermeasures to the force, like void stone, which do not completely bar control over the force, lower the efficiency at which the sword performs its force-imbued functions and may potentially lead to one of its other issues (described in the next weakness) faster and easier than normal.
- Limits: While a sword with tutaminis literally written into the blade by way of Sith runes may seem intimidating, and perhaps insurmountable, there is as much a limit here on the blade as there is in a person using tutaminis themselves - it is wholly possible to overload this absorptive ability by straining it with a sufficiently large enough surge of energy in a proportionately short enough period of time. This would instead direct any stored energy in the blade that has not yet been released back out to the wielder in a backlash effect while simultaneously preventing the sword from absorbing any new energy for an extended period of time; on rare occasions with sufficiently large amounts of energy this could break the sword itself during the overload process.
- Light: While the sword was designed specifically to mitigate the risk of being immediately destroyed by short bursts of force light, the longer the blade is exposed to force light (or contained in a wall of light) the faster the Faithless reaches its limit. In other words, force light overloads the sword faster than any other kind of energy source. If the sword is overloaded and struck by force light it is just as liable to be damaged as any dark side object is.
Korriban. Red sands dyed with the iron-rich blood of fallen Sith during the mutual assault of the Maw and Ashlan Crusade, each rushing to take their interest from the graveyard world before the other, Sith and Jedi, as well as others, fighting each other both above and below ground. Darth Mori was one such Sith and she wielded a Sith blade named for the infamous deity of the ancient Sith, the Talon of Typhojem, in her duel against
Allyson Locke
- a Sith blade that was shattered by arrows empowered by the light side of the force in its most pure expression, with Force Light. The blade was, as the next would be, disposable, but the lesson she learned in the brief seconds of contact her sword made with one such arrow before it shattered and pierced her in the side was not.Force Light was the only ability of the Jedi that the Sith fully resigned themselves to, as if to acquiesce an implied submission to the light whenever it appeared - and perhaps that might be so, that at some point so much light overwhelms anything dark - but Mori refused.
As one of the handful of Sith Lords that planned the inevitable destruction of the Jedi Order it would have been unacceptable for her to submit to the purging rays of force light, so she didn't. She forged a blade that would, at the very least, hold against force light where her previous creation could not. Designed to be wielded as a weapon of demoralization, its use meant for the coming strike against the Jedi, she understood that the greatest strength of force light was not merely its purifying beam but also in the sense of hope, its restoration of faith in the force itself, that watching it overcome all things dark could bring.
So she made certain that her blade would subvert that experience - inspire despair, a death to hope. Faithlessness.
After the disaster that was Rhand, Darth Mori constructed the sith sword in her family estate on Maena. It is a simple blade, its surface smooth and polished, with only some markings running down its otherwise plain length. The hilt was made of leather crafted from the traitorous members of her own species, the Shi'ido, as an additional symbolic reference for the Jedi she was to face - that there is more than simple failure and defeat they faced when they stood against the Brotherhood of the Maw and their New Sith Order - while the markings that lined the length of the blade were sith runes, a hallmark of her designs, which enchanted the blade with tutaminis and then transforms that energy into force energies tainted with the dark side of the force to finally be released out into the surrounding area to spread that corruption further to everything around the sword.
Being crafted with such an elaborate property meant sacrificing a traditional aspect of Sith swords, the mirrored finish which allows them to reflect light-based weaponry as well as the reversed magnetic polarity that caused blasters and particle weapons to rebound on contact, in favor of leaning fully into the aspect of tutaminis. While one might consider this better than the average Sith sword in regards to comparing these two properties in a vacuum, in the presence of Ysalamir there is no such benefit to forsaking the classic trait and in fact turns it into a liability. There is also an inherent limit to this absorptive quality, much like there is to individuals utilizing tutaminis themselves, in that the energy absorbed must be expelled fast enough to not build up beyond the capacity of the sword - causing the energy to unleash painfully on the wielder of the sword, or possibly even shattering the weapon outright in an extreme instance of overloading that capacity.
Force light, ironically, can accelerate the overloading process despite the sword's express purpose in standing against it.
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