OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a personal weapon for Darth Mori
- Image Source: Lance of Longinus 2.0 by Tandy Kurniawan
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source:
- Manufacturer: Darth Mori
- Affiliation: Darth Mori
- Market Status: Closed-Market
- Model: N/A
- Modularity: No
- Production: Unique
- Material:
- Sarrassian Iron, Alchemized
- Classification: Polearm
- Size: Very Large
- Weight: Heavy
- Buried Presence: Present along the length of its metallic haft are hundreds of runes that bury the blade's presence in the force. To the naked eye the spear would appear to be an eccentric take on the forked design some spears are made in, attempting to observe the spear through the force, however, would reveal the true nature of its alchemical origin: it cannot be seen in the force through conventional means, triggering only indirect senses, such as danger sense and other similar means, while hiding its more sinister purpose.
- The Maw: The coiled shape, the forked tips; the entire spear from base, to haft, to tips is in the shape of a Sith Rune. Even the arrangement of the runes which bury the spear's presence in the force are aligned in such a way that they replicate the same structure and form a series of patterns that offer repeated instances of the same marking: imbuement of force drain. While the spear itself does actively pull on the world around it in a feral hunger it also empowers the same ability in anyone who wields it, increasing the effectiveness of their hunger without the same degree of focus that might've been necessary otherwise. This active drain, however, also indirectly gives away some of its hidden purpose by its effect on its surroundings by way of phantom white streams of force energy that pour into it from things in its immediate proximity.
- Feedback Loop: All tools which contain abilities to drain power into themselves require some manner of discharge to prevent itself from being rendered useless or worse, and the means by which Mori has taken to mitigate the chances of this happening are a simple one; because the Hunger's creator is a woman that shares many core traits with the weapon itself she has chosen to pour that consumed energy into herself, with the weapon looping absorbed power it takes back into its wielder through inverted runes that line the center of its haft. This process, however, shifts the burden of being overloaded from the weapon to its wielder - a person holding the spear that doesn't share the same hunger for the force as its creator could quickly find themselves overwhelmed by the amount of power it could potentially be siphoning into them for a far more catastrophic result than a broken weapon.
- Trenchant: As per usual with weapons crafted through Sith Alchemy the Hunger retains the edge of its blade in perpetuity, accomplished through the careful manipulation of the spear's blade edge on a molecular level, and indeed is much more sharp than a blade made through more conventional means.
- Buried: The Hunger is incapable of being directly detected through the force, such as farsight or other similar means.
- Draining: The Hunger actively drains its surroundings through the force nearly indiscriminately, feeding on everything around it within its immediate proximity except for its wielder, and reduces the focus the one carrying the Hunger might need to use force drain themselves.
- Empowering: All power siphoned into the Hunger is channeled into its wielder, replenishing whatever stamina or energy they've lost with what is taken in.
- Perpetually Sharp: The Hunger's blade edges are created to hold their sharpness in normal wear-and-tear, barring extreme exceptions.
- Hard to Hide: Despite the Hunger's attempt at being buried within the force it is difficult to mask the very visible effects of its draining power on its surroundings, indirectly revealing both its power and its presence through the very same ability that it is intended to hide from to anyone who understands how to put two and two together.
- Overbearing: The Hunger was created by its creator for its creator, a woman who has developed an insuppressible draw on the world around her in a similar manner to the spear itself, and thus she is capable of handling the steady flow of power from the spear in most instances, however many of Mori's creations find themselves in other people's hands either as gifts or being stolen - anyone who doesn't share this trait with her, or anyone who isn't skilled in harnessing it, will quickly find themselves dangerously overloaded by the source of power it provides.
- Tutaminis: While the Faithless was a rather defensive take on an offensive weapon, the Hunger is entirely offensive in ways that its creator never intended: the defensive power of its predecessor, tutaminis, reverses the flow of power through the spear in a perfect mirror to its intended purpose. This goes further than just stalemating the drain of the weapon, however, and reverses the flow of power into its wielder as well - draining them instead.
- Force Reliant: Due to the nature of utilizing the force to accomplish its abilities, while in the close proximity of void stone or wrapped in nullification resin (and other similar effects) the Hunger is incapable of utilizing its abilities until removed from their respective ranges of effect.
A weapon, in the eyes of Vesta Zambrano, is one which must be capable of acting as an extension of its wielder. The Faithless, in that regard, had been an abject failure. It was a tool that served a purpose, many purposes perhaps, but the task that its creator had set out to accomplish by making it was one which rendered it less a weapon and more of a shield - an object that wasn't so much an extension of her own power but a crutch to defend herself from another's. In the Hunger she abandoned the notion of making a weapon for the purpose of triumphing over another's strengths to mask her vulnerabilities in favor of, instead, emphasizing what she was already at her apex in. It was created for other reasons, too, that were more personal, philosophical, than rational, but its practicality as a tool remained.
Recognizing that living within the confines of another's control meant surrendering autonomy, the psuedo-draining prowess of the Faithless was instead replaced with the very real hunger of this spear. It shared the nihilist outlook of its master, a sith lord that fed on the force and the world around her in very much the same way, and even emphasized that facet of her by reducing the degree of focus she required to accomplish an active drain on the force. Similarly, Mori understood that her unique state of remaining half-way between corporeal and incorporeal existence inspired a degree of fear and unease in those around her and buried the weapon's presence in the force so that only physical sight and indirect means could determine its existence or even its purpose and power. Unlike the a weapon that merely drained the force or stamina from those around it and the things it cut, Mori is incapable of being satisfied by casual siphoning from her enemies - or even the world around her - and ensured that the spear, too, could never reach the satisfaction that was forever out of reach by siphoning all of its drained power directly into its wielder.
Most of Mori's creations are general tools that nearly anyone could pick up and make use of without any real setback, tools that were created for herself in mind but could be feasibly taken by anyone else, and here the Hunger sets itself apart. Its starved nature, and its unending flow of power into its wielder, is incredibly dangerous for anyone who doesn't share a similar state of existence as its creator. In much simpler terms: anyone who isn't already so addicted to draining the force from others that it becomes a necessary fact of life could find themselves overwhelmed by the energy, the power, that could potentially flow into them. Weapons made in more traditional ways tend to limit this by channeling stored power into another ability, discharging it like a battery, where too much power drawn would destroy the weapon before anything could happen to its wielder - here the roles are reversed, and too much power could instead rupture the individual in its place.
The real inspiration for even attempting to replace the Faithless, however, was the realization that the blade's power - tutaminis - was able to create a negative feedback loop on herself when cut by her own sword, something she discovered when her blade was temporarily taken and used against her. Unwilling to be carrying her own death sentence into battle, and desiring something to accomplish the task of acting as a competent weapon in its place, the Hunger was forged - only it shares a similar weakness to the Faithless as she does, except to the power of tutaminis as a whole in ways its creator is not. Striking the blade directly against something imbued with tutaminis, or even effected directly by someone wielding the power itself, reverses the draining effect the runes which make up the spear possess: draining power out of the spear, and from its wielder, instead.
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