Shadow Hand
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Sub a set of magic gauntlets
- Image Source:
Click - WigglyPotatoChip - Recolored by [member="Fiolette Raaf"]
[*]Canon Link: Crushgaunt
[*]Primary Source:
- Based On: Jen'Shuk'Orok
PRODUCTION INFORMATION
- Manufacturer: Darth Prazutis
- Affiliation: [member="Darth Prazutis"]
- Model: Jivani ai Erza - Corrupters Claws
- Modularity: Repairs can be made
- Production: Unique
- Material:
Beskar - Armorweave
- Healing Amulet
- Talisman of Concentration
- Seeds of Rage
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- Classification: Combat Gauntlets
- Size: Large
- Weight: Very Heavy
- The crushgaunts augment the users own strength to superhuman levels, bestowing an ability to easily crush bone, metal. They also allow them to lift several times the users own body weight in sheer mass.
- The gauntlet has a unique ability to involuntarily, periodically drain force energy from the environment, within a radius of roughly five meters around the user over a period of time. It transfers the substantial portion of energy into usable energy for the wearer.
- In the forearm of the gauntlets a healing amulet is embedded and it grants the wearer the ability to heal bodily damage taken during combat, it increases the users own longevity during their combat as well as their own survivability.
- A Talisman of Concentration is built into the palm of the crushgaunt allowing the wearer to channel Dark Side energy, from the field of Sith Magic. The amulet allows the user to channel dark energy through the amulet at its singular point, acting like a conduit. This allows the user the power to fire highly concentrated beams of pure dark side energy as a singular beam toward wherever the gauntlets palm is facing.
- A unique device directly adapted from the ancient Seeds of Rage is inserted into the gauntlet opposite the amulet. In a radius of ten meters the seeds worked to periodically, subtly drive the victims insane using the dark side of the force, contaminating them with dark side energy. Over time the device could warp the victims emotions and thoughts twisting them with the dark sides madness. As a result it warped both the victim and gradually the environment around it as well.
- Dark Side Conduit: The Talisman of Concentration that is built into the gauntlet allows the channeling of Dark Side energy through the item into a singular point. This manifests as a beam of pure dark side energy that its fired toward whatever the gauntlets is pointing at.
- Combat Healing: A Healing Amulet socketed into the forearm section of the gauntlet allows the wearer to heal themselves during battle.
- Strength Increase: The natural ability of the crushgaunt vastly increases strength allowing the wearer to crush metal, stone, and bone as well as lift far more than what they were capable of on their own.
- Manipulation: The device built into it allows the wearer to subtly influence the thoughts and emotions of those around him and those he is fighting. This can twist them with dark side corruption, drive them insane, or even throw off their focus and control in a fight. But the gauntlets ability is limited to the range around it. It can be nullified, resisted, and outright avoided by those with resistance or immunities to the devices
- Aversion to Force Light: Due to the gauntlets being imbued with the Dark Side of the Force, they are highly vulnerable to highly concentrated attacks from users proficient with the ability of Force Light. In addition if damaged or destroyed the gauntlets wil detonate their dark power with disastrous results for the wearer.
- Limited Range: While these gauntlets destructive nature is potent it is limited by their own range, and require an opponent to be within arms reach of the wielder for them to be effective. While the gauntlets have an ability to use ranged attacks those can be deflected, nullified, or outright avoided.
- Taxing on the User: The heavy use of the gauntlets dark side powers can be very taxing on the individual wearing them. A prolonged and uninterrupted use is extremely dangerous to the users physical and force strength.
- Madness: The innate ability to manipulate those around the gauntlets does not discriminate between individuals beyond the wearer, so enemies as well potential allies will be subject to its effects. It will influence individuals within their distance, it is limited to its range and cannot be altered. In addition the madness can be negated by the innate resistances to mental manipulation by various races and individuals.
After the rise of the Sith Empire and his subsequent role as Shadow Hand, Darth Prazutis constantly found himself in the thick of the fight on various theaters of war across the galaxy. Most often he fought against very dangerous enemies with great skill in the force. As a constantly evolving individual who always sought to develop his own skill and be prepared. The idea of a new set of gauntlets was conceptualized after Mon Cala was claimed by the Sith Empire under Zambrano's guiding hand directing its legions.
It was there that his nephew and Sith Emperor [member="Darth Carnifex"] dispatched agents to reclaim shards of a powerful pair of gauntlets he once wielded that were lost in battle when they were torn asunder through the power of a blade strong in the Light Side of the Force. They took the shards of the Emperor's broken gauntlets to Khar Delba where they were forged anew into what would become the Jen'Shuk'Orok. Darth Prazutis consulted with his nephew on the gauntlets and their potential, as well as his own desire for a pair of his own.
So he went to work.
Through his nephew he was able to recreate the overall design that went into the crushgaunts, but with a twist. As a deceiver of others and a corrupter of the light he sought to add a twist to the gauntlets that would allow him to do so, even on a level that others may not even notice around him. This culminated into a device based on the ancient Seeds of Rage which allowed its owner to influence the emotions and thoughts of those around it subtly to drive them insane, altering them with dark side energy. The result was a vile aura that which would twist individuals and the very environment around them with madness.
Once they were finished he christened them Jivani ai Erza, the Corrupter's Claws.
