OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To resubmit/redesign the personal weapons of Taramaz Arcturus
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- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: Pride and Freedom
- Manufacturer: Taramaz Arcturus
- Affiliation: Taramaz Arcturus
- Model: N/A
- Modularity: Yes, as modular as a regular lightsaber.
- Production: Unique
- Material:
- Classification: Lightsaber
- Size: Very Large
- Weight: Heavy
- Lignan Focusing - Spite and Malice feature Lignan Focusing Crystals, creating a blade with a fiercer cutting power and a hotter blade.
- Vylmiran Focusing - Spite and Malice feature Vylmiran Crystals, focusing the blade and giving it an even higher cutting power.
- Barab Focusing - Spite and Malice feature Barab Crystals, giving it a, guess what, fiercer cutting power and hotter blade.
- Dantari Focusing - Spite and Malice feature Dantari Crystals, allowing the wielder to recover from Force Exhaustion faster.
- Phrik Hilt - Spite and Malice's hilts are made almost entirely out phrik, making them highly durable.
- Force Imbuement - Spite and Malice's crystals are attuned to Taramaz, allowing them to serve as extensions of his body in terms of the Force.
- Lignan Focusing - Spite and Malice feature Lignan Focusing Crystals, creating a blade with a fiercer cutting power and a hotter blade.
- Vylmiran Focusing - Spite and Malice feature Vylmiran Crystals, focusing the blade and giving it an even higher cutting power.
- Barab Focusing - Spite and Malice feature Barab Crystals, giving it a, guess water, fiercer cutting power and hotter blade.
- Phrik Hilt - Spite and Malice's hilts are made almost entirely out phrik, making them highly durable.
- Force Imbuement - Spite and Malice's crystals are attuned to Taramaz, allowing them to serve as extensions of his body in terms of the Force.
- Vylmiran Bonding - Spite and Malice feature Vylmiran Crystals, which require bonding to the individual before they are usable.
- Dark Temptation - Spite and Malice' focusing crystals are both Dark Side Oriented, making it easy to be pulled to the Dark Side of the Force easier when using them.
- Big and Heavy - In comparison to a regular humanoid, the Fangs of Death are gargantuan, requiring two hands to wield precisely.
- Crossguarded - The Fangs of Death have crossguards on their hilts, restricting a wielder's manoeuvrability.
- Cortosis - Spite and Malice are susceptible as any other lightsaber to the effects of Cortosis, and could be temporarily shorted out, should they come into contact with it.
- Waterworks - Not possessing a bifurcating cyclical-ignition pulse, the Fangs of Death are rendered all but useless in water.
Every so often, a lightsaber wielder finds that their blades of choice that they once thought perfect and ideal to no longer be so. Such is the law of advancement. To create something that will be effective throughout any advancement is a hard thing to do. Though sometimes, it is for reasons other than being outclassed, sometimes, it is simply to make something better.
Such is true for weapons that come into the hands of Taramaz Arcturus. No skilled sabersmith could ever call themselves a master if they looked at a weapon they made many a year ago and found it to still be adequate, to say that it was still the best they could do. Such is the history behind Spite and Malice. Not to fill any higher purpose to the man than to serve as weapons.
With blades of silver and crossguards of rich amethyst, hilts of phrik and electrum, one would be hard-pressed to be able to deny the blade's beauty. Yet a weapon, a tool, could never be allowed to call itself beautiful if it was not highly functional. And that was truly where the blades shined.
Their cutting power was almost unrivalled, being able to incorporate four crystals due to the extreme size of the hilts. The blades themselves burnt hot enough that simply holding a flammable substance close enough provided the possibility that it would light on fire.
The weapons are centred around the Vylmiran Crystals, which serve as the main crystals for the blades. These crystals are individually bonded to Taramaz, owing the weapon's service to only him, while granting him the ability to utilise the weapons as extensions of his physical body when channelling the Force into basic abilities, such as lightning, push and pull.
Something of note is that, due to the high cutting power and fiery nature of the blades, they also have an element of unpredictability and imprecision when deflecting blaster bolts.
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