Velok the Younger
When I Was A Young Warthog
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Intent: A minor artifact for tracking Force bonds between a nearby target and other linked targets; ensuring that you don't get jumped by a tuk'ata pack or a terentatek nest; for use as treasure hunt prize; for use in experiments
Development Thread: If requested
Manufacturer: Tashai scrimshaw-workers of Tash-Taral
Model: N/A
Affiliation: Occasionally found in Tashai towns, villages, and hunter camps; more frequently found farther from such civilization as Tash-Taral possesses. Occasionally collected by, or bartered with, Tash-Taral's rare visitors.
Production: Minor
Material: Terentatek ivory, tuk'ata claw, or other comparable substances
Description: A Tashai bond tracker is the sort of thing that's whittled by moisture farmers on the range, tucked into a hunter's belt or braid, and bartered with storekeepers in New Dreshdae. A minor example of the Tashai culture's Force crafting tradition, the bond tracker is generally for purposes of not getting jumped by Sithspawn after you kill one of them -- or at least not without knowing what's coming.
When a wearer is in close mental or physical contact with a target, the wearer gets some degree of awareness as to the proximity, distance, and emotional state of specimens that have a strong force bond with the target, such as packmates. In other words, upon engaging in conflict with a terentatek, one might get an impression of related terentateks on approach from other angles.
Obviously the talisman will not work for droids, Epicanthix, or Yuuzhan Vong. The talisman's effectiveness can be enhanced by contact with the close target's blood, but even with a blood sample, a clear head, and a highly Force-sensitive hunter, the talisman does not grant anything like omniscience relative to secondary targets. It is justly considered a minor artifact of the Tashai, its value situational or as a curio. It is much prized, and occasionally replicated, by the beast-handlers of Akure Executive Leatherworks' livestock division.
