Eternal Father
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a badass wizard staff for the gift my bestest spoop buddy sent me <3
- Development Thread: N/A
- Image Source: Click
- Manufacturer: Darth Carnifex (Staff), [member="Matsu Xiangu"] (Skull)
- Model: Sith Battle Staff
- Affiliation: Kaine Zambrano
- Production: Unique
- Modularity: No
- Material: Alchemized Steel, Bone, & Blood
- Classification: Staff
- Size: One-handed / Two-handed
- Length: 1.82m ( 6ft )
- Weight: 18.1kg ( 40lbs )
- Special Features:
The Skull of Gaius Zhuta: Gaius Zhuta was a pious native of Maena who resisted the darkness that came to consume his world, and payed for his defiance with his life. The Sith Mistress Xiangu kept the man's skull long after he had perished, painstakingly reshaping his skull with alchemy and magic until the facade of machinery covered it entirely. Runes were inscribed onto the bleached bone with Xiangu's blood serving as the ink, infusing the skull with dark mysticism that allowed whoever wielded it to project fear and agony to any and all who were susceptible to the whispers of the dark side. - The Staff: The entire staff was wrought from a single chunk of jagged iron wrought by the Dark Lord Carnifex's own hand, infused with carbon and other elements to form steel and shaped after ancient designs dating back to the earliest days of the Sith. It was then bathed in boiling blood and further reinforced with Sith Alchemy to be virtually indestructible by conventional means, even immune to the plasma blade of a lightsaber.
Description: On one relatively boring and dreary day on Panatha, the Dark Lord Carnifex received a courier from the esteem Yaomo in the form of a tightly sealed metal box. Upon opening he was greeted with the sight of a beautifully mangled skull radiating despair, horror, and hate in palpable waves. Accompanying the skull was a single note penned by the aforementioned Sith Lord Yamao, and had been transcribed as thus:
Darth Carnifex -
We have sat on the same councils. We have shared a few words. Out feet have touched the same battlefields. It is my great regret that I do not yet know you as ally.
In your hands is the skull of Gaius Zhuta, a pious man who did not accept the Dark when it came to cleanse Maena. I burned him and cleansed him myself, pared the bones clean until the skull was as you see it now. Alchemy set its city to life. It is my blood dried in the runes to fuel the sorcery which makes it the artifact that I gift to you. Even a great lord such as yourself, though not affected by its power, will feel its toxic aura. Carry this in to battle with you and it will destroy your enemy’s minds with fear. Leave it in your throne room to twist those you wish to crush to your bidding. Torture those foolish enough to stand against you by leaving them in its presence. It will waste them away.
I have made it no secret that I bow to no man or woman. But it is my sincere wish that this token - created by my hand and with my power, given new life from my own blood - will serve to show you that even if I stand as my own god, that House Xiangu stands by House Zambrano in war and in silence.
With respect,
Darth Yaomo
The Dark Lord deeply appreciated the gift, his mind whirling with all potential possibilities for the skulls use in his service. His mind settled on something practical for combat, as was his forte, and he immediately threw himself into the task of fashioning a staff upon which he would mount the skull.
After several hours of tedious forging and alchemical gobbledygook the task was, at last, completed.
The Upraetor iv Kiztaga was born.
