OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Name: Conduit Shackles
Type: Shackles
Credits: Image 1
Consolidation Thread: N/A
Description: Forged in the obsidian-lit forges of the Maw Cult, these sinister shackles are more than mere restraints; they are instruments of slow, ritualistic death and stolen power. Crafted from blackened stone and bound by heavy, rune-etched chains of darkened steel, the shackles exude an oppressive aura even before their true function is revealed. Hanging from each cuff is a jagged, spike-like synthetic crystal deep crimson in hue and laced with thin, pulsating veins of violet light. These crystals, grown in alchemical vats and bound to a mirrored counterpart during the forging process, throb softly with hunger. Etched runes snake across the cuffs and crystals alike, glowing faintly as they siphon the life essence of the wearer with every passing moment. When worn, the shackles affix tightly around the wrists or ankles, their internal mechanisms subtly adjusting to prevent removal. The wearer slowly withers as their vitality is drained, the energy channelled invisibly through ritualistic forces to a paired crystal, often embedded into the flesh of an eshkin warlock or warlord. In battle, the recipient of this stolen energy grows unnaturally empowered, fueled by the very life of their enslaved "battery." The entire device is brutal in design and purpose, bearing no consideration for comfort or mercy. Instead, it is a relic of sacrificial domination, a chain of life for the master, and death for the slave.
ATTRIBUTES
- Creator: Unknown Eshkin / Dagon Erh
- Durability: Average
- Weight: 8kg
- Dimensions: Adjustable for varying sizes
- Rarity: Rare
- Materials: Black Stone / Doomstone / Steel
- Manufacturing: Forged in the blighted forges deep beneath the Arureon Wastes by the rat demons known as Eshkin,
STRENGTHS
+ These shackles turn unfortunate slaves into living batteries to feed the wielding masters' power.
WEAKNESSES
- The shackles will continue to draw out living energy until there is nothing left eventually killing the wearer.
- The being on the receiving end of the shackles duo must be in a reasonable range of the enslaved wearer.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The origins of the Conduit Shackles lie in the abyss where madness festers deep beneath the stone roots of the world, where the Eshkin of the Maw prowl and scheme. It was not their claws alone that forged such unholy devices, but the guidance of a shadowed figure Dagon Erh, the pale-skinned demon-mage cloaked in mortal flesh. Dagon Erh first appeared in the Maw Cult’s sacred tunnels during the Year of Withered Suns, stepping from a rent in the earth where no light shone and no Eshkin dared tread. He looked like a man, but his eyes were fathomless voids, and his voice dripped with truths meant never to be known. The warlocks of the Cult fell to their knees before him, recognising the scent of power old, rotting, and irresistible. It was he who taught them to twist stone with whispered sigils, to grow crystal teeth that could drink the breath of the living. He gave them the ritual of pairing the soul-split that bound one crystal to another through runes carved in flesh. And he demanded no payment… except that none speak of what was whispered into the crystal before it was sealed. Under Dagon Erh’s tutelage, the first shackles were wrought. Hulking, rune-carved restraints of understone and rust-blackened iron, laced with vein-threaded red crystals, each one a thirsting parasite. When placed upon a captive, the crystals dug into the soul with slow, agonising hunger, leeching the spark of life and feeding it through the earth to a master-stone implanted in a chosen warlock. The victim did not die swiftly. They withered. Shrank. Forgot their names. Until all that remained was a husk. The Eshkin may have built them. But Dagon Erh he birthed them.
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