Adepts of Time can also pour the contents over an event, poisoning the event so that anybody involved in it will be hurt. The damage done depends on how close they are to the event causally, and how many other victims there are. Poisoning an election result will have almost no effect whatsoever, while poisoning a business meeting will hurt those present and poisoning the theft of an artefact will probably just hurt the thief. These Nephandi talismans are very prized by the dark mages, since they help them manage those unfortunates they plan to sacrifice to their masters or otherwise use in their vile amusements. The chains are black and cold, numbing to the touch and quite heavy.
Some versions come with manacles or leg irons, but most are simply long chains which bind a victim.
Anybody bound by them will become docile and have a hard time taking initiatives. This extraordinary techno-talisman was built in the 1910's by Professor Gottfried Hauf, during the last years of cooperation between the etherites and the Technocracy. Professor Hauf had been involved in a joint Void Engineer-Etherite project of sanitising or destroying tainted or dangerous nodes, a very dangerous challenge. Hauf had realised that nodes could be turned against themselves by converting free Quintessence into energy. When put into a node, the pattern would absorb some quintessence, make a number of copies of itself and then begin to transform free quintessence into energy.