Awl'dan cadaran whip

The Awl'dan cadaran whip, also referred to as a caladara whip,Reaper's Gale, Glossary - This is possibly a typographical error was an ancient and near mythical weapon of the Awl. It was described as a leather whip studded with coin-size, dagger-sharp, overlapping half-moon blades. Mastery of the weapon had been seemingly lost to the Awl people for over a century.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 2 The whip was capable of decapitating an opponent with only a sharp tug once wrapped around a neck.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 4, US HC p.113
Like the Rygtha crescent axe, the whip was designed to deal with a non-human enemy in a war the Awl fought in their original eastern homeland. The Awl lost the war and fled west.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 2, US HC p.66/69 
==Notable wielders==
*Redmask
==In Reaper's Gale==
The non-human enemy for which the weapons were designed was the K'Chain Che'Malle, whom the ancestors of the Awl knew as the Kechra. Legends told that the Awl had eventually turned the tide against the invaders with their weapons, but in truth the K'Chain Che'Malle had merely been passing through their lands.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 4, US HC p.109-110 Factor Breneda Anict recorded an encounter with a wounded and dying K'ell Hunter in the wildlands east of Lether. Factor Anict described the Hunter's wounds as "elongated, curving slashes, perhaps from some form of tentacle, but a tentacle bearing sharp teeth, whilst other wounds were shorter but deeper in nature, invariably delivered to a region vital to locomotion or other similar dispensation of limbs, severing tendons and so forth."Reaper's Gale, Chapter 3, Epigraph The description of the "tentacle" sounds similar to the type of wounds expected from a bladed whip.
==Notes and references==
Category:Weapons
es:Látigo cadaran de Lezna’dan