Rygtha crescent axe

The Rygtha crescent axe was an ancient and near mythical Awl weapon. It was described as having a thick haft, as long as a grown man's thighbone with three-quarter moon iron blades attached at each end, their planes perpendicular to each other. Mastery of the weapon had been seemingly lost to the Awl people for over a century.Reaper's Gale, Chapter 2
Like the Awl'dan cadaran whip, the axe 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 and the other wounds could have been produced by an axe.
==Notes and references==
Category:Weapons
es:Hacha de medialuna Rygtha