Weapons

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## Alak

An alak consists of a 2-foot long shaft of bone or wood, with four serrated bones tied to the sharp end, like the four prongs of a grappling hook. When using an alak, add a +2 bonus on your combat maneuver check when attempting to disarm an opponent (including the roll to avoid being disarmed if you fail to disarm your opponent).

## Alhulak

The alhulak consists of an alak tied to a 5- foot long leather cord, which wraps around your wrist at the other end. An alhulak has reach. You can strike opponents 10 ft. away with it. In addition, you can use it against an adjacent foe. When using an alhulak, add a +2 bonus on your combat maneuver check when attempting to disarm an opponent (including the roll to avoid being disarmed if the character fails to disarm his or her opponent).

## Atlatl

The atlatl, sometimes called a “staff-sling,” is a javelin-throwing device that is swung over the shoulder, using both hands. Javelins flung with an atlatl gain greater range than those thrown byhand.

## Bard's Friend

This weapon is crafted with several obsidian blades and wooden prongs, which are fastened to a handle. Several small spikes jut out from where the knuckles hold the weapon. Bards are known for smearing these spikes with injury poison. The bard's friend can be coated with three charges of poison, but only one may be delivered per attack made with the weapon.

## Blowgun

The blowgun is a long tube through which you blow air to fire needles. The needles don't deal much damage, but are often coated in poison.

## Blowgun, Greater

The greater blowgun fires blowgun darts, which are slightly smaller than thrown darts, and are capable of delivering poison as well.

## Cahulak

A cahulak consists of two alaks joined by a 5-foot rope. You may fight as if fighting with two weapons, but if you do, you incur all the normal attack penalties associated with fighting with a light offhand weapon. A creature using a double weapon in one hand, such as a half-giant using a set of cahulaks can't use it as a double weapon. When using a cahulak, add a +2 bonus on your combat maneuver check when attempting to disarm an opponent (including the roll to avoid being disarmed if the character fails to disarm his or her opponent). Because the cahulak can wrap around an enemy's leg or other limb, you can make trip attacks with it. If you are tripped during your own trip attempt, you can drop the cahulak to avoid being tripped. If you strike at an opponent 10 ft. away, you cannot use the cahulak as a double weapon unless you possess natural reach.

## Carrikal

The sharpened jawbone of a large creature is lashed to a haft. The jagged edges are sharpened, forming a sort of battleaxe with two forward-facing heads.

## Chatkcha

The chatkcha returns to a proficient thrower on a missed attack roll. To catch it, the character must make an attack roll against AC 10 using the same bonus they threw the chatkcha with. Failure indicates the weapon falls to the ground 10 ft. in a random direction from the thrower. Catching the chatkcha is part of the attack and does not count as a separate attack.

## Crossbow, Fixed

This version of the crossbow can be fired by any capable of using it, but cannot be carried like a conventional crossbow. It is fixed in place, i.e. mounted on top of a wall, pole, or vehicle, and swivels so that you can aim the shot. Crossbows at the edge of a caravan, cart, or wall tend to offer cover, but limit your range of firing to a cone shape directly in front of the weapon. It is possible to mount a fixed crossbow on top of a pole but inside a shallow pit, giving you a 360-degree range of motion, while giving you cover. In any case, it is impossible to swivel a fixed crossbow in order to attack upwards (your upward angle is limited to 45 degrees). Reloading a fixed crossbow is a full-round action.

## Crusher

The crusher is made from a large stone or metal weight, mounted at the end of a 15-foot long shaft of springy wood. The weight is whipped back and forth. The crusher is a reach weapon. You can strike opponents 10 feet away with it, but you cannot use it against an adjacent foe. You need a 15-foot ceiling to use the weapon, but it can reach over cover. Crushers come in two varieties, fixed and free. A fixed crusher requires a base to use. The fixed crusher's base is enormously heavy, usually consisting of a thick slab of stone with a hole drilled through it to support the crusher's pole. The base is transported separately from the pole, and it takes one full minute to set the fixed crusher up for battle. The fixed crusher is a martial weapon, finding most use in infantry units. It is possible to use the crusher pole without the base as a free crusher, but this requires considerable expertise. You need an exotic weapon proficiency in the free crusher to accomplish this feat without the –4 proficiency penalty, even if you are proficient in the fixed crusher.

## Datchi Club

A datchi club has reach. You can strike opponents 10 feet away with it, but you cannot use it against an adjacent foe. This weapon, generally found in the arenas, is made by affixing a 4-5 foot length of dried insect hive or roots to a three-foot long shaft. Teeth, claws, or obsidian shards are embedded into the head of the weapon.

## Dejada

The dejada allows the wielder to throw pelota. These pelotas deal more damage than those thrown by hand, due to the great speed at which they are thrown from a dejada.

## Dragon's Paw

Popular in the arenas, the dragon's paw consists of a five or six-foot long pole, with a blade on either end. A basket guards your hands from attack, granting a +2 bonus on all attempts to defend against being disarmed. A dragon's paw is a double weapon. You may fight as if fighting with two weapons, but if you do, you incur all the normal attack penalties associated with fighting with a light off-hand weapon. A creature using a double weapon in one hand, such as a half-giant using a dragon's paw can't use it as a double weapon.

## Forearm Axe

Strapped to the forearm like a buckler, the forearm axe resembles a double-headed battleaxe, with the wearer's arm serving as the haft of the axe. You may continue to use your hand normally, but you cannot attack with the forearm axe and a wielded weapon in the same hand in one round. Your opponent cannot use a disarm action to disarm you of a forearm axe.

## Garrote, Bard's

This exotic weapon is made from giant hair. A bard's garrote can only be used as part of a grapple attack, and you must wield it with both hands regardless of your size. As part of a grapple attack, using a garrote subjects you to attacks of opportunity and all other limitations described in the grappling rules, except that as follows: The garrote inflicts 2d4 points of nonlethal damage plus 1.5 times your Strength bonus. You can use a bard's garrote to deliver a coup de grace.

## Gouge

Worn in an over-the-shoulder harness, the gouge is commonly found in the Nibenese infantry. A wide blade of bone, obsidian or chitin is mounted to a three-foot long shaft of wood. Your opponent cannot use a disarm action to disarm you of a gouge while you are wearing the harness. Donning the harness is a full-round action. Removing it is a move action.

## Gythka

A gythka is a double weapon. You may fight as if fighting with two weapons, but if you do, you incur all the normal attack penalties associated with fighting with a light off-hand weapon. A creature using a double weapon in one hand, such as a half-giant using a gythka can't use it as a double weapon.

## Handfork

The handfork, most popular among tareks, is a slicing weapon with a handle-grip and obsidian blades that join above the knuckles in an “M” shape.

## Heartpick

The name of this weapon expresses its simple intent. Usually made of bone, the heartpick is a hammer like weapon with a serrated pick on the front, and a heavy, flat head on the back.

## Impaler

Like many Athasian weapons, the impaler was developed for the arenas. Two blades are mounted parallel to the end of a four-foot long shaft, forming a bladed ‘T'. The impaler is swung horizontally or vertically with great force.

## Ko•

The Ko• combines a jagged blade that has been carved from a roughly oval stone. This exotic weapon of kreen manufacture is typically used in matching pairs. The ko• is designed to pierce chitin, shells and tough skin. If a ko• is used against a creature with natural armor, the attacker gets a +1 bonus to attack rolls.

## Kyorkcha

The kyorkcha is a more dangerous variant of the chatkcha. This thri-kreen weapon consists of a curved blade, much like a boomerang, with several protrusions along the edge, as well as jutting spikes near each end.

## Lajav

The lajav is a kreen weapon designed to capture opponents. It incorporates two flattened bones, joined in a hinge about two feet from the end. The result looks something like a nutcracker, and is used roughly in the same crushing way. If you hit an opponent at least one size category smaller than yourself with a lajav, you can immediately initiate a grapple (as a free action) without provoking an attack of opportunity. Regardless of your size, you need two hands to use a lajav, since a second hand is required to catch the other end of the lajav. As with the gythka, kreen are able to wield two lajav at a time because of their four arms.

## Lasso

This weapon consists of a rope that you can throw and then draw closed. The total range of your lasso depends on the length of the rope. Throwing a lasso is a ranged touch attack. If you successfully hit your opponent, make a grapple check. If you succeed at the grapple check, then your opponent is grappled, and you can continue the grapple contest by continuing to pull on the rope. You can make trip attacks with a lasso against a grappling opponent. If you are tripped during your own trip attempt, you can drop the lasso to avoid being tripped.

## Longblade, Elven

You can use the Weapon Finesse feat to apply your Dexterity modifier, rather than your Strength modifier, to all attack rolls made with the elven longblade.

## Lotulis

Two barbed, crescent shaped blades adorn either end of the lotulis, a double weapon once popular in the arena of Tyr. You may fight as if fighting with two weapons, but if you do, you incur all the normal attack penalties associated with fighting with a light off–hand weapon. A creature using a double weapon in one hand, such as a half-giant using a lotulis can't use it as a double weapon.

## Macahuitl

A macahuitl is a sword painstakingly crafted using a core of solid wood, with small, sharp shards of obsidian embedded into the wood to form an edge on two opposite sides of the weapon. These weapons are swung like the scimitar, though macahuitls tend to require more maintenance. The macahuitl is especially popular among the Draji, who seem to be the only ones who can easily pronounce this weapon's Draji name (“ma-ka-wheet-luh”). Non-Draji simply refer to it as the “obsidian sword” or the “Draji sword.”

## Mekillot Sap

The mekillot sap is a soft but tough large leather bag filled with fine gravel or sand, stitched together with giant's hair, and tied to the end of a five-foot rope. The throwing sap is swung overhead with both hands. A mekillot sap has reach, so you can strike opponents 10 feet away with it. In addition, unlike other weapons with reach, you can grip the rope higher, and use the mekillot sap against an adjacent foe. You can make trip attacks with the mekillot sap. If you are tripped during your own trip attempt, you can drop the sap to avoid being tripped. You get a +2 bonus to your opposed Strength check when attempting to trip your opponent.

## Master's Whip

The master's whip is usually braided from giant hair or leather, and has shards of chitin, obsidian or bone braided into the end of the whip. Unlike normal whips, the master's whip deals damage normally, has only a ten-foot range, and you apply your Strength modifier to damage dealt. In all other respects, it is treated as a normal whip.

## Maul

A maul is effectively a very large sledgehammer that crushes opponents to death. This weapon is commonly used by dwarves, muls, half-giants and other creatures that value great strength.

## Pelota

Popular in arena games, and in the street games of some city-states, pelota are hollow leaden spheres with small holes that cause the sphere to whistle as it flies through the air. The surface of most pelota are studded with obsidian shards. You can use the dejada throwing glove or a dejada cestus to cast pelota at much higher speed and with greater accuracy, dealing more damage than a pelota thrown by hand.

## Pelota, Hinged

To the careless eye a hinged pelota looks like an ordinary pelota without obsidian spikes. Hinged pelota can be twisted open like a small jar. Bards and assassins often use this feature to insert a splashglobe— a thin crystal sphere that contains acid, injury poison, contact poison, alchemical fire, or some other liquid. When the pelota strikes, the globe breaks, spilling the liquid through the holes of the pelota. Like pelota, hinged pelota can be thrown with a dejada. Hinged pelotas are also used as ammunition for the splashbow.

## Quabone

Four jawbones are fastened around a central haft, at right angles to one another. The quabone is often used in the arenas. The wounds it inflicts are nonlethal, yet have entertainment value, as the quabone tends to open up many small cuts that bleed freely—for a brief time.

## Singing Stick

A singing stick is a carefully crafted and polished club, often used in pairs. Singing sticks draw their name from the characteristic whistling sound they make when used. A character proficient with singing sticks may use a pair of singing sticks as if he had the Two-Weapon Fighting feat. In the hands of a nonproficient character, singing sticks are nothing more than light clubs.

## Skyhammer

The sky hammer consists of a 10-foot length of rope with a large hammer-like object at one end. Its rope is coiled and swung around the body twohandedly until enough momentum is gained to hurl the hammer at a target. A successful hit grants a free trip attempt, and you receive a +4 bonus to your opposed Strength roll due to the momentum of the skyhammer.

## Slodak

The slodak is a wooden short sword, carved from young hardwood trees and treated with a mixture of tree sap and id fiend blood. This treatment renders the blade of the weapon extremely strong, making it a deadly weapon.

## Spear, Double-Tipped

A double-tipped spear is a double weapon. You can fight with it as if fighting with two weapons, but if you do, you incur all the normal attack penalties associated with fighting with two weapons, just as if you were using a one-handed weapon and a light weapon. A creature wielding a double-tipped spear in one hand can't use it as a double weapon—only one end of the weapon can be used in any given round.

## Splashbow

This exotic weapon looks like a misshapen crossbow, only three feet long from bow to handle, but with a horizontal bow nearly five feet wide. Rather than bolts, the splashbow fires hinged pelotas, which can be filled with splash–globes of alchemical fire, contact poison, acids, or other interesting liquids. Splash– globes burst on impact, spraying their contents like a thrown grenade. The splashbow takes a full round to draw and load, assuming that the hinged pelotas have already been prepared.

## Swatter

The swatter is a popular name for a half-giant weapon consisting of a heavy spiked club made from hardwood, with a bronze or lead core in the tip for added weight. The swatter got its name from the tales of a halfgiant soldier who reputedly used a similar weapon to defeat an entire thri-kreen hunting party.

## Talid

The talid, also known as the gladiator's gauntlet, is made of stiff leather with metal, chitin or bone plating on the hand cover and all along the forearm. Spikes protrude from each of the knuckles and along the back of the hand. A sharp blade runs along the thumb and there is a 6-inch spike on the elbow. A strike with a talid is considered an armed attack. The cost and weight given are for a single talid. An opponent cannot use a disarm action to disarm a character's talid.

## Thanak

The thanak is a chopping weapon of pterran manufacture resembling a jagged sword or sawblade. It consists of a pair of hardwood strips bound together, with a row of pterrax teeth protruding from between them along one edge of the weapon particularly capable of slicing through muscle and sinew. On a critical hit, the thanak inflicts one point of Strength damage in addition to triple normal damage.

## Tkaesali

This polearm, commonly used by the nikaal, consists of long wooden haft topped with a circular, jagged blade. A tkaesali has reach. You can strike opponents 10 feet away with it, but you can't use it against an adjacent foe.

## Tonfa

The tonfa is a stick with a short handle, and is popular among street-patrolling Nibenese templars and their guards. You can deal nonlethal damage with a tonfa without taking the usual –4 penalty.

## Trikal

Three blades project radially from the business end of a six-foot long haft. A series of sharp serrated edges line the shaft below the foot-long blades, while the far end of the weapon is weighted, in order to balance the weapon. Because of the trikal's curved blades on the top of the weapon, trip attacks can also be made with it. If a character is tripped during his or her trip attempt, the trikal can be dropped to avoid being tripped.

## Tortoise Blade

The tortoise blade consists of a footlong dagger mounted to the center of a shell. The tortoise blade is strapped over the wearer's hand, preventing them from holding anything but the tortoise blade. The tortoise blade also functions as a buckler, granting a +1 armor bonus, inflicting a –1 armor check penalty and incurring a 5% arcane spell failure chance. A masterwork tortoise blade either functions as a masterwork shield or a masterwork weapon (or both, for twice the normal masterwork cost).

## Weighted Pike

A solid head, generally stone or baked ceramic, is mounted on the end of a spear or a pike. A weighted pike is a double weapon. You may fight as if fighting with two weapons, but if you do, you incur all the normal attack penalties associated with fighting with a light off-hand weapon. A creature using a double weapon in one hand, such as a half-giant using a weighted pike can't use it as a double weapon.

## Widow's Knife

Two prongs are hidden within the hilt of a widow's knife. On a successful hit, you may trigger the prongs by releasing a catch in the hilt as a free action. The prongs do an additional 1d3 points of damage (1d2 for a Small widow's knife) when sprung, and take a standard action to reload.

## Wrist Razor

Several shards of obsidian or bone are fastened to a strip of leather or other binding material, or are lashed onto the forearm of the wielder. Wrist razors are hard to disarm, granting you a +2 bonus when opposing a disarm attempt.

## Zerka

The zerka is a javelin with short barbs that cover two feet of the bone shaft. These barbs point away from the zerkaʹs tip, causing the weaponʹs head to snag against its targetʹs flesh and bone as it is removed. If a zerka hits, it lodges in the victim if he fails a Reflex save (DC equal to 5 + damage inflicted). A failed check means the zerka is stuck and the victim moves at half-speed, cannot charge or run, and must make a Concentration check (DC 10 + spell level) in order to cast a spell with somatic components. The victim can pull the zerka from his wound with a move action if he has at least one hand free, but suffers an additional 1d4 damage. A Heal check DC 13 allows the zerka to be removed without further injury.

## Ahguda Dok

The ahguda dok is a combination of two weapons seen frequently in the arena of Gulg, often used in matches where all contestants wield them. The ahguda is a club-sized weapon used to hurl the dok projectile. In Gulg, ahguda are specially crafted for these matches and are restricted to Gulg nobility, used by family gladiators or as part of sponsored events for allied families looking for recognition. Each is unique in design and easily recognized by rival families. Should one be lost, stolen or recognized during illicit activity, it would bring shame to all parties involved.

Ahguda are made from the forelimb of a dune reaper carved into a two and a half-foot long rod curving slightly towards the end. The inside of this curve is kept perfectly smooth and thin enough to fit the groove crafted around the circumference of the round projectile. Its primary function is to hurl the small, round dok at high rates of speed along the smooth inside edge. This edge must be kept smooth, and is therefore never used to inflict damage on its own.

The dok is made of two circular, bowl-shaped pieces, about 3 inches across, which are attached face to face. Between the two pieces is a razor-edged, flared groove made to fit the inside curve of the ahguda. The dok can only be thrown effectively using an aghuda as it functions very poorly when thrown by hand. A trained user balances the dok on the inside of the ahguda and uses the ahguda to fling the dok, giving it superior range and velocity.

In an ahguda dok match, a supply of dok are hung from the trees of the arboreal Gulg arena. The rules are then negotiated between the gladiator's sponsors, but are rarely to the death. Some examples include: each dok may only be flung from an ahguda once (hand-thrown has no limits), or the winner could be the one with the best hit-to-miss ratio. In all cases, the winning condition highlights some favored quality of Gulg's hunter-noble culture. An ahguda's high cost comes from the fee artisans charge to decorate the weapon. An undecorated ahguda would cost one tenth the listed price. In the eyes of Gulgan nobility such a weapon is unsuitable for arena use and, if recognized, they would endeavor to have it destroyed.

When used as a melee weapon an ahguda functions as a club and has the fragile quality.

## Balican Javelin

The balican javelin is a spear once in common use by the army of Balic, and now adopted as the main weapon of the troops under control of the three ruling merchant houses of the city. The weapon is a typical javelin with a fragile flint tip 18 to 24 inches long. When the weapon hits, the flint tip breaks off in the wound, leaving flint shards painfully imbedded in the victim's body. The silt fleets of Balic often use these coated with a substance made to cause additional irritation and pain to the giants plaguing the region, as most of the time the flint shards rarely penetrate deep enough into the giant's flesh to cause any serious inconvenience.

If a balican javelin hits, a shard lodges in the victim unless he makes a Reflex save (DC equal to 10 + damage inflicted). Since well-armored or thick-skinned creatures have a better chance of shrugging off these shards, the victim adds his armor or natural armor bonus , if any, as a bonus to his Reflex save. A failed check means the javelin's tip breaks apart in the wound, effectively ruining the weapon. Because of the pain and discomfort caused by the lodged pieces of stone, the victim suffers a –2 penalty to attack rolls and must make a Concentration check (DC 10 + spell level) in order to cast a spell until the shards are removed. A Heal check DC 15 allows the shards to be removed without further injury, as will a cure moderate wounds or higher level healing spell.

## Bard's Comb

Worn as a hair holder, this comb features many long, pointed spikes. It can be used as a last ditch weapon or sometimes, because of its innocuousness, be used to smuggle poison into a difficult-to-infiltrate location. A bard's comb is easily concealed: You get a +4 bonus on Sleight of Hand skill checks made to conceal the bard's comb on your body and a DC 18 Perception check is required to determine that the bard's comb is even a weapon. A bard is considered proficient when using a bard's comb.

## Bard's Needle

This exquisitely carved wooden or ivory hairpin contains a hollow space used as a secret poison reservoir. Often worn in pairs, it is used to smuggle poison into the most secure palaces and villas. While it most often sees use by bards, a surprising number of templars make use of this easily concealed weapon as well. Filling the reservoir is a full-round action that provokes an attack of opportunity. The reservoir can contain 1 dose of injury poison. A bard's needle is easily concealed: You get a +4 bonus on Sleight of Hand skill checks made to conceal the needle on your body and a DC 16 Perception check is required to determine that the bard's needle is even a weapon. A bard is considered proficient when using a bard's needle.

## Bard's Stinger

This weapon is usually made from a giant scorpion stinger, but may also be constructed from bone or wood. It consists of a long, thin spike with a needle-sharp tip. The hilt and blade are all one piece, measuring about a foot in total length. Inside the hilt is a wax-coated reservoir that holds one dose of injury poison. A small channel is bored through the blade, exiting at the very tip of the weapon. The main purpose of the bard's stinger is to deliver poison deeply into a victim to insure its effectiveness. As such, the DC for the poison is increased by +1 when a successful critical hit is scored with the weapon. Filling the reservoir is a standard action that provokes an attack of opportunity. The reservoir can contain 2 doses of injury poison, although only a single dose affects a struck target on any single attack. A bard is considered proficient when using a bard's stinger.

## Betnebbi

The betnebbi, or the “gulgan fork” as it is known outside the city-state, is a forked pole about 6 ft. in length. The fork's outer tines curve inward in a rough U-shape and are used to catch an opponent's neck. Between these is a much shorter tine used to pierce the neck of an opponent who is caught by the outer, larger ones.

A betnebbi has reach. You can strike opponents 10 feet away with it, but you can't use it against an adjacent foe. A betnebbi can be used against any opponent, but can only be used to catch the neck of a creature within one size category of your own. (For instance, a Medium wielder may use a betnebbi to grapple a Small of Large opponent.)

If you hit an opponent of the appropriate size, you may attempt to start a grapple as a free action without provoking an attack of opportunity. Any grapple check you make using a betnebbi includes the betnebbi's enhancement bonus (if any) and any other bonuses you might have that increase your attack roll with the weapon (such as from the Weapon Focus feat). If you grapple a target with a betnebbi, you are considered grappling, but unless your oponent can reach you, he can't attempt to attack you, damage you, or pin you. You can escape the grapple automatically by releasing the target as a standard action. If you get a hold, the betnebbi grabs the opponent and deals an additionnal 1d4 points of piercing damage with its central tine in addition to its normal damage each round the hold is maintained.

## Bone Dancer

A primitive ancestor to the cahulak, the bone dancer consists of two massive mace-like animal thigh bones joined by a 5-foot rope. You may fight as if fighting with two weapons, but if you do, you incur all the normal attack penalties associated with fighting with a light off-hand weapon (see Two-weapon Fighting, chapter 8 of the Player's Handbook). Because the bone dancer can wrap around an enemy's leg or other limb, you can make trip attacks with it. If you are tripped during your own trip attempt, you can instead drop the bone dancer to avoid being tripped. If you strike at an opponent 10 ft. away, you cannot use the bone dancer as a double weapon unless you possess natural reach.

## Bragnoggen

The bragnoggen is a nibenese rider's club that is designed for human-sized crodlu riders or half-giant inix riders. At the end of the neck, the flat head of the club is given a thin obsidian edge, letting the weapon inflict both concussive damage as well as ripping injuries. Its 5 to 6 ft. length, for a human-sized version, would normally make the weapon an unwieldy one, but its unique properties make it behave differently. In the hands of a mounted wielder its lightness and balance make it a surprisingly quick and agile weapon. Nibenese riders often use a lance in one arm and a bragnoggen on the other, steering their mount with their knees. You can use the Weapon Finesse feat to apply your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier to attack rolls with a bragnoggen sized for you, even though it isn't a light weapon for you. The bragnoggen's main advantage is its ability to be wielded as a secondary rider's weapon, in the off hand. If you do use it this way, you incur all the normal attack penalties associated with fighting with a light off-hand weapon (see Two-weapon Fighting, chapter 8 of the Player's Handbook), despite the fact that the bragnoggen isn't a light weapon for you.

## Braxat Fist

These carved horn knuckles are an effective way of increasing the potency of one's unarmed attacks. An attacker using a braxat fist is considered to be making unarmed attacks.

## B'rohg Fork

A b'rogh fork is a 5 to 6 ft. long wooden haft with four to ten pointed shafts at one end, positioned perpendicularly to the haft. These shafts, all bound to the haft by leather or rope, point in the same direction. The b'rohg fork is so named in honor of the inordinate love of impalement that b'rohg savages bring to the arenas of the city-states. A b'rohg fork has reach. You can strike opponent's 10 feet away with it, but you can't use it against an adjacent foe. A b'rogh fork can be used to make trip attacks. If you are tripped during your own trip attempt, you can drop the fork to avoid being tripped.

## Dagger, Flying

Flying daggers, as their name implies, are daggers made especially to be thrown. The design (a one-piece, handleless blade) makes the weapon more difficult to wield properly than a normal dagger in melee combat, but it allows those skilled in the weapon's use to hit their targets from a greater distance and with more accuracy. If you have 5 or more ranks in Sleight of Hand and throw a flying dagger, you gain a +1 to attack rolls. On the other hand, when used in melee without being thrown you always take a -1 penalty to attack rolls no matter your ranks in Sleight of Hand. You get a +2 bonus on Sleight of Hand checks made to conceal a flying dagger on your body (see the Sleight of Hand skill).

## Dejada Cestus

This is a reinforced version of the dejada, made of heavier bone to withstand the impacts of melee combat. It is also heavily studded with spikes, enabling the wielder to defend himself against an opponent that manages to be close enough to enter melee. Gladiators often use this version of the dejada, as it gives them both melee and ranged attack capabilities. The dejada cestus allows the wielder to throw pelota (see the pelota description for details). When used as a melee weapon a dejada cestus functions as a spiked gauntlet.

When using the dejada part of the weapon, characters proficient with the dejada cestus can treat it as a dejada for the purpose of any of the following feats: Greater Weapon Focus, Greater Weapon Specialization, Improved Critical, Weapon Focus, and Weapon Specialization.

## Ekthulak

The ekthulak is actually two complimentary weapons tethered together by a 20 ft. cha'thrang cord. The cord attaches on one end to a 4 ft. mace-like weapon with a heavy obsidian or stone head adorned with knobs or spikes, and at the other end to a crescent-shaped blade with a sharp outer curve and ridges on its inner side to help the weapon entangle the legs of a target.

The ekthulak is a trademark weapon of slave hunters who use the crescent head both as a weapon and an instrument to catch fleeing targets. With the cord wrapped properly around the shaft with a few feet played out, the wielder briefly whirls the blade and then throws deceptively wide of the target. With the blade tethered to the shaft a throw aimed wide will curve inward toward the target and strike home, either entangling the target's legs or inflicting slashing damage, depending on the intention of the wielder. The ekthulak's crescent head has reach. You can strike opponents 20 ft. away with it. In addition, you can use it against an adjacent foe. You may fight as if fighting with two weapons, but if you do, you incur all the normal attack penalties associated with fighting with a light offhand weapon (see Two-weapon Fighting, chapter 8 of the Player's Handbook). A creature using a double weapon in one hand, such as a half-giant using a set of ekthulak, can't use it as a double weapon.

Because the ekthulak's crescent end can wrap around an enemy's leg or other limb, you can make trip attacks with it up to 20 ft. away. If you are tripped during your own trip attempt, you can drop the ekthulak to avoid being tripped. If you strike at an opponent more than 10 ft. away, you cannot use the ekthulak as a double weapon unless you possess natural reach.

## Forearm Razor

This weapon was developed for arena combat, particularly for the dancing jazsts. It consist of a 2 ft. blade, most often a sharp razorwing wing blade, attached to a thick leather vambrace. The blade is worn on the back of the wielder's arm, sharp edge pointed outward. They are often used in pairs, with the gladiator swinging and spinning around, slashing his arms at his opponents with each one of his moves. You can use the Weapon Finesse feat to apply your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier toattack rolls with a forearm razor sized for you, even though it isn't a light weapon for you.

## Forearm Spear

Inspired by the graft weapon power, the forearm spear is often used in conjunction with the forearm axe. The forearm spear is constructed of a 4 ft. long length of wood with the first 2 to 3 ft. being essentially a short spear. At the end of the shaft it becomes wider and hollowed, allowing the weapon to be worn over the arm from elbow to fist. Inside the hollow portion is a handle the wielder grips with his hand. This circular flat plate offers some additional protection. The forearm spear also functions as a buckler, granting a +1 armor bonus, inflicting a -1 armor check penalty and incurring a 5% arcane spell failure chance. Your opponent cannot use a disarm action to disarm you of a forearm spear.

A masterwork forearm spear either functions as a masterwork shield or a masterwork weapon (or both, for twice the normal masterwork cost). Like a spiked shield, a forearm spear can be enchanted as a weapon, as a shield, or both, but such enchantments must be paid for separately.

## Ganji Song

The Ganji are a slave tribe that live on the northern side of the Windbreak Mountains. Their agrarian lifestyle has led them to develop this farming tool that has become as much a danger to their varil crop as to the predators of the region. The ganji song consists of a thin, 3 1/2-foot long wooden shaft that turns into a curved talon-like blade at the head. Small holes drilled through the thin wooden shaft make the instrument whistle softly as it is swung. As a farming instrument the ganji song enables rapid strokes to cut down the tall varil stocks. During the harvest celebration, villagers gather in the fields, singing and chanting along with the melodic harmony of the ganji songs. As gentle as the song is during the harvest, it is equally terrifying when the tribe defends itself as hundreds of warriors rain down upon their enemies with their weapons emitting a terrible battle cry.

The weapon is made from zevin wood, a tree quite common on that side of the Windbreaks, but unknown outside the region. It is then treated with a secret tar-like mixture that, when fired, gives the weapon a hardness approaching that of steel, rivaling even the agafari weapons all too common to the other side of the mountains.

## Ghi

The ghi is made from braided strands of leather and giant hair with thick knots in the center. It uses the same rules as the bard's garrote, except it deals less damage and is cheaper to manufacture.

## Gladiator's Friend, Heavy

The heavy gladiator's friend is a polearm, six feet long, designed to give the wielder a weapon of the appropriate type (bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing) as the situation arises. One end, used as the butt end, is a spear-like spike. The other end is surmounted by the head of a heavy mace, topped by a fauchard blade. A heavy gladiator's friend is a double weapon. You can fight with it as if fighting with two weapons, but if you do, you incur all the normal attack penalties associated with fighting with two weapons, just as if you were using a one-handed weapon and a light weapon. The weapon's mace head is a bludgeoning weapon that deals 1d6 points of damage (crit x2); its fauchard blade is a slashing weapon that deals 1d8 points of damage (crit x3); and the spike is a piercing weapon that deals 1d6 points of damage (crit x3). You can use any of these as the primary weapon, with one of the other as the off-hand weapon. Switching which one of the weapons you want to treat as the primary is a swift action. A creature wielding a heavy gladiator's friend in one hand can't use it as a double weapon—only one part of the weapon can be used in any given round.

## Gladiator's Friend, Light

This one-handed version of the gladiator's friend is a light mace with a short curved blade atop the head, with a small spike at the other end of the handle. The weapon's mace head is a bludgeoning weapon; its curved blade is a slashing weapon; and the small spike is a piercing weapon.

## Gutaku

A typical weapon that takes advantage of elven speed and grace, the gutaku is often used by other races, especially in the arenas. The double-ended nature of the weapon permits lightning-fast strokes that often catch an opponent by surprise. These knives are usually made from inix rib bones joined to each other by a short braided leather cord that is passed through a hole drilled through the length of the handle. The handle is then filled with a resin that cements blades and handle into one extremely hard piece. You may fight as if fighting with two weapons, but if you do, you incur all the normal attack penalties associated with fighting with a light off-hand weapon (see Two-weapon Fighting, chapter 8 of the Player's Handbook). To use a gutaku as a double weapon a creature must wield the weapon in one hand and cannot attack with a weapon in her other hand or use a shield.

## Halfling Fat-Sword

The halfling fat-sword is a heavier version of the common machete halflings use to clear the forest underbrush and has become a standard piece of their warrior equipment. The body of the weapon is a wide paddle of agafari wood with an edge of razor-sharp obsidian. The blade is affixed with fine bone pins drilled through the fragile stone and glued in place with resin. A halfling fat-sword is too large to use in one hand without special training; thus, it is an exotic weapon. A character can use a halfling fat-sword two-handed as a martial weapon.

## Hamanu's Staff

This weapon is mostly used by Urikite gladiators, as it is a quarterstaff-sized version of the Staves of Hamanu —large black pillars covered with thousands of sharp obsidian points chipped from the stone, which are found scattered throughout the floor of Urik's Arena, the Pit of Black Death. The entire weapon is covered with obsidian short spikes, except two areas barely large enough for the hands to hold it. A Hamanu's staff is a double weapon. You can fight with it as if fighting with two weapons, but if you do, you incur all the normal attack penalties associated with fighting with two weapons, just as if you were using a one-handed weapon and a light weapon. A creature wielding a Hamanu's staff in one hand can't use it as a double weapon—only one end of the weapon can be used in any given round.

## Hawk Hatchet

This axe gets its name from the shape of its sharpened head. The larger than usual hand axe head is shaped like the head of a hawk. Opposing the hawk's head are a pair of blades in the shape of surimposed wings, one longer than the other. When using a hawk hatchet, you get a +2 bonus on combat maneuver checks made to disarm an opponent (including the roll to avoid being disarmed if such an attempt fails).

## Juka

The juka, or head-blade, is the sacred dagger used by experienced Judaga and nobles to take their trophy back to Gulg. The slightly curved bone blade has a groove carved down its center where molten metal is poured and shaped to create a razor-sharp, durable curved blade. A row of sharpened obsidian bits, or even claws or teeth, on the opposite side of the blade near the shaft can help saw off the head when the hunter comes across particularly tough-skinned prey.

## Kitar

This hammer-shaped weapon is found in use throughout the Tablelands, but its unique construction prohibits manufacture by anyone but a properly equipped weaponsmith. It was originally made from the softer metals but is now constructed of wood and stone. This unique weapon has a narrow spade-like blade on one end, and a large round cylinder housing a heavy stone weight on the other. When the bladed end of the kitar strikes, the added weight of the cylinder adds tremendous force. Kitars often become favorites of weaponsmiths and their wielders and are often ornately decorated. Most kitars are decorated with tribal images and accomplishments. The kitar was designed to combat the kreen, scrab, and large vermin. The added weight helps punch through and separate the chitin hide and shell. If a kitar is used against a creature with natural armor, the attacker gets a +1 bonus to attack rolls.

## Klaraka

The klaraka, or k'lar's claw, is a massive cleaver-like blade the length of a short sword. It is carved directly from the dark claw of the massive bear and its long handle is usually adorned with fur, hide, and chips of teeth. It is considered a sacred weapon to the Klarojonu Joromo (“bear-clan-brothers who of old came from south of big lake”), one of the Peoples of Gulg, who ritualistically hunt the k'lar for honor and the cleansing of their spirits.

## Leuatos

People more primitive than those of the Tablelands make use of a weapon called an atlatl. Essentially the atlatl is a javelin thrower that provides increased accuracy and range to the relatively common javelin. Unfortunately, after the throw the typical atlatl wielder must face other adversaries weaponless. Faced with the same situation, Gulgan forest hunters have developed the leuatos, which fulfills the same purpose as the atlatl but also doubles as a club-like melee weapon once its missile has been fired. The weapon is a shaft of wood 2-1/2 to 5 inches in diameter and 3 to 3-1/2 feet long. The carved shaft ends in a spherical knob about 5 to 8 inches in diameter. One side of the knob is grooved to hold the butt of the javelin, while the rest of the knob is smooth, polished wood and serves as a club. Javelins flung with a leuatos gain greater range than those thrown by hand. Statistics in Table: Weapons refer to the leuatos when wielded in melee. The statistics under Javelin, leuatos refers to a javelin thrown by the weapon.

## Mandible Sword

The mandible sword gets its name from the primary material used in its construction: the mandible of a giant insect such as a kank, soldier antloid, or gaj. When added to a hilt, it becomes a sabre-sized weapon lighter than steel, yet handier for the cut-and-parry of melee combat. The outer edge of the mandible is sharpened to serve as the normal cutting edge, but the jagged interior is also kept sharp. Jazsts gladiators often employ this weapon because of the bloody wounds created by the jagged edge of the blade. When using a mandible sword, you get a +2 bonus on combat maneuver checks made to disarm an opponent (including the roll to avoid being disarmed if such an attempt fails). A mandible sword has hardness 3 and 1 hp.

## Oslak

Commonly known as a pterran overclaw, this specially crafted claw covering is worn over a pterran's four-fingered hand. It is made from the same material as the slodak: young hardwood tree pieces treated with a special mixture of tree sap and id fiend blood. A pterran wearing an oslak gets a rake attack for 1d6 damage and may wear two at a time, one on each hand. Your opponent cannot use a disarm action to disarm you of pterran overclaws. The cost and weight given are for a single overclaw. An attack with a pterran overclaw is considered an armed attack.

## Quad Fauchard

This fauchard is created by lashing together four fauchard blades to the end of a pole so that the wielder can slash out at a foe from any direction without taking the time to shift his grip on the weapon. As such, it is a favorite among blind-fighting gladiators, reavers, and beast trainers. A quad fauchard has reach. You can strike opponents 10 feet away with it, but you can't use it against an adjacent foe.

## Rha'kut Arrow

The Silt Stalkers elven tribe use this particularly unpleasant type of arrow when their intention is to terrify and incapacitate as much as it is to kill. It requires the careful attachment of many slender barbs to the tip of the arrow, forming a hollow conical cage at the arrow's end. These barbs are usually made from jaaroc thorns or specially-carved bone. Inside the cage is placed a sa'rikka, a particularly nasty, pebble-sized beetle known for its voracious appetite for flesh. Between creation and usage, these arrows are generally stored point-down in special quivers that hold some meat scraps for the beetles to feed upon. Before going on the attack, the beetles are starved for a whole day. When the arrow is shot into a creature the barbs hold the arrow in place, while the sa'rikka inside immediately starts feeding on the victim's flesh. Frenzied with hunger, they quickly burrow deep inside, causing excruciating pain and becoming very difficult to extract. The pain of a single sa'rikka incapacitates most victims; few can stand more than four or five. The beauty—from the Silt Stalker's point of view is that this arrow will not just incapacitate the victim, but will also tie up those around them who try to help.

Upon a successful hit, the barbs hold the arrow in place if the victim fails a Reflex save (DC equal to 10 + damage inflicted). A failed check means that the arrow is stuck and that the victim must make a Concentration check (DC 5 + spell level) in order to cast a spell with somatic components. On the round following the arrow hitting it's target, and on every subsequent round until the arrow is pulled out, the sa'rikka gains a free attack action in the same turn. On the inital round of attack, the sa'rikka is stunned, and thus the victim can pull the arrow from his wound before it starts attacking. The arrow can be removed as a move action if the character has at least one hand free, causing 1d2 points of damage; a Heal check (DC 13) instead allows the arrow to be removed without injury. The range increment for a rha'kut arrow is half that of the bow that fires it. The careful manipulation necessary for this weapon limits its rate of fire to one per round regardless of the actual number of shots per round a character would normally be entitled to.

The listed cost of an rha'kut arrow is for the arrow itself. The beetle must be found in the wild or purchased by a vendor dealing in exotic critters. The base price of a sa'rikka beetle is 15 Cp.

## Scourge

A short whip made of two or three short leather thongs or ropes connected to a handle. The leather thongs are knotted with a number of small pieces of obsidian or flint attached at various intervals.

## Shulkak

The shulkak is a tethered weapon used by many primitive societies. A bone or wood handle with a wrist strap is held in the off-hand while a heavy, barbed dart is thrown with the other. A fine, 20-ft. long giant-hair rope connects the two. A successful hit leaves the dart imbedded in the target, inflicting damage, after which the character who cast the dart pulls on the rope, painfully ripping the dart from the victim. Group tactics using multiple shulkak's can be a gruesome sight. An animal imbedded with multiple shulkak's can be practically pulled apart as the weapons are ripped out all at once.

If a shulkak hits, it lodges in the victim if he fails a Reflex save (DC equal to 5 + damage inflicted). A failed check means the shulkak lands 1d4 squares away in a random direction. If the save is failed, on the attacker's next turn he can pull the shulkak from the victim, dealing automatic, unadjusted, full weapon damage. It takes a full round to draw in the rope from a failed attack. The victim can pull the shulkak from his wound with a move action if he has at least one hand free, but suffers an additional 1d2 damage doing so. A Heal check DC 13 allows the shulkak to be removed without further injury.

## Silt Sap

The silt sap is slightly larger than a normal sap, and made of tough leather. In addition to small stones, the bag contains also silt. On each successful attack holes in the bag emit a small silt cloud that hangs in the air around the target. Each successful hit with the sap causes a 5 ft. spread of floating silt to be emitted from the sap, centered in the opponent's square. A silt sap contains enough silt for ten successful hits; a silt sap empty of silt functions as a normal sap. All within the affected area suffer a -2 penalty to attack and damage rolls, including the attacker. The opponent must make a Fortitude save (DC 10 + 1 per successful hit against him) each round he is within the spread or become dazed as he suffers from the coughing and gagging caused by the breathed silt. Wearing a moistened scarf halves the penalties caused by the emitted silt. The silt stays effective for 10 rounds after it has been emitted. A moderate or stronger wind dissipates the silt in 1 round. People under the effects of items, spells, or powers that allows one to breath silt are unaffected by the emitted silt.

## Sjambok

A strip of animal's hide is cut and carved into a strip 3 to 5 feet in length, tapering from about 1 inch thick at the handle to about 1/3 of that at the tip. This strip is then rolled until reaching a near circular form. The resulting whip is stiff yet flexible, and very tough.

## Twin-Trikal

This is essentially a joined pair of trikal with a 6- to 8-foot long wooden shaft. At each end of the shaft there is a cluster of three 12-inch obsidian blades radiating outward from the center. A twin-trikal is a double weapon. You may fight as if fighting with two weapons, but if you do, you incur all the normal attack penalties associated with fighting with a light off-hand weapon (see Two-weapon fighting, chapter 8 of the Player's Handbook). A creature using a double weapon in one hand, such as a half-giant using a twin-trikal, can't use it as a double weapon.

## Whip, Flaying

A whip with pieces of glass or obsidian braided along its length. Unlike normal whips, the flaying whip deals damage normally, only has a ten-foot range, you don't get a bonus on opposed attack rolls to disarm, and you apply your Strength modifier to damage dealt. In all other respects, it is treated as a normal whip.

## Whip, Knot

The knot whip looks like a normal whip with knots tied at regular intervals along its length. Unlike normal whips, it only has a ten-foot range and you apply your Strength modifier to damage dealt. In all other respects, it is treated as a normal whip.

## Master's Whip, Bardic

This whip looks like a master's whip, the only difference being that the head at the weapon's tip is a spiked ceramic ball crafted so that it can be used to inject poison upon a successful hit. The spikes on the head of the bardic master's whip can be, as a full-round action, filled with three doses of injected poison, but only one may be delivered per attack made with the weapon. In all other respects, it is treated as a normal master's whip.

## Whistling Mace, Heavy

These maces have partially hollowed-out heads, giving them a pitted appearance. When swung, the air whistles through the head, creating an eerie and quite unnerving sound. Whistling maces most often have heads made from porous, volcanic stone. Bone and wooden heads must be laboriously drilled by craftsmen, and steel-headed versions require special molds. During the first combat round against an opponent, you gain a +2 circumstance bonus to Intimidate checks when attempting to demoralize an opponent.

## Whistling Mace, Light

This is a lighter version of the heavy whistling mace, with a shorter handle and head. During the first combat round against an opponent, you gain a +1 circumstance bonus to Intimidate checks when attempting to demoralize an opponent