Toothpiq
You know a Toothpiq blade by the wounds it leaves. The marque stamps jagged, serrated, scrap-forged edges, choppers and hook swords and three-pronged daggers, and every one of them is built less to kill quickly than to open a wound that argues with healing. A Toothpiq Serrated Hook Sword slows a bleeding target to a walk. A Tridagger can add No Healing to the cut. A Chopper turns a killing blow into a wave of fear. This is not fine steel, and it was never meant to be.
Around the blades sits a trapper's kit and a runner's. There are thrown spikes that nail a target in place and wire bolas that leave one unable to lean on brews, a Box-Trap keyed to Murder Inc handling that fouls a rival's foresight, and, most telling of all, the Lockpick Shards, splinters a bound captive can hide in the body and use to saw through their own bonds. A maker only stocks that last item for buyers who expect to be taken alive.
Put it together and Toothpiq reads as a scrap-blade cottage industry for skirmishers, trappers, and captives, people who fight outnumbered, set snares for whatever is chasing them, and plan for the day someone finally catches them. No sourcebook names the smiths. The wounds are testimony enough.
Around the blades sits a trapper's kit and a runner's. There are thrown spikes that nail a target in place and wire bolas that leave one unable to lean on brews, a Box-Trap keyed to Murder Inc handling that fouls a rival's foresight, and, most telling of all, the Lockpick Shards, splinters a bound captive can hide in the body and use to saw through their own bonds. A maker only stocks that last item for buyers who expect to be taken alive.
Put it together and Toothpiq reads as a scrap-blade cottage industry for skirmishers, trappers, and captives, people who fight outnumbered, set snares for whatever is chasing them, and plan for the day someone finally catches them. No sourcebook names the smiths. The wounds are testimony enough.
A maker's mark on jagged scrap blades and escape shards, crude and serrated and built to make wounds that will not close.
Type
Manufacturing Marque (inferred)
Attested Through
DR 4.0 item database
Product Focus
Serrated blades, snares, escape shards
Signature Items
Serrated Hook Sword; Box-Trap; Lockpick Shards
Criminal Tie
Murder Inc (Box-Trap, mechanical)
Inferred Nature
Scrap-blade cottage industry
