An Ancestral Warding Stave wielded by a Grimnyr.
An Ancestral Warding Stave, also called an Ancestral Ward Stave, is a form of barrier-tech employed by the Grimnyr of the Leagues of Votann to unleash the power of their psychic disciplines. Barrier-tech is the name given to the advanced technology of the Leagues of Votann that allows those Kin cloned with a psychoactive cloneskein, such as the Grimnyr and the Embyr, to access and manipulate the psychic energies of the Immaterium.
These devices come to life only at these psychoactive Kin's touch, emitting a soft thrum of power and glimmering with cold witchlight. It is through the careful use of barrier-tech devices like these that the Grimnyr and the Embyr manipulate the energies of the Warp to produce manifestations similar to those conjured into realspace by true psykers without facing the same risk of insanity, loss of control of their powers or Daemonic possession.
The stave can also be used as a potent melee weapon in its own right.
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- Codex: Leagues of Votann (9th Edition), pp. 13, 91, 100