A Miststave -- iconic weapon of a Harlequin Shadowseer
A Miststave is an exotic melee weapon that is utilised exclusively by the enigmatic Eldar Harlequins, particularly the powerful psychic players known as Shadowseers. Traditionally, every Shadowseer carries this iconic weapon -its complex manufacture channels their mental force to crush armour plates and shatter bones. Against living victims, even a glancing blow from such a stave scrambles their perceptions, clouding the mind with contradictory illusions and reducing sight to a slow-motion blur. The Miststave is the Shadowseer's sign of office, and its tip is a totem of the Laughing God; the front a laughing face, the back a grinning skull. It is directly comparable to the force weapons used by many other psykers, what sets it apart is the concussive force with which it can smash at its foes.
Sources
- Codex: Harlequins (7th Edition) (Digital Edition), pp. 59, 210
- White Dwarf Weekly Magazine Issue #56 (21 Feb 2015), "Shadowseer," "Army List - Shadowseer," pp. 5-8, 54-55
- White Dwarf Weekly Magazine Issue #99 (19 Dec 2015), "Weapon of the Week: Miststave" pp. 30
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