
A Plasma Knife
A Plasma Knife is a Leagues of Votann melee Plasma Weapon shaped in the form of a dagger or combat knife whose blade is itself an integrated plasma field. Plasma Knives are typically only ceremonial melee weapons that are carried as a badge of office by almost all of the Leagues of Votann's kâhls and Grimnyrs. Their possession denotes that their wielder speaks with the authority of their league's First Ancestors and are rarely used in actual combat -- except as a weapon of last resort.
It is a fact of war for the Kin in the 41st Millennium that many foes -- not least the hated Greenskins -- cannot always be halted by ranged firepower alone. Such enemies must be battled blade to blade, and defeated quickly in the resulting melee.
Kin close combat weapons embody this ethos. They make substantial use of integrated plasma fields, either to wreathe sword and axe blades or to form the blades themselves. Such melee weapons scythe through physical shields and body armour with equal ease, and reduce the foe to cauterised chunks of charred meat and bone.
Notable Plasma Knives[]
- The First Knife - The First Knife is a relic Plasma Knife of particular cultural significance and greater offensive use among the Leagues of Votann. It is believed to have been crafted by the Votann themselves during the days before the Kin came to the galactic core in the Age of Technology. Containing a unique power source and worked with script so ancient that no Kin can read it, this blade can be triggered to project a beam of laser energy that scythes through the victim at point-blank range. More than one ambushing foe or double-crossing faux ambassador has discovered, to their cost, just how deadly The First Knife can be.
Sources[]
- Codex: Leagues of Votann (9th Edition), pp. 32-33, 64