◈ ORDERThe Abductor Virgins
Ghiza's flesh-flaying torture-engines, mobile gaols disguised as kindly nuns
The Abductor Virgins
'Great iron wheel lined with flesh-flaying blades. Device of torture used by Inquisitor Ghiza. As the wheel spins it causes severe pain and blood loss. The design was adopted for use as the iconic weapon wielded by Iron Virgins.' The Abductor Virgins are mobile gaol-engines built around a single great iron wheel lined with flesh-flaying blades. The wheel was Inquisitor Ghiza's torture-engine, the canonical design copied wholesale into the maiden-construct's torso. Each maiden is the size of a building. Each contains, inside her hollow body, a cell that snaps shut around any traveller her grasping arms catch.
'Hood made by sewing together patches of smooth skin. Subcutaneous fat makes it plump and soft. Worn by Godskin Nobles. Nobles are the most ancient apostles who are said to have assimilated inhuman physiology. Not unlike the crucible, the Erdtree in its primordial form.' The maidens were built to capture and transport prisoners, snatched at the academy and in the volcanic reaches of Mt. Gelmir, down to the gaols of Volcano Manor, the stronghold of the Recusants who set themselves against the Golden Order. Their masks are nun-blank, their long arms gentle in posture and lethal in motion. The first one the Tarnished encounters, in the Raya Lucaria academy, ambushes from a corner of an otherwise quiet study. The canon's quietest critique of inquisitorial method is the engineering choice: the device of mercy and the device of torture, in this construct, are the same machine.
Great iron wheel lined with flesh-flaying blades. Device of torture used by Inquisitor Ghiza. As the wheel spins it causes severe pain and blood loss. The design was adopted for use as the iconic weapon wielded by Iron Virgins.
Godskin Noble HoodHood made by sewing together patches of smooth skin. Subcutaneous fat makes it plump and soft. Worn by Godskin Nobles. Nobles are the most ancient apostles who are said to have assimilated inhuman physiology. Not unlike the crucible, the Erdtree in its primordial form.
