'Weapon of the greater potentates of Bonny Village. An outsize butcher's cleaver used to dismember human bodies in the making of the great jars stored in the gaols. Restores a very small amount of HP when it squarely strikes an enemy.' Bonny Village is the Realm of Shadow's quiet horror, a frozen settlement whose entire economy is the production of warrior jars from human flesh. The greater potentates, the village's officiating elders, work in a great gaol below the surface, butchering the condemned with outsize cleavers and packing the rendered meat into clay vessels. The vessels are stored, frozen, in shelves that span underground galleries. Each is a candidate jar-warrior awaiting its eventual filling.

'Grotesque mask constructed from countless solidified caterpillars. A ritual implement of the greater potentates of Bonny Village. Used to ward off thoughts of impurity, doubt, temptation, and other wickednesses one is vulnerable to while absorbed in divine ritual.' The potentates wear masks of solidified caterpillars during the work, the canonical detail is that the masks ward off impurity, doubt, and temptation. The work itself is therefore framed as a divine ritual. Bonny is the canon's earliest and most extreme version of the warrior-jar tradition that, ages later, produced Iron Fist Alexander and Jar Bairn at Jarburg. Where the Altus jars are gentle pottery-children, Bonny's are the original procedure : human butchery rendered into clay, its operators wearing caterpillar-shaped masks to keep their conscience contained while they work.

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WeaponBonny Butchering Knife

Weapon of the greater potentates of Bonny Village. An outsize butcher's cleaver used to dismember human bodies in the making of the great jars stored in the gaols. Restores a very small amount of HP when it squarely strikes an enemy.

ArmorCaterpillar Mask

Grotesque mask constructed from countless solidified caterpillars. A ritual implement of the greater potentates of Bonny Village. Used to ward off thoughts of impurity, doubt, temptation, and other wickednesses one is vulnerable to while absorbed in divine ritual.