'Weapon in the form of a carnivorous beast's vicious claws. Used to perform bestial slashing attacks uncanny to humankind. An imitation of the esoteric technique of the horned warriors. Those who carry this weapon wield it as though they have been possessed by a savage beast.' The Beast Claw is the Realm of Shadow's weapon of the bestial path. These claws are not blades forged for one wielder but a form the carrier puts on: the canonical detail is that those who carry them wield them as though they have been possessed by a savage beast. The weapon is only ever an imitation, the text is careful to say, of the esoteric technique of the horned warriors.

'Superior incantation taught by Gurranq, the Beast Clergyman. Long ago, Gurranq was a beast of such terrifying ferocity that his former name meant "Death of the Demigods."' Gurranq's fore-life, Death of the Demigods, is the doctrinal model. The horned warriors of the Realm of Shadow's deepest cults practiced the esoteric beast-form technique that the Beast Claw only imitates; the weapon is the copy, not the source. What god that technique invokes, and how completely the possession the game describes takes hold, the text leaves unsaid. It records only the claws, and the savage beast their carrier seems possessed by.

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WeaponBeast Claw

Weapon in the form of a carnivorous beast's vicious claws. Used to perform bestial slashing attacks uncanny to humankind. An imitation of the esoteric technique of the horned warriors. Those who carry this weapon wield it as though they have been possessed by a savage beast.

WeaponGurranq's Beast Claw

Superior incantation taught by Gurranq, the Beast Clergyman. Long ago, Gurranq was a beast of such terrifying ferocity that his former name meant "Death of the Demigods."