Whip

Elessia, a changeling and cleric of Calistria, wields a whip.
See also: Category:Images of whips.

See also: Weapon

A whip is a long leather cord or strand that can be wielded as a non-lethal, if painful, one-handed weapon. Its usage is distinguished by the cracking sound of its rapidly flicked slash. Whips have an array of uses both in and out of combat; they can disarm, trip, and knock opponents back, and certain enchantments can grant them enough prehensility to be used like a grappling hook.

Basic whips can cost 1 silver piece to 1 gold piece and weigh up to 2 pounds.

Hellknight Toulon Vidoc wields a spiked cat-o'-nine-tails.

Variants

A kholo wields a scorpion whip.

See also: Category:Whips

Whips are a broad concept and sometimes considered flails, and many types of them exist:

• A cat-o'-nine-tails is a short cluster of nine knotted leather thongs.
• Enraging whips use caltrops, barbs, and whistles that mimic the sound of screaming young owlbears. Owlbear riders use these whips to incite their mounts into attacking.
• Greenblood scourges are magical whips originally crafted from scrag intestines by a blood-bard at Green Blood on a Black Rock, and have become popular around the Sodden Lands and Shackles.
• Horse whips are used by horse riders to spur their mounts.
• A master's lash is a magical flaming whip that can sap its victim's will.
• Mokele-mbembe tail whips are crafted from the creature's skin and have a devastating sonic impact.
• Monowhips are rare technological whips made of a fine, lethal monofilament.
• Nine-section whips are made of linked steel bars instead of leather, with the final bar being a half-foot-long spike. While heavier and more difficult to wield, they can be particularly lethal and distracting.
• Ropes can be used as whips by people familiar with rope tricks.
• Rust monster antenna whips are crafted from rust monster antennae and have similarly corrosive effects.
• Scorpion whips have embedded razors and fangs, and are much more lethal than a standard whip.
  • Slime tendrils are magical scorpion whips crafted from alghollthu tentacles.
  • Fleshwarped scorpion's tails are magical scorpion whips crafted from the tails of giant cave scorpions.
  • Nimble whips are magical scorpion whips enchanted with the ability to steal objects from a victim.
  • Scorpion tail whips use many interlocking chitinous plates instead of leather, and are renowned for their incredible speed.
• Stinging whips are foci comprised of metallic wires and used by clerics of Calistria to more easily disarm or trip their foes.
• Tamer's whips are magical whips used to subdue and train animals and magical beasts.

Unique whips

Rythius, the kyton scourge, is a magical whip once possessed by a brijidine azata. When wielded by the forces of good, it becomes infused with the alignment and particularly effective against kytons.

The Tigress's Strand is a magical, web-resistant scorpion whip made of hardened spider silk with bear-claw studs.

On Golarion

Whips are often favored by vigilantes, by swashbucklers of the Shackles, and by Okeno Slavers. Bards are also skilled with whips, among other weapons.

Hellknight orders of the Rack and Scourge favor whips.

A sect of the Runelord Sorshen's wizards developed enchantment-delivering magical whips known as sadist's lashes.

Some enchanted Aspis Consortium badges are known as Aspis badges of last resort, and are able to transform into (among other things) a whip.

Certain vine leshys sprout appendages that they can use as whips.

In religion

Whips are the favored weapon of Abraxas, Calistria, Dahak, Gendowyn, Gogunta, Lissala, Matravash, Moloch, Ragadahn, Ranginori, and Selket.

Calistrians are particularly drawn to whips, and are known to use them to deliver poisons. Rangers faithful to Calistria often train heavily with whips. Vengeful kisses are Calistrian magical whips that can extend as far as 50 feet in length.

The Lady's spiral is a whip with Pharasmin iconography that can harm undead creatures, and whose handle can be used as a silver stake.

A perfectionist shavtoosh is an Iroran prayer cloth often worn as a shawl or belt, but can also be wielded as a magical whip.