Whip
- 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,[1][2][3][4] and certain enchantments can grant them enough prehensility to be used like a grappling hook.[5][6]
Basic whips can cost 1 silver piece[3] to 1 gold piece and weigh up to 2 pounds.[1][2]
Variants
- See also: Category:Whips
Whips are a broad concept and sometimes considered flails,[1][2] and many types of them exist:
- A cat-o'-nine-tails is a short cluster of nine knotted leather thongs.[7][8][9]
- 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.[10]
- 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.[11]
- Horse whips are used by horse riders to spur their mounts.[12]
- A master's lash is a magical flaming whip that can sap its victim's will.[13]
- Mokele-mbembe tail whips are crafted from the creature's skin and have a devastating sonic impact.[14]
- Monowhips are rare technological whips made of a fine, lethal monofilament.[15]
- 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.[1][16]
- Ropes can be used as whips by people familiar with rope tricks.[17]
- Rust monster antenna whips are crafted from rust monster antennae and have similarly corrosive effects.[18]
- Scorpion whips have embedded razors and fangs, and are much more lethal than a standard whip.[1][19][20][21]
- Slime tendrils are magical scorpion whips crafted from aboleth tentacles.[22]
- Fleshwarped scorpion's tails are magical scorpion whips crafted from the tails of giant cave scorpions.[23]
- Nimble whips are magical scorpion whips enchanted with the ability to steal objects from a victim.[24]
- Scorpion tail whips use many interlocking chitinous plates instead of leather, and are renowned for their incredible speed.[25]
- Stinging whips are foci comprised of metallic wires and used by clerics of Calistria to more easily disarm or trip their foes.[26]
- Tamer's whips are magical whips used to subdue and train animals and magical beasts.[27]
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.[28]
The Tigress's Strand is a magical, web-resistant scorpion whip made of hardened spider silk with bear-claw studs.[29]
On Golarion
Whips are often favored by vigilantes,[30] by swashbucklers of the Shackles,[31] and by Okeno Slavers.[32] Bards are also skilled with whips, among other weapons.[33]
Hellknight orders of the Rack and Scourge favor whips.[34]
A sect of the Runelord Sorshen's wizards developed enchantment-delivering magical whips known as sadist's lashes.[35]
Some enchanted Aspis Consortium badges are known as Aspis badges of last resort, and are able to transform into (among other things) a whip.[36]
Certain vine leshys sprout appendages that they can use as whips.[37]
In religion
Whips are the favored weapon of Abraxas,[38] Calistria,[39] Dahak,[40] Gendowyn,[40] Gogunta,[38] Lissala,[40] Matravash,[41] Moloch,[38] Ragadahn,[42] Ranginori,[43] and Selket.[38]
Calistrians are particularly drawn to whips, and are known to use them to deliver poisons.[44] Rangers faithful to Calistria often train heavily with whips.[45] Vengeful kisses are Calistrian magical whips that can extend as far as 50 feet in length.[46]
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.[47]
A perfectionist shavtoosh is an Iroran prayer cloth often worn as a shawl or belt, but can also be wielded as a magical whip.[48]
References
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