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Judgement Dagger

Higher-Cohort frost daggerClaimed by the Autarch after Lucretia's failed assassination attempt

The Judgement Dagger is an unnamed dagger Lucretia refines from the remains of a System Judgement. Its higher-Cohort construction emits frost capable of invalidating every defensive Skill she tests, making it the physical centerpiece of her attempt to break the Autarch's control. (Chapters 650, 652)

History

Refinement from a Judgement

Lucretia manipulates a yeti Judgement into striking her prepared chains, causing the Judgement to implode from the feedback of channeling too much Aether. The creature had already been drained to help form a weapon for Claptrap; Lucretia spends the next two months studying and fashioning another portion of its power into a dagger. (Chapters 650, 652)

The attack on the Autarch

Lucretia throws the dagger while pulling on the karmic thread between herself and the Autarch. The weapon strikes and drives him backward, but its momentum ends against an ordinary-looking coat rack that loses only a small chip. The Autarch then picks up the dagger and claims it as proof that Lucretia exceeded his expectations. (Chapter 652)

Abilities and properties

  • It is fashioned from a collapsed System Judgement whose power originates in a higher Cohort. (Chapters 650, 652)
  • Its Skill possesses both a very high level and a construction tier Lucretia cannot fully interpret. (Chapter 652)
  • The frost it emits invalidates every defensive Skill Lucretia tests against it. (Chapter 652)
  • When empowered and thrown, it drives the Autarch backward but cannot penetrate the coat rack he uses as cover. (Chapter 652)

Ownership and custody

Holder or custodianRelationship to the item
LucretiaEngineers the Judgement's collapse, refines the dagger for two months, and uses it in her attack on the Autarch. (Chapters 650–652)
ClaptrapBenefits from a related weapon formed by draining the same Judgement, but is not shown holding Lucretia's dagger. (Chapter 650)
The AutarchStops the attack, picks up the dagger, and explicitly takes it after Lucretia's attempt fails. (Chapter 652)