Crysknife

Item from Dune by Frank Herbert

A sacred Fremen blade made from a sandworm's tooth — milky translucent, impossibly sharp, and bound by the deepest taboo: it must not be sheathed unblooded.

Also known as: the maker's tooth, Fremen knife, the sacred blade

What They Know

• Made from the tooth of Shai-Hulud — the sandworm — and considered sacred by the Fremen
• Must not be sheathed unblooded once drawn — this taboo is taken with lethal seriousness
• Unfixed crysknives dissolve if separated from a human body's electrical field
• Showing one to an outsider binds them to the tribe or marks them for death
• The blade is monomolecularly sharp and cuts through unshielded material effortlessly
• Each crysknife is personally made and bonded to its owner — to carry another's is a profound statement

Connections

• created_by — sandworm
• wielded_by — paul_atreides
• wielded_by — stilgar
• used_by — fremen

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