Mechanik’s Union

This is one of the latest in the Caernstone range of personal protective gear, this slim circular targe packs a good amount of mechnika under its deceptively mundane exterior. Mainly marketed in the citys of the Cygnarian south near Caspia it retained its popularity with the Llaelese before the Khadorian annexation, and has since filtered into Ord as most things do. Behind the steel outer facing is a tightly packed arcano-conductive coil wired to conduited emitters and inset lodestones. The arm attachment is more complicated than the usual double strap or hand-bar of other shields, instead this targe has a thick wrap-around bracelet clasp which holds the conductive cable in place and runs it discreetly down the wearers arm to a belt mounted convergence engine. Mounted on the inside surface of this arm clasp is the mechnikal trigger for the device which allows the whole mechanism to be triggered as a swift action, its power remaining active for 1 round before disengaging, [this device takes up a bracer slot].

When activated the flat surface of the targe produces a powerful magnetic attraction, ferrous metal objects impacting on it become stuck and require a Strength check [DC 24] to remove. Once a metallic object (usually a knife or sword blade) has become entrapped this way, the feedback from the connected metal object triggers the second plate; targeting the object with a ‘shatter‘ spell effect. Any non-magical object up to 40lb. in weight can be destroyed in this manner (the entire process draws 3 charges from an attached accumulator per use). The unobservant, or badly informed will miss the mechnikal nature of this device and lose their weapon in the process.