Tehk'la Blade

About the Tehk'la Blade

A Nikto war-knife with a distinctive hooked spine, the tehk'la blade is the traditional close-combat weapon of the desert peoples of Kintan, carried by generations of Nikto mercenaries into service with the Hutts and countless crime syndicates. Compact and balanced for the reverse grip as readily as the forward, it can stab, slash, and hook in a single flowing motion, its curved profile designed to catch and tear rather than simply cut. Nikto enforcers value how quietly and quickly it works in the press of a boarding action or a back-alley ambush. The blade's exotic geometry rewards a wielder trained in its particular arcs; someone who tries to fight with it like an ordinary knife wastes half its design. To a Nikto, though, it is as familiar as a handshake, and just as capable of ending an argument.