Pike Pole

A Pike Pole untangles a Snarl — only it: neither sword nor arrow takes one. A fluxsteel hook on a lumenash pole catches the kink and takes off a twist with each blow — a fresh Snarl comes apart in five. The seam lashes back, so keep clear of the lips. An untangled Snarl gives up what it caught and its spoils — the richer, the tighter it was twisted.

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The tighter a Snarl was twisted, the richer its spoils. Still grains — by the murk it drank, more for tightness; Snarl Thread — one to four; shards of the currents of its place — the Springs and Poles that make up the currents of that land, one to three; and now and then a Snarl Core — three times in a hundred from a fresh one, up to a third from a tight, taut one. A Seine and a Snarl that unravels on its own leave only grains. A thread pays for a missing shard at the Lens Grinder and goes into the Silt Shell weaving; a Core dissolves in the Crucible into thick Bind with Still.

A rare Snarl Core — the kink of a tight Snarl, condensed into a solid — forged into the hook at the Confluence turns a Pike Pole into a Toothed Pike Pole: it takes off two and a half twists per blow. Besides a Maw Tooth, this is the only way to one.