the Weeper's Whip

The Weeper

No Retrievers' crew boss is more feared than the Weeper in the City of the One Prince.
Retrievers crews are fearless adventurers seeking their fortunes into the Wastes by retrieving resources that have become scarce within the confines of the City.
Retrievers primarily focus on bringing back wood and metal from the dangerous wasteland surrounding the city.

The Weeper has been leading his present crew for more than 50 years now and not many people remember a young elven ranger by the name of Valerian who landed in the city 80 years ago. Valerian got his name of Weeper after he contracted the disease known as Retrievers' Sores.
The condition deformed the body of the sufferer by creating forever seeping open lesions which harden into ridges around the wound.

Monstrous by appearance, the Weeper has often played off his scary and offending physiognomy to control situations and influence his rivals and employees.
He is also not shy from a murder or two if deemed necessary.

His preferred weapon is a whip fashioned of silver he had made forty years ago when his crew found a siver statue of a long-forgotten god half-buried in the ruins of an ancient palace. 

The Whip

The Weeper's silver whip has become emblematic of the man, and represents his near godlike powers over his people. 
As to why, the Weeper chose to fashion a whip instead of any other weapon, he, himself, usually gives this simple qnswer: from being the victim of Sores, he is now their masters and can impart to whoever displeases him the same sores that he was given all those years ago.

When the Weeper takes out his silver whip from his belt, everybody cowers and know their time might be at an end.

The whip as an object is a thing of beauty: the Weeper asked the only true skilled elven smith of the City to create it for him - a very ancient and sought after master of the art, who is meant to have arrived in the Dome with the One Prince himself, eons ago.
These days, Gradien Highwater, only work for the Prince, himself or the Knights of the Shield.

It is not sure how the Weeper convinced Gradien to make the silver whip for him, but the workmanship on the weapon is peerless: from the beautiful and ornate engravings of the handle to the long, thin flowing line of the silver whip itself, all is deadly perfection.