Violet’s Daggers
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Overview
Violet's daggers are runed tools with two confirmed enchantments. They contain a need-based unlocking variation, and one dagger marked with intertwined Vs protects her from Cat's mindwork when Violet keeps it on her body.
Appearance
The Tyrrish daggers have black hilts, decorative runes, and a custom size suited to Violet. They are lighter than traditional-length daggers and harder to knock from her hands.
Ownership or Custody
Violet owns and has won multiple daggers, and she retrieves her blades after Xaden orders her to leave them off the mat for training. One of the blades she collects afterward is a new runed dagger.
Violet explains that Xaden gave her the Tyrrish knives after she won them from him in a sparring match. When Rhiannon asks about the knives that helped open the interrogation facility's door, Violet says Xaden had them made for her.
Function, Rules, and Limitations
The daggers contain a variation of the unlocking rune with an added element of need. They do not open any door Violet merely wants opened, but if a dagger is on her body and senses her need for a door to unlock, it opens; Xaden says this same feature would have opened the Basgiath forge door if she had reached it.
One dagger, marked with intertwined Vs, is runed to protect Violet from Cat's mindwork. The protection depends on Violet keeping that dagger on her body, which is why it fails when she has removed her blades.
Important Uses
Violet wears her daggers into the challenge gym and palms one during Dain's challenge despite her injured arm. With Dain allowing her to keep the blades and Bodhi judging her close enough to kill him, she holds a dagger at Dain's throat while pinned, giving her a practical defense against both bodily defeat and memory theft.
After Violet retrieves her weapons at the interrogation facility, having the daggers back immediately makes her feel less vulnerable. One dagger then responds to the main door's lock through heat, tingling, and contact near its decorative pommel, helping open the door in a way Violet does not yet understand.
The dagger at Violet's left hip protects her during the squad merger when Cat tries to amplify her emotions. Violet feels ordinary jealousy, but not the unnatural rage, insecurity, or self-loathing Cat previously intensified, and Cat's reaction suggests the blade blocks or blunts her access.