The Mims Sahis

The name means "Skin Knife" in Gothic. It is a curved blade designed for the cutting of flesh and the precise removal of skin. The jet black blade is made of stone, although what type defies all geological identification. The blade’s edge is razor sharp and appears to have been shaped by flint-knapping. The blade’s handle is made from bone and wrapped in bluish-green leather. Both the bone and leather were taken from an extinct marine reptile. The bone handle and leather grip show no sign of age, although they pre-date all human history. The Mims Sahis is nine inches long, four inches of blade and five inches of handle.

The knife is primarily a tool, a necessary component of many rituals sacred to The Skinless One. With the Mims Sahis one can perform any number of dark rites, such as the creation of living skins, ritual sacrifices, and unnatural surgeries. Limbs severed or organs removed with the Mims Sahis remain alive and can easily be transplanted into other living things. Wielders of the blade are filled with the knowledge and skills necessary to flay skin from tissue, and an odd desire to do so.

As a weapon, the unnaturally sharp edge of the Mims Sahis ignores armour, slicing flesh without hindrance. It performs as a small knife but does more damage. Half of the damage caused by this weapon cannot be healed by natural means, becoming a permanent injury carried until the victim’s death, unless healed by arcane means.

History

The first record of the knife is in the Accounts of Tillius Corvus, which detail how the already ancient knife was taken from Unwen Ga-Walith, an escaped Gothic slave and self proclaimed chosen of The Skinless One by the Fortes Falcones Roman Auxiliary Troop in 330 AD. After the death of Corvus, it vanished from the records.

It was next written of in Constantinople in 1204AD, as belonging to the madman Sedefkar. After his death at the hands of a group of Frankish Knights in the service of Count Baldwin, the knife again vanished from history.

In 1927, archaeologist Dr. Dragomir Moric excavated a site known as “The Crusader’s Tomb” in Vinkovci. This was revealed to be a secret vault belonging to The Order of the Noble Shield, a mysterious sect of monastic warriors and scholars. with those same Frankish Knights who fought Sedefkar listed amongst its members. The vault contained secret archives and occult artefacts, including, under arcane wards, the Mims Sahis. After its removal from the vault by Moric, Dr Goran Belenzada , a surgeon, took possession of the knife and, under its malign influence, carried out many remarkable, and often horrifying, transplant surgeries.

The investigators stopped Belenzada's activities and after a brief period of ownership by Pyotr, the Mims Sahis fell into Steel's possession. It remained with Steel until the investigators were ambushed by followers of The Skinless One in Uskudar Cemetary in Constantinople, where it was taken from them.

The investigators never saw the knife again, but suspect it may have been in the possession of Mehmet Makryat, the new leader of the cult, when they defeated him on the Orient Express. If so, it is likely that it was thrown from the train along with Makryat's remains, somewhere in Switzerland. ..

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