Item: Mantis Embrace (Greater)
These stylized red gloves are constructed from plates of leather that have been treated to resemble insect chitin. The gloves grant the wearer a +3 item bonus to Athletics checks to Grapple or Shove.
Activate—Crushing Embrace 1 (manipulate)
Frequency once per hour
Requirements You are grappling a creature
Effect You Strike the creature you are grappling with a melee weapon or unarmed attack. This Strike deals an additional 5d6 precision damage and gains the death trait. The body of a creature that is slain by Crushing Embrace is so gruesomely damaged that the creature's body cannot be affected by any effect that requires an intact body to function, such as the Talking Corpse spell.
Trait Effects
Invested: A character can invest only 10 magical items that have the invested trait. None of the magical effects of the item apply if the character hasn’t invested it, nor can it be activated, though the character still gains any normal benefits from wearing the physical item (like a hat keeping rain off their head).
Magical: Something with the magical trait is imbued with magical energies not tied to a specific tradition of magic. Some items or effects are closely tied to a particular tradition of magic. In these cases, the item has the arcane, divine, occult, or primal trait instead of the magical trait. Any of these traits indicate that the item is magical.
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