It's interesting that your database doesn't return Tnor'tesphi (an artifact) on the search since that should have been in the game before the Sambata and Goranga clubs.
Lucy usually requires an item to be seen in game by someone running the item collector. However, there's also a lot of stuff that was never acquirable in game up on Lucy. I don't know if your database would have require it to hit with item collector first (before it got uploaded a couple years ago).
The argument for Nihilist Battlestaff:
1) The NPC currently drops the staff, the robe, and the helmet, all of which she is showing graphically in screenshots.
2) The Battlestaff, Robe, and Helmet all have item IDs surrounded by other Kunark-launch items.
3) The fact that the item IDs are all consecutive (12840, 12841, 12842) even further supports that these items were ADDED with Kunark as opposed to developers adding new items by MODIFYING old item IDs. I posted the Askr's Gauntlets example where a PoP item has a Kunark ID. When this happens, it's usually a single point mutation. The other Askr's items all have PoP item IDs.
The argument in favor of Rod of Battle:
1) The database did not have Nihilist Battlestaff until way later.
2) The only other item with that graphic is Rod of Battle
There's really no satisfying answer here.
For me, the most convincing argument is the consecutive item IDs between other Kunark items. Although, you wouldn't be wrong by going in either direction.
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