Reanimated Hand - A reanimated hand is an enormously large hand and wrist, often
adorned with appropriately sized jewelry. It walks on its fingertips
and often uses its middle finger as a quadruped would use its head
(although anyone of its fingers can actually serve this function).
The origins of reanimated hands are murky at best. Many
accept that when the gods cursed the giants, and stripped them of
their magical power following Rallos Zek's unsuccessful invasion
of the Planes of POwer, the gods found it difficult to remove all
vestiges of magic from the greatest and most powerful giant
spellcasters, so they stripped these titanic giants of their hands as
well as the majority of their innate magi~. As the stories go,
enterprising necromancers since discovered some of these amputated
hands and reanimated them into servants. If this version of
the hands' origins is true, then some portion of the ancient giants'
magical talent yet remains in these hands, providing them with
considerable sorcerous abilities.
To lend credence to such tales,
reanimated hands often
dwell where mighty necromancers
or their
allies reside: in
abandoned castles,
dungeons, and
other ruins.
Apparently lacking sensory organs, reanimated hands nonetheless
can somehow see, hear, and smell as well as any creature
with a normal anatomy. Not having a mouth, however, reanimated
hands possess no spoken language.
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