Pain-Implant
A needle-delivered intracranial actuator of Iru People Iru The progenitors, and the only naturally evolved people of Elshore. origin, implanted at the neck and self-locomoting to the brainstem. Remote-commanded and configurable across at least three output levels, it propagates pain along the spine in controllable waves. The Order of Randen Faction Order of Randen The fastest-growing power in the Maan empire at AC 50, the Order of Randen is a religious-political apparatus that co-opts the theology of Randenism and transforms it into a deb... operates salvaged examples in AC 50 as coercion instruments. The Iru used the device on their own subject peoples; the Order of Randen now uses it on theirs, with the device unchanged.
Key traits
- Delivered via a needle at the neck; travels autonomously through the body to the brainstem by an unstated locomotion mechanism.
- Pain output propagates along the spine in waves and is remotely commanded without line-of-sight contact from the operators.
- Configurable across at least three severity levels; the highest documented output locks muscles, produces convulsion, and causes tooth fracture from grinding.
- Designed for compliance rather than death, severity can be raised incrementally toward a threshold the operators acknowledge will become lethal if continued.
- Iru-era design philosophy, per the Red Priest's account: "Pain is memorable. Memory is useful", the device treats pain as a mnemonic and compliance substrate rather than merely punitive output.
- Operated by the Order of Randen in AC 50 as salvaged Iru technology; the Order's own doctrine frames Iru medicine as "filth," making its use of this device a doctrinal contradiction the Order resolves through framing alone.