Rekvu's Stained Grasps

These gauntlets once belonged to a Huana barbarian known throughout the archipelago as Rekvu, Dread of Invaders.

Local legend holds that Rekvu appeared only when her forces' situation was at its most dire. Rekvu often sustained injuries in battle that would have killed any other warrior - and yet, she never died.

In the heat of one such battle, Rekvu charged the field alone against a troop of Bleak Walkers - for all those who might have fought beside her sprawled dead at her feet. She slew the paladins one by one until at last she stood before their leader. The paladin leader was fast, faster even than Rekvu, and severed her hand with a swipe of his broadsword. But Rekvu was clever, and she tripped the paladin leader. As he fell into the mud, she cleaved him from neck to navel.

Assured that her enemy was dead, Rekvu tore off her other gauntlet and used its glove as a makeshift tourniquet. When the battle was ended and her wound tended to, Rekvu left her stained gauntlets behind.