Control rods

A control rod is a device, wand or staff created usually by mages or wizards in order to pacify, destroy or control either magical experiments, summons or other life-forms.

Usage

• One example of a control rod is a wand of terror, a long, magically charged shaft that is capable of instilling ineffable terror in conscious, living beings surrounding the wielder when waved around.
• Another, a finer example is when the Shade-Killers used the onyx scepter to disrupt the monstrously regenerative magic of the Greater Shades who played a pivotal role in the Retribution crisis.