THUNDER'S GAUNTLET

(• • • Correspondence,  • • • Mind,  and either  • • Prime,  • • • Forces  or  • • • Matter, or  • • • Life)

Developed by Wolfram von Gruenberg, bani Tytalus, over a century before the siege of Mistridge, this Rote allowed the Teuton to call out his enemies, no matter how distant, with a telepathic certamen challenge and a painful blast of thunder for good measure. Those wizards who came later refined and altered his pentacles of Mars and invocations of Gabriel slightly to allow for fire, cold, spikes thrust from the floor and even internal hemorrhaging to act as the Gauntlet's exclamation point. While perhaps not as commonly used for its original purpose today as when Wolfram created it, it still sees some use among certain sadistic bastards in the Order who like to taunt an enemy or ruin him with a particularly horrible bit of news before killing him. 

A dubiously reliable story also exists about a Janissary who used this Rote while fleeing Quaesitor persecution to deliver a brief testimony to one of his pursuers and kill him. The Janissary later sent a coded message to a friend in another house containing only the dead Quaesitor's name and instructions to summon and interrogate the man's spirit. Truly, the Order is resourceful.