Gong Hammer

A plain wooden mallet with a rounded head, roughly the size of a clenched fist. It lacks ornamentation but shows signs of heavy use, its handle darkened from decades of gripping and striking the drum’s hide surface. The Warrior clutches it tightly in the opening beats of the ritual, until Andor wrests it away with a forceful jerk, immediately halting the gong’s deep, rhythmic pulse. Its sudden absence turns the hall’s ominous drone into stunned silence.