Manus

This article is a non-canon. It's an off-the-wall idea or spitball concept that may or may not find some aspect of itself used at some point, but does not exist in the world of the Mainland in its current form.

The manus is a terrifying creature, a human-shaped assemblage of clasping, severed hands. Each hand can act separately from the body, moving with unnatural quickness and strength to grasp and claw at whatever is near.

The assemblage is driven by the rent souls of the creatures who originally possessed the hands, all their thought and action a jumbled and tormented mess. Its only coherent goals are to replace the hands as they wear out and drop off, and to squeeze the life out of any living thing within reach.