Gladius


 * Power: The pen needs no ink, always writes in a deep, dark red ink reminiscent of old blood.


 * Description: A vintage fountain pen with the word “Gladius” etched in the barrel. It’s a play on words in that it is the latin word for ‘sword’ (pen being mightier than the sword).


 * History: The fountain pen was something that was carried by a late spymaster as a favored keepsake and treasured tool. It was, in many ways, the sword he wielded in his work for American Intelligence. Even as the world around him turned to new instruments to record one’s thoughts he kept to something with a bit more weight and tradition.This pen drafted projects and programs that saved lives and sent others to their death. He crafted whole works of propaganda - a web of lies, secrets and innuendo that created false targets, destroyed reputations and conjured heroes out of thin air. With it he felt girded against the slings and arrows of his shadowy world of intrigue and espionage.  It was the very embodiment of his secretive self.