avia’s staff is a carbon-based material that she creates as needed with casting matrices etched in the palms of her gloves. They are strong but not particularly malleable, with the color and texture of cast iron but a weight like carbon fiber. Their usual form is a staff 6′2″ in length and about 1″ in diameter, with each end tapering slightly across the last foot into ends 3/4″ in diameter. One of the ends is smooth, but the other is rough and jagged, due to the relative crudeness of her matrices.
She first designed the gloves at age thirteen, when she was first starting to train seriously in hand-to-hand combat. The material deflects swords and other sharp blows easily, but is vulnerable to shock and can shatter if flexed too far. However, this is not to say it is brittle; the material can easily support double her weight and fares well in combat with other blunt weapons.
As she learned theurgy she developed a way to use the same matrices to construct different shapes -- batons, flat discs she uses as shields, chains, and various constructions she uses as fortifications during combat. She refined and ultimately published her work on the subject when she was 17, and although it was derivative of earlier work (meyac and other magic-derived construction materials) her refinements were well-received and utilized throughout the Institute. She never made her inclusion of theurgy public.
