1. The Mistress of Blades

The Mistress of Blades was an assassin of moderate skill but excellent charisma and presentation. One of the problems with being a good assassin is that you have to be moderately famous. Too famous and it's obvious you are bad at your job, not famous enough and there is no money or contracts worth your time and skills. The Mistress of Blades became famous for cutting throats or cutting dramatic bleeds in her targets, making a dramatic flourish and disappearing. Hey nyelets were how she did her work, being made, of all things, of tarasceen steel. The nails were mundane when painted a dull natural color, easily overlooked or forgiven as a fashion accessory. They have a sharpness charm placed on them, allowing for the nails to be used as eight tiny, incredibly sharp knives. These are limited to slashing movements with the hands and are of limited damage ability. Armor is very effective against them, medium or heavy clothing is almost like light armor. Bare flesh parts like water.

2. Talons of the Underfiend

The Talons of the Underfiend are a set of nyelets that were crafted from the claws of a slain beast. Once attached, the wearer gains a highly vicious fashion accessory that also allows them to make rending claw attacks. These are large, impossible to hide, and inflict a dexterity penalty on anything other than posing dramatically and making melee attacks. The wearer doesn't have to worry about accidentally talon striking themself as an accidental attack. They do have to worry about tearing their clothing, giving themselves deep scratches, or otherwise making a mess with their beast claws. These are popular among female barbarians, she-orcs, and aggressively cross-dressing sorcerers.

There are enhanced variants that include Talons of the Under Dragon, Talons of the Poisoned Wyrm, and Talons of the Spectral Horror. They are functionally increased power variants that can rend armor, inflict poison status, or hit the victim with lethargy.

3. Succubus Claws

Succubus claws are ornately decorated, brightly colored, long ass nyelets. Their magical nature grants the wearer a good boost to charisma and a sinister aura. This isn't an evil aura, just one so that viewers feel that someone wearing these nyelets is definitely not a goodie-two-shoes. They are good at boosting seduction checks, intimidation checks, or for a high charisma character to get a mark talking, divulging information, or just completely distracting them for their partner to rob them, or knock them unconscious. 

These have no actual connection to succubus or the infernal realms

4. Will of the Sorcerer

These claws are made from exotic materials, painted in exotic inks, and with arcane focus and intent. A sorcerer with these on can use them to replace material or somantic components in their spellcrafting. This does take time and some practice to get down. A sorcerer or sorceress can create their own paradigm of spellcraft with each finger having a different symbol, and using different combinations to cast their spells, while also being fashionable. 

5. Priestess Polish Tips

Priestess polish tips are demure nyelets that render the hands of the wearer as magical objects. This is considered useful because it allows for incorporeal, spectral, and creatures only affected to be affected by the priestesses who favor these. This is not so much useful for a magic nun beatdown, but more a sailor scout shrine guardian using these to make her hands magical so they can slap magic seals or charms on monsters to banish or subdue them. 

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