Category:Weapon Users:Cestus

These characters use cestus' in combat. A cestus, spelled caestus in the original Latin, is an ancient battle glove, sometimes used in pankration. In use, it is classical antiquity's equivalent to boxing gloves but with an entirely opposite effect.

The first version of a battle caestus was a series of leather thongs that were tied over the hand. Greeks used them in their hand-to-hand competitions, where only knock out mattered. Romans modified the construction by adding metal parts, including spikes, studs, and iron plates. Variants of this weapon include the myrmex or "limb-piercer", and the originally Greek sphairai, thin leather thongs with cutting blades.