“Let me make this perfectly clear.” Bertilak drew his mace and extended its chain. Spikes popped out of the steel ball at the end of it. The handle also seemed to have a pistol grip. The black metal was scratched and cracked, and there were specks of rust—Velvet hoped they were rust—on the spikes. “The old man will not be going with you, no matter what it takes.”

- RWBY: After the Fall, Chapter 6