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"Riktor the Tinkerer" was a lecturer at Unseen University who firmly believed that the universe could be understood in terms of pure number, and indeed that it was numbers, at some very deep level. No standard price can be quoted for the item trading in such things is a bit like dealing in weapons-grade plutonium - you get the best deal you can, and you probably don't really want to do business with anyone who wants to do this sort of business. These wands may go back to the time of the Mage Wars the spells needed to create them are not currently known on the Disc, and anyone researching the topic would probably be subject to pre-emptive psychological treatment (involving a few fireballs) by other wizards. The control is fine enough to destroy part of a target (such as a single limb) and leave the rest intact an IQ roll may be required in such cases, at the GM's option. Increasing its range costs one extra energy per hundred feet added, and larger targets cost +1 energy per extra 150 lbs. (Wizards say that it makes the target somehow never have existed, but that may be a slight exaggeration.) It requires Magery to use, and costs one energy point (from fatigue, a staff, or whatever) to destroy up to 300 lbs.

The wand has the simple ability to annihilate any matter, living or inert. They might be able to tell you how it worked, but would rather not have it waved around when they were trying to have a peaceful chat.) A very few are known around the Disc, showing up in the armouries of people with more mana than sense.

(Basically, think how a loaded assault rifle with grenade launcher and bayonet would go down in a university engineering department. Unseen University has prohibitions on such weapons. This ancient magical device has nothing to do with fairy godmother wands, being more the sort of thing that wizards go for - although actually, it makes even wizards nervous. By Terry Pratchett and Phil Masters Art by Paul Kidby Ajandurah's Wand of Utter Negativity