Need help with a bit of dialogue from the old books.

[IRW Bloodwing]

I don't have access to a copy of "The Final Reflection" and I am racking my brain trying to remember the etiology and context of the Klingon epithet "Kahless' Hand". I vaguely remember something about him tying his hand to his chair for some reason, but that's about it. And, before anyone asks, yes I did try looking it up online. Google-Fu has failed me.

Could one of you old-school fans with a better memory than mine give me the Cliff's Notes version of the phrase and how it was used?

 

[Smiley]

Here is Krenn's dialogue about it (page 161 in the Kindle version):

"His name was Kahless. When his ship was dying, he had his hand bound to his Chair, that no one could say he left it, or that another had been in the Chair at the ship's death. Then all his crew could escape without suspicion, because Kahless had taken on all the ship's destiny.
"Kahlesste kaase, we say. Kahless's Hand."

 

[IRW Bloodwing]

many thanks