Strength Report: The clash of six Tinker Champions with Merdiwen and Saki.

Champions

Anelle Rose
- Military
- Rank: Primus
- Title: Deforester
-> Merdiwen's Title: Charmflare
- Great Tasks: Slime Annihilation [4/10]

- Combat Styles, Mage
-> Core Casting: Fire Bolt
Elemental, Individual shots of fire thrown from palms. Ranged combatant flees if the enemy has approached

-> Artillery: Fireball
Elemental, Large combined fireballs thrown from both palms. Requires one core per charge. Requires support

-> Wide Area, Destructive: Solar Hellfire
Elemental, one minute incantation. Destructive potential appears like a miniature sun. The resulting fireball has a variable range of building size to clouds. The total amount of heat appears to be the same

-> Support: Strong Winds
Augments any fire in the area by stoking it, blowing it around, and improving its heat.

Overall Strength: Superhuman II
Overwhelm Limit: 15 Soldiers
Combat Role: Ranged Combat, Support Blasts, Rear Artillery


Yalin Taylor
- League of Engineers
- Rank: Alchaneer
- Title: The Pretty Alchemist
-> Merdiwen's Title: Many Alchemists in One
- Great Work: Alchemist Laboratory [δ/10]

- Combat Styles, Unique
-> Ranged: Double Cylinder
Two wooden cylinders are kept under Yalin's arms, in her sleeves. They can be loaded with various objects that work best, but are designed to work in tandem with gems she keeps in a pouch. These gems appear to be crystallized gel and have various effects. Gel types include:

> Elemental Bolt - A blast of a pure element is launched from the cylinder. This functions similarly to casting upon a core, but with an alchemic focus. Bolts include a water blast, a stream of fire, a strong gust of wind, and a large amount of sand.
> Storm Casting - A miniature thundercloud can be summoned for rain and lightning. Unlike other core magic, the rain appears to be real.
> Frost Spray - Similar to fire, but cold. The crystal for this is complex and involves an icicle pattern. The casting happens by spraying outward in a spiral pattern
> Heat Buster - The cylinder can be overloaded with fire and released all at once. This requires a large amount of heat to build up and is paired with the stream of fire to generate.
> Defensive Barrier - Hard earthen spikes in the same manner as defensive barricades can be drawn from the ground.

-> Personal: Plant Creation
Yalin claps her hands together, touches the ground, and a large amount of life springs up around her target. The mechanism for this is unknown, but the effects are similar to core casting. Vines were demonstrated during the fight, but other soft plants like moss are also possible. These plants take longer to fade than cores, but do not last more than a minute

-> Personal: Core Casting, Direct Touch
Standard punching with a burst core attached to the back of her palm. Oddly high powered effect.

-> Ranged: Core Casting, Mixed Bolts. Fusion of Fire, Ice, and Spark.
Three bolts are summoned, combined, copied, combined again, and fired. Each of the lowest level mixed bolt appears to have the power of five individual bolts. Five mixed bolts are combined and launched for devastating effect. Spark causes the ice to explode and fragment, fire converts it to steam, and the entire bolt causes a thunderclap where it hits.

One large fusion bolt should drain five cores. Two were held simultaneously during the battle with no apparent source. Yalin describes this as drawing energy from the air, the ground, and the sun instead of cores.

-> Unique
Yalin can drain the will to fight out of a foe. This works by removing their negative feelings: hate, despair, fear, bloodlust, addlement, or sadism.

Yalin refuses to describe how this process works and claims it is taboo. Merdiwen is immune to this effect.

-> Siege Weapon: Boulder Golemancy
A collection of boulders in the rough shape of a human is summoned. This temporary creature is capable of lifting great objects, throwing boulders, and smashing through trees. The creature superficially resembles a golem, but appears to be directly controlled by the wielder.

Overall Strength: Trained Human
Overwhelm Limit: 40 Soldiers
Combat Role: Variable Ranged Combat, Primary Support, Siege Warfare


Melvin
- Artisan's Guild
- Rank: -
- Title: -
-> Merdiwen's Title: Human-Shaped Slime Hybrid

- Combat Styles unknown at this time

Overall Strength: Empowered Human II
Overwhelm Limit: unknown
Combat Role: unknown


Clark
- Farmer's Union
- Rank: Farmer
- Great Works: Feed Riverdale [Complete]

Combat Style: Hand-to-Hand
Clark has basic training with fists. He has the strength of two men and uses this training effectively.

Overall Strength: Trained Human
Overwhelm Limit: Three Soldiers
Combat Role: Soldier


Selena Arcadia Eodhan
- Military, Librarian's Ward
- Rank: Taskmaster, Librarian
- Title: Taskkeeper

Combat Styles, Archery

-> Ranged: Sniper
Selena has intermediate training with a bow. Her shots are somewhat weak, but very accurate from a long distance.

-> Ranged: Sentry
Selena bears a Floating Robe. She can launch herself into the sky and fire arrows down upon unsuspecting targets.

-> Core Casting: Enhanced Sniper
Arrows may be enhanced or replaced with core casting of a solid object. The object she creates is a solid length of silvery light. This light is capable of seeking a target at a very fast speed. The light works poorly against physical objects, but when striking anything charged with a core both will burst on impact.

-> Support: Harmonic Battle
Selena can sing a variety of songs that have a noticeable, real effect on the people around her. Slimes have a magnified effect
- Song of Calm - An evening lull in a brook. Reduces fear of the people in her group.
- Song of Vigor - A song often sung around a campfire. Energizes her companions and boosts their morale
- Song of Mourning - A lamentation of the dead. Morale severely drops
- Song of the Pied Piper - A famous tune. Causes anyone nearby to dance to her rhythm
- Song of Screeching - A horrible sound that causes pain to everyone nearby, including herself. Treated as a last resort
- Song of the Goddess - A pure melody that draws out the potential of the singer and those closest to her

-> Enhancement: 400 Tales of the Moon
A special type of enhancement that affects Selena on a personal level. The method for obtaining this involves meeting Merdiwen's master, Karee. The goddess has been documented elsewhere and is neither friend nor foe. The enhancement has various conditional effects and is beneficial overall. Selena refuses to share all but one effect:

-> Enhancement: Dance of the Moonlight Fairies
A large amount of wisps gather around her. These wisps have their own voices and desires that can be heard. The wisps normally have unpredictable effects, but she seems to be able to control them somewhat by commanding or otherwise directing them to perform an action.

Wisps have a large amount of potency in their lives. One medium wisp is roughly equivalent to one core, and can be used as such.

Overall Strength: Trained Human, Empowered Human
Overwhelm Limit: Three Soldiers, Unknown
Combat Role: Sniper, Morale Support


Skyla Noel Gon
- No Affiliation
- Rank:
- Title: The Demon srom the Stars, The Siren of Slimes, The Hunter of Men
-> Merdiwen's Title: Veiltouched
- Great Works:
-> Military, South Mapping [ε/10]
-> Merchant's Association, Harmonic Convergence [Complete]
-> Military, Solo Slime Serenade [Complete 100 times over]
-> Farmer's Union, Mushroom Forage [3/10]
-> Artisan's Guild, Unique Tool: Earth Chopping Sword [6/10]

Combat Styles

-> Personal: Hand to Claw, Beastial
Skyla fights like a wild animal. She has large claws for fingers that can pierce trees and leave deep gouges on unguarded flesh. Her legs are thick, and she can jump very high, roughly thirty feet in the air. Unguarded kicks will shatter bone. She has horns on her head that can bore holes into the chest of unsuspecting men. Her entire body is made of muscle, bone, and bile.

-> Personal: Hunting Hare
Skyla fights like a noble rabbit. She can run as fast as any animal in an open field. In closer quarters, she will jump from the ground to tree trunks to nearby rooftops. Unlike the hare that runs away, she uses this to get closer to her target or for a more advantageous position. Many of her jumps seem reckless, but no one has seen her fail to stick a landing.

-> Personal: Martial Art, Bracers
Skyla fights like a well trained soldier. She will perform training exercises in regular fashion, block blows with bracers on her arms, block kicks with shinguards, throw anyone who grabs her over her shoulder, and has a solid grasp of brawling techniques.

All three of these styles are mixed together and used at will.

-> Personal: Axemanship, Earth Chopping Sword
The unique properties of the Earth Chopping Sword cause it to be very light in the hand and very heavy when swinging. This effect is hard to control, unwieldly to anyone untrained of either swordsmanship or core casting, and devastating on impact. If performed correctly, a stone can be chopped in half. While the weapon does resemble a sword in many ways, it is best used as a two handed axe with a large crescent head and large body. Skyla's raw strength allows her to use it like a hand and a half sword.

-> Personal, Ranged: Spearmanship
A number of broad headed spears are carried. They are small enough to be thrown.

-> Artillery: Ballista Bow
A twelve foot long bow created for a large, four armed man. This bow has the shape of a very long eastern bow, but has been scaled up to the size of a ballista. Drawing the bow fully requires fully outstreching both arms. The bow's ammunition is large flying objects like spears.

-> Anti-Army: Shroud of the Veil
Skyla can draw upon a light made of the purest night and cloak herself in it. This enhances all of her skills many times over. Skyla has requested that other effects are not discussed here.

Overall Strength: Superhuman II, Empowered Human III
Overwhelm Limit: 500 Soldiers, Unknown
Combat Role: Survival Scout, Slime Controller, One-Man Army


Opponents

Merdiwen Tirelle Diyo
- Unusual Person
- Title: First Tinker
-> Merdiwen's Title: Five-Fold Puppeteer, Scion of Karee
- Great Works:
-> Military: Conquer Vilnius Castle, [Complete]
-> Merchant's Association: Procure Bismuth, [Complete]
-> Farmer's Union: Feed the City of Vilnius, [Complete]
-> Librarian's Ward: Personal Request, [Failed]
-> Artisan's Guild: Unique Blacksmithing Hammers of Manyullyn, Teryuji, Yukrea, and Shiyulok, [Complete four times over]
-> League of Engineers: Public Work, Bathhouse, [2/10]

Combat Styles

-> Personal: Immovable Wall
Merdiwen is capable of healing from wounds that would kill any other being. Burned flesh down to the bown regenerates quickly, holes in his chest close, and missing limbs regrow in a matter of seconds. Many attacks don't seem to affect him at all, as if there was an invisible wall of stone surrounding him at all times.

-> Unique: Magic Casting
The exact way this is performed is unknown. It appears to be similar to core casting, but has no sources. Multiple variations were observed
- Floating: The user can hover in the air as if suspended by a floating robe. The amount of fine tuning must be very precise, as even when hit directly he was not blown around.
- Flying: We are unsure if this is an extension of floating or a separate effect. Merdiwen appears to fly freely through the air as if he was being pulled by a string. No strings have been observed and the effect is distinct from puppetry.
- Rooting: An anchor to the ground. Vines wrapping around his legs were observed
- Light: During the incident where Melvin took Skyla's snowflake obsidian and during the spar with Skyla Merdiwen manifested a similar effect to her Cloak of the Veil. Both effects appear to be made of a sort of light. While Skyla's form is an unbelieveable black light, Merdiwen's form is a blinding white light.

-> Personal: Swordsmanship, Fencing
Standard fighting style. Appears to have mastery over the form. Particularly adept at deflecting blows.

-> Personal: Swordsmanship, Dual Wielding
Standard fighting style. Appears to have mastery over the form. An extension of Fencing.

-> Ranged: Sword Puppetry
A sword appears to move independently from its master. If one focuses on the space between the sword and him, a silvery thread runs between the sword and one of the individual finger gloves he wears. Whenever the finger twitches or moves, the sword moves in response. The sword can be launched very fast with a full arm motion. The maximum range of this skill is no less than 500 feet. The sword flies as fast as an arrow and can sweep around in the air. The thread is not blocked by objects and is ephemeral, but can be cut with methods that approach core casting.

Merdiwen claims that this ability is not limited to swords, but this was not demonstrated.

-> Unique: Sword Summoning
Merdiwen carries two tools at all times: A green sword that looks like grass, and a mallet made out of wood.

During the spar with Selena, Merdiwen was seen holding a second sword. The sword is blue, seems to have manifested spontaineously, and appeared in the middle of a swing as if it was already known to be there.

Melvin describes this sword as "empty". It is unknown if this is something that Saki or Merdiwen performed, and given the nature of their relationship may not matter.

-> Unique: Puppetry
Merdiwen is known to use life size human puppets in his tasks. He claims that these can take any shape and size, but only slim women have been seen. These puppets can perform tasks, use skills, and are indistuingishable from another person at a glance. Closer inspection reveals they are ball jointed dolls of exquisite craftsmanship and made of a flesh-like material he calls "Ceramic Slime". These dolls do not make any noise beyond the ruffling of clothing and do not speak.

Each doll is independently capable of fighting a force of ten soldiers. It is unknown what the upper limit of control is and how that scales to a larger force, but he has been spotted with no less than a group of twenty that serve drinks, entertain guests, and perform other menial tasks.

-> Unique: Reverse Puppetry
During the spar with Skyla, Merdiwen was the marionette on the end of the strings. This doesn't seem to have enhanced or reduced his abilities; rather, when he was in a dangerous position he was pulled out of the way in a favorable direction.

-> Unknown Potential
Merdiwen claims "I had to try a little bit" when sparring with Skyla. He demonstrated this by having Melvin raise an arm holding a stick in a lazy fashion. We cannot say whether he was forthcoming. What we can say is that his characteristic smirk only left his face momentarily during the time when Skyla donned the Cloak of the Veil. This has been seen during other encounters when he is surprised. The smirk appears to be a default expression or a mask, and only drops when something piques his interest.

He seemed to be more concerned about protecting Saki than the match that was going on. Once she was out of harm's way, the smirk came back. The depths of his strength remain to be seen.

Overall Strength: Lesser Demigod
Overwhelm Limit: 10,000 Soldiers
Combat Role: Infiltration, One-Man Army


Saki
- A spirit attached to Merdiwen. She can be placed into a doll and has her own unique characteristics.
- She is not an extension of the person she normally inhabits, nor was she ever a normal human being. See other reports for more information.

Combat Styles:

-> Unique: Puppet
It is difficult to gauge Saki's combat ability as an individual. As a puppetted doll, she appears to have more prowess than the individual dolls that have been used in the past. Fightinger her feels like you are fighting a living, breathing, fighting puppet with their own will. That will is augmented by the puppeteer. They work in tandem to weave a skilled dance of summoned swords and flight and she floats freely just like her master. She also exhibits a style of fencing, but it is different from Merdiwen's and augmented by her other combat style.

-> Unique: Sword Casting
Swords are summoned and directed at will. These swords can be used as puppetry devices, as hazards, and as cutting devices. They seem to last as long as the user can maintain concentration. The maximum amount is at least a hundred or a sword the size of a tree.

Overall Strength: Empowered Human I
Overwhelm Limit: 300 Soldiers
Combat Role: Merdiwen's Support

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Year 825, Late Spring
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