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"Silber"

Name: Silber Chromschwanz (alias. Real name unknown)
Age: 17 (appearance. Real age unknown)
Gender: Female (comes off as boyish more however)
Race: Ascended (kitsune)
Appearance:
Usual
Combat Attire 1
Combat Attire 2

Brief Bio:

A woman that came from a line of thaumaturgists, "ones who creates miracles". Silber was an outcast of her clan. Having been born with the ability to only manifest weapons, she was deemed a failure. Thus, she was sent out.
Being abandoned, she had undergone hardship to understand the reasons why. Her ability to create weapons came out of hardship, magic born out of constantly struggling for her life. In the end however, she died, at the age of 17.

The reason she died was exhaustion. Without anyone to guide her, anyone to teach her, she had used her power to its absolute limit each time she manifested a weapon. Her body took the brunt of it, but she never knew.
It would be easy to assume she would stop when she felt the pangs. However, in her solitude, she became a vigilante, striking at bandit camps, felling beasts that threatened villages from the shadows. She wanted the warmth of admiration, the respect she never had, the adornment as a child. She died alone, after killing a dragon said to bring calamity, after coughing up more blood than what should be possible.

A miracle happened after that, to the one who was an unknown miracle worker. Her spirit was taken away, reshaped by the gods into a form that suits her more. Unfortunately, that form was also a curse, letting her live beyond her age as well.
Now, this thaumaturgist had retired from so long ago, satisfied with what she did. She became a nameless legend amongst the masses, a hero no one knows. And she lives amongst them, another nameless person in the crowd, content with what she did be left unknown.

Abilities

Blacksmithing
Silber's magic can create weapons. However, these are of a quality much lower than what she could create manually. This means, for her weapons to have been in their prime, she needs to have forged them beforehand, and even beyond what they could be possible before (a tall ask).
She had worked with metals for quite a long time now. Her knowledge of metallurgy is both factual and instinctive.
Her expertise allows her to analyze weapons at a glance; a great asset if one makes the weapons of legends. Thus, what she needs is to process what the legend is made of, what makes it legendary, and then recreate it.
She has turned it into an art-form that she can enhance legends if she wishes, but only when forging.
Her recreating ability extends to combat, letting her pit one's own weapons against their wielder (with major exceptions).

Cooking
Her cooking has reached a stage when anything she makes, even if it looks inedible, is delicious. Her skill in analysis, her knowledge of the control of heat. These movements help her as much in the kitchen as in the forge.

Tutelage
With her senses honed, she can tell the magical strength of a person. Silber can tell if they are using it effectively (something she wished she had beforehand). This does not apply just to magic; each swing of the weapon, the breathing one does. She can analyze it, and she can give advise where to improve, how to improve.



Mode of combat: One mind, one thought

When she enters basic combat, Silber devotes herself onto one concept of battle. These concepts are: Stalwart Guard, Full Frontal, Bombardment. It takes one post for her to switch between stances.
In all three concepts, she can call her weapons from an "active repository" (explained later) that fits her style forming on the spot. Modern ranged weapons called this way are loaded before they are "summoned".

Stalwart Guard: Silber's weapons are geared towards defense. Overly large swords are the norm, blunted and thickened to focus on durability. Here also, war hammers and parry blades make their appearance. In this focus, she actively parries, taking stances to guard and counter as necessary. Modern weaponry like shotguns may appear here.

Full Frontal: Silber's weapons are geared towards offense. Spears and swords are the norm. Also, axes and ranged assault weapons appear here as well. The mindset is to get close and release a steady stream of unrelenting combat as close as possible. Using this, her method of combat in this form is both unorthodox and what one could call a "sword dancer".

Bombardment: Whatever weapons Silber makes, they are used here, blades to fall like rain. With a wave of her hand, weapons are flung like darts. Her lithe body dances around as she lets weapons release a final scream of glory before destroying themselves, the bigger the legend behind them, the bigger the blast (regular weapons have a blast radius of three meters, a third of a modern grenade).

Weaknesses
Infinite Storage, Limited Supply
Silber needs to prepare her weapons beforehand in combat, by visualizing each one in her mind and putting it in her "active repository". Each weapon used is taken from there, no matter how many she forges. She has a limit of 15 in her active repository; if she wishes to use a different weapon while it is full, then she would need to erase from her mind a weapon and visualize the new weapon.
Her limit to weapons to legends tied to them is two, no matter

A Strong, yet Brittle Hand
Silber is a glass cannon. She can take hits when she is in the Defense concept, but outside of it, she has problems. She is quite sturdier than the average person, but she can get killed easily (or a state of being nearly killed. Immortality is a pain that way).

An Unchanging Mind, Changes
In combat, it is necessary to mix up one's battle style. However, this is a problem for Silver as she focuses on one at a time. This is the limit on herself: not to use all 3 at the same time. Due to this, she needs time to break herself out of her old mindset and into a new mindset. This is why there is a transition of one post between the concepts, which can leave her open.

Miracle of Metals, Nothing More
Silber's ability to make weapons is limited to weapons made of metals, or with what concept of metal. Weapons with biologic origins (even wood) are beyond her. If a weapon has any bio-components, the weapon is made incomplete and Silber needs to study the biologic concepts to replace it with metallic equivalents.
In this way, people who use weapons made of bone, monster parts, or any organic weapons are immune to Silber's ability to copy their weapons.


Trump Card

Unlimited Arsenal Works

The pinnacle of thaumaturgical weaponsmiths. A repository of all their works, from past, present, and future resides here.
This is a reality marble, a projection of the inner self to override the outside world.
Her self is a rugged battleground, full of weapons, with the sound of machinery and forging equipment filling the air.
Born knowing what to do, but to make, make, make all her life. Towards this goal with no end, she carelessly toils. This is the result: her world where all her feelings are poured inside.
Here, all 3 concepts of battle are used at the same time. It is the world where she has no limits, with the only limit is the fatigue on the mind.

To cast it, Silber says a chant, with each verse needing one post to concentrate on. (total of 3 posts)

- I am the bone of my blade
- Weapons are my body, and fire is my blood

- I have created for centennials of arsenal
- Unknown to death
- Not known to life
- Have withstood death to create many weapons

- Yet my spirit cannot grasp anything
- So, as I decree to the world
- Unlimited Blade Works

The completion of the chant activates UAW. The effect of UAW lasts 20 player posts. Afterwards, Silber will encounter a backlash of power, causing her to cough up blood on the spot, rendering her semi-vulnerable.
In the effect of UAW, Silber has auto-regeneration. If a blow is not enough that it would kill her, she WILL regenerate, with enhanced defense. The reason for it, is that the world is hers, and the world would "reconstruct" her. It wouldn't be strange if in the battle inside this space her body would be made almost completely out of metal.
The regenerated metallic parts would be known by the light red glow they release, effects of her world reworking on her body. During which she feels no pain, as if her whole body becomes forged into a weapon.