Altan Trengsin

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"I am your commander. You do not argue with my orders. You follow them without question. You obey me, or you leave this militia."

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Altan Trengsin was presumed to be the last living Speerly, a genocided race of people who had experience reaching the Pantheon, and communing with gods. After becoming the top student at Sinegard, the best military school in the country, he went on to become the commander of The Cike, a group of soldiers who performed tasks at the Empress's bidding. Being both a master martial artist and a master shaman, Altan can call the powers of the Phoenix, to summon fire from thin air.

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Physicals

Strength

• Knocks an opponent unconscious with a kick
• Knocks an opponent to the floor with a backhand
• Flings a grown man away with ease
• Three trained, grown men are required to restrain him
• Wields a metallic trident in battle
• Wrestles with Suni, who is twice his height, and can smash men's skulls
• Cracks Sunis’ sternum with a kick, Sunis's body is tough enough to repel sharpened blades
• Bruises Rin's collarbone by gripping her
• Stuns and paralyzes Rin with a strike to the solar plexus
• Strikes an off-guard Rin across the face hard enough to draw blood and make her knees buckle
• Swings himself up over a ledge
• Using KI can strengthen his attacks

Skill

• Subdues an opponent with ease
• Is “on another level” than Kureel, who is one of the top combat students at Sinegard
• Rebounds off a wall to knock an opponent unconscious with a kick
• Loosens a man's grip on him by headbutting him
• Disarms Rin
• Lands upright even after being tossed across the room
• Aims a stab slightly above someone's heart, to avoid killing them
• Fights astride a horse, easily fending off an entire squadron of soldiers
• Is considered the best martial artist in the country
• Fights in tandem with Rin, easily dispatching a group of 5 patrol officers

Speed

• Trades multiple strikes and parries with an opponent per second
• Strikes nearly too fast for Rin to defend against
• Strike faster than Rin can follow with her eyes

Durability

• Fights through an internally damaging attack
• Shrugs off a blow from Suni, who is twice his size

Stamina/Endurance

• Faces three different opponents in sparring matches back-to-back
• Continues to fight with poise and with no visible exhaustion, even after his opponent tires
• Spars with Rin for hours

Firebending

Power

• Sets a collection of reeds on a shore aflame “with a whisper”
• Sloughs the flesh off of soldiers' bodies with his flame
• Boils soldiers to death by heating up a body of water below him
• Summons flames hot enough to become white
• Can cauterize wounds and char skin with his flames
• Bends metal with his flame
• With Rin, sets a man on fire
• Burns through a man's skull with his flame
• Throws out waves of heat, bowling over several Federation soldiers

Skill

• Controls the size of his flame and makes it dance around him
• Sends out tendrils of flame from his hands
• Surrounds himself in flame, vaporizing water in a five-foot radius
• Uses his flames to cut through a soldier's neck
• Flares his flames out in tentacles that nearly reach multiple guards across a room
• Creates a great column of fire