Bondrewd, the Lord of Dawn

Theme: The Rumble of Scientific Triumph.

The Abyss is a a great hole in the ground on an island in the middle of the ocean. It is filled with artifacts with exotic properties and a curse that afflicts anyone who tries to return to the surface after delving into it.

Bondrewd the Lord of Dawn became a Delver when the techniques of the time were stagnating. His ground breaking work ushered in a new era of progress for abyss exploration culminating in establishing a permanent base (Ido Front) in the 5th layer (12000~13000 meters below ground level) and the means to reach the previously thought to be inviolable 6th layer. At some point, his experimentation led him to using an artifact to imprint is consciousness onto other humans becoming somewhat of a group mind and turning his original body into Life Reverberating Stone to become on of the legendary White Whistles.

Note: there is some WoG stuff used in this RT they all come from here, here, or here. I don't know how accurate the translations are but they are the best I could find though they do seem to agree with each other for the most part.

Note 2: Generally if you are using Bondrewd on WWW you should specify which body he is getting (the tailed combat body is the one with the most feats followed by he welcome/greeting body) and if he is being supported by additional Umbra Hands.

Strength

• Shatters a large chunk of ice while chasing Reg. While he is probably just enlarging a hole in the ice that Reg was made that is still a pretty good sized chunk of ice.

• Holds berserk Reg back.

  • Reg can lift decent sized boulders

• Tears chunks out of a stone floor with his tail then clashes with berserk Reg.

  • Berserk Reg can hit pretty hard.

• Possibly craters the ground with a punch.

• Possibly craters the ground with his tail.

• Throws Reg across a room.

• Stops Reg's attempted attack with his tail.

• Shatters a rock with his tail.

• Jumps what should be really bloody high (Reg was above him before he jumped) assuming it isn't just animation wierdness.

• Jumps fairly high.

• Knocks out a girl by hitting her with his thumb.

• One of his bodies forces its way through a partial opening in a thick wall.

• A non-combat body catches Reg's fist after it is launched at him.

  • Reg can shoot his arm hard enough it embeds into the ground.

Speed

• Dodges berserk Reg's leaping attack.

  • How fast berserk Reg is without slow motion or other cinematic tricks

• Clashes several times with Reg. At this point Reg was described as being more agile then when in the berserked state.

• Manages to keep up with Reg while ascending through a large column of falling water and ice.

• Blocks a kick and catches Reg's fist.

• Dodges a few attacks from Reg.

• Dodges Reg's Incinerator though it was mentioned that it is unlikely to hit him due to the warm up.

• Dodges Reg's Incinerator again at the last moment but gets hit by a shot from an angle he wasn't awere of.

• Gets hit by a crossbow bolt.

  • But according to WoG this body isn't a combat body and was losing on purpose,

  Bondrewd's losing on purpose (in order to complete Prushka). The body that's getting beaten up is just for receiving guests (not a combat type). The pink-masked one that let Bondrewd take over had way more equipment, so Riko and co. didn't stand a chance.

• One of his combat bodies is described as being far faster than said greeting body too.

Durability

• A non-combat body after getting afflicted by the curse of the 6th layer (doesn't kill you but makes you into a fleshy blob), dies from half is body getting crushed though it takes a bit.

• One of his non-combat bodies (see the WoG at the end of the speed section) doesn't appear to take any damage from getting kicked into a rock hard enough to crater it and then getting kicked through that rock.

• Reg destroys the end of his tail.

• Reg is able to bite off part of his mask.

  • Reg's grip strength in this state is enough to shatter stone.

• One of his gauntlets is destroyed by a small explosion though he is fine. Though these gauntlets are a different design from the ones on his tailed combat body.

• Didn't appear to be damaged after getting pelted by rocks from this blast.

• A crossbow bolt is able to penetrate a gap in one of his non-combat body's armor.

• A number of bodies are killed by Stingerhead poison. Though as you can probably see by the effects it isn't a weak poison.

• His tailed body with the Blessing of the Abyss is blown in half and dies shortly after getting hit by Reg's Incinerator.

• A note about him surviving this. The only aspect of this that affects him is that the Tailed Body survived the fall.

  According to WoG,

  (Incinerator) Here, Reg, just before firing, decided to leave living things unharmed. Bondrewd also suggested that happened afterwards.

• A different body dies from the same fall.

Artifacts

Origin-Guiding Light/Sparagmos

Sparagmos the Origin-Guiding Light is a beam of energy which possibly rewrites the laws of the abyss to disintegrate anything kind of like Reg's Incinerator.

• Cuts off Reg's arm. To this point Reg had not been damaged by anything in the series.

• Uses it to kill a bunch of Stingerheads. Possably throwing one a long distance though it isn't impossible he throw the scorpion himself (note the clean cut on the one that got thrown out's abdomen that would be what Sparagmos is directly doing).

• Fires a beam at Reg through he misses Reg's body.

• This shows the size/length of the beam.

• Clashes with Reg's Incinerator canceling it out.

• Due to the large amount of heat it emits he can't use it in water or else it will create a large steam explosion.

Ascending to the Morning Star/Gangway

Gangway fires a beam of light that only damages the target the user focuses on.

• Fires many beams which reflect all around the room before hitting the intended target.

• According to WoG,

  Gangway doesn't unleash force until its last landing spot so Nanachi didn't need to dodge.

• Breaks part of a clif.

• This shows its high end velocity.

Touching the Moon/Far Caress

Far Caress is less an artifact and more a native creature in a cylinder. It emits a tough elastic tendrels that can adhere to surfaces.

• Appears to possibly be embedding in the ground and kicking up rocks. Also immobilizes Reg.

• This shows how much volume it can put out and also more possibly embedding in the rock wall.

• He can quickly detach the strands from the launcher though anything immobilized by them will stay stuck.

• He can use Far Caress to pull him up a cliff.

Curse Needle/Shaker

Shakers are needles that inflict the Curse of the Abyss on their target.

• Inflicts the Curse of the 3rd layer on Riko causing her viscera to churn but otherwise leaving her unharmed.

• According to WoG

  Shakers (Curse Needles) don't penetrate. They assimilate with flesh when they hit, and plant the curse onto the target. They leave no scars.

Soul-Slave Machine/Zoaholic

Zoaholic allows Bondrewd to imprint his consciousness onto others, transfer it between bodies. Bodies he isn't controlling directly are called Umbra Hands or Praying Hands. Umbra Hands have their own personality and can operate independently. The Umbra Hands themselves consist of skilled delvers and bounty hunters that willingly joined Bondrewd.

• Takes over an Umbra Hand after the previous body he was controlling dies and Prushka recognizes him.

• Says that all the Umbera Hands are himself.

• Exposition on Zoaholic.

• The armor Bondrewd/Umbra Hands use, the Canopy Unto Dawn, has mechanisms to make the consciousness transferring easier.

• This is its appearance.

• According to WoG,

  The Praying Hands are sluggish because they're in auto-Bondrewd mode. They're working in parallel, so Bondrewd has access to all the information, but their movement ends up sluggish.

• It is unknown exactly how many Umbera Hands there are, but after the film he has at least this many and Ido Front plus how ever many (only one seen but in one of the WoG quotes there is a plural in it) Umbera Hands were at the flower field.

  • This is after all of these Hands
  • This one
  • This one
  • One that was escorting Nanachi and Riko
    
  • And ~3 more that were sent to check on the power outage Reg caused all die.
  • All of that totals to at a minimum of 20 active at the beginning.

Cartridges

Cartridges are kids that have had most of their organs surgically removed then they get stuffed into boxes and drugged up. The purpose of this is to shift the Curse of the Abyss onto them instead of Bondrewd when he is ascending. They eject when the kid dies or no longer is human for the purposes of the Curse.

• They are fitted into a backpack with space for around 5.

  • One was ejected earlier.

• Without cartridges he gets several extra fleshy bits due to the 6th layer's curse.

• When ascending from the 6th layer with someone who loves him he will be affected by the "blessing of the Abyss" which turns him into a furry causes the the body to gain a more fluffy monstrous appearance. Starting with his hands, then feet, eventually effecting his entire body.

• Basically the only really notable feat the Blessed body gets is that it's claws can penetrate though Reg's skin at a thin spot.

  • Reg can take a hit from an Orb Piercer.
  • Orb Piercers are capable of penetrating steel according to Riko who is fairly knowledgeable about the creatures of the Abyss.
  • Though he does take some damage from this.

Miscellaneous Artifacts

• One body sent to a insect infestation in a flower field has a flame thrower.

• His eyes are supposed to be an artifact though we don't know exactly what they do.

• He has some artifact that lets him look through Nanachi's eyes. Though he only ever seems to use it on Nanachi and they do have a history (though it isn't like he put an implant in her brain) so it is unknown if he can use it on anyone else.