User:Zoey The Edgedancer/Arsteel

Summary
Arsteel, later known as Clod, is a former member of the Five Scholars on Nalthis, and later became a Lifeless working under Denth and his crew.

History
He was born as the brother of Yesteel, and at some point the two died and Returned. Basically nothing is known of their life before their death and Return.

He was formerly a member of the Five Scholars before the Manywar around the year 0, sometime after the Manywar, he joined Denth's Crew to try and redeem him, and bring about a reconciliation between him and Vasher.

Several months before the Pahn Khal Rebellion, he was killed in a duel with Vasher. It is known that the duel was due to Arsteel wanting to subdue him and "talk some sense into him." Vasher misinterpreted Arsteel's motives, however, and ended up killing him. This death was brought about due to Vasher giving him a large influx of Breaths, sending him into a small seizure of pleasure, wherein he was distracted and killed by Vasher. Following his death he was made into a Lifeless, given the name of Clod, and taken after by Jewels.

During an unsuccessful meeting with Idrian Slumlords in the Highland Slums of T'Telir, where various Lifeless raided the slums, he intervened and worked to protect Vivenna, killing three of the Lifeless but being mortally wounded in the process. However, due to his Lifeless nature, Jewels was able to patch him up and bring him back to life.

Personality
His personality before he became a Lifeless is not well known. However it is known that he believed that Vasher and Denth could reconcile, and tried to push them towards doing so.

As a Lifeless he displays no personality, due to a lack of self-awareness of autonomy.

Vasher
He cared about Vasher and wanted to get him to calm down and come to his senses, and for him to reconcile with Denth.

Vasher on the other hand saw him as, at least after the Manywar, an enemy. To the point in which he killed him in a duel.

Denth
He worked with Denth and joined in his crew in an attempt to get him and Vasher to reconcile.

Jewels
He is in a loving relationship with Jewels, or rather was. They were very close, and his death and subsequent becoming of a Lifeless, deeply effected Jewels and left her rather unhinged compared to her former self.

Currently, after he became a Lifeless, she took over his care and still regularly talked to him, occasionally going so far as to sleep with him.

Powers and Stats
Name: Arsteel | Clod

Origin: Warbreaker

Gender: Male

Age: At least 327 (He has existed since some time before the Manywar, with the time of the Five Scholars being in the "years leading up to the Manywar")

Classification: Member of the Five Scholars, Awakener, Returned (Type I BioChromatic Entity), Cognitive Shadow | Lifeless (Type II BioChromatic Entity), Returned (Type I BioChromatic Entity), Cognitive Shadow

Powers and Abilities: Returned = Superhuman Physical Characteristics (As a Returned, he has various enhancements to his strength and speed), Extrasensory Perception by Aura Recognition, and Perfect Life Sense (He is capable of feeling the presence of others in his proximity, and can tell when he is being watched), Enhanced Senses by Perfect Colour Recognition and Perfect Pitch (Due to his wealth of Breaths, he has an extraordinarily high ability to discern between different sounds and colours, to an extent far beyond that of any human), Shapeshifting (As a Returned he can manipulate his physical appearance to a limited degree), Immortality, Weapon Mastery with Swords (He was an excellent duelist, able to out-skill even Vasher, who himself was one of the best duelists in the entire Cosmere), Self-Sustenance (Can live without food or water), Limited Shapeshifting (As a Returned he can manipulate his physical appearance to a limited degree), Possibly Limited Power Nullification (Despite not being of the Eighth Heightening, he should possess the ability to override or break the Commands of Awakened Objects, albeit to a imperfect degree), Resistance to Poison Manipulation (He is essentially immune to most poisons), and Resistance to Disease Manipulation (Is immune to most physical ailments, including nearly all, if not all, diseases) Lifeless = Weapon Mastery with Swords, Self-Sustenance (Lifeless do not need to eat, drink, or sleep in order to survive), Immortality (He is essentially unable of dying from normal means, and can have his organs removed and sowed back together in order to help keep his body in a human shape, thus easier to keep alive with Breaths), Resistance to Pain Manipulation (As he is essentially dead, he does not experience pain from physical injury), Resistance to Extrasensory Perception (As a Lifeless he has no Investiture to be detected by Life Sense, no matter how perfected it is. This leaves him able to sneak up on those with Life Sense without them being aware of his presence)

Attack Potency: As a Returned he possesses a superhuman degree of strength, however past this the exact extent to which this reaches is not known.

Durability: As a Returned he possesses a superhuman degree of physical enhancements, however past this the exact extent to which this reaches is not known.

Speed: As a Returned he possesses a superhuman degree of speed, he should scale to the speed of Denth, who was capable of moving so quick to be able to draw his weapon and move to slay two bodyguards at such velocities that Vivenna couldn't follow or process it. . | His speed has been shown to be the same as a Lifeless, though when not in combat he is explained as rather sluggish.

Intelligence: He was a very intelligent individual who did many studies into BioChroma alongside the other members of the Five Scholars. | As a Lifeless he has very little autonomy and self-awareness, along with this, he is incapable of speech and writing. However part of the original Arsteel still exists in him due to the large influx Breaths given to him right before he died, this leaves him smarter than most Lifeless, and also gives him more self-awareness and autonomy, however it is still very low compared to a regular human.

Weaknesses: He consumes one Breath every week, and if he uses his Divine Breath to heal somebody, or if it gets consumed by the passing of a week when he has no other Breath to be taken instead, he would perish. His Life Sense cannot detect Drabs, it can also be interfered with or blocked by Aviar, Copperclouds, or a Soulbearer storing all of their Investiture into a Nicrosilmind. | As a Lifeless he has very little autonomy, and is barely capable of acting without having a Command given to him by the person with the proper Code. Along with this, he possesses very little self-awareness, although his self-awareness is slightly above that of an ordinary Lifeless. As a Lifeless, he would be far more effected by emotional Allomancy then a normal person, and effect them in a "compelling" way. .

Returned =

Returned Nature
As a Returned he consumes one Breath every week, and if he runs out he would perish.

Along with this, he is physically stronger, more durable, and faster than any normal human.

As he has many Breaths, he would be capable of seeing part of an Artist's soul in an abstract art piece, and make out the purpose and meaning of the piece in a way that no normal human can. To the extent of seeing things that aren't necessarily there.

Shapeshifting
As a Returned he has the ability to shapeshift to a limited degree. Such as changing his height, weight, race, or hair color, but only to a reasonable extent.

Heightening
As a Returned he has been given a Divine Breath, which, despite being a single Breath, is very, very dense in Investiture, containing at least 2000 to 3500 Breaths worth of Investiture, and brought him up to the Fifth Heightening.

Aura Recognition
Aura Recognition is the ability to see the Breath auras of others, and make out around how many Breaths an individual has, this also allows one to make out the exact amount of Investiture within each Breath as well, with the incredibly Invested Divine Breaths only registering as a single one to their sense, but one can still make out just how dense with energy said one Breath is.

This also appears to give one the instinctive ability to not only quantify how much Investiture they have, but make out what Heightening they should be at.

Perfect Pitch
Perfect Pitch is as it sounds, granting perfect pitch to those who achieve it.

Perfect Colour Recognition
Perfect Colour Recognition is the ability to instantly and instinctively determine exact shades of colors and their hue harmonics. He can make out even the smallest differences in colours, and instinctively measure exactly how many "steps" a colour is away from its perfect form. This includes being able to tell apart colours whose differences are so minute to not be perceivable to an ordinary human.

This also gives one an inherent and deep respect for the beauty of colours and how they work together.

Perfect Life Sense
Perfect Life Sense is the instinctively sense other people around you, and tell when you are being watched. He can feel them in a rather large, but unspecific radius, and can pinpoint the approximate location of where people and other living beings are in his proximity. Thus he becomes essentially impossible to sneak up on, due to a constant awareness of all living things surrounding him.

Despite being for all intents and purposes, perfect, he is unable to detect Drabs due to their lack of Investiture. It can also be interfered with or blocked by Aviar, Copperclouds , or a Soulbearer storing all of their Investiture into a Nicrosilmind , and cannot detect that which is blocked by Aluminium. This is due to all these methods working to make a being devoid of Investiture, or seemingly devoid of Investiture. While non-Nalthians do not have any Breaths, they almost always have more Investiture than a Drab, therefore, non-Nalthians can still be detected.

Agelessness
Agelessness is the maximized resistance to ageing and disease. Due to this, he is immune to most toxins, including the effects of alcohol, and most physical ailments, such as headaches, diseases, and organ failure.

Command Breaking
Command Breaking is the ability to instinctively override Commands in other Invested objects, including Lifeless.

While marked as being granted at the Eighth Heightening, various peoples below the Eighth Heightening have shown the ability to use it. Following the pattern of the First, Second Third, Fourth, and Fifth Heightenings, and by given depictions of the Command Breaking, it can be assumed that he would possess it, albeit to a limited and imperfect degree.

Swordsmanship
He is an immensely skilled swordsman, more skilled than Vasher, who is himself one of the best duelists in the entire Cosmere. In order to beat him Vasher had to essentially cheat and cause him to be distracted by a sudden influx of Breaths.

Lifeless =

Lifeless Physiology
As a Lifeless he does not require food, water, or sleep. Along with this, he does not experience pain from physical injury. He can also have his organs and flesh stitched back together to heal him from even mortal injuries.

As a Lifeless he has no Investiture to be detected by Life Sense, no matter how perfected it is. This leaves him able to sneak up on those with Life Sense without them being aware of his presence.

He is left mostly incapable of intelligent thought or ability to act for himself. He is made to follow the Commands of any of those that know his Command Phrase, and cannot go against Commands.

Swordsmanship
He is an immensely skilled swordsman, more skilled than Vasher, who is himself one of the best duelists in the entire Cosmere. In order to beat him Vasher had to essentially cheat and cause him to be distracted by a sudden influx of Breaths.

Even with his decreased skill as a Lifeless, he is still capable of fighting off multiple people at one time, and is still immensely skilled compared to essentially all peoples, and is the best Lifeless swordsman.

Key: Returned | Lifeless