Ashen One forgotten abilities

[Ogbunabali]

Some Ashen One powers addition, that have been missed.

• He already has Healing as Mid-Low, although that should probably be turned to Regenerationn, because of a game characters natural regen we treat as Mid-Low, and have Healing separate from the many healing spells.

• Absorption for both, physical and magical attacks.

• Vibration Manipulation can create shockwaves.

• It's already mentioned on his profile but not linked to anything, Animal Manipulation with this.

• Lifesteal with this.

• Resistance to Curse Manipulation, Poison Manipulation and Ice Manipulation through this and these rings.

• Mind Manipulation with this. It's mentioned but it isn't restricted to undead only.

• Chaos Manipulation through various Chaos spells.

• Maybe Possession through the Soul Dregs as the flavor text reads "Some of the murkmen who rise from the depths are possessed by soul dregs, which have a grave likeness to the human form".

• And Homing Attack with things like Deep Soul.

• He already has Soul Manipulation, but it is only mentioned that he absorbs souls of defeated enemies. The Ashen One can also attack with souls as well.

• Paralysis Inducement? With the Pestilent Mist. The flavor text reads "A body caught in the silent mist cloud lies still, while the face twists in a tortured scream. The names of these learned sorcerers became feared for this gruesome spectacle.". Not sure what the "face twists in a tortured scream" is supposed to be.

• Not sure if this is supposed to be anything, might be just metaphorical but it is interesting. "A closely-guarded light manipulation spell that contorts the very fabric of fundamental laws, negating magic by denying its claim to physicality."

• Status Effect Inducement resistance with this shield and various other equipment/consumables.

• Explosion Manipulation with the Firebomb and Dark Firebomb.

And since the Ashen One's profile is in need of some work, I remade the current P&A section.

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Immortality (Types 1, 4, and 7), Healing (Mid-Low), Resurrection (Via Darksign), Weapon Mastery, Magic, Fire Manipulation, Lightning Manipulation, Ice Manipulation (Can cause frostbite via spells like Snap Freeze or weapons like Irithyll Straight Sword), Earth Manipulation (Can cause literal earthquakes via Earth Seeker and spew earth boulders via Boulder Heave), Light Manipulation, Holy Manipulation, Poison Manipulation, Acid Manipulation (Via Acid Surge), Mind Control (With Rapport), Invisibility (With Hidden Body and Obscuring Ring), Shapeshifting (Via Chameleon), Energy Blasts, Aura (Can create healing or buffing auras through the Warmth spell or Lothric War Banner respectively), Limited Time Manipulation, Soul Absorption (Can absorb the souls of defeated enemies), Sound Manipulation (Can become completely silent), Darkness Manipulation (Can create abyssal fire via spells like Black Serpent, or use Dark power via weapons like the Frayed Blade), Summoning (Can summon ethereal blades, a Lion's Spirit, with Valorheart, or an abyssal insect swarm, with Gnaw and Dorhys' Gnawing), Statistics Amplification (Through various sorceries, pyromancies, miracles, items and consumables he can amplify both his physical and magical offense and defense), Power Nullification (Can restrict the enemy's use of magic with Vow of Silence, and Healing and Status Effect Nullification via Hunter's Charm and Hunter's Duel Charm), Gravity Manipulation (with Cat Ring and Spook, which greatly reduces fall damage), Teleportation (Via Homeward Bone and Homeward miracle), Air Manipulation (Can cause air fluctuations via weapons like Storm Curved Sword or Tailbone Spear), Limited Curse Manipulation (Via Crucifix of the Mad King), Extremely Limited Luck Manipulation (With weapons such as the Mendicant's Staff or other pieces of equipment such as the Shield of Want), Durability Negation (Against shields via Darkdrift)

 

[Ogbunabali]

Bump.

 

[Antvasima]

You can use the Dark Souls verse page and the Knowledgeable Members List to find people to ask to comment here.

 

[Ogbunabali]

Thanks Antvasima. I have.

 

[Antvasima]

Okay. No problem.

 

[Monarch_Laciel]

I think "the face twists in tortured scream" just means it hurts lots to be honest.

Twisted wall of light seems to be forced non-corporeality inducement via law manipulation resulting in attacks being unable to physically touch you.

Absorption isn't Absorption. It's just a part of the damage reduction calculations.

Possession is a no.

Wrath of the gods is just telekinesis not vibration manipulation.

Other than that it all seems fine.

 

[Ogbunabali]

Well if we just treat it as damage reduction, would that give resistance to magic and the ability Damage Reduction? And I thought we treated shockwaves as vibration manip, my bad.

 

[Antvasima]

I trust Monarch Laciel's sense of judgement.

 

[Mr. Bambu]

The wiki ate my comment.

Basically I agree with Monarch's assessments, literally never read Twisted Wall of Light's flavor text so that's damn interesting.

 

[Ogbunabali]

What about the Damage Reduction and resistance to Magic from the absorption? Or ignore it completely?

 

[Mr. Bambu]

I did agree with Damage Reduction in my OG comment, yes. The reduction would affect magical attacks.

 

[Ogbunabali]

So can I make the agreed upon changes, or is there more input required?

 

[Mr. Bambu]

It's probably safe but if you wanna ask people who've been tinkering with Dark Souls of late, Ovens and Apies are both solid choices.

 

[Sir_Ovens]

I'll read this more in depth later. But from a glance some of it is aite.

 

[Antvasima]

@Mr. Bambu

For comments that take more than 20 minutes to type, please copy them to a text editor first.

 

[SheevShezarrine]

Ashen One gets paralysis resistance too, since they can go through it without seizing up

 

[Mr. Bambu]

Ashen One gets paralysis resistance too, since they can go through it without seizing up

No they don't, because it doesn't do that. Anything can go through it without paralysis, that's just flowery text.

 

[QrowBarr]

Wrath of the gods is just telekinesis not vibration manipulation.

I mean, the description says it creates shockwaves, dunno how that's telekinesis.

 

[Ogbunabali]

Bump.

 

[Mr. Bambu]

I can agree to Vibration Manip since it really doesn't change what it functionally does, it's telekinesis in the sense that it mimics the other telekinetic abilities of Force and whatnot.

 

[Ogbunabali]

Well both Force and Emit Force say "shockwave" in their respective fluffs.

"Elementary miracle among clerics. Creates a shockwave. While it inflicts no direct damage, this miracle propels foes back, staggering them. Can also defend against incoming arrows."

"Traditional miracle of Catarina. Releases a shockwave in front. The people of lands known for festivity and drink are typically outspoken. One can be sure that they will not bottle their emotions, instead venting anger and the like with confidence."

 

[Mr. Bambu]

Yes. And what it amounts to is projecting some amount of physical force without actually using your own body to project it. Telekinesis, textbook.

 

[Antvasima]

I will unsubscribe to this thread now due to time constraints. If you need my help here with something later, feel free to send me a message.

 

[Ogbunabali]

So is it safe to make the changes that have been accepted now?

 

[Mr. Bambu]

I think so. Monarch and I approved, as well as other knowledgeable members.

 

[Ogbunabali]

I have made the changes. This can be closed.