More than halfway through the books, but I can comment on Underlord and below feats.
So the Jade FTE feat is not usable. The author stated that it is more of an illusion feat than a speed feat.
the questioner
Will, you said in the previous thread that if Lindon were to fight against an elder of his clan he MIGHT win.His biggest problem would be their illusions.Does it mean, though, that physically they are more or less on the same level.I remember the scene in the 1st book, when he was attacked by an iron of the, I think, Mon family, because he shamed that iron by winning against him. Before he could hit Lindon,though, his attack was blocked by an elder, which seemed to lindon, as though the elder teleported in front of him. Would lindon accomplish similar feats..
Will Wight
The elder didn't seem to teleport because he was moving so fast (although he WAS fast, just not that fast). It was because of his mastery over illusion.
That's exactly what Lindon would have to deal with.
Physically, he'd be on a similar level to the Jades of Sacred Valley. His Iron body is of a higher quality, but it's specialized for recovery, not pure strength. |
Iron and above would still be subsonic based on Lindon's father saying that Sacred Valley sword artists can defend themselves from arrows by striking them.
A fire artist could burn arrows out of the air mid-flight, and a sword artist could strike them out of the air. An artist of pure madra would be helpless to affect the flight of an arrow. He would die as helpless as a bird.”
(Unsouled, Chapter 6) |
The best quantifiable mid-tier speed feat would be Sophara being able to travel multiple miles in an instant.
Yerin’s spirit crawled. In the instant she’d taken her perception off the dragon, the woman had covered miles.
(Ghostwater, Chapter 16) |
Assuming two miles and one second, that would be above Mach 9, which is Hypersonic.
There is also a statement that gives us insight of how much faster Underlords are compared to Highgolds. There was a training course that requires hitting 18 dummies spread across a barn three times each. Yerin was able to complete it in 15 seconds, and Eithan says that he can complete a similar one in 2 seconds. So we can say that Underlords are 7.5 times faster than Highgolds.
“Fifteen seconds,” Eithan announced. “Not bad for your first time. The dummies are set to delay you more than injure you, but after a week or two, you’ll go through this like wind through a forest.”
“What’s the fastest I can get?” Yerin asked.
“Twelve seconds is the minimum the script can handle. When you reach that, I’ll have a better one built.”
Yerin crossed her arms. “How fast is yours?”
“An excellent question. As I said, I grew up on a course very similar to this one, but recently I had the Arelius Soulsmiths build me a course set for two seconds.”
She waved a hand at the surrounding dummies. “You could clear this in two seconds, if the script let you?”
(Blackflame, Chapter 3) |
If we apply the multiplier on the Sophara feat, we can get supersonic Golds.
There is a speed feat that is harder to quantify.
Eithan's and Longhook's has Eithan creating a sonic boom through his speed, Longhook's hook and his body can travel from the edge of a flattened mountaintop to a building in the center within an instant:
In the middle of his own sentence, he exploded into motion. The air clapped behind him when he moved, driving his scissors at his enemy.
Lindon couldn’t follow what happened next, only the explosion of sound, a rush of wind, and a flash of red light.
A column of stone exploded under Longhook’s weapon, the hook having missed Eithan and slammed into the building behind him. Eithan avoided even the chain as though it were red-hot, vaulting over it, and slamming his fist into Longhook’s chest. A ripple of colorless power surged out, blasting past the Redmoon Hall emissary.
This exchange of blows was still too fast for Lindon to follow, but the emissary didn’t seem slowed down by Eithan’s attack at all. It ended in Eithan leaping backwards, and Longhook with one arm extended. It stuck out from his coat, and his arm was sheathed in solid red.
Was that his Goldsign? Or was he covered in one of those bloodspawn?
He’d hauled his hook back to himself, and now he whipped it at Eithan. It struck with an impact that hurt Lindon’s ears, carrying the sound of steel-on-steel as Eithan blocked with his scissors.
The impact sent him flying back toward the building on the mountain, and Longhook was after him in an instant.
From start to finish, the whole exchange took perhaps two seconds.
(Skysworn, Chapter 9) |
“I crossed swords, so to speak, with an emissary of Redmoon Hall only yesterday,” Eithan confirmed. “I can confirm that he was indeed an Underlord. A skilled and powerful one, at that.” He hadn’t even relied on the power of his Blood Shadow, and he had still knocked Eithan around the mountain.
(Skysworn, Chapter 11) |
For AP, Ekeri is able to contain a Void Dragon's Dance, and was able to tank a point-blank explosion. This is an AoE that is able to immediately reduce flesh and bones to ash, so a Tier 8 calc for Truegolds should be possible.
Golden light sliced the Silverfang Carp in half, and the second whip descended. He raised his right hand to catch it, though it burned his Remnant palm with a piercing pain that shot through his spirit. At the same time, visible only in his Copper sight, a tightly wound disc of red-and-black aura reached Ekeri.
She pushed against the fire aura with her own spirit, and in only a moment she would unravel the technique.
Instead, Lindon clenched his left fist.
And unleashed the Void Dragon’s Dance.
The aura exploded into a cyclone of spinning flame. It stretched from the ground to the ceiling of the dome, and the heat scorched his face. The column of swirling black-and-red fire swallowed Ekeri, then the Carp around her were consumed, followed by those farther away as the technique grew larger and larger.
But this was not just a fire technique. Empowered by destruction aura, the flames devoured material in a blink. What would normally take hours for the fire to burn instead disappeared instantly.
Every Silverfang Carp touched by the flame was consumed in a snap, becoming little more than ash that drifted down. Lindon projected Blackflame madra around himself as the technique expanded, but the Void Dragon’s Dance was over in only a second.
Except for one other survivor. A dragon could not be so easily burned.
Though he had hoped.
Ekeri was only singed, her clothes damaged and smoking, her scales charred. She knelt on one knee with whips crossed before her, spirit trembling. As the ash cleared, her eyes snapped open. They blazed gold.
(Ghostwater, Chapter 9) |
