Tenmoku Ikko

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==Summary==
Tenmoku Ikko is a Mystes, a former human whose Power of Existence has been erased and who contains a Treasure Tool (a magical item of sorts) inside them, making them more special than regular Torches. He was an ancient swordsmith who put his heart and soul into his craft. He eventually created the Nietono no Shana, the greatest sword that he ever forged with the aid of a Crimson Lord who had shared a wish to create a weapon paralleled by none. Once Nietono no Shana was complete, the swordsmith was obsessed with finding a "strong one" worthy of entrusting the Nietono no Shana to. This lead to him giving up his humanity and becoming a Mystes of his own will to facilitate the process; his consciousness merged with the Nietono no Shana's and the suit of armor's he owned, creating Tenmoku Ikko. In his quest, Tenmoku Ikko wandered and destroyed many Crimson Denizens and Flame Haze over centuries, leading him to be renowned and feared,Dengeki G's Festival! Vol.8 Page 17 but he refuses to hurt or fight regular humans because they are not considered powerful enough. He was undefeated against everyone he challenged,Shakugan no Shana Second Climax Chokuzen Special Book Page 11 until he is bested by Shana, who possesses Nietono no Shana to this day.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: At least , likely higher
Name: Tenmoku Ikko, The Worst Mystes in History, Monster Torch, The One Who Opposes the Crimson Realm
Origin: Shakugan no Shana
Gender: Male
Age: A few centuries
Classification: Mystes, Swordsmith
Powers and Abilities:
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Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Enhanced Awareness, Space-Time Distortion Awareness, Extrasensory Perception (His sensing ability is on par with Flame Hazes and Crimson Denizens, as he was able to sense Alastor and Tendokyu from very far awaySeason 1, Episode 14) Swordsmanship, Anti-Supernatural Durability Negation and Power Nullification (Can bypass and destroy any supernatural effect - including artifacts, magic items and forcefields - no matter their potency. He casually cut through Fecor's Magnesia, the strongest defensive spell of the series, and shattered Bel-Peol's bracelet that was keeping Shana's powers sealedSeason 3, Episode 9), selective Fear ManipulationSeason 1, Episode 15Season 1, Episode 16 (Can choose who he frightens with his presence), Self-Sustenance (Types 1, 2 and 3), Stealth Mastery (His presence cannot be sensed until he initiates a conflict), Statistics Amplification via Existence Erasure and Absorption (Can literally eat and devour supernatural beings to increase his life force and strength), Resistance to Magic and Statistics Reduction with Nietono no Shana (Affects only the sword itself), Immortality (Types 1 and 8, reliant on Nietono no Shana and Power of Existence)
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|-|Resistances=Resistance to Magic (Tenmokku Ikko is immune to Unrestricted Spells and supernatural effects, and he ignores their effects) Disease Manipulation and Poison Manipulation (Mystes automatically reject the effects), Time Stop, Mind Manipulation and Memory Manipulation (Can freely move around any Fūzetsu and is unaffected by its other effects), Perception Manipulation and Extrasensory Perception (Tenmoku Ikko has an inherently hard-to-notice presence and nobody has ever sensed him - even with tracking spells - until he initiated a conflict and/or stopped caring if he was noticed)
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Attack Potency: At least Wall level (He can shatter the ground with a sword swing. Destroyed a large steel door with a swing), likely higher. His attacks ignore conventional durability conventions
Speed: At least Athletic Human travel speed, likely Peak Human (Slower than Flame Hazes and Crimson Lords, but should outspeed regular humans), with Subsonic combat and reaction speed (He can fight on equal footing with Crimson Lords and react to their attacks, like Orgon and Fecor)
Lifting Strength: At least Class 1 (Should scale to Flame Hazes and Crimson Lords, against who he can casually spar with)
Striking Strength: At least Wall level, likely higher
Durability: At least Wall level, likely higher. Immortality and resistance to supernatural effects make him hard to kill
Stamina: At least Superhuman, possibly Infinite. Tenmoku Ikko had been on a centuries-old uninterrupted quest to find a suitable wielder for Nietono no Shana, fighting against many Crimson Denizens and Flames Hazes along the way and never losing. Unlike them, he doesn't require conventional requirements for staying alive, like food or oxygen, since his consciousness is partially made up of inanimate objects. Instead, all he requires to stay active is Power of Existence, which is an inexhaustible source of energy that naturally exists everywhere, making him nigh-impervious to fatigue, though it doesn't seem to negate pain. In combat, he can match the likes of Orgon and Fecor with little trouble, and even Sydonay, one of the strongest characters in the series, flinched at the mere possibility of his presence.Light Novel, Volume 4
Range: Several Meters with Nietono no Shana (He slashed Crimson Denizens from the other side of a door), up to Tens of Kilometers with Fūzetsu
Standard Equipment: 
*Nietono no Shana: The sword forged by Tenmoku Ikko's past human self. It is 130 centimeters longDVD Special Book Grand Grimoire page 14 and has the characteristic of being able to resist and repel any magical or supernatural techniques affecting it,Dengeki G's Festival! Vol.8 Page 15 though it seems to be affected by magic items with passive effects. Since part of Tenmoku Ikko's spirit resides inside the sword itself, he thus cannot be killed while the sword is intact. However, in the centuries the Nietono no Shana has been active, it has never ever been damaged or even dented, thanks to its anti-supernatural properties.
Intelligence: Average as an individual, Gifted as a warrior. Tenmoku Ikko is hyper-fixated on finding a suitable wielder for the Nietono no Shana and cares about little else, to the point of forgoing any effort at meaningfully interacting with others and shedding any semblance of humanity and common sense. After gifting his sword to Shana, he instead becomes hyper-focused on serving her interests in dire situations. He is however an impeccable fighter who has been defeating opponents for centuries with deadly precision, like Orgon. In the centuries he has been on his quest, Tenmoku Ikko has never been defeated.
Weaknesses: None notable
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
*Fūzetsu: The most common of all Unrestricted Spells. The spell creates a dome-shaped isolated space, by intermingling the Crimson Realm and the human world. Since the spell is usually cast on the ground, only its upper half is visible and the lower half is underground.Shakugan no Shana Light Novel Volume SIII The area within the Fūzetsu is detached from the flow of causality of the outside world, with its interior area frozen and concealed from the outside. Inside the barrier, all phenomena and causalities (such as time, space, perception, movement and existence itself) are stopped for ordinary beings, like a plug had been removed, allowing only Flame Hazes and Crimson Denizens to act freely within it."DVD Special Book Grand Grimoire" page 5 The separation from the flow of causality is at the level of "inside the Fūzetsu vs outside the Fūzetsu" and not within the Fūzetsu itself. People and objects frozen inside the Fūzetsu can still be killed or destroyed and events happening inside the Fūzetsu will follow normal rules of cause and effect. Additionally, nobody can see or hear anything happening inside a Fūzetsu from the outside and vice-versa, including those who can sense the spell."Dengeki G's Festival! Vol.8" Page 27Season 2, Episode 9 Outside the Fūzetsu, ordinary creatures will subconsciously avoid the affected area, no matter what they intended to do there, like affected by a planetary mind and memory manipulation. To them and the human world at large, the area within the Fūzetsu stops existing altogether; they won't even register that a part of the world is suddenly "missing" and, to them, it would never have existed in the first place."Shakugan no Shana Guide Book Nyūmon-hen" page 17 Finally, energy released inside a Fūzetsu cannot go outside until the spell ends.
*Immortality: Tenmoku Ikko's origin makes him intrinsically tied to Nietono no Shana, as his consciousness is a fusion of the sword's, the armor's and his past life's. While Tenmokku Ikko is dormant, his spirit resides within the sword itself. Whether he's asleep or he's active after being summoned, Tenmokku Ikko cannot truly be killed as long as Nietono no Shana is intact. Furthermore, due to being a Mystes, he can increase the time he's active by absorbing Power of Existence.
Note:
*The Crimson Realm and the human world are intermingled, detaching the domed area from the flow of causality of the world. Space-time, perception, movement and existence itself are separated from the outside world and immediately halted until the Fūzetsu stops. The separation from the flow of causality is at the level of "inside the Fūzetsu vs outside the Fūzetsu" and not within the Fūzetsu itself. As such, events happening inside the Fūzetsu will follow normal rules of cause and effect. However, any attempt to cause an effect on the outside world from within the Fūzetsu (or to cause an effect in the Fūzetsu from the outside world) will fail: an earthquake happening inside the Fūzetsu won't affect the outside and vice-versa; a fireball thrown at a Fūzetsu, from either side, will cause no effect.
*People and objects caught inside are halted and incapable of moving, acting, seeing, thinking or doing anything. They can still die or be destroyed if attacked. Those outside the Fūzetsu will subconsciously avoid the affected area, no matter what they intended to do there, like affected by a planetary mind and memory manipulation. It's as if they "forgot" what they had to do there. The idea when the Fūzetsu spell was created was to make it so ordinary living beings couldn't ever interact with it or whatever happens inside.
*For as long as the Fūzetsu is active, to ordinary creatures - and the human world at large - the affected area doesn't exist and never has. Ordinary creatures will temporarily live as if the area and people inside the Fūzetsu never existed, and they don't even register that a part of the world is "missing", not even in their subconscious. When the spell ends and the area is reconnected to the flow of causality of the outside world, humans go back to living as if the area and people previously trapped had always existed. This existence erasure and presence manipulation is strictly from a human universe-sense, as the people and things inside a Fūzetsu still exist, but only Flame Hazes, Crimson Denizens and allowed humans can perceive them.
*Anything damaged, destroyed or killed within a Fūzetsu can be restored by using Power of Existence. It is an energy that exists in the air and in every living and non-living thing; it represents the identity, history, information, presence and impact of that thing on the world. Any damage caused inside a Fūzetsu can be restored by using Power of Existence, to adjust the disparities of the causality inside a Fūzetsu and to match the flow of causality of the outside world. By doing this, it is possible to restore anything that has had its causality severed within a Fūzetsu, be it a living being or an object, to the state that it was in before its causality was severed. However, if a Fūzetsu is ever unlocked during a battle without repairs having been done, the damage is irreparable: people killed inside the spell stay dead and things whose Power of Existence was consumed vanish from existence (from a human universe-sense). This "repairing" demands extreme mastery of that energy's manipulation, and, while all Flame Hazes can perform basic repairs, only very few can perform complex repairs."Dengeki G's Festival! Vol.8" Page 39 If Power of Existence is consumed, the person or thing that PoE belonged to is gone forever, and its existence and history are erased from the entire worldSeason 1, Episode 2. However, Distortions are caused whenever this happens and, if too many accumulate, it would destroy the balance of the world, causing harm to both the human world and the Crimson Realm."Shakugan no Shana Guide Book Nyūmon-hen" page 12 Both Flame Hazes and Crimson Denizens have stopgap measures to soften these Distortions."Shakugan no Shana Guide Book Nyūmon-hen" page 14"Shakugan no Shana Guide Book Nyūmon-hen" page 15
*The only way for a human to interact with a Fūzetsu and act within it is by being granted free action through a spell by a Flame Haze or Crimson Denizen capable of advanced spellcasting.Season 1, Episode 12 That spell envelops humans with an energy, presumably the same as the Crimson Realm's, that allows them to move freely inside. Nobody can see or hear what is happening inside a Fūzetsu from the outside, not even creatures that can sense and interact with it. Similarly, nobody inside a Fūzetsu can see or hear what is happening outside.
*Only characters who possess energy from the Crimson Realm within them, who are tied to it, or who are allowed to by such characters, can act inside a Fūzetsu.
==Gallery==
Shana - Tenmoku3.png|The human, sword and armor that make up Tenmoku Ikko, before the fusion of consciousnesses
==Notable Matchups==
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==References==
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