Vashi

Art of Vashi by rustee

Vashi is the brother of Raysha and is a major character in the Manifestation series. Vashi was at the Academy in Hidan prior to the start of the series in which he researched on how to help fix Raysha's broken soul. At the start of the series he takes Raysha to the Academy and then sets out looking for a spirit heart to help Raysha.

## Appearance

Vashi is a very thin man with blue eyes and short hair. He has pale skin.

## Personality

Vashi is a very practical person at heart. He is quite awkward whilst trying to say no to things, however, he is also a very caring person as demonstrated when he spent long periods of time trying to help Raysha's soul and how he was willing to crush Elha for beating Raysha. He is a kind, thoughtful, generous person who went out of his way to help ensure Raysha didn't experience major torment as a child. He is quite logical and patient, very book smart.

## Abilities

### Spiritual Advancement

**Awakened**: Can use aeon. Limited to 2D formations. Vashi could reach Sixth Awakened. Vashi advanced to Initiate whilst at the Academy. Vashi has a decently large amount of aeon that regenerates fully in about a day.

**Initiate**: Vashi's revelation to reach Initiate was to "protect his friends." Limited to 2D formations. First permanent physical enhancement. Will becomes strong enough for proper techniques. Vashi's aeon was compressed to the point there would be diminishing returns by waiting. This means he can hold aeon further away and lose less due to inefficiency. Advancing to Initiate allows Vashi to sense aeon easier.

**Enlightened**: Vashi advanced to the first realm of Enlightenment by building his core into a proper soulspace. Vashi's soulspace is platforms above liquid reservoirs. It has a workshop, floating shelves, benches and a grey background. He designed most of his soulspace with the Metal rune. Vashi also added representation of things from his past, like the first rune he made physically. He determined that his soulspace is a place for crafting and solitude and peace, something to show his family, something to be proud of. Vashi will now be able to use intermediate runes and will be able to use 3D runes that interlock vertically. His body has been improved again by the physical termping of advancement. Vashi's aeon density will have increased because of his advancement.

### Path of the Flowing Sculptor

The Path of the Flowing Sculptor allows for metal manipulation and shaping. This path helps him with the shaping of runes in the equipment he makes.

#### Formation

Vashi's formation is made from the runes for: Metal, Manipulation, Force, Connection, Alacrity. Integration is a capacitor - when you integrate a rune it saturates your body first, and then is slowly absorbed. The person then gains passive benefits in relation to the type of aeon they integrate. For example integrating Resilience will make a person's body more resilient until the integration wears off.

**Metal**: Metal allows Vashi to manipulate metal. He can soften it so it feels like clay and he can manipulate its movement.

**Manipulation**: Manipulation presumably allows Vashi to manipulate physical things.

**Force**: Force allows Vashi to add extra force to his actions like movements and punches. Force can also be used to form barriers. Force can be thrown out in bolts and orbs. Vashi can launch waves of Force-aspected aeon. Integrating Force helps enhance the body by adding extra force onto each action.

**Connection**: Connection allows Vashi to strengthen his connection to things he pushes Connection-aspected aeon into. He has demonstrated using it to connect with copper he was manipulating.

**Alacrity:** Alacrity helps Vashi manipulate his shields and he believes it could help him with movement.

### Crafting

Vashi has skills in crafting, creating physical rune formations on objects. This is sometimes known as enchanting. Enchanting involves physically carving runes into an object, producing a formation and then inlaying a gemstone to store aeon. Higher quality gemstones are better.

## Equipment

### Drake Scale Shields

Vashi makes some shields from the drake scales from the spirit at the Oasis. The scales have interesting, *reflective* properties. The scales amplify the physical formations built into them. Vashi turns the scales into controllable, reflective shields. Vashi makes two shields and places the scales in the middle. There are two shields and they are diamond shaped. They float and rotate around Vashi. Vashi can stand on one shield to effectively ride it.

**Defensive Formation**: The shields have Resilience, Force and Reflection runes physically on the shields. The scales properties allows Reflection to work because it requires high willpower to work. Resilience and Force make the shields operate as shields effectively with those two runes being typical for shield formations. Reflection makes it so that attacks that hit the shield bounce away.

### Linked Engraving Rods

Vashi has a pair of linked engraving rods. One is 7 inches long made of steel, with a sharp point. The other is steel and is around a tenth of the previous one's size. The rods have linked motion but at a reduced rate so the smaller rod copies the action of the larger but on a smaller scale. These are used for increasing precision.