Koton (Bloodline)

## Steel Release

The Steel Release is an advanced nature kekkei genkai that can be used to make one's body and objects upon contact virtually indestructible by turning it into metal upon command. The main capabilities of Kōton is allowing the user to manipulate the speed of their iron's growth as well as the location of iron deposits. This allows them to create weapons of steel that can either protrude from any part of the body, or pulled out and used like hand held weapons.

## Steel Release Traits

* Requires the user have the Earth Element.
* The user cannot be hurt by their own steel techniques.
* Clan user's skin has the durability of heavy armor naturally without the drawbacks and this natural armor degrades as normal armor would.
* The user is able to give the Steel properties to all Doton techniques they perform, giving them the appearance of steel upon creation. Those earth release techniques lose their elemental weaknesses and strengths.
* Metal created by the bloodline remains in tact after creation. Weapons and armors created in this manner become ornate in quality after the chakra leaves it without the use of the 'Forge Master' PA.
* The user's steel may be any color.

## Bloodline Attributes

**▱▰▱ Will of Steel |** The user's endurance cap is raised by 1 point so long as their endurance does not exceed 9. In addition, their rock hard natural skin gains immunity from two physical status effects of choice with the exception of frostbite and dehydration.

**▱▰▱ Forge Master |** At creation, the user may choose Armor Smithing or Weapon Smithing. The character begins at Apprentice Status in that chosen crafting profession. The user is able to use their Steel Release's metals to forge all weapons and armor they create with durability that matches their body rank. In addition, each weapon or armor crafted this way gains an additional ability unique to that weapon that must utilize the clan's abilities in some way. Finally, items created this way can be freely absorbed into the body and expelled by paying an E Rank amount of chakra with no activation for each item removed during combat in this method.

**▱▰▱ Iron Tomb |** All the user's techniques that would cause petrification in a target are instead changed to metal as they have their flesh's structure changed into steel. This metal element being added to the petrification status causes all petrification to occur at the next highest tier as well as adding an additional cost of the user's body rank in chakra to break the limb free.

## Steel Release Techniques

**▰ Steel Manipulation [ Hagane no Sōsa ] | Rank X | Spiritual**

This control allows the Steel user to create and or bend metal they have created or is currently unaffected by chakra freely while holding a single hand seal. Steel created this way can then be used on the spot, or left dormant for a later time but must be formed by extending off of the user's body. Smaller items can be made at a higher rank while retaining their effective ranking.

* Rank E: Very small steel: A finger, Kunai, etc
* Rank D: Small steel: An arm, sword, limb etc
* Rank C: Medium steel: A torso, Body plate, etc
* Rank B: Large steel: A vehicle, boulder, etc
* Rank A: Enormous steel: A small-medium building, etc
* Rank S: Massive steel: A Large building, skyscraper, etc
* Rank S+: Unjustifiable Amount of Steel: Topic, Village, ect.

**▰ Metal Weapon Creation [ Hagane no Buki no Sakusei ] | Rank E-C | Spiritual**

The user forms a single hand sign to manifest weapon formed of steel. Three small projectiles or a small weapon may be created at E Rank. At D Rank, the number of projectile doubles or a medium weapon may be crafted. At C Rank, the number of projectile doubles once more or a large weapon may be made.

**▰ Polished Steel [ Kenma no Hagane ] | Rank D | Spiritual**

The user applies chakra to any targeted metalic object they are in possession of. This object gains a brilliant shine that causes tier one blindness to those who acknowledge or alternatively can become reflective and used as a trigger for genjutsu to those who see themselves in the reflection. These effects remain active for three posts and only one may be active at once.

**▰ Steel Shrapnel Barrage [ Tetsu no Bakudan Danmaku ] | Rank C | Complex**

The user extends their arm or alternatively makes physical contact, releasing a barrage of steel shrapnel from their body that sprays in a conical manner like buckshot. This steel shrapnel has a limited range of twenty feet but treats armor as one tier lower and defensive techniques as one rank lower during collision.When unblocked, severe bleeding occurs, draining stamina from the target at a rate of twenty per post for five posts unless bleeding is stopped.

**▰ Impervious Armor [ Fu Shintō-sei no Yoroi ] | Rank X | Spiritual**

The user manipulates their chakra to coat their flesh with a thin, yet sturdy layer of steel. This steel is malleable when the user moves their joints, giving them unhindered flexibility. This steel flesh may cover either a single limb or the entire body depending on the application. When clashing with complex techniques, this armor treats them as simple in nature. When damaged, this armor automatically utilizes the users chakra with no activation the following post. If this would drop the user below 100 chakra the armor will cease its automatic repair function.

**▰ Reinforcement Technique [ Kyōka no Jutsu ] | Rank X | Spiritual**

A technique that repairs a piece of armor or a weapon that has been degraded below it's natural state. Doing so outside of combat requires an E Rank amount of chakra. Alternatively, within combat the user may consume their defensive technique to simply block an incoming attack by placing the weapon between the opponent and them self. By reinforcing the steel, the user's weapon or armor is reinforced for the duration of the strike, ending the technique immediately after. When used in this method the user must pay the cost of the technique.

**▰ Steel Barricade [ Hagane no Kabe ]| Rank X | Spiritual**

The user slams their hand or stomps their foot, causing a wall of steel to rise up at the desired location in the topic. This wall of grows ten feet in height and length per rank and one foot in width per rank. This barricade is capable of defending against techniques one rank higher than itself and ignores the overwhelming property from techniques attempting to break through it.

**▰ Steel Burial [ Hagane no Maisō ] | Rank X | Spiritual**

The user makes physical contact with the target. Upon contact, metal begins expanding from the user's body that squeals and screeches and the metal bends and contorts to entangle then envelop the target in a jagged layer of steel. The user can choose one of the following effects to grant the technique. The first optional effect allows the user to treat the technique as a rank higher when interacting with techniques in order to break the technique. The second ability causes tiered trauma the first turn the target is trapped within the attack and one rank lower per following turn but is considered one rank below it's casted cost to escape. The third ability causes tiered petrification to those trapped within.

**▰ Blood Seeking Steel [ Chi o Motomeru Hagane ] | Rank X | Spiritual | Augment**

This technique is paid in addition to any steel release technique or bukijutsu technique where metal makes contact with the target, consuming no activation of it's own. Upon physical contact with the target, metal creeks and squeals as it expands in jagged blade like extensions that are no wider than three inches and measure up to twenty feet. These metal blades that expand on contact are able to change direction upon contact with a target. This means that after impaling a target, the attack's remaining length could be used to send the blade in a new direction for that distance to attack another foe. Each time this effect strikes a separate foe it's rank is reduced by one, consuming that much chakra from the user.

**▰ Steel Titan [ Hagane no Kyojin ] | Rank A | Spiritual**

The user forms several hand signs, converting all minerals in the earth around them into steel that compresses and forms around them, encasing the user entirely. This mass of metal reshapes into a design of the user's own with the limitations of standing thirty feet in height. The user manipulates the Titan's form from within it, allowing the titanic form to move with all the user's stats and withstanding S Ranked attacks during the technique's five post duration. If the titan has weapons built into it's form such as claws, teeth, ect that are not within the user's scope of abilities to utilize techniques with, the user is able to preform Basic Combat Abilities.

**▰ Consuming Steel [ Hagane o Shōhi Suru ] | Rank A | Spiritual**

The user channels chakra throughout their entire body, causing it to resonate with chakra for five posts. For these five posts, any metal the user makes physical contact with, or any metal the user is in control of that makes contact with other metal is absorbed so long as it has less chakra influence upon it than the rank of this technique. When metal is absorbed into the user's metal or into the user it is removed from the target's inventory if it was an item they possessed. This cannot be done with custom weapons or crafted weapons above simple design.

**▰ Impermeable Fortress [ Fu Tōka no Yōsai ] | Rank S | Complex**

The user forms the required hand signs, expelling metal from their hands as they are planted upon the earth. In the desired location within eyesight, the user's steel begins to form a giant fortress that measures five hundred feet in width and two hundred feet in height. The innards of the fortress are to the user's personal design but must be specified within the first post. These castle walls require techniques of S+ Rank to destroy them and are permanent fixtures. If used to create a home using the residency system the creation is classified as Castle and still requires 1/2 the ryo cost to be deducted from the user's inventory to be claimed. If this is not done, any person may purchase the fortress for 1/2 price.

**▰ Metal Overdrive [ Metaruōbādoraibu ] | Rank S+ | Spiritual**

The user expels chakra from their body, releasing a beam of chakra from any metalic surface they are in contact with which is commonly armor or a weapon, otherwise their own impervious armor is used. The beam of chakra extends up to one hundred feet, measuring five feet in width. This chakra blast is upkept by an A rank amount of chakra, transforming anything it makes contact with into steel. If the target is a Ranked NPC or RPC, the target they are encased in metal which requires an S+ amount of resource to break free of. Anything transformed to metal in this period remains in that state indefinitely.