Kirin

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> The Decisive Blade
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> ### Creature
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> Elf
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> ### Weapon
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> Santoku Knife
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> ### Element
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> Lightning
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> ### Age
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> 23
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> ### Hometown
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> The Skylands
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> ### Favourite Food
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> Sponge Cake
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> Game Related Information
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> ### Reward
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> Winged Boots
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> ### Voiced By
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> Elspeth Eastman
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> *"Sly and Scientific! Beware the technological tricks and traps of the Elves. Precision is the name of Kirin’s game."* — *Kirin's Description from the Kickstarter*
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**Kirin**, The Decisive Blade, is an Elven chef in *Battle Chef Brigade,* and one of the main characters to combat the blight in the main story.

## Appearance

Kirin is an tan-skinned elf. She has very short, purple hair, purple eyes, typical Elven ears and earrings. She wears a simple, sleeveless robe of black, yellow and white colors. She has yellow rhombi-like diamond symbols on her shoulders and one on her hair. She has a pair of raven-black angel wings on her back that can be retracted and released at will.

## Personality

A kind soul, she helps Mina out when she oversleeps through orientation, and decides to judge a practice match between her and Thrash.

Kirin can be consistently found reading and expanding her knowledge of the cooking arts, though she has admitted she loves to help Belchior mostly due to the cats. Kirin is also the friend that Mina tries to protect from Shiv's attack, leading to Mina's expulsion from the tournament.

## Powers and Abilities

As a capable Chef, she has great cooking prowess, as well as battle capability, being strong enough to bring down an Armarock. She has the ability to sprout black wings, which are strong enough to shield her from Mina's daggers, and also allow her to fly. Similar to Thrash and Mina, it is also likely that she uses her Santoku knife in both battle and cooking.

According to her character description, her speciality are traps and mechanic tools. Her class has been stated as "Cleric", implying protective or healing abilities. This can be seen through her cooking, and why her role as Belchior's assistant is often to help him come up with new medicines or prepare them. One such medicine she played a part in is the cure for Dark Realm Fever, which she prepared for Thrash in the events of the story. Whether or not she has healing abilities for battle use though, is not confirmed.

Kirin also possesses significant scientific knowledge, helping Belchior in his lab with his search for Ambrosia, and even being said to have eventually surpassed him.

## Cuisine

Kirin's cooking appears based around popular French and Japanese cuisines. Especially those that make use of delicate work such as carpaccio and sushi (which both need deft knife work) and macarons (which are infamously difficult to get right). Implying her highly skilled and professionally trained nature. She is also said to focus on medicinal cooking.

## History

Should Kirin be challenge in Kitchen coliseum, she will reward you with Kirin's winged boots, which allow for double jumping, and thus quicker navigation through the various maps. It is especially useful on the Skylands map, understandably so, since it is her homeland.

When asked for advice about good aniversary gifts by Thorn, Mina remarks that she should try asking Kirin as she has a fiancé and is ‘super trendy’. After joining the brigade Kirin can be seen happily pressing hands with a young orc man, presumably her fiancé.

After the events of the main game, she stayed in Brigade Town and joined the Brigade's research branch as Belchior's Assistant.

Kirin's epilogue card and descriptionKirin's full body artKirin as seen with her fiance at the brigade graduation
## Trivia

* At some point, Kirin was meant to be a playable character from launch, as was mentioned in the kickstarter. At some point, her development got cut for unknown reasons.
* Kirin loves cats, and states that part of the reason she chose to work with Belchior is just to get close to his furry friends!