Ice Manipulation

## Summary

Users can create, shape, and manipulate ice, which is water frozen into a solid state. As an elemental power, cryokinesis has a nearly limitless number of uses, limited only by the user's imagination and their natural limits. Fundamentally, users would be able to generate ice through various means, such as by lowering the temperature of the surrounding air until solid ice forms or by freezing nearby water sources. They could release and channel this ice in the form of ice beams that freeze whatever they come into contact with or extremely rigid and durable ice walls and domes that can be used offensively and defensively. There's also the capacity to use ice in order to freeze one's opponents to death by trapping them in ice that slowly kills their cells or shattering them to pieces once frozen.

The next most common application is the ability to shape and control ice, such as turning ice chunks into icicles to pierce the opponent or creating an icy wind to make it difficult for them to breathe. The user can also shape ice into weapons to use for combat, such as spears, swords, or scythes. They would also be able to move ice with their minds, raining a barrage of freezing ice shards on their enemies or using it to move large amounts of ice with ease. Increased mobility and speed can also be achieved through gliding on ice, which not only allows one to preserve stamina but can also potentially allow one to reach places that would be extremely difficult to reach under normal circumstances. Users might also be capable of creating clones (which could be sentient in some cases) out of ice or increasing their size through the use of ice.

Ice appears naturally in forms such as snow, slush, hail, icicles, ice spikes and candles, glaciers, pack ice, frost, and polar ice caps, thus allowing users to gain control over multiple varied structures and environments. However, places with an absence of water or locations with extremely high temperatures might pose a threat to the user. If at a high enough level, the user would be able to circumvent this issue through sheer power by rapidly cooling the surroundings or by manifesting ice that can be used out of nothing (which usually involves magic in one form or another). Summoning blizzards and ice-related disasters would also be possible in some cases. Ice manipulation could also extend to manipulating the cold by reducing the kinetic energy of atoms through the use of ice, which makes inducing sub-zero or even absolute zero temperatures entirely possible. Some ice manipulators have unique attributes that can potentially be used to perceive through ice or turn one's body into ice itself.

At an extremely advanced level, users would possess nigh-absolute control over all forms of icy matter, allowing them to shape ice however they see fit, such as creating anything that they can imagine, such as an entire city or ecosystem. Users would also be capable of creating ice so cold that it causes cellular destruction in those that inhale it, or ice that would be able to instantly kill someone as their bodies are simply unable to withstand such low temperatures. Through the precise manipulation of ice, a high-level ice manipulator can control ice on a molecular to subatomic level, potentially allowing them to stop blood flow to the brain by freezing the bloodstream, halt chemical reactions by using ice to interfere, or cause matter to break down and collapse on itself if at a low enough temperature. Inversely, users would be able to plunge the entire planet into an ice age by exponentially lowering the Earth's temperature or simulate time stopping by lowering the surrounding temperature to the point everything is at a complete standstill.