Escanor

## Summary

**Escanor** was the Lion's Sin of Pride of the Seven Deadly Sins, the former second prince of the Kingdom of Castellio, and the man known throughout the Kingdom of Liones as "The Strongest Holy Knight". His Sacred Treasure was the Divine Axe, Rhitta, and his inherent power was called Sunshine, which made him renowned for gaining immense power during the day, and gradually becoming weaker with the setting of the sun, leaving him frail and submissive at night.

## Powers and Stats

**Tier:** **10-B**, **6-C** with Pseudo-Sun, at least **High 6-C** with Rhitta | At least **6-C** at Dawn, at least **High 6-C** during the Afternoon, **Low 6-B** Near Noon, **6-B** as The One | At least **6-B**

**Name:** Escanor

**Origin:** Nanatsu no Taizai

**Gender:** Male

**Age:** 40

**Classification:** Human, Lion's Sin of Pride, Member of the Seven Deadly Sins, Former Holy Knight

#### **Abilities:**

Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Magic, Extrasensory Perception, Expert Axe Wielder, Regeneration (High-Low), Fire Manipulation (Can emit flames far hotter than natural fire), Regeneration Negation (Mid) (Melascula was unable to fully heal from Sunshine's flames on her own), Heat Manipulation, Light Manipulation (Can emit intense light with the same properties as sunlight), Air Manipulation (Can generate air slashes), Flight (via riding on Cruel Sun), Statistics Amplification (His power steadily increases from dawn until it reaches its peak at noon), Empowerment (Can imbue Divine Axe Rhitta with Sunshine), Summoning (Can summon Rhitta from extremely far distances), Large Size (3.25 meters as "the One"), Resistance to Fire Manipulation, Heat Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, and Mind Manipulation (Unharmed by his own fire and heat. Warded off both Melascula's attempts to devour his soul and Gowther's attempts to destroy his mind), Curse Manipulation (Graces make their holders immune to Demonic Curses)

**Attack Potency:** **Human level** (His strength is that of a normal Human), **Island** **level** with Pseudo-Sun (His power level is comparable to Base Galand), at least **Large Island level** with Rhitta (One shot both Drole and Gloxinia, he's also comparable to Estarossa) | At least **Island** **level** at Dawn (Stronger than Unsealed base Meliodas), at least **Large Island** **level** during the Afternoon (Damage and overpower Estarossa), **Small Country level** Near Noon (Comparable to True Form Chandler and Cusack), **Country level** as The One (Stronger than Demon Mark Ominous Nebula Zeldris) | **Country level+** (Comparable to Full Power Demon King Zeldris)

**Speed:** **Massively Hypersonic+** Combat speed (Evaded attacks from a casual Izraf), **higher** with Pseudo-Sun (Is on par with Base Galand), **Sub-Relativistic** with Rhitta (Can augment his power by using Rhitta as a sun. Should be comparable to Drole and Gloxinia) | **Sub-Relativistic** at Dawn (Comparable to Unsealed Base Meliodas), **higher** during the Afternoon (Faster than before) **Sub-Relativistic+** Near Noon (Kept up with True Form Cusack and Chandler), **FTL** as The One (Comparable to Zeldris with all of his abilities) | **FTL** (Kept up with Full Power Demon King Zeldris in combat)

**Striking Strength:** **Human Class**, **Island** **Class** with Pseudo-Sun, at least **Large Island Class** with Rhitta | At least **Island** **Class** at Dawn, at least **Large Island Class** during the Afternoon, **Small Country Class** Near Noon, **Country Class** as The One | **Country Class+**

**Durability:** **Human level**, **Island** **level** with Pseudo-Sun, at least **Large Island level** with Rhitta | At least **Island** **level** at Dawn, at least **Large Island level** during the Afternoon, **Small Country level** Near Noon, **Country level** as The One | **Country level+**

**Stamina:** Extremely high (Even in his night form he continually dodged Izraf's attacks for hours)

**Range:** Standard melee range, extended melee range with Rhitta, several hundreds of meters with Sunshine.

**Standard Equipment:** Divine Axe Rhitta and magic glasses that suppress his day transformation

**Intelligence:** Escanor is almost completely useless in combat during the night, being timid, submissive, and crumbling under pressure. However, he has shown a great deal of cunning at times, providing Galan and Merascylla with alcoholic drinks to distract them until sunrise. During the daytime, he is insufferably arrogant and somewhat flamboyant, spouting entire poems to Merlin in the midst of combat and growing angered should one mistake them for an incantation of his ability. However, he is also an incredibly skilled and mighty combatant, so much so that he effortlessly overpowered and killed the Vampire King Izraf and two members of the Ten Commandments on top of being recognized as the strongest member of the Sins, which includes the likes of Meliodas (who helped to seal the Ten Commandments), King (who can ward off entire kingdoms of Holy Knights), and Ban (who has killed Demons in the past).

**Weaknesses:** Escanor has no control over his Sunlight ability, he will continue to grow in strength depending on what time of day it is and his power becomes completely unmanageable at its peak. At night he becomes weak, timid and submissive. Pseudo-Sun only gives Escanor a few seconds of constant power boost, which then gets him back to his weaker state. Though this is irrelevant if he's using Rhitta. If using Rhitta as a sun, his form will be lost if Rhitta is knocked out of his hand, and its stored power is finite. During the daytime he's rather arrogant, but this is mitigated somewhat by his combat skill and power in addition to his willingness to simply blitz targets. Escanor's Sunshine cannot display its full power during rainy or cloudy conditions. | His form as "The One" only lasts for as long as it is precisely high noon, fading the minute noon passes, after Noon his power will begin to decline. | The One Ultimate requires Escanor to convert his own life force into magic power

**Notable Attacks/Techniques:**

**Sunshine:** Escanor's Grace was originally bestowed by the Supreme Deity to the Archangel Mael, and eventually passed to Escanor through unknown means. Due to Sunshine, Escanor changes form throughout the day, spending the night as a weak, frail man and the day as a strong, muscular warrior. His personality changes along with his body, becoming extremely timid while weak but extremely prideful while strong. At dawn, Escanor undergoes a massive jump in power, and continues to get stronger every second until noon, at which point his power reaches its peak. After noon he gets gradually weaker until he shifts back into his frail form after sunset. While he spends most of the morning with an idealized musculature, when noon is near Escanor becomes grotesquely muscular, to the point of looking inhuman. At noon he turns into The One, who Merlin described as "the invincible incarnation of power."

In addition to granting him great power, Sunshine allows Escanor to produce enormous quantities of heat and light. He normally keeps the aura somewhat contained, but as noon gets closer he melts the ground around him and even his allies' metal armor. He can flare his aura at will to produce an immense burst of light and heat, seemingly melting Edinburgh even at dawn.

Notably, Sunshine-imbued attacks can prevent regeneration up to a certain extent. Though Izraf's wounds closed, the heat remained and continued to damage him. Melascula was unable to heal her burns even after she had recovered her energy. In addition, Escanor's soul itself is imbued with Sunshine and severely burns those who attempt to extract and absorb it, returning to his body on its own.

Also note that the heat and fire produced by Sunshine is superior to natural fire, as it was able to instantly vaporize Izraf's Black Full-Plate, which he said was impregnable even to the Demon Clan's purgatory fire. Purgatory fire burned down the Fairy King's Forest, which is immune to natural fire.

* **Cruel Sun:** Escanor forms a miniature sun in his hand that radiates immense heat. He can control its movements, using it to strike enemies as well as standing on it and using it as a flying vehicle. He can greatly enlarge the sun by putting more power into it.

* **Pride Flare:** Escanor causes the Cruel Sun to burst in an immense radiation of heat. When fighting Estarossa this technique vaporized a lake in an instant.

* **Crazy Prominence:** Escanor's causes numerous fireballs to launch from his body in many directions

* **Divine Sword Escanor:** In his "The One" form, Escanor chops the air in the direction of his opponent with his bare hand. This technique instantly incapacitated even Assault Mode Meliodas and broke Zeldris' Ominous Nebula defense.

* **Divine Spear Escanor:** After Escanor reaches the peak of his power, and becomes The One, he thrusts his index finger into his opponent.

**Divine Axe Rhitta:** An enormous one-handed axe so heavy that even Unsealed Base Meliodas and Base Galand have difficulty lifting it, much heavier than Diane's enormous war hammer Gideon. It is able to store the immense heat produced by Escanor during the day, allowing him to protect his surroundings and concentrate his attacks. He can call his axe to him from great distances by raising his hand in the air, causing the axe to fly to him. By saying "Sacred Treasure Release" Escanor can unleash an immense burst of heat and light, blinding his opponents.

* **Charge and Fire:** Escanor can release the stored up heat in Rhitta in a powerful but concentrated attack.

* **Super Slash:** Escanor strikes his opponent with a powerful downward slash. Rhitta's blade appears to glow like the sun, signifying the immense power behind the slash. It is worth noting that the Japanese name "Mijingiri" translates to "Atom Slashing."

**Key:** **Night** | **Day** | **The One Ultimate**