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==Abilities and Powers==
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===Death Touch and Collection===
If desired, Ciara can collect imprints of parahumans using a touch-based ability on their body, killing the person in the process.<ref>She reached up, placing a hand on the side of my face.  It was warm from the fire.  Her thumb brushed along my cheekbone, the long nail coming dangerously close to my eye.<br><br>''She could kill me right here.  Pull my passenger away from me and claim it.'' - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/22/extinction-27-4/ Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.4]]</ref><ref>I gathered my swarm around me and the teleporter, and I had her draw another circle.<br><br>Glaistig Uaine reached out, seizing the woman’s wrist.  The teleporter’s alarm mingled with my own.<br><br>But she wasn’t attacking, and she wasn’t taking the teleporter’s powers, extinguishing her life in the process. - [[Speck 30.2]]</ref> On one occasion, she killed a mercenary by touching the crystal shell he enclosed around himself<ref>The glimmer proved to be truth when the man raised himself up, surrounded by a storm of black sand.  Painfully bright slices of light lunged out of the ground and closed around him, with more sprouting out of the ground to make approaching him difficult.<br><br>Of the sixteen powered individuals with her, none seemed able to break or disrupt the shell.  The prism slowly rotated, its pointed tip aimed at the horizon.  As it moved to the side, the ground under it was made jagged with razor slices of light. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/10/20/gleaming-interlude-9/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 9 II]]</ref> right before he could escape.<ref>If he got away with this message, it could mean the local warlord was alerted about what he was up against. Not ''disaster'', but it could mean that the captives in the warlord’s possession could become hostages or negotiation fodder.  Better that he didn’t know what was taking out his forces and forcing him to keep his armies closer and closer to home.<br><br>''He can’t get away.'' - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/10/20/gleaming-interlude-9/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 9 II]]</ref><ref>The crystal jolted into motion, going from zero to two hundred miles an hour in an instant.  She only barely intercepted it, her fingers grazing the surface, bending painfully and burning at the brush with the light.<br><br>But she made contact with ''something''.  She held onto that something with her power.<br><br>He flew away, and a part of him stayed behind.  He made it a few hundred feet before the power quit on him.<br><br>His body tumbled into the sand, the gas mask coming loose.  He didn’t reach for it, scramble, or gasp in pain at the poison he was inhaling.<br><br>For all intents and purposes, ''he'' was in her grip.  She’d taken his life the moment she’d made contact.<br><br>She let that glimmer of life and the simulacrum of power and personality settle into being.  A shadow. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/10/20/gleaming-interlude-9/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 9 II]]</ref>

Ciara can also seemingly collect imprints of parahumans who die within a unknown range of her, as she was shown to have had [[Bakuda]] and [[Grue]] in her collection despite not being in their immediate vicinity around the time of their deaths to touch them.<ref>[[Interlude 10.5]]</ref><ref>[[Interlude 15.z II|Interlude 15.z]]</ref> However, she can choose to avoid collecting a nearby deceased parahuman.<ref>''The Solemn Child.''  A tall, broad shouldered man with a red sash.  She aimed to take fire, and someone on the enemy side raised a wall.<br><br>“Shoot the one in red first!” she ordered.<br><br>The man could undo powers.  Given a moment’s opportunity, he could undo hers, and her power wouldn’t be the same again.<br><br>There was a small measure of satisfaction as she watched the man die, the top of his head removed as it poked over cover.  She avoided collecting him, leaving his power where it lay. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/10/20/gleaming-interlude-9/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 9 II]]</ref> It is implied by [[Ms. Yamada]] that Ciara had the ability to steal powers even before her [[second trigger]],<ref name="E.1e1"/> so what the exact changes to her power were before and after her second trigger are unknown.

===Control of Parahuman Shadows===
At any one time, she can have the parahumans she has ‘claimed’ manifest as ghostly specters, complete with the ability to physically affect the world and use their powers; she normally limits herself to two or three, but can maintain more than that at the cost of significantly reduced individual power.<ref name="Cast2">'''Glaistig Uaine''' – A cape that seems much younger than she is, Glaistig Uaine styles herself as a Faerie Queen, and claims that she collects the lesser faerie that grant other parahumans their powers.  Whatever the true nature of her abilities, she can draw in the essence of recently dead parahumans she has come in contact with – or kill wounded or dying parahumans – and store it within herself.  At any one time, she can have two or three of the parahumans she has ‘claimed’ manifest as ghostly spectres, complete with the ability to physically affect the world and use their powers. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/cast/ Cast Page (In-Depth)]</ref><ref name="I27">[[Interlude 27.x|27.x (Interlude, Eidolon)‏‎]]</ref><ref name="I16"/><ref name="27.3"/><ref name="30.2">[[Speck 30.2]]</ref><ref name="GleamingI9">[https://www.parahumans.net/2018/10/20/gleaming-interlude-9/ Gleaming, Interlude 9]</ref> They are seemingly limited to her immediate presence,<ref>If nothing else, Bakuda was a manageable inmate, now.  She would never leave Glaistig Uaine's immediate presence, let alone the Birdcage. - [[Interlude 10.5]]</ref><ref name="19.6 c1">Glaistig Uaine was mentioned in Marquis’ interlude. She claims the spirits of dead capes she comes in contact with and summons forth spectres with their powers. - 
[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/scourge-19-6/#comment-12181 Comment] by Wildbow on [[Scourge 19.6]]</ref><ref name="27.5">[[Extinction 27.5]]</ref> and she can create multiple copies of a ghost through a duplicator ghost. She made twenty to thirty copies of a ghost, and later created multiple copies of [[Gray Boy|Grey Boy]].<ref>Above us, Glaistig Uaine had created a spirit that was spreading across the sky like circuits on a circuitboard, extending itself across a plane.  Scion was blasting it, but it had reached the point where it was spreading as fast as he destroyed it.  Her other two spirits were working in concert, one duplicating the other, so it could create and lob projectiles that exploded in the air.  The detonations left patches of a strange, nebulous darkness in their wake.  They couldn’t move more than a short distance from their master, which limited their number, but they added up to twenty or thirty in all.

...

Glaistig Uaine appeared behind him.  Three spirits surrounded her.

One to levitate, grant the ability to float.  A telekinetic or power granter.

Another to duplicate capes.  Duplicating the telekinetic, in part.  But more focused on duplicating the third spirit Glaistig Uaine had made.

Gray Boys. - [[Extinction 27.5]]</ref>

Capes she manifests appear as duplicates of their former selves with exaggerated, caricatured or blended features. Their powers are unaltered.<ref name="27.4"/><ref name="E.1"/> They slowly regenerated after being destroyed or injured in a fight.<ref name="E.1"/> They appear transparent and shadowy but otherwise solid<ref name="27.4"/> and can interact normally with the physical world;<ref name="Cast2"/> projections that are dismissed dissolve into smoke or shadow<ref name="E.1"/> or collapse into a point in her hand "like an explosion in reverse".<ref name="27.4"/> They were affected normally by gravity unless she levitated them with another power.<ref name="27.5">[[Extinction 27.5]]</ref>

When they try to speak, their voices sound faint and incoherent to others, as if were emulating language rather than actually uttering it,<ref name="27.4"/> speaking in voices only Ciara can understand,<ref name="E.1"/> although later shadows are able to speak coherently enough to be understood by bystanders. Ciara can communicate with currently inactive spirits and is partially aware of their emotions and desires. The shadows maintain their original personality and some degree of agency, although it somewhat wears off with time in the same way as their appearance. The recently collected imprints are even able to defy Ciara's wishes, although she expects them to submit later.<ref>“I need you to tell me where the captives from the raids in Rome are being kept,” she said.<br><br>The shadow shook its head.<br><br>“Tell me what you know about the people who can create the triggering moments.”<br><br>She saw and felt the surprise.  He knew ''something''.<br><br>Again, a head shake.<br><br>“You’ll realize your position soon,” she said. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/10/20/gleaming-interlude-9/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 9 II]]</ref>

She draws power from her dormant shards, and feeds her active projections with that power. Even when they are not visible, she still has three projections "active".<ref name="I16"/>

[[File:Glaistig_uaine_by_cnjlc.jpg|thumb|left|320px|[http://www.deviantart.com/art/Glaistig-Uaine-414875555 illustration] by [http://cnjlc.deviantart.com/ CNJLC]]]

By the end of [[Worm]], she has absorbed the powers of countless capes, including [[Eidolon]]. With Eidolon's ghost increasing the number of powers she can wield at once from three to five, and several more if Eidolon's powers are weakened by him using too many powers or Ciara summoning too many phantoms, she is now indisputably the most powerful parahuman in existence. Even before his death, Eidolon himself speculated that she had grown to surpass him in power. However, as of Ward, she seems reluctant to use Eidolon, stating his "battery is almost empty", and that recharging it would be "more trouble than it was worth". She was able to escape [[Khepri]]'s control by forcing her to control one of her spirits instead of herself, possibly using that spirit's power.<ref name ="30.6">[[Speck 30.6]]</ref><ref name="30.7">[[Speck 30.7]]</ref>

===Power Vision===
Ciara possesses a secondary [[Thinker]] power, much like [[Chevalier]] and [[Ingenue]], that allows her to recognize the carriers of other shards and see phantom images surrounding the empowered, but it is far more sensitive, including the ability to sense distant parahumans through walls and at great distances.<ref name="E.1"/>  She is capable of recognizing the details of how individual powers work by analyzing their phantoms.<ref name="GleamingI9"/>

===Vulnerabilities===
Ciara is unable to personally use the powers of collected capes. By default, she is a baseline human who still needs food, rest, and sleep:<ref>A week.<br><br>A weeks of searching, of flying through worlds with only her shadows for company and assistance.  Of finding the meat and vegetables for her own meals, including tubers and edible roots found in nature that were dim substitutes for things found on supermarket shelves.  Her shadows prepared and cooked the meals while she rested.<br><br>A week.  A week, a day, and four hours, and she found the first settlement.  Shattered buildings had been repurposed.  Graves were laid out at the far side of a field.  Water, food, and shelter seemed to be secured. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/10/20/gleaming-interlude-9/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 9 II]]</ref> she lacks enhanced reflexes<ref name="reddit eSuperman" /> and durability.<ref>''If he aimed at me and shot me in the heart, if the shadows I’ve instructed to protect me move too slowly, I could die right here''. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/10/20/gleaming-interlude-9/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 9 II]]</ref> Thus, it is possible for opponents such as [[Skadi]] to ambush and then hit her before she can react.<ref>He turned his back on her, because the machines were changing direction, fixating on him again.  He smashed one open, prying tech free, as smaller ones began opening fire.  A hail of bullets, missiles, and laser beams.<br><br>Behind him, Valkyrie reappeared.  A shadow appeared behind her.<br><br>Before she could move from where she was, the shadow became Axehead.<br><br>A part of him watched Axehead smack Valkyrie out of the sky. - [[Radiation 18.z]]</ref> To temporarily augment her own personal capabilities (e.g., enhanced movement, poison gas immunity), Ciara must use power-granting shadows in her collection.<ref>Scion and Glaistig Uaine began fighting in earnest.  They weren’t more than a hundred feet apart.  Glaistig Uaine was drawing on spirits with a shorter range, now.<br><br>One with a fox-face that seemed to be granting three different kinds of enhanced movement, teleportation, super speed and flight.  The other two varied from moment to moment.  Some existed so briefly that Glaistig Uaine didn’t even try to keep them afloat in the air, images that lasted two or three seconds, employing their powers before they exceeded her natural range and dissipated.<br><br>Some came back, used powers in different variations.  The ones Scion destroyed, though, they didn’t recur.<br><br>Glaistig Uaine was running out, and running out fast. - [[Extinction 27.5]]</ref><ref>Clouds of silvery poison gas rolled across black sand.  Soldiers in gas masks ran up a hill and slid down the other side, to where rocks provided some cover.<br><br>Valkyrie walked through the poison gas, protected by shadows that had granted her boons before fading away.  Her eyes teared up slightly, but that might have been the silicate dust rather than the chemical weapons. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/10/20/gleaming-interlude-9/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 9 II]]</ref> Although she can heal her own injuries by using a [[Healer]] shadow as of 2015,<ref name="II18.z eHealer" /> this granted regeneration takes time and leaves her a sitting duck.<ref>But she had allies. connections.<br><br>He was keeping to the rules, like this.  Having the right allies to watch his back.  Taking a good searching look before he made any decisive moves.  Both with Axehead and with Valkyrie.<br><br>In keeping with those rules, he couldn’t leave it at this.  One decisive shot was good, but the follow-up was essential.  Wading through the Machine Army, he aimed his partially built tinker weapon at Valkyrie.<br><br>Axehead was already gone.<br><br>His tinker device amplified his own power, adding versatility.  His current form enhanced both power and versatility as well.  Combined, they were ''enough''.  He pulled more scraps of metal to his device with reversed beams, and let tendrils of power pull that metal into the right shapes, reinforcing for the decisive shot. - [[Radiation 18.z]]</ref>

She could not engage [[Mama Mathers]] and [[The_Fallen#Mathers|her group]],<ref name="II5.6 eMathers">“We’re not in a position to give you a ''lot'' of firepower,” Chevalier said, emphasizing ‘lot’.  “Valkyrie cannot engage that group of Fallen, and I’m tied up elsewhere with diplomatic roles.  Many other Wardens and subordinate teams are busy.  Advance Guard is on standby.  We’ll ask them to assist you.” - [[Shadow 5.6]]</ref> presumably because Mama Mathers would affect her power vision and any senses from her shadows that perceived her. [[Jack Slash#Vulnerabilities|Without outside interference]], [[Jack Slash#Shard|Jack Slash's secondary power]] prevents her from killing him.<ref name="Reddit interact">'''A)''' Broadcast would reach out to the shard well before the point of that other shard triggering. His very shard interacts with others to dissuade things that would target him. Parahumans don't kill Jack, as a firm rule. This isn't an arbitrary protection. It's an in-story protection that got a fair bit of time and focus in the narrative, toward the end. - Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/72724278 --><ref name="Reddit eIsolated">You can qualify, you can quibble, you can tack on extra powers, but ''Jack doesn't lose to parahumans''. - Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/73903345 -->

She has to collect capes to amass power; [[Eidolon]] at his prime dwarfed her in power.<ref>She was bent, hands out and cupped.<br><br>Within those cupped hands was Eidolon.  One of the strongest capes in the world.  He had once dwarfed ''Valkyrie'' in power.  There was no reason to think he didn’t have that power now.  The colors of him had been changed around.  A black hood with a reflective emerald face beneath, glowing with a white light.  Black sleeves.  A body suit of emerald, muscular. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/08/infrared-19-9/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.9]]</ref><ref name="27.x eReputation">Scion, the Endbringers, they were the others who typically came up in the same breath as Eidolon.  He was the only one of them that was human.  He had less power than they did, but more power than most.<br><br>Glaistig Uaine was one of the others, a contender for the title, though not necessarily in the public’s perception.  The PRT had controlled how much information the public had about her, to keep people from getting too scared.  She was a nonfactor, a captive in the Birdcage.  She’d taken down Gray Boy, had attacked the King’s Men and slain Athrwys, and then she’d turned herself in.<br><br>Easy enough for the average Joe to dismiss her as a lunatic.<br><br>Except Glaistig Uaine had been amassing power during her time in the Birdcage, and he had been losing it.<br><br>Had he been supplanted in his role as the most powerful person in the world? - [[Interlude 27.x‏‎]]</ref> Even during [[Gold Morning]], Ciara believed Eidolon was stronger than her.<ref>“You’re more powerful than I am,” he said.  The words broke him a little.<br><br>She shook her head.<br><br>“No?” he asked.  “Or is this a faerie riddle?  It’s not really ''your'' power?”<br><br>“It’s mine.  Ours.  But you’re stronger than I am.  I can see it.  The issue, High Priest, is that you need to open your eyes.” - [[Interlude 27.x‏‎]]</ref>

Capes that she resurrects with the help of [[Bonesaw]] and [[Nilbog]] are no longer in her collection.<ref>The sad fact was that they weren’t Valkyrie’s.  She didn’t know them, beyond what she’d seen the last time she’d ''had'' them.  She couldn’t know their needs. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/10/20/gleaming-interlude-9/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 9 II]]</ref><ref>“Valkyrie sent some of her flock out to find people they used to work with, or to help the Wardens.  She wanted some of us, me included, to stick close to her, because we had tools she needed.  Now that she’s gone, I was thinking of joining with you guys or the Red Hands.” - [[Infrared 19.f]]</ref> To mitigate this loss of power, those resurrected agree to provide Ciara their assistance as members of her [[flock]].<ref>“These ones…” Valkyrie started, searching for the words.  “They died, and I brought them back, with some help.  In exchange for this life, they’ve agreed to provide me with assistance.  Some strangeness is to be expected.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/10/20/gleaming-interlude-9/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 9 II]]</ref>

===Titan Valkyrie===
As a [[Titan]], she can now spawn a much greater number of ghosts at once and have them leave her immediate presence, with the limit on both being unknown.<ref>Almost twenty titans, and on shoulders, on heads, on ground, on rubble, on clouds, or just floating in the air, shades like Eidolon appeared, suspended in the air.  I couldn’t count them – the scene on the wall changed too much. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/08/infrared-19-9/ Infrared 19.9]</ref>

===Shard===
Ciara's powers are the result of receiving a crippled<ref>The entity altered each power he granted to give them certain restrictions.  No power would be able to truly affect him, no power would cross the boundaries he set in dimension, or in affecting other powers. - [[Venom 29.7]]</ref> [[shard]] from [[Scion]].<ref>“I’m not sure I follow,” I said.<br><br>“He doesn’t follow either,” Glaistig Uaine replied.  “Which complicates things.  We have two courts, but the other court arrived to the stage bedraggled, maddened, and they don’t have any instructions or forewarning, you understand?”<br><br>“I believe so,” I said.<br><br>''Trying to, anyways''.<br><br>“The high priest is in similar straits to these unfortunates.  He stands straight and bluffs through his lines, but he’s wearing the wrong costume and he’s arrived at the wrong time, just like the others.”<br><br>“And… what does ''he'' think of this?”<br><br>Glaistig Uaine shrugged.  “I couldn’t tell you.  But what would you think of it, in his shoes?  He’s set this in motion, and there’s no finale, there’s no promise of another play after this one is done.  The nobles of our court’s mighty faerie may have no role to play.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/22/extinction-27-4/ Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.4]]</ref> She call her shard the [[List_of_Shards#Keeper_of_The_Dead|Keeper of the Dead]].<ref name="E.1 eWarring">Seeing the flickers in the crowd wasn’t helping.  She avoided them, making her way downstairs, into an adjoining structure.  Once upon a time, she’d used that other sight exclusively.  In this, in the here and now, she was warring with the keeper of the dead.  A part of why she felt incomplete, fragile.  They craved purpose.  It took a special kind of willpower to avoid using abilities altogether.  Some did, but they were rare.<br><br>Using her power meant killing, it meant being around the dead, immersing herself in the gravest kinds of conflict.<br><br>Would her experiment in humanity be so short lived? - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/02/teneral-e-1/ Excerpt] from [[Teneral e.1]]</ref><ref>They were all parts of a whole.  The Chirurgeon, the Maker, the Keeper of the Dead.  It only made sense that there would be synergies between such abilities.<br><br>A way to bring her dead back, perhaps? - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/02/teneral-e-1/ Excerpt] from [[Teneral e.1]]</ref> According to Ciara, her shard's duties are at the end of the [[cycle]], which explains why her shard is more patient and relaxed than the typical shard.<ref>“It’s the approach that makes sense.  The, er,” the girl stumbled uncharacteristically as she searched for a word, “''parahumans''… they tend towards conflict.”<br><br>“There is a lot of evidence to suggest that’s the case.  Do you?  Tend towards conflict?”<br><br>“No.  Which is a good thing, I imagine.  My other half was always more patient, more relaxed than most.  Its duty was always at the ''end''.  For those who had duties at the ''beginning'', it would be harder.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/02/teneral-e-1/ Excerpt] from [[Teneral e.1]]</ref> 

Behind the scenes, the [[List_of_Shards#Keeper_of_The_Dead|Keeper of the Dead]] utilizes the [[shard network]] to make her powers work. Whenever Ciara collects a cape, her [[shard]] co-opts their specific local network and makes it subordinate: it rips out an entire package and makes it a shadow that she can load/unload.<ref>Other cases of the network being in play include Teacher setting up his own temporary networks of a narrow niche of shard (thinker/tinker shards), or Glaistig Uaine co-opting other networks and making them subordinate (ripping out the entire package and making it a ghost she can load/unload). - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit</ref><!-- https://redd.it/nt15eg --> Clones of a collected cape can still reconnect with their specific local network, though (e.g., [[Gray Boy]]).<ref>The boy stepped out, and there was no sign of any difficulty.  He didn’t struggle as others had, nor have trouble finding his feet.  He was prepubescent, to look at him, older than ten but younger than fourteen.  His hair was neatly parted, and he wore a private school uniform, complete with glossy black shoes.  Dry.<br><br>''Even though he was naked in the tube''. - [[Interlude 25]]</ref>

Thanks to Ciara's [[second trigger]],<ref name="E.1 eSecondTrigger">“You miss my point,” Ciara said, clearly annoyed.<br><br>“No.  I got it.  Chronologically, you’re older, and by those measures, your youth is only a mask you wear.  By ''other'' measures, you’re still a child.  You triggered at a very young age, you were no doubt isolated, as masters tend to be.  No doubt surviving purely by your own methods.  Somewhere along the way, something happened.  You stole the wrong power, you fought someone and lost, or you found yourself in a bad situation.  In the course of that event or in the wake of it, you unlocked stronger powers, and they eclipsed you as a person.  Am I too far off track, here?”<br><br>Ciara didn’t respond.  Her hard stare was a challenging one, now, a ''hard'' stare. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/11/02/teneral-e-1/ Excerpt] from [[Teneral e.1]]</ref> her powers are relatively unbounded and are thus more leashed to the goodwill of her [[shard]] than others.<ref>Some powers are simply more leashed to shard goodwill than others. Often the case with breakers (Moord Nag's pet is breaker-ish) and the more unbounded powers such as Eidolon (who has a dead shard, for the record), Leet, Glaistig Uaine, and Panacea. People who were slated to fall pre-powers are set up to fall in a bad way.<br>[...]<br>Working with the passenger's wishes means the ongoing effects and the bounds that form around the unbounded effects as they take hold (success rates and accuracy, power, efficiency, collateral damage, etc) are more to the parahuman's wishes. - Comment by Wildbow on Reddit, archived on Spacebattles</ref><!-- https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/36173443 --> For example, when starting out as Valkyrie, she found herself warring with the [[List_of_Shards#Keeper_of_The_Dead|Keeper of the Dead]] over no longer using her power vision exclusively.<ref name="E.1 eWarring" />