Editing Kaiser (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
Max's power allows him to create metal objects – blades, beams, bludgeons, sheets, tubes, spears, needles etc – which extend from solid surfaces around him.<ref name="I4 e1">As if in response, he picked up a letter opener and held it in front of his chest. Blades of metal began to branch out from it, each forking out into more. Slow at first, the network of metal swiftly encompassed his chest, then the rest of his body. Bars, blades, tubes, sheets of the metal found their place around him. With his power, she knew, he could bring metal to sprout from any solid surface around him, including the metal he had already created. As readily as he could bring thirty-foot spears of iron to erupt from the ground or walls, he created a finely worked suit of armor, then embellished it with blades and curling spikes. He finished it with an uneven crown of blades. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/interlude-3%C2%BD-bonus/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 4]]</ref><ref name="Cast1">'''Kaiser''' – Head of Empire Eighty-Eight, a white supremacist and businessman capable of causing metal to sprout from any solid surface. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/cast-spoiler-free/ Cast (spoiler free)]</ref> He has a large range where he can use his powers. The blades summoned are described as iron or steel, seemingly interchangeably. He is able to summon blades from virtually any surface but it is unknown if summoning them over a metal surface is easier.<ref name="5.9"/><ref name="8.3"/><ref name="I3.5"/><ref name="List">Max Anders	Kaiser	'''Can produce metal blades, barriers or rods from any solid surface'''	E88 - [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1pgn9rgYutpBqJg1lSBP3NHnq9WK4ToLq9K4ys_I4cRc/edit#gid=0 Parahuman List]; bolded edit by [[Wildbow]]</ref>

His power creates a rippling energy effect as it creates metal, and at least sometimes creates a metallic grinding sound.<ref name="5.9">[[Hive 5.9]]</ref>

Kaiser can pull an astonishing amount of material into existence without regard for conservation of mass.<ref>[[Agitation 3.11]]</ref> It is usually created fast enough to injure the unwary, even when creating a column the size of an 18 wheeler;<ref name="5.9"/> although his ability proceeded very slowly when he attempted generating a massive blade 20 feet across,<ref name="5.9"/> and was noticeably slower when he summoned a thicket of solid columns of steel rather than blades to block [[Leviathan]]'s path.<ref name="8.3"> [[Extermination 8.3]]</ref> He could manifest a spear with enough force to penetrate [[Lung]]'s armor.<ref name="5.9 e1">“Your people… animals.” Kaiser intoned.<br/><br/>Not six paces away from me, one of Lung’s thugs let out a raw scream and collapsed to the ground. Dagger-like blades had pierced the tops of his feet mid-stride. As he used his hands to break his fall, another set of blades punched through his palms. The screams of the other thugs echoed his. He was on his hands and knees, unable to move with his hands and feet effectively nailed to the ground.<br/><br/>“Kaiser!” I shouted, “No!”<br/><br/>“Not your business, little girl,” Kaiser told me, turning in my direction.<br/><br/>I took an immediate step back, fearing blades would appear under my feet.<br/><br/>“This is wrong,” I said, as I watched a sliver of steel sprout out of the ground and rise with a controlled speed to the base of the thug’s throat. He was forced to arch his back and raise his head to the absolute limits to avoid getting a very unnecessary tracheotomy. I glanced at Lung. He was watching what was happening, but I couldn’t read his alien expression.<br/><br/>“Wrong?” Kaiser chuckled, “As far as I’m concerned, the moment you need to fall back on ''morals'' to argue something, you’ve already lost the argument.  This is war.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/hive-5-9/ Excerpt] from [[Hive 5.9]]</ref>

He was limited by the [[Manton effect]], rendering him unable to generate metal inside another person's body. Kaiser can still shape complex structures, including walls of blades,<ref name="5.9"/><ref name="8.3"/> pyramidal traps,<ref name="5.9"/><ref name="8.4">[[Extermination 8.4]]</ref> around and near people. This also lets him give someone metal armor like he did for his [[Iron Rain|sister]].<ref name="I5"> Taliesinskye and Psychogecko are pretty on target. Though Kaiser’s power wouldn’t prevent him from growing armor -on- someone (which is essentially what he did when he trapped Lung in the pyramid of blades, only it was a more offensive use). - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/interlude-5/#comment-483 Comment] by Wildbow in [[Interlude 5]]</ref><ref name="I3.5"/> He did this by creating large numbers of intricate overlapping structures which extrude from each other to form a larger whole,<ref name="I4 e1"/> linked with extremely thin connections that were then snapped off to allow for free movement.<ref name="R1"/> The Manton limit doesn't stop him from summoning blades up and through people's feet.<ref name="5.9 e1"/><ref name="R1">He can shape the metal as it protrudes, so he can make something thick and then thicker or thinner as it emerges - he creates the metal forms as a protrusion with a thin end (kind of like the parts joining a model airplane part to a mold) and creates another blade (or simply moves) to emerge such that it snaps the bit as it finishes emerging, for the creation of individual components. For rivets he creates a component shaped like a fortune cookie that protrudes through a hole and drives another piece into the middle to open it wide, or he simply grows a tall blade through.<br/><br/>It would be next to impossible to remove his armor unless you're Fenja or Menja or you have giant bolt cutters - only he can really do it. Removing it would involve creating blades that scissored through or crushed rivets and the joints as they grew. - [https://redd.it/5mu4a5 Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>