Editing Khonsu (section)

===Time Fields===
Khonsu has the ability to summon up to three fields of accelerated time at a time.<ref name="Rjla e1" /> To an outside observer, any individual who falls inside one of these zones appears as a blur.<ref name="25.4 e9" /> People are typically trapped and die within seconds<ref name="25.4 e9">When it intersected a building, the effect became clear.  Barely visible with the camera’s range, they were nonetheless a blur, moving within the circle’s perimeter.<br><br>“They’re trapped,” Golem said.  “He’s manipulating time in there and they’re trapped.”<br><br>Golem was right.  How many days were they experiencing in there, with only the food they had on hand?  Was water reaching them?  There didn’t seem to be power.<br>[...]<br>It took six or seven seconds for the blurring of their movements to slow.  In another second, it stopped altogether. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/scarab-25-4/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.4]]</ref> to a minute,<ref name="25.4 e16">“''No, no, no…''” Cuff whispered.<br><br>In a minute, the capes were dead. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/scarab-25-4/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.4]]</ref> leaving behind skeletons<ref name="25.4 e13">Here and there, people and cars were caught inside.  He wasn’t a full city block down the street before one circle had a crowd trapped within, half-filling the base of it, another circle perhaps a quarter of the way full.<br><br>He moved through a less populated area, and he left trails of skeletons in his wake, in odd fractal patterns that followed the circles’ movements. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/scarab-25-4/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.4]]</ref><ref name="25.4 e17">She nodded back, swallowed hard, before she turned her eyes back to the screen.  In that moment, the Endbringer, Khonsu, reversed the direction the circles were drifting, extending the distance they were orbiting around him in the same movement.<br><br>Capes who’d been trying to time their advance to close the distance to Khonsu were caught.  Four trapped and doomed to die a slow death, a fifth caught between a building and the orb’s perimeter as the circle continued its rotation.  When the circle had left the building behind, there was only a bloody smear where the fifth cape had been.  Skeletons for the rest. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/scarab-25-4/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.4]]</ref> or dust.<ref name="Rjla e1" /> Khonsu's time fields are capable of accelerating time in the order of two years per second;<ref name="Rspeed e1">Was in the order of 1 year per .5 seconds. Bugs would die for lack of resources, and Khonsu wouldn't cooperate to that extent. - [https://redd.it/32m2bc Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> his time fields can erode buildings and collapse them in just one minute to an outside observer.<ref name="25.4 e10">He left his power where it was.  The glass on the building’s exterior cracked.  Cracks ran along and through the other material, in the street and at the edges of the structure.  It leaned, then toppled, and the destruction was contained inside the effect.<br><br>Wanton spoke, almost hesitant.  “Is that- doesn’t that remind anyone of-”<br><br>“Yes,” Grace said.  “The barrier, the time manipulation.  It’s similar.”<br><br>''Similar to what we did.''<br><br>All in all, the Endbringer was there for a minute.  The effect moved on, and it left a ruined husk of a building behind.  Though there was no sun shining, the stone and terrain had been sun bleached, worn by elements, eroded. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/scarab-25-4/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.4]]</ref> He also somehow set off Russian nuclear weapons with a time field.<ref name="25.5 e3">He’d hit a weapons stockpile in Russia, and nuclear weapons had been accelerated in time, the casings wearing down in that odd entropic, eroding effect that accompanied the time accelerations.  A nuclear detonation.  Heroes were still trying to minimize the damage. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/scarab-25-5/  Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.5]]</ref><ref name="25.5 d1">'''Wildbow:''' And if the field bisects the nukes, so the outer casing ages at different speeds, with shear where there’s deviation?<br><br>'''demoscat:''' Do you mean if a weapon is partially caught in the field, so that, say, half of the warhead is in, and half is out? If so, then doesn’t that effectively cut the amount of plutonium in half (more or less), halving the critical mass available in two separate time streams? This makes it even less likely to detonate.<br><br>(This assumes the time “boundary” where time flows at different rates prevents objects from passing in and out on their own. Depends on the concept behind the time beam weapon.)<br><br>Oh well, too much over-thinking a rip-roaring great story. In the final analysis, plot wins! - Discussion with Wildbow on [[Scarab 25.5]]</ref> By using a time field on himself, Khonsu can accelerate his natural regeneration.<ref name="25.5 e2">Sometimes he crushed the bulk of the defending forces and then stood still, drawing those rotating columns of altered time to himself.  Not ''covering'' himself, but allowing the altered time effects to graze the outer edges of his body.  He’d heal, regenerating as much as half of the damage we’d done.<br><br>He hit major cities and small ones.  Villages, even, when he needed some elbow room to regenerate. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/scarab-25-5/  Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.5]]</ref><ref name="30.6">He turned his attention to the winged Endbringer and her smaller companion.  The towering Endbringer was already so damaged that she could only pull herself together.  The fat Endbringer was gone.<br><br>No, he was alive.  He’d created a time field around himself, and was healing in a more distant location.<br><br>Scion was doing too much damage to them.  They wouldn’t win this fight for us.<br>[...]<br>The others were too broken to fight. - [[Speck 30.6]]</ref>

From the perspective of someone trapped inside a time field, time appears to flow normally.<ref name="25.5 d2" /> However, everyone outside the time field looks frozen in time.<ref name="25.5 d2">'''demoscat:''' I’ve only read as far this point, so what I’m saying here may be addressed later. If I’m one of the poor bastards caught in the beam, what’s their point of view? Does the effect look like an impenetrable force field, leaving you to die of dehydration or starvation as you wander around trapped in the circle? Or, I can imagine the horizon appearing to be infinitely far away, and no amount of walking in a straight line will take you the edge of the circle, even if you did have enough food and water to last a lifetime. Either way, you wind up with a pile of skeletons after the beam passes.<br><br>'''Wildbow:''' Impregnable forcefield. A barrier with the heroes and villains apparently frozen in time around you. The sun stays where it is in the sky, the wind blows, things wear down, the water runs out, you get hungry, you die after days or weeks, depending on where the field is.. - Discussion with Wildbow on [[Scarab 25.5]]</ref> As they are effectively trapped inside for weeks, months, and years, victims generally die from starvation or dehydration.<ref name="25.6 e2">A lack of coordination, a simple error, and ten capes were caught, to be killed in moments.  Moments they experienced as weeks, months and years.  Some had brought food and water.  I almost pitied those capes.  - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/scarab-25-6/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.6]]</ref><ref name="25.5 e4">For every cogent thought that crossed my mind, two or three stray thoughts followed.  The devastation, scenes burned into my mind’s eye.  People caught and left to die of dehydration in Khonsu’s fields. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/scarab-25-5/  Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.5]]</ref>

By blocking people from entering his time field, Khonsu can possibly crush opponents between his time field and an object.<ref name="25.4 e17" /> [[Weaver]] speculated Khonsu could choose what entered or exited his time fields.<ref name="25.4 e14">He chose what entered and he chose what left.  An attack form that couldn’t be defended against, only avoided. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/scarab-25-4/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.4]]</ref> However, the barrier of his time fields is indeed [[Manton-limited]].<ref name="IRC1" /> The barrier can only choose to block living organic matter and some forms of energy from entering or exiting.<ref name="IRC1">Aarik: how does that work actually, the time fields leave the corpses behind as they pass over them, but people can't leave.<br/>Wildbow: Barrier blocks organic matter<br/>Aarik: Ahhh<br/>Aarik: they leave behind the bones, so probably living organic matter specifically.<br/>Aarik: Could Weld just walk out then?<br/>Wildbow: Yep<br/>Aarik: And breaker capes who turn into an inorganic form?<br/>Wildbow: Some<br/>Hierophant: Khonsu is probably my favorite Endbringer and the most dangerous to fight IMO<br/>Hierophant: Mostly because you're so reliant on teleporters - those get killed, you can't do anything<br/>Wildbow: Less likely, the barrier also filters energy. It's why sunlight/heat don't accumulate indefinitely within.<br/>Aarik: So mostly just people who turn into stuff like water/stone/dirt/metal.<br/>Wildbow: Weld is kind of a special case<br/>Hierophant Could Myrddin hide in a pocket dimension<br/>Hierophant: to avoid it<br/>Wildbow: Probably not - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/19718375/ Comments by Wildbow on IRC, archived on Spacebattles]</ref> Sunlight and heat do not accumulate indefinitely inside a time field; [[Weld]] and some [[Breaker]] capes that turn into an inorganic form can escape a time field.<ref name="IRC1" />

When Khonsu summons a time field, a glowing circumference first appears on the ground. The light gradually intensifies, reaching higher to eventually form a cylindrical forcefield which activates the effect; the space within the circle on the ground darkens in equal measure.<ref name="25.4 e8">A faint glowing line appeared on the ground, a perfect circle.   The light gradually intensified, reaching higher, and the space within the circle seemed to darken in equal measure.<br><br>It moved, the circle roaming, the glowing lines adjusting to scale obstacles and account for higher ground and dips in the terrain. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/scarab-25-4/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.4]]</ref> Each time field has a diameter of one city block<ref name="Rjla e1" /> and is tall enough to reach into the stratosphere.<ref name="25.6 e6">Legend became a blur within the field.  Then, in a matter of two or three seconds, the entire space filled with a red light.  It slowly became white.  Khonsu’s power apparently affected ''all'' of the space above the bubble, reaching into the stratosphere.  It was like a pillar of light. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/scarab-25-6/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.6]]</ref> Khonsu can dismiss time fields and resummon them elsewhere to catch people who are not fast enough to escape the perimeter before the effect takes hold.<ref name="25.4 e15">Silent, we watched as the heroes engaged.  Eidolon and Legend joined the Japanese heroes in fighting the unnamed Endbringer, keeping a safe distance.<br><br>One circle disappeared, and the Endbringer reached out.  Defending capes were too slow to escape the perimeter before the effect took hold, a new third circle forming.  Eidolon tried hitting the effect with three different powers, but it didn’t break. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/scarab-25-4/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.4]]</ref><ref name="25.6 e4">Apparently deeming that the circles weren’t working in this situation, Khonsu banished all three.  ''Moord Nag’s'' shadow was freed, and rejoined the remainder of the mass.  Khonsu’s forward advance was momentarily paused by the impact.  He created the circles anew, placing them in spots where people at the epicenter couldn’t move fast enough to escape. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/scarab-25-6/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.6]]</ref> At one point, he even managed to time the resummon to catch [[Legend]] with a time field.<ref name="25.6 e5">“Not revenge.  It doesn’t matter.  I-” I stopped short as a fresh circle appeared.  The placement, the timing… Legend had been caught. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/scarab-25-6/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.6]]</ref>

Summoned time fields orbit around Khonsu; they can move faster than a running person but are slower than a moving car.<ref name="25.4 e11">The Endbringer extended his hands out to either side, and two more glowing circles appeared.  Like the first circle had, they flared with light.  Like the first, they moved, drifting counterclockwise around him.  It was a slow, lazy rotation, slower than a moving car but faster than someone could hope to run. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/scarab-25-4/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.4]]</ref> Thus, a sufficiently fast opponent can dodge his time fields.<ref name="25.4 e22" /><ref name="25.6 e8">Eidolon was shouting something I couldn’t make out.  Alexandria joined the fray, fighting to keep Khonsu in place, pummeling the Endbringer, dodging the columns that closed in on her. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/scarab-25-6/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.6]]</ref> Khonsu's time fields maintain a steady distance away from him and from each other.<ref name="25.4 e12">He advanced with floating steps, and the circles maintained a perfect, steady distance away from him and from each other, orbiting him like the shadows cast by three invisible moons. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/scarab-25-4/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.4]]</ref><ref name="25.4 e22">Five minutes, six, as he leisurely tore through the forces he’d caught off guard.  Eidolon ducked between two of the pillars of altered time and delivered a punch that sent the Endbringer tumbling.  The orbiting columns were pulled behind Khonsu as he moved, and Eidolon came only a hair from being caught. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/scarab-25-4/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.4]]</ref> However, he can draw them closer<ref name="25.5 e2" /> or extend the distance in which they orbit around him.<ref name="25.4 e17" /> Khonsu can also stop their movement and reverse their direction at will.<ref name="25.4 e17" /><ref name="25.6 e10">''Califa de Perro'', King of Dogs, howled and joined the fight, ready to capitalize on the success.  In the same instant, I sensed my bugs being eliminated.  Not ''dying'', per se, but being eradicated from existence.  The ones who’d been following after the column had been caught inside.<br><br>It hadn’t changed direction.  It had stopped, in ''preparation'' for a change in direction.  I didn’t even have to look to see Khonsu’s target.  I caught an earring of the King of Dogs with my silk, tugged.<br><br>He stopped, yelping as he looked in my direction.<br><br>“Run!” my voice was no doubt lost in the cacophony.  I tugged again.<br><br>He used his spear to move.  A second later, the time field veered into the space he’d just occupied.<br><br>It was moving faster.  A third circle appeared, and the movement had accelerated. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/scarab-25-6/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.6]]</ref>

Khonsu can use his time fields for defensive purposes. He exploded many missiles and shells with his time fields.<ref name="25.4 e20">The heroes were engaging, now.  Legend and Eidolon had caught up.  Khonsu had situated himself near some kind of military installation, and they’d wasted no time in readying for a fight.  Missiles and shells exploded around him.  The columns of frozen time that rotated around him caught many, and they exploded within the delineated structures. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/scarab-25-4/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.4]]</ref> Khonsu even used the barrier of his time field to block [[Scion]]'s attacks,<ref name="29.9 e1">Capes erected defenses, Dragon’s Teeth dodged and opened fire with laser pistols.  Some took shelter behind the pillar that Khonsu had erected.  Whatever defensive effect Khonsu had used to wall people inside served to block Scion’s attack - [[Venom 29.9]]</ref> though Scion quickly tuned his blasts to pass through this barrier.<ref name="29.9 e2">He hit Khonsu’s group.  The blast hit the edge of Khonsu’s time effect.<br><br>Scion threw another, and it passed through.  The capes didn’t even have time to react.  the light detonated like an artillery shell on impact, tearing through the group. - [[Venom 29.9]]</ref> His time fields also trumped [[Eidolon]]'s forcefield that was reminiscent of the seemingly inviolable<ref name="24.4 e1">Eidolon’s power held.  He’d had the situation explained, had been given time to let his power build up to full strength, and his passenger had supplied something with a durability on par with Clockblocker’s ability.  Inviolable. - [[Crushed 24.4]]</ref> forcefield used to contain [[Phir Sē]]'s time bomb.<ref name="25.6 e7">Eidolon created a forcefield, much like the one he’d fashioned to contain Phir Sē’s time bomb, only this one was open on one side, a ‘u’ shape with the opening facing Khonsu.<br><br>Khonsu seemed to notice, because he moved the column.  It intersected Eidolon’s forcefield, and Khonsu’s power won out.  The forcefield collapsed.  This ''wouldn’t'' be an effect Eidolon could contain. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/scarab-25-6/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.6]]</ref> Eidolon was unable to break his time fields during Khonsu's debut.<ref name="25.4 e15" />