Editing Narwhal (section)

==Abilities and Powers==
Narwhal creates crystalline forcefields that have a noticeable violet-blue tint<ref name="28.2 e3"/> and shine with faint rainbow hues when they catch the light.<ref name="8.1 e1"/> She can move them at high velocities (40 km/h),<ref name="R1.1">'''blames_irrationally:''' Oh gotcha, so she didn't have too much offensive capability before I guess.<br/><br/>'''Wildbow:''' She did. She can create forcefields that move. They have sharp edges. Think forcefield hitting you at 40 km/h, edge first. - [https://redd.it/2ktxxt Comment] by Wildbow on reddit.</ref> though only in straight lines.<ref name="II6.4 e1">Land?  You’re actually on a Narwhal forcefield?”<br><br>“Doing loops.  They travel in straight lines, but Vista can bend straight.”<br><br>Okay.  I wasn’t just catching my two friends, then.  I was doing it while they were surfing on a flying, crystalline cleaver. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/04/24 Excerpt] from [[Pitch 6.4]]</ref> If the target is within fifty feet of her, Narwhal can create a forcefield that bisects part of the target's body,<ref name=30.7e2>A man, flying with great skeletal bat wings, a kind of lace or filigree of bone stretched between segments, rose into the air to intercept me.<br><br>No, to intercept a member of my swarm.<br><br>My swarm worked to cut him off, but he was agile, persistent. As massive and bulky as those wings seemed, they shapeshifted in the process of each flap, the lattice of bone opening up to let air pass through, then closing when he wanted the air resistance to bear himself higher, or to one side.<br><br>In the end, a forcefield appeared through one wing, and he dropped a solid thirty feet before he managed to catch himself. It gave me a window of opportunity. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/29 Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.7]]</ref><ref name="II6.1 e6">A forcefield hurtled into him, but this forcefield had a passenger.  Narwhal rode it, and she leaped off as the big guy caught the slice of crystal.  She landed, and her hair was still settling around her when the forcefields sprung into being to her left.<br>[...]<br>They had formed so each forcefield was a foot apart, and the stack of forcefields overlapped with the fluid armor brute, dividing him neatly into roughly eleven slices. - [[Pitch 6.1]]</ref> such as an appendage or the upper body.<ref name ="24.3C1">Narwhal was one of the named examples. Despite people’s impressions, she didn’t demonstrate this against Leviathan.<br/><br/>She creates crystalline forcefields and can move them at high velocities. She can also, if you’re within fifty feet of her, create a forcefield that bisects part of your body. Bling, you’re missing an arm. Bling, you’re missing an upper body. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/prey-14-3/#comment-4133 Comment by Wildbow] on [[Prey 14.3]]</ref> This is a violation of the [[Manton effect]] and a result of her [[second trigger]].<ref name="R1.3">"Narwhal's second trigger." - [https://redd.it/2ktxxt Comment] by Wildbow on reddit.</ref> Prior to that, she was unable to create force-fields that bisected people.<ref name="I5">“It’s not like there isn’t precedent for this.  We know for a fact that some capes who were once held back by the Manton effect have figured out a way around it, or past it.  Narwhal being the most obvious case.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2011/12/10 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 5]]</ref>

Her power is strong enough to cut into [[Endbringer]] flesh to an extent,<ref name="8.3 e1">I was aware of Narwhal stepping into the fray, in my peripheral vision. She raised her hands, manifesting a dozen forcefields like oversize crystal shards around her, then flicked them forward. Like guillotine blades, the forcefields raced toward Leviathan, faster than the eye could follow, sunk into his flesh. Those that glanced off stopped mid-air to turn around, edges against his body, getting in the way of his legs moving. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/10 Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.3]]</ref><ref name="8.3 e2">A dumpster hit Leviathan in the upper body with the speed of a bullet, and he folded backward, his shoulders hitting the ground while his legs and feet were still held against the ground by a mess of razor blade forcefields. Narwhal sent another forcefield flying into his neck, and it cut as deep as any attack had yet. Blood spilled down from the opened wound, thick, more like ichor than anything I was used to seeing. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/10 Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.3]]</ref><ref name="II20.6 e1">Narwhal opened with a volley of twelve forcefield spikes.  They plunged into the Simurgh’s wing and stuck there. - [[Last 20.6]]</ref> yet she also has much finer control, able to use her force fields almost in lieu of telekinesis to manipulate or destroy<ref name=30.7e1/> small objects,<ref name="28.2 e3"/> capture people,<ref name="I28 e2"/> and as a kind of stretcher<ref name="I28 e12">Chevalier shifted his sword to one side, then slid his legs over until he could lower his feet to the ground.<br/><br/>Exalt appeared in the doorway. “Don’t-”<br/><br/>He continued trying to stand.<br/><br/>“Idiot.”<br/><br/>He was lifted into the air by strategically placed forcefields, one beneath his thighs, another behind his back. He stumbled a little as he touched ground, and another field kept him from falling flat on his face. The tubes reaching to his chest were taut. If he’d fallen, they might have pulled free.<br/><br/>He found his balance, then nodded. Narwhal banished the fields. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/17 Excerpt] from [[Interlude 28]]</ref> or platform.<ref name=28.4e2>It took a minute to arrange. Narwhal created a force field platform and carefully moved Rachel over to the Pendragon. I watched their glacially slow movement and the utterly still Simurgh. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/07 Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.4]]</ref><ref name=30.6e2/> Letting her function as a kind of mass transport system if need be.<ref name=30.6e1/>

Narwhal has a limit to how many forcefields she can have active at a time,<ref name="II6.1 eCancel">Capricorn’s walls sprung up just ahead of where Narwhal’s forcefields were, and she canceled the forcefields.<br><br>“Thank you!” Narwhal called out.  When she went on the offensive, it was with more fields and projectiles, less intent on Seir himself, and more intent on cutting through the cords that arced up into the air and down into the ground.  Seir’s numbers began to decrease.<br><br>A localized storm of power came tearing at us from an angle, like a tornado, but less of a cone and more of a sphere, with a bright green tint toward the center.  Narwhal had to stop her offensive to layer forcefields between herself and the sphere. - [[Pitch 6.1]]</ref> though she can cancel any existing ones in a split second.<ref name="II20.6 e2" /> When fully on the offensive (and wearing her costume), she can have up to a dozen forcefields as projectiles.<ref name="8.3 e1" /><ref name="II20.6 e1" /> Thus, [[Seir]], who can have up to a dozen shadow copies at a time,<ref>Seir raised a hand.  There was a sound, halfway between a rumble and drumming, almost a stampede, and curling lines of black spilled from Seir’s palm.  The dozen or so lines didn’t curl so much as they bounced, each moving in a smooth half or quarter circle before stopping, curving back or at a right angle to carry on its way.<br><br>Where they hit solid surfaces, they exploded into rough silhouettes of Seir, mask and all.  Each was as black as the lines – like gaps in reality rather than mere black that absorbed the light of the sun.  Each had eyes that glowed as they looked around- one human eye where it peered through the horse’s eye socket, and one of the horse’s eyes. - [[Interlude 5d]]</ref><ref>I continued to go after Seir, chasing his real self in a mad, dangerous game of whack-a-mole, where the mole always won and the person with the hammer could be shot at any moment.  The Wretch returned, and a well-timed punch from a shadow Seir destroyed it a moment later.<br><br>The yellow eyes weren’t there all of the time, or even ten percent of the time, but Seir was evasive, capable of creating doubles and swapping places with them constantly.  He didn’t need danger sense to give us a one in twelve chance of hitting the real him. - [[Pitch 6.1]]</ref> could produce duplicates faster than Narwhal could hurl forcefields to cut them down.<ref name="II6.1 eSeirCutDown">The Fallen cape with the horse’s head mask or helmet was facing Narwhal head-on, again.  He created shadow duplicates, and they struck out at the forcefields as the things hurtled past or toward them.  The effect was minor, changing the courses of the fields slightly, but as each construction tore past them, cleaving shadow duplicates in half, seeming to even hit the source of the duplicates, the guy persisted, and he produced duplicates faster than the fields cut them down. - [[Pitch 6.1]]</ref>

Attacking her forcefields causes them to light up.<ref name="II6.1 e3">Bullets hit trees and pinged off of the forcefields Narwhal had created to give the heroes cover.  Each time a forcefield was hit, it briefly became brighter, the edges and lines standing out in bright purples and blues. - [[Pitch 6.1]]</ref> They are durable enough to tank an explosion from [[March]]'s power.<ref name="II12.all e1">Their March slipped past the incoming blades, hopping and rolling over one, then leaning  heavily to one side to avoid the other.  Experimentally, she let her blade’s tip run along its length.<br><br>The explosion had occurred, but the crystal was too tough.  It was Narwhal. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/03/02/heavens-12-all/ Excerpt] from [[Heavens 12.all]]</ref> However, it is possible to break through<ref name="II6.1 e5">A Fallen cape or one of the bikers was approaching, grown tall, his flesh alternating between something that seemed hard, like calcified armor plates, and flesh that seemed too soft and fluid.<br>[...]<br>Forcefields flew past me.  Narwhal.  The forcefields that didn’t hit Seir’s copies arrived between us and the Fallen capes, then stopped on the spot and rotated, forming a wall of crystal to bar their path.<br><br>I heard the impact as the big cape hit the crystals, and I saw the colors flare, brighter than they had when the bullets hit them.<br>[...]<br>The big guy battered through Narwhal’s shield.  He broke into a run, long limbs stretching and heavy feet pounding against the ground, charging me. - [[Pitch 6.1]]</ref><ref name="II20.7 e1">By the time I had my bearings and was flying straight, the Simurgh was relocating, taking some evasive action and crashing through Narwhal’s forcefields as Legend opened fire. - [[Last 20.7]]</ref> or shatter<ref name="II20.6 e2">It wasn’t like a whirlwind where things flew in what seemed to be a fairly steady circle.  There were things flying crosswise.  Pieces of costume, pieces of pillar, computer stuff, wires, wood, concrete, tile, papers.  They smacked into one another, into us.  I saw someone get hit by something on his left side, stumble, and get hit on his right.<br>[...]<br>The Simurgh shattered Narwhal’s forcefields in the air.  Shards struck people who were trying to close the distance, in that twentieth of a second that it took Narwhal to cancel the forcefields and make the shards disappear. - [[Last 20.6]]</ref> her forcefields with enough force.

Her power was considered to be equally split between offense and defense.<ref name="28.4e1">Tattletale shrugged.  “Lung would be too violent, and the focus of Vista’s power is too… location-driven?  I have no idea how she’d take Narwhal’s power, because it’s pretty evenly split between offense and defense.”<br/><br/>“Kind of abstract,” I said.<br/><br/>“I’m… reaching,” Tattletale confessed.  “Definitely reaching.  But reaching and abstract thought bought us the portal to Gimel, and I’ve got to flex my power ''somehow''.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/07 Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.4]]</ref> Temperature did not conduct through her forcefields.<ref name=II12.x e1">Narwhal’s costume was layered, crystals grown large and each gap covered by another crystal, enough times that her entire figure had changed.  Crystals were her boots, so her feet weren’t resting against snowy ground, and they framed her chin, nose, eye sockets, and ears, while providing the structure that held up her horn.  A lot of that was to keep the cold off.  Temperature didn’t conduct through forcefield, so it kept her insulated.  Here and there, she adjusted, exposing neck, collarbone, and shoulder above the crystalline suit. - [[Heavens 12.x]]</ref>