Editing Narwhal (section)

==History==
===Background===
Triggered while trying to protect somebody.<ref name="II12.x eTrigger">“Do you have that?  Good nights of sleep, someone to hold?”<br><br>“No,” Narwhal said.  She extended Foil an apologetic expression.  “No.  When I was in similar straits to where you are now, I chose not to go home.  Then there was nobody to go home to.  I got my power trying to protect someone and… I didn’t have anyone to protect anymore.  I stopped being able to have quiet days.  I don’t sleep without thinking about what I should be doing.  I felt much like you seem to feel now, and I went on one more mission, because carrying on was easier than bringing it home.” - [[Heavens 12.x]]</ref>

At some point, triggered again.

Joined the then-failed [[Guild]] and was responsible for it being revamped into the elite organization it is today.<ref name="R1">The Guild is something of a failed effort that mutated. Where other groups were founded and then collapsed, the Guild drew in just enough powerful members to have some clout after the group failed to get traction. They changed tacks.<br/><br/>The original goal was to be another Protectorate of sorts, albeit cape-led, with an emphasis on peacekeeping and nonviolent absorption of capes. The problem was that Canada is very spread out, and reaction times are thus slow, when you have 10-30 capes to cover a lot of ground. The initial aims shot too high, higher-ups set expectations and couldn't meet them, and the initial guild (which had none of the Narwhals or Dragons or any of those guys) flopped. It was resurrected around the same time Canada sighed and took on its own Protectorate divisions, when political powers that heavily criticized the PRT wanted certain elements in play, as well as a certain amount of freedom to make certain realities a positive without dealing with PRT bureaucracy (initiatives, acting to help other countries without worrying about the balance of PRT forces). The programs and aims that were pure concept beforehand became the reality. Certain individuals got on board and it worked.<br/><br/>The end result is a group that balances a lot of individual autonomy punctuated by demands from higher up. If you're a villain that's not in Protectorate territory and you're crossing lines, the Guild is still something you might worry about. This might be for those who go way overboard (ie. genocide) or cross the lines with pet issues for various members of the Guild (targeting gays, women, interfering with the political process, etc, etc).<br/><br/>The Guild, at its heart, is about trying to set standards, and it's got just enough prominent members that it can make others stand up and listen.<br/><br/>On the flip side, it draws a lot of criticism due to perceived imbalances in the subjects it focuses on (this goes back to individual autonomy). If one guy gets very active and makes gay rights a huge focus (targeting villains with a propensity for gay bashing) then the Guild gets perceived as having a heavy focus on protecting gays. There's a large-ish non-parahuman staff just trying to enable the capes to do as much good as they can. - [https://redd.it/4kgi0s Wildbow on Reddit]</ref>

Narwhal has an experience in dealing with warlords and making sure that their victims were able to become independent.<ref name="6.6 II">“I’ve done this kind of thing before.  I fought warlords,” Narwhal said.  “I helped the villages after.  I delivered supplies to isolated settlements.  A lot of people want this to have a happy ending, and experience tells me that ending is possible.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/05/01/pitch-6-6/ Excerpt] from [[Pitch 6.6]]</ref>

===Story Start===
After the program [[Colin Wallis|Armsmaster]] and [[Dragon]] made predicted that [[Leviathan]] would attack [[Brockton Bay]], Narwhal traveled to the Protectorate E.N.E.'s base. She listened as [[Legend]] addressed them with a pre-battle speech.<ref name="8.1">[[Extermination 8.1]]</ref>

Narwhal then received an armband from the [[Brockton Bay]] [[Wards]]. When the ceiling started to cave in, Narwhal flicked two fingers towards the ceiling and shored it up with forcefields. She was later teleported out of the building by [[Strider]].<ref name="8.2 e1">There was a loud groan, and the ceiling at one corner of the room began to descend swiftly toward the ground. Narwhal flicked two fingers up in that direction, and shored the ceiling with some forcefields, but I saw other portions of the ceiling begin to sag, gallons of water pouring through the gaps in the ceiling tile. - [http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/extermination-8-1/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.2]]</ref>

Narwhal later manifested a dozen forcefields and flicked them towards Leviathan. She redirected the forcefields that glanced off Leviathan's skin; having them press against the edges of his body and get in the way of his legs moving. After the dumpster that [[Ballistic]] launched at Leviathan forced him backwards, Narwhal sent another forcefield into Leviathan's neck. Her efforts tore a large enough hole for [[Kid Win]] to take advantage of.<ref name="8.4 e1">Too many others were capable of delivering the hurt, but were too fragile: Browbeat, Shadow Stalker, Lady Photon, Purity, Laserdream, Brandish and others I didn’t know. The Ward with the crossbow, some guy with crimson skin. There was a light show in the sky above as Kid Win teleported in pieces of the cannon he’d had at the bank robbery, manifesting them onto a hovering platform set directly in front of Leviathan. He’d get anywhere from a few seconds to a minute’s worth of concentrated fire with the gun firing on the highest settings, directing a beam through a gap in the bars to where Narwhal’s razor sharp forcefield had opened a gap in Leviathan’s neck. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/ Excerpt] from [[Extermination 8.4]]</ref>

Moments later, Narwhal was alerted to an approaching tidal wave by her armband. She created forcefields in-between the defending capes and Leviathan before it hit. She was listed among the losses after the final tidal wave hit,<ref>[[Extermination 8.3]]</ref> this was later shown to be the casualties list as her name did not appear on the Brockton Bay Memorial.<ref name="27.2 c1">Nope. Common misreading. She was included with the wounded and such when Tattletale was. [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/extinction-27-2/#comment-37675 Comment] by Wildbow on [[Extinction 27.2]]</ref>

She recovered and returned to duty.

===Post-[[Timeskip]]===
Was present at Killington for the staging of the anti [[Slaughterhouse Nine]] task force.<ref name="26.2">[[Sting 26.2]]</ref> and was active during [[Gold Morning]].

===[[Gold Morning]]===
Was an active participant, acted as a guard on [[Saint]].<ref name="28.2 e3"/> She doubled checked everyone's identities before allowing them to talk to her prisoner.<ref name="28.2 e2"/>

Like others she was snatched up by [[Khepri]].

Her power proved pivotal at several key junctures during the event.<ref name=30.6e1>A woman covered in a skin of forcefields, protecting people with massive shards of forcefield.<br/>[...]<br/>I got the one-horned woman who glittered with forcefields, then changed direction.<br/>[...]<br/>The forcefield woman sandwiched each of us between two forcefields, then willed them forwards. We left the stuffed lizard behind.<br/>[...]<br/>The woman with the forcefield scales used her power. Another sandwich of crystalline fields, the more secure way to hold someone, and she hauled [[Labyrinth|the reality-warper]] out of the other group, into my range. Another forcefield caught a [[Scrub|boy with glowing hair.]]<br/>[...]<br/>I had her create a door, then I used her partner’s help to smash it.<br/><br/>A freestanding hole in reality. The reality warper used her power to pick a world.<br/><br/>I wasn’t too picky. The instant I was through, I had them make two more.<br/><br/>Then two more.<br/><br/>I protected them all with forcefields. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/26 Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.6]]</ref> Part of the goddesses psychological offensive against Zion.<ref name=30.6e2>The [[clairvoyant]] and I dropped from a portal in the air and landed right in their midst. Crystalline forcefields appeared in the air, then lowered slowly enough that people had a chance to get out of the way.<br/><br/>I picked the faces of every changer in my range, watching to make sure it was accurate.<br/><br/>I couldn’t control them while they were outside of my range, so I’d do something cruder, instead.<br/><br/>I chose their faces, and then I seated them on the crystalline forcefields, binding them in place with the connection man.<br/><br/>I scattered them into the sky. Each one rooted to a forcefield platform. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/26 Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.6]]</ref> Narwhal was instrumental, if unwillingly, in making Khepri's escape possible.<ref name=30.7e1>I saw the forcefield woman in the crowd. Taller than most, a curved, crystalline horn on her forehead.<br/><br/>The people surrounding my swarm were working to get back as I approached, but the press of bodies only had a limited amount of give.<br/><br/>A forcefield materialized just in front of me as my power reached the very front of the crowd. I turned the newest additions to my swarm around, focusing them on the people who were looking to stop me.<br/><br/>My bugs got in her eyes, blocking her sight, crawled into her ears.<br/><br/>I felt as she bisected them with forcefields. I was already using the device on my back to move over the forcefield, getting a boost from the two who’d been supporting me to heave the clairvoyant up with me.<br/><br/>He came down on top of me, and we landed hard, but we landed on the opposite side of the forcefield. Close enough, taking advantage of the woman’s momentary blindness.<br/><br/>I lowered forcefields and set them in circles around me before pushing out. Separating the crowd to give myself room to maneuver. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/10/29 Excerpt] from [[Speck 30.7]]</ref>

===Early-[[Ward]]===
Narwhal was still active two years after Gold Morning as a member of the [[Wardens]]. She was considered one of the group's key members, having her own statue in the Warden HQ lobby.<ref name="II3.6">Inside the building, statues of key members stood off to either side of the lobby.  [[Chevalier]], [[Narwhal]], [[Valkyrie]], Legend, [[Cinereal]], [[Stonewall]], Topflight and [[Miss Militia]].<br/>[...]<br/>“Is Weld getting a statue?” Tristan asked.<br/><br/>“Not for a while,” Sveta said.  “That’s more for people who’ve put in the years, and he only just got in.  He’s got a preliminary thing in the gift shop.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/23/glare-3-6/ Excerpt] from [[Glare 3.6]]</ref> She was at the meeting between the Earth Gimel leadership and the theocrats of [[Earth Cheit]]; she later met with members of [[Foresight]] and discussed what the Wardens needed from the group.<ref name="I2II"> - [https://www.parahumans.net/2018/01/02/flare-interlude-2/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 2 II]]</ref>

She took point as leader of the Wardens contingent in the attack on the Mathers Fallen compound.

===Post-[[Goddess' Takeover]]===
She was present during [[The Wardens]] attempt to stop [[March]] from reaching [[Brockton Bay]] time-bubbles.<ref>[[Heavens 12.all]]</ref> At the dawn of the next day she talked with [[Foil]] and gave her information on [[March's Megacluster]].<ref>[[Heavens 12.x]]</ref>

===Post-[[Time Bubble Pop]]===
Narwhal was seen defeated alongside [[Chevalier]]'s group during [[Wardens]]' assault on [[Teacher]]'s Compound.<ref>[[Dying 15.6]]</ref>

===Post-[[Attack on Teacher]]===
She had recovered, and was in commanding position during the second Shin crisis.

Narwhal reprimanded [[Vista]] for the incident with Capricorn.<ref name="II17.4">[[Sundown 17.4]]</ref>

She represented [[the Wardens]] during the negotiations with [[The Red Queen]], albeit without much effect, during the second Shin crisis.<ref name="II17.5">[[Sundown 17.5]]</ref>

===[[The Ice Breaks]]===
As the most of Wardens she was leading the charge against the [[Titans]]<ref name="II18.9 eExpect">Vista reached over, and he reached up, taking her hand, giving it a squeeze before letting it go.  She pulled her headgear off, and fixed her hair.  She looked tired.<br><br>“Long day?” I asked.<br><br>“Narwhal expects everyone working for her to keep up with her,” Vista said.  “I was up most of last night, too.” - [https://www.parahumans.net/2019/12/14/radiation-18-9/ Excerpt] from [[Radiation 18.9]]</ref> and [[The Simurgh]].<ref name="II20.1">[[Last 20.1]]</ref><ref name="II20.6">[[Last 20.6]]</ref>

In the battle against the [[Fortuna]]'s Titans, she denied [[Ophion]] Titan regeneration by stuffing his wounds with forcefields.<ref>I could look up at the Ophion Titan and see the damage I’d done, still healing, while capes flew around him.  Narwhal was using the damage as a target point for forcefields, leaving them embedded whenever they sank home, to slow and stop his regeneration. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/01/21/infrared-19-6/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.6]]</ref>