Nagyunn Van Woodion, the Brave One
The Ember Knight was created by Hwandaeng, it can be read on Webtoon
Welcome back to the blog! Back at it again with another manhwa blog. I've been looking forward to covering this character for a while since he breaks a lot of the conventions and tropes typically associated with action manhwa. Strap in folks, I'll let the bio speak for itself. Big spoilers ahead.
Researched materials:
The Ember Knight and Epic of Gilgamesh
Other sources:
https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Nagyunn
https://the-ember-knight.fandom.com/wiki/The_Ember_Knight_Wiki
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manhwa/TheEmberKnight
Background
“From this moment on… my life will depend on each and every word that comes out of my mouth.”
There is a difference between power and strength. Power is what you use to kill the enemy in front of you. Strength is deciding not to kill, even when you have the power to. To be strong is to be great.
That is a lesson the knights of this world have taken to heart.
Knights are more than gifted warriors. They're combat geniuses that deliberately limit themselves with their honor. They're heroes to many in the Central Continent. The age of knights has lasted for generations, and it has reached its turning point with the appearance of twin brothers Najin and Nagyunn Van Woodion.
Najin was a once in a lifetime kind of talent who had all the makings of a knight. He had a brilliant mind, a warm heart, and the power to cleave through an entire forest. He was celebrated as a hometown hero in his village of Woodion. Many villagers had great expectations for him as he set out to become an apprentice to the knights. The same couldn't be said about his brother.
Nagyunn was weak, talentless, and treated like dirt by all of Woodion. He was blamed for a fire that burned through the village ten years ago. Only Nagyunn and Najin know what truly happened that day, but Najin protected his brother whenever possible in spite of his reputation.
Even though he lived under his brother's shadow, Nagyunn considered him his best friend. When the twins were young, they ran away together to escape abusive household and stuck together ever since. The brothers hoped that one day they could leave Woodion behind and go on adventures together. That future would sadly never come to pass.
One week ago, the twins were ambushed by a group of masked bandits, forced Nagyunn to kill his own brother, and burned down their house. Anyone in Nagyunn's situation would have easily given up on everything. He lost the only person who treated him with a modicum of respect and was left for dead. However, the bandits' undoing is that they underestimated the weaker twin.
If there's one thing Nagyunn has over Najin, it's his skill in deception. Nagyunn has genius-level intelligence who is uncannily keen at reading other people. Enduring a life full of mistreatment has led him to easily hide his emotions and analyze peoples' expressions to understand their intent and actions.
On the spot, Nagyunn would come up with a scheme so ballsy that it changed the future of the knights themselves. Nagyunn would come out alive from his burned down home, but not under his name anymore. He assumed the identity of Najin, taking his place among the other trainees in order to uncover who killed his brother and gain the power to take them down.
The odds are stacked against Nagyunn in this decision, as it's hard to fill the shoes his brother left behind. He lacks the power and fighting talent of Najin. Not only that, but Najin had his own life among the other trainees. If Nagyunn says the wrong thing around his brother's friends, rivals, or teachers, people will suspect something is amiss.
Nagyunn's behavior at the start doesn't do him any favors. He's distant from the other trainees, rude and arrogant to boot. He stood around observing his fellow apprentices instead of helping them during training. They chalked his shift in mood to the trauma of losing his family… which they aren't entirely wrong about. He didn't intend to sully his brother's name, but it's just to keep others away from him.
While his trainers are suspicious of him and don’t like his attitude, they can’t help but commend him for his sheer intellect and knightly choices, even if they can be underhanded.
Although Nagyunn has to be impeccably careful around the knights and trainees, for the first time in a while things are looking up for him. He starts to become more attached to his squad, even if some of them bullied him in the past. He even gets to fulfill his wish of adventuring to distant lands during his missions.
That being said, avenging Najin's death by seeking the truth of his killers is his top priority, and he does encounter them time to time. When dealing with the bandits, Nagyunn figures out that he can apply his cunning into fights. For example, he made their leader believe he was baiting them into a trap when he actually ran away from them.
The bandits are surprised to see Najin still alive, though they may not entirely be sure they killed the correct twin. They also appear to be working with a general from the secluded Eastern Continent, which the knights are at the brink of war with.
Nagyunn's methods of learning more information are scummy all things considered, like how he feigned as a double agent working for the general Naryun just to speak with him privately. With how often he’s been helping the enemy and how much his attitude contrasts his profession, he has to ask himself if he really wants to be a knight, as he’s just been using everyone for his revenge scheme.
Although Nagyunn hardly becomes more powerful as he is trained, he does gain a weapon that helps even the playing field a bit. He stole Naryun's ancient broken spear. Much like himself the weapon looks useless and unusable at first glance, but Nagyunn learns it possesses illusion powers, and starts teaching himself how to properly use them to deceive his foes.
With the arrival of Naryun, it's apparent something bigger is going on surrounding the bandits. What does the Eastern Continent have to do with their aims, and what purpose did killing Najin serve? Well, he does start to learn some answers after exposing a fellow apprentice named Luce as a member of the bandits.
Najin was actually affiliated with the bandits in some capacity and had betrayed them. These bandits are tied to a group of mercenaries known as the Dragon’s Descendants. The group's main goal is the downfall of the knights after most of their clan was massacred by them.
Nagyunn has some serious close calls in his mission, as two of his mentors caught onto his true identity. One of his trainers Cerulean Qilin Zius gives Nagyunn a chance to prove his strength by making him fight Luce, risking being disqualified as a knight if he fails. Nagyunn succeeds in disarming him, but collapses afterwards.
He continues his training, performing missions like going to the Eastern Continent undercover to retrieve a group of knights. Over time Nagyunn grows more attached to his apprentice pals, starting to choose helping them over openings where he can find more about his brother’s killers.
That doesn't stop him from capitalizing on these openings, though. There's no better time to strike after finishing his latest mission and resigns from his apprenticeship. Now that he knows what the Dragon's Descendants are, he starts making moves to orchestrate their downfall. He starts by trying to gain the trust of another Eastern Continent general named Haejin, as well as a mysterious man who claims to be a dragon, whom would later be known as Kamelsia.
Haejin helps Nagyunn come face to face with the leader of the Descendants Laurun, who realizes that he's not only Nagyunn, but something the group has repeatedly referred to as the Child of Fire.
The Child of Fire is a being prophecized by the Dragon's Descendants' clairvoyant Mother of Dragons. The myth of the Child of Fire is said to be the natural enemy of the Dragon’s Descendents, a being whose actions cannot be predicted and have the capacity to shape the future. The only things she can confirm is that they're capable of destroying their clan, and they were responsible for the fire that spread throughout Woodion.
Laurun says he’ll grant him his death, but only after his goal is achieved of causing downfall of knights. Despite this, Nagyunn decides his perfect revenge is to wreck Laurun's plan when he’s on the brink of success. Thus, he becomes a comrade of the Descendents whilst manipulating them. For now he'll embrace the role of the villain.
This leads to more big reveals. While Nagyunn was blamed for his village's fire, Najin is actually the one responsible for it. Najin's immense power was actually given to him by the Dragon's Descendants, but eventually killed him when he didn't keep his end of their deal.
Najin has done some dubious things to protect his brother, such as undergoing a ritual to seal away the power of the Child of Fire HE previously possessed. Despite everything he did for Nagyunn's sake, he might have brought more harm than good.
As Nagyunn continues scheming and getting roped into fights, he eventually faces against the prime minister of the Eastern Continent, a dragon known as the Dokkaebi. Gaining an ally as strong as him as an ally would be the best course of action to getting in the Dragon's Descendants' way, but that would mean he'd have to try and stop the tension between continents at the same time.
He receives the aid of his previous apprentice comrades after they were excused from being apprentices. While Nagyunn was honing his observational skills with Kamelsia and an independent knight, Nagyunn was presumed dead for 6 months. Even if he knows he’s still weak, Nagyunn is challenging that part of himself that constantly puts him down.
After news about the knights' massacre gets out, they're are under a lot of scrutiny and are a feebler fighting force as a result. With war around the corner, risking the public losing all faith in knights isn't an option. Nagyunn and his pals are like knights, but not quite, making them the perfect candidates to set things right.
When the Dokkaebi invades the Central Continent, it is Nagyunn who bests him not with his weapon, but with his words. He talks him into forming a pact with him and ending his invasion, if only temporarily.
Even so, the Dragon's Descendants have already done enough damage to the knights' reputation. For centuries, the age of knights has endured, but now it’s near its end. At the very end of it is Nagyunn.
Nagyunn may not be powerful, but he is strong.
Experience and Skill
For every 10,000 people, there's a genius who outclasses everyone around them. Only a tenth of those geniuses that make up the world are knights. Even though Nagyunn isn't a knight, he far outshines them with his intellect alone.
He bullshits his way through every conflict he's faced with regardless if it's a physical or verbal confrontation. He's an expert liar, uses his observational skills to predict his opponents' moves, and is able come up with complex strategies on the fly. This has also led him to be a great tactician when he and his apprentice allies fight together.
From an enemy’s pespective, Nagyunn’s fighting style is weeeeird. He’s a fighter who reacts to attacks he doesn’t even see coming, but from his own perspective he’s barely managing to keep up.
Due to the mistreatment he faced in childhood, he learned how to easily read peoples' emotions and expressions in great detail. With his simple facial expressions and intimidating aura he's able to control the battlefield, making his opponents believe he's attacking in one area while he's actually targeting a blind spot.
Nagyunn is physically weaker than those around him, and no amount of practice has ever changed that. In spite of this, he has frequently gotten into fights against generals, dragons, and knights alike and lived to tell the tale. He was even able to block attacks against Candentia—the strongest knight currently alive—on multiple occasions.
Beyond his manipulation and prediction, he's been able to scrape by in fights by targeting weak points and relying on the powers of his Narin to delay his opponents' strikes to plan around them.
For every 10,000 people, there's a genius who outclasses everyone around them. Only a tenth of those geniuses that make up the world are knights. Even though Nagyunn isn't a knight, he far outshines them with his intellect alone.
He bullshits his way through every conflict he's faced with regardless if it's a physical or verbal confrontation. He's an expert liar, uses his observational skills to predict his opponents' moves, and is able come up with complex strategies on the fly. This has also led him to be a great tactician when he and his apprentice allies fight together.
From an enemy’s pespective, Nagyunn’s fighting style is weeeeird. He’s a fighter who reacts to attacks he doesn’t even see coming, but from his own perspective he’s barely managing to keep up.
Due to the mistreatment he faced in childhood, he learned how to easily read peoples' emotions and expressions in great detail. With his simple facial expressions and intimidating aura he's able to control the battlefield, making his opponents believe he's attacking in one area while he's actually targeting a blind spot.
Nagyunn is physically weaker than those around him, and no amount of practice has ever changed that. In spite of this, he has frequently gotten into fights against generals, dragons, and knights alike and lived to tell the tale. He was even able to block attacks against Candentia—the strongest knight currently alive—on multiple occasions.
Beyond his manipulation and prediction, he's been able to scrape by in fights by targeting weak points and relying on the powers of his Narin to delay his opponents' strikes to plan around them.
Equipment
Sword
Although he isn’t capable performing this, the sword can be momentarily enchanted with magic. He previously had it enchanted with acceleration spells.
Although he isn’t capable performing this, the sword can be momentarily enchanted with magic. He previously had it enchanted with acceleration spells.
Astronomic
Astronomic, AKA Aucherguni, is the broken tip of a spear Nagyunn stole from the general Naryun, which he uses as a knife and primary weapon. It's not any spear, it’s what’s known as a Narin.
Narins are weapons that have existed since the beginning of time, and the true nature of their existence remains unknown. A Narin is a “conceptual weapon that transcends natural laws." It doesn't abide to the laws of physics and is above universal truths simply because it is a Narin.
Astronomic in particular is special because it's a fusion of two Narins with their own abilities. Let me break down the powers the fused Narin possesses along with other uses.- Strikes: Wielding the Narin's powers isn't as straightforward as it looks, since the weapon itself must choose its wielder. One can hold it, but swinging feels as if the motion is stopped by a strong force of wind. It doesn’t lock up in a fixed position, it applies to the amount of force used to swing it to move itself in the opposite direction, rebounding. Even professional knights like Fidorance and even the strongest knight Candentia can’t wield it. This half hasn't accepted Nagyunn as its wielder either. Even though it can’t be physically swung, Nagyunn essentially tricked the weapon into being able to swing without applying any force to block any physical contact that comes his way. To put it simply, Astronomic will recognize his opponent’s attack as the force applied to swing it. Trying to swing it while focusing his thoughts on a different action is too taxing.
- Illusions: The power of the second half of Astronomic is creating physical illusions of whatever Nagyunn thinks. These illusions can range from himself to animals to other objects. He has to get a clear image of it in his head or it won’t come to life. The more complex or larger the illusion the shorter the duration. Nagyunn has trapped opponents inside huge illusion domes to hide his actions, blinded opponents with fake leaves, and created small objects to make distracting noises. He can even make the human illusions speak.
- Astronomic's Realm: There is an entity dwelling within the Narin, or rather, he’s fused Narin itself. He is able to bring Nagyunn’s consciousness to a realm beyond reality, acting outside of time’s boundaries. Nagyunn can call upon him to communicate with him, and ever since learning of the entity's existence, has abused this power. While not technically pausing time, as it's effectively similar. Talking to the Narin in his domain allows Nagyunn to gather himself and better react to his opponents’ moves. Even after choosing his new power, he can still retreat to pause with his Narin. The only drawback is that if he’s injured, returning to the domain won’t do anything to stop the pain. Like a dragon, the Narin has his own innate allotted reserve of magical power. It’s not an internal reserve, rather the amount of magic he can attune to. It’s not impossible for Nagyunn to wield his power, provided he can place something of equal or greater value on the scales. He gained his healing magic by putting the Narin's illusion ability on the scales.
Astronomic, AKA Aucherguni, is the broken tip of a spear Nagyunn stole from the general Naryun, which he uses as a knife and primary weapon. It's not any spear, it’s what’s known as a Narin.
Narins are weapons that have existed since the beginning of time, and the true nature of their existence remains unknown. A Narin is a “conceptual weapon that transcends natural laws." It doesn't abide to the laws of physics and is above universal truths simply because it is a Narin.
Astronomic in particular is special because it's a fusion of two Narins with their own abilities. Let me break down the powers the fused Narin possesses along with other uses.
- Strikes: Wielding the Narin's powers isn't as straightforward as it looks, since the weapon itself must choose its wielder. One can hold it, but swinging feels as if the motion is stopped by a strong force of wind. It doesn’t lock up in a fixed position, it applies to the amount of force used to swing it to move itself in the opposite direction, rebounding. Even professional knights like Fidorance and even the strongest knight Candentia can’t wield it. This half hasn't accepted Nagyunn as its wielder either. Even though it can’t be physically swung, Nagyunn essentially tricked the weapon into being able to swing without applying any force to block any physical contact that comes his way. To put it simply, Astronomic will recognize his opponent’s attack as the force applied to swing it. Trying to swing it while focusing his thoughts on a different action is too taxing.
- Illusions: The power of the second half of Astronomic is creating physical illusions of whatever Nagyunn thinks. These illusions can range from himself to animals to other objects. He has to get a clear image of it in his head or it won’t come to life. The more complex or larger the illusion the shorter the duration. Nagyunn has trapped opponents inside huge illusion domes to hide his actions, blinded opponents with fake leaves, and created small objects to make distracting noises. He can even make the human illusions speak.
- Astronomic's Realm: There is an entity dwelling within the Narin, or rather, he’s fused Narin itself. He is able to bring Nagyunn’s consciousness to a realm beyond reality, acting outside of time’s boundaries. Nagyunn can call upon him to communicate with him, and ever since learning of the entity's existence, has abused this power. While not technically pausing time, as it's effectively similar. Talking to the Narin in his domain allows Nagyunn to gather himself and better react to his opponents’ moves. Even after choosing his new power, he can still retreat to pause with his Narin. The only drawback is that if he’s injured, returning to the domain won’t do anything to stop the pain. Like a dragon, the Narin has his own innate allotted reserve of magical power. It’s not an internal reserve, rather the amount of magic he can attune to. It’s not impossible for Nagyunn to wield his power, provided he can place something of equal or greater value on the scales. He gained his healing magic by putting the Narin's illusion ability on the scales.
Gemini
A two-handed axe that emits sparks when there's friction he took from Luce. Can cause big explosions.
A two-handed axe that emits sparks when there's friction he took from Luce. Can cause big explosions.
Abilities
Manipulation and Social Influencing
Nagyunn's cunning and ability to read people are his strongest assets that have gotten him immensely far in his journey. He's adept at controlling others simply with his own facial expressions, which can steer battles in his favor depending on how his opponents react. He's such a skilled liar that he has no tells.
His poker face is so intense, that it bewildered the Dokkaebi, a being capable of manipulating his enemies' emotions when they feel hostile towards him (Nagyunn was indeed not hostile towards him).
Nagyunn's cunning and ability to read people are his strongest assets that have gotten him immensely far in his journey. He's adept at controlling others simply with his own facial expressions, which can steer battles in his favor depending on how his opponents react. He's such a skilled liar that he has no tells.
His poker face is so intense, that it bewildered the Dokkaebi, a being capable of manipulating his enemies' emotions when they feel hostile towards him (Nagyunn was indeed not hostile towards him).
Analytical Prediction
Even if the attacks are often too fast for him to perceive, Nagyunn can rely on his excellent observational skills and psychology to predict his opponent’s movements. His deductions on where they move may rely on their physical position, knowledge of their fighting styles he picked up, and reading their expressions to predict their actions.
Even if the attacks are often too fast for him to perceive, Nagyunn can rely on his excellent observational skills and psychology to predict his opponent’s movements. His deductions on where they move may rely on their physical position, knowledge of their fighting styles he picked up, and reading their expressions to predict their actions.
Healing Magic
Up until recently, Nagyunn did not possess magic. Magic in this world is highly mathematical, requiring equations and equivalent formulas to successfully cast. After bargaining with Astronomic, he exchanged his weapon's illusions for natural healing magic.
At its core, it’s treating wounds through the circulation of magical energy. As such, it demands a complex and highly precise equation to execute. Even the most minor error will cause it to backfire on the caster and the target.
…… But can healing magic be used as an attack?
Traditionally no, it doesn’t use enough magical energy to deal meaningful damage and its casting time is long. To function as a viable offensive technique, the issue of casting time would need to be resolved. The caster would need to be able to handle a great deal of magical energy, and most importantly the backlash would pose no risk at all.
Even if healing magic doesn’t pull magical energy into Nagyunn's body he still has to guide it. Most people can manage that much, even without much talent. However, there’s no response with Nagyunn at all. He had zero magic potential before being given this power. What this means is that there’s no drawbacks to offensively using healing magic besides a cooldown after casting.
Up until recently, Nagyunn did not possess magic. Magic in this world is highly mathematical, requiring equations and equivalent formulas to successfully cast. After bargaining with Astronomic, he exchanged his weapon's illusions for natural healing magic.
At its core, it’s treating wounds through the circulation of magical energy. As such, it demands a complex and highly precise equation to execute. Even the most minor error will cause it to backfire on the caster and the target.
…… But can healing magic be used as an attack?
Traditionally no, it doesn’t use enough magical energy to deal meaningful damage and its casting time is long. To function as a viable offensive technique, the issue of casting time would need to be resolved. The caster would need to be able to handle a great deal of magical energy, and most importantly the backlash would pose no risk at all.
Even if healing magic doesn’t pull magical energy into Nagyunn's body he still has to guide it. Most people can manage that much, even without much talent. However, there’s no response with Nagyunn at all. He had zero magic potential before being given this power. What this means is that there’s no drawbacks to offensively using healing magic besides a cooldown after casting.
Resistances
- Precognition resistance: As the Child of Fire, the strength of his actions cannot be perceived by the Mother of Dragons, whose entire ability is predicting most likely outcomes based on the sheer strength of will of branching peoples’ desires through the Tree of Will. When one of her pupils reached Woodion where Nagyunn and his brother were, the stream of will she sensed around him altered. Nagyunn exists outside the stream of will. The more the Dragon’s Descendants become entangled with him, the more the Mother of Dragon’s power weakens.
- Magic resistance: Since his body is devoid of magic, magic energy has no response to him
- Precognition resistance: As the Child of Fire, the strength of his actions cannot be perceived by the Mother of Dragons, whose entire ability is predicting most likely outcomes based on the sheer strength of will of branching peoples’ desires through the Tree of Will. When one of her pupils reached Woodion where Nagyunn and his brother were, the stream of will she sensed around him altered. Nagyunn exists outside the stream of will. The more the Dragon’s Descendants become entangled with him, the more the Mother of Dragon’s power weakens.
- Magic resistance: Since his body is devoid of magic, magic energy has no response to him
Techniques
Lethal Aura
Ever heard of the term "intimidation man"? It's an off-shoot of the "potential man" slander memes that call out how certain characters seem like intimidating threats in-verse but are weak frauds in fights compared to other characters. The memes themselves often misuse the template and it's hard to tell what's a joke or genuine spite half the time.
What if I told you that Nagyunn was an intimidation man, and that's exactly what makes his fights so thrilling?
Bro literally has aura. Nagyunn learned this intimidation technique this from Ludika. It’s pretty much a death glare that exudes a monstrous aura. In the moment they flinch, they’re left wide open for attack. The stronger a person is, the more sensitive they are to lethal aura. More so if they’re blinded, as the aura is THAT strong. Note that Nagyunn doesn’t really sense other peoples’ auras.
Ever heard of the term "intimidation man"? It's an off-shoot of the "potential man" slander memes that call out how certain characters seem like intimidating threats in-verse but are weak frauds in fights compared to other characters. The memes themselves often misuse the template and it's hard to tell what's a joke or genuine spite half the time.
What if I told you that Nagyunn was an intimidation man, and that's exactly what makes his fights so thrilling?
Bro literally has aura. Nagyunn learned this intimidation technique this from Ludika. It’s pretty much a death glare that exudes a monstrous aura. In the moment they flinch, they’re left wide open for attack. The stronger a person is, the more sensitive they are to lethal aura. More so if they’re blinded, as the aura is THAT strong. Note that Nagyunn doesn’t really sense other peoples’ auras.
Feats
Overall
- Had fooled everyone into thinking he was his famous twin brother Najin for weeks
- Divised a strategy to defeat the knight Ludika by baiting Fadiyan into stepping in to stop her from killing him, leading to everyone becoming apprentices
- Baited fellow apprentice in his group Luce into revealing that he was one of the five bandits who murdered his brother
- During a test where his group had to locate Ludika, he realized long before his group that she’d been following them this whole time, and figured out that the ruined village was a hoax
- Won a sparring match against the apprentice Nuljin by attacking him in the liver
- Correctly predicted that Liamin was a spy for the Masks
- Blocked an attack from Pure White Elephant Candentia, THE strongest knight, and survived a duel against her later
- Saved his fellow apprentices from members of the Dragon’s Descendents, Kaijan and Kallan
- Intercepted a letter from a homing eagle that would have ruined his deception
- Figured out how the Dokkaebi’s powers work through an organized ambush. Nagyunn miraculously defeated him through words and deception alone, talking him into forming a pact with him
Strength
- Sliced Luce's arm
- Sliced through a large sword
- Cut through a tree
- Traded a direct hit with Candentia
- Caused an explosion when throwing Gemini
Speed
- Blocked a blinding sword strike called the Formless Strike, which was powerful enough that a weapon used to absorb impact was overwhelmed by it
- Reacted to and blocked an attack from Candentia, the strongest knight
Durability
- His shoulder was slashed
- Nagyunn has the uncanny ability to predict when his opponents attack him before they even land. Even when he isn't fast enough to dodge, a power level far above his can be cut in half if he knows if he's going to be hit.
- Endured attacks that stone ground and pillars
- Knocked out by a single blow by Yulnia, missing two matches during training
- Survived a strike from Naryun
- Survived an attack from the Dokkaebi that obliterated a cave
- Impaled through the middle
- Survived the arcane cannon blast that blew through a city, leaving a trail in the ground. While it erased the Dokkaebi, Nagyunn's immunity to magical energy rendered it null against him.
Downscaling
The Ember Knight Characters
It's been demonstrated time and time again that Nagyunn is physically below virtually every other character in the webtoon. He's been tossed into many fights and has been able to get by thanks to his masterful mind, but Nagyunn isn't moving like the other knights in his verse. Even so, he's been able to last against them in fights through blocking, dodging, and countering attacks.
The following characters are all stronger than Nagyunn without a doubt, but I might as well include their feats to showcase what kinds of people he allies with and threats he and his allies face.
- Lauzun can cut waterfalls in half with his side slash
- Lauzun destroyed a small building
- Lauzun's attack caused an explosion that towered over small buildings
- Nuljin caused cracks in a giant boulder, which is building-level from a glance
- Yulnia punched a hole through a wall
- Naryun can cleave over 50 trees in half with one swipe
- Naryun can clear forests
- Naryun caused a sizable explosion
- Naryun and Qilin clashing caused a big explosion while clashing (CB - low MCB from a glance). This feat is even stronger than when Qilin compress his power for two months. The clash occurred when he compressed his power for four years.
- Naryun moved super quickly and attacked in a split second before rain droplets could hit the ground. Raccoon reacted to and blocked said attack.
- Fadiyan caused a sizable explosion in a forest with her Narin
- Ludika caused a small explosion that cracked a pillar
- Qilin, in his Event Horizon state, punched hard enough to obliterate terrain in front of him
- Qilin, during his Event Horizon state, moved so fast that he destroyed the ground beneath him
- Candentia destroyed buildings
- Candentia destroyed the top of a mountain
- The Dokkaebi manipulated a mountaintop to create a fake arm
- The Dokkaebi created a gigantic crater (large town - large city calcs in embed, credit to RedHeadedElf)
- The Dokkaebi kicked a person through two buildings and a wall, creating shockwaves at the same time
- The Dokkaebi was in the process of devouring a city
Epic of Gilgamesh Characters
Some fans of The Ember Knight may not know this, but the manhwa is actually a sequel to another series on a different platform known as Epic of Gilgamesh. It's a standalone series that isn't required reading to understand The Ember Knight, but Gilgamesh does enhance it knowing certain events and characters that appear there.
Nagyunn isn't present in Gilgamesh, but a few characters from The Ember Knight appear there such as Waron and Hinsher. Waron is one of the knights that trained Nagyunn and the other apprentices and Hinsher is a famous knight who fought Candentia. Candentia appears here too, but plays a minor role.
Waron and Hinsher are involved in notable battles in both series, so it's reasonable to say that scaling to the prequel is fine. Maybe not so much for a shrimp like Nagyunn, but to repeat, this section mainly exists to present sorts of characters that exist in this setting that his team has survived against.
- Waron's attack blew the trees away in a surrounding forest, her shockwaves split the terrain
- Waron can make large cuts in the ground
- Waron's move called Starfall causes a large explosion
- Waron dodges beam attacks called magic bullets
- Waron's spear hit Hwa Roon Sha's sword as it rapidly descended to the ground. Said sword effectively became a meteor and would have wiped the forest off the map.
- Hinsher can produce shockwaves and crack the ground
- Hinsher blew Waron away
- Hinsher caused a huge explosion
- Hinsher destroyed a cliffside
- Ram ripped off prison bars
- Ram erected a giant rock pillar
- Ram has large scale earth magic
- Ram survived an event that wiped out everything he once knew, though it's unclear how far the destruction reaches or what even caused it.
- Ram's best regeneration feat is coming back from being reduced to ash
- Hadar blew apart a man's arm
- Hadar shot a hole through a guy
- Nephran caused an explosion by slapping a sword away
- Nephran whacked Tink into a mountain, causing a explosion and making a small crater where he landed
- Nephran's energy breath blew through the terrain
- Nephran blew away trees with a sneeze
- Tink slashed through Ram's stone pillar
- Tink cleaved through the ground
- Tink defeated a giant monster
- Tink broke apart the ground into chunks
- Tink caught an arrow without looking, even when his blind spot was taken advantage of
- Tink sliced apart a bunch of arrows
Weaknesses
- His intimidation makes up for his lack of power when compared to virtually everyone else, especially his brother
- Far less durable than Najin. He has passed out from hits other knights can easily endure, so the life or death situations he's thrust into are especially perilous for him.
- While he does have a keen eye for details in facial expressions, his eyesight isn’t up to par when he’s in combat
- He isn’t honorable like his peers at all
- Although exceptionally intelligent and strategic, he can have a big head at times that causes him to underestimate his opponent
- His illusions have actual forms, but they disappear if they’re too far from him or it comes into contact with a strong impact
- The illusions drain energy from him when they dissipate
- He can’t tell how strong his opponents are when facing them
- The more his attacks require focus, the more his accuracy may falter
- The only drawback of using healing magic that he can’t use it back to back. It requires a massive amount of energy compared to ordinary healing magic and takes a long time for Astronomic to replenish.
Matchup Potential
Nagyunn vs Muichiro Tokito (The Ember Knight vs Demon Slayer)
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It's a knight vs samurai battle between two young men who join an organization of warriors after suffering the loss of their twin brother. Each specializes in a form of swordsmanship focusing on deception and misdirection (not to mention minor illusionary elements via mist and fake clones). Each character also starts off emotionally detached, but they slowly develop and become more emotional as the series progresses.
These connections were provided by a pal, and while I haven't seen Demon Slayer, the gist paints a cool picture. It's a fight with shonen energy that will heavily involve analyzing, stealth, and misdirection from both sides. It would surely be teeming with big brain plays. Although Nagyunn recently lost his illusion powers, they're a must to include to compliment Muichiro's fighting style.
Given Nagyunn's fighting style, the fight could bring attention to his movements to show how he'd handle fighting a powerful foe like Muichiro. Even so, based on my research of Muichiro I don't think Nagyunn would last too long against him.
NEXT TIME ON WCAB… whenever I feel like it
