THIS IS INFORMATIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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FIRST OFF in Chrome Shelled Regios the world is pretty much barren. It's like a giant rocky desert of doom and apparently the outside environment is pretty hostile! So people live in this giant cities that amble about. These cities are protected by their bigass walls, their military artists and whatever weapons they have. Cities also have specific purposes, like Academic Cities are for learning etc. Cities are powered by electronic fairies -- each fairy has its own personality and is apparently immensely powerful -- without its electronic fairy a city will not move and the fairy sort of directs the city. Now, the world is also populated with filth monsters, which are GIANT UGLY BUGS which normal humans find pretty indestructible. Sometimes these bugs fly! Sometimes they come in swarms! Sometimes they regenerate! For example THIS is a very small piece of one and there is a dude in that screecap as well. A filth monster can break through the walls of cities and has a few different stages (like larvae, mature, etc) and with each stage gets more difficult to defeat. Often military artists have to defeat them in groups blah blah.
Military Artists are ... people who fight! They are trained and taught to fight, usually in groups. In Academic Cities military artists are grouped into platoons and they train and then have platoon matches which is like hardcore capture the flag. There are also inter-city matches which is like capture the flag EXTREEEEMEEE.
Military artists uses dites to fight. (Rhymes with light and night). A dite is a weapon which works with the military artist's kei (which is like your ki or chi or chakra or whatever else other series call it) to make a sturdy weapon. A dite normally is collapsed and looks like the handle of the weapon. LIKE SO. However, when a military artist (in thise case, Layfon) puts his or her kei through it the dite expands to look more like this, a full blown weapon.
The shape if the dite is dependent on how it is made -- a sword is always a sword, etc. However you can make them to have different settings, or tune them to match the user better. For instance, Layfon's dite has two settings -- one is a sword and the other is a collection of strings. These strings have a lot of multiuse. You can use them as restraining rope, as hanging from rope, as flashlights, etc.
Dites are breakable! Usually they're pretty sturdy, but when a massive amount of kei is pushed through them, they can shatter or become brittle. Heaven's Blade Receivers, for instance, if they use their kei to a higher potential will probably break a normal dite.
POWER LEVELS now this is just an estimation, but I thought I'd put this here since I just mentioned the Heaven's Blade Receivers.
A MILITARY ARTIST OPERATING AT FULL POTENTIAL let's give them the number 100, for an arbitrary amount of power. This is a combat military artist, not a psychokinetic.
A psychokinetic is going to usually hit between 40 and 70 or so.
A Heaven's Blade is going to be up near 200, on this scale.
The Queen of Grendan is up at 400+.
Psychokinetics are basically your information people. Psychokinetics release 'pins' which act like mini glowing walkie talkies and can connect members of the group, the psychokinetic acting as a switchboard or operator. They can also estimate distances down to an amazing detail and other such useful battle information. Psychokinetics often have trouble with their own emotions because they receive such an inflow of information.
Here is an example of Felli's pins. They're pink and are released off of her dite (which is wand-like). Sometimes her hair glows too.
Felli is a little special! She's apparently higher classed than most psychokinetics and we've seen her hack other people's pins (synchronizing with them and then taking them over), project over further distances than should be possible and even use her pins as weapons, something psychokinetics don't/can't usually do.
OTHER POWERS STUFF
... in Regios the military artists can do a lot. Kei can be used offensively and then more as a personal booster.
You can heal yourself with your kei. Lol, Layfon has no wang -- I MEAN, iirc this takes a certain amount of kei control and so forth as well as a certain amount of kei, but it speeds healing and bolsters yourself and so forth and so on.
You can enhance your senses with your kei as well. Getting better hearing, better sight, etc.
There are several elemental attacks we see in the show as well. Shante uses fire, Layfon uses wind, Gorneo uses an earth attack.
And of course 'lol exploding stuff attacks', explosive concussive force and some sort of 'yell at things' kei attack as well.
We've seen variants of teleportation (Lintence uses actual teleportation, and there is also just moving really fast teleportation -- and while it is unclear if other Heaven's Blade Receivers can use the teleportation thing I assume yes).
And variants on the shadow-clone, lots of me will beat you up techniques, by both Layfon and Savaris.
SO I GUESS KEI SEEMS PRETTY FLEXIBLE.
QUESTIONS/ETC also Fonfon did I forget anything?