Editing Anthem Tedd (section)

==Abilities and Art==
Described as a "[[Dabbling|dabbler]] in various battle practices, trophy hunter, weapons dealer" or a "[[sorcerer]] of fighting practices, warmonger".<ref name="14.ze1">Mr. Anthem Tedd entered the room.  Of a type with Abraham, but more relaxed in his clothing, he had stubble on his cheeks and blond hair, and he was more willing to smile.  He clapped an arm around Hart’s shoulders.<br>[...]<br>“I, Anthem Woodward Tedd, sorcerer of fighting practices, warmonger, first son of a first son of a first son, hereby make my claim,” he pronounced. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/26 Excerpt] from [[Fall Out 14.z]]</ref> More broadly, he can by be considered a "combat practitioner" or "[[War Mage]]".<ref name="17.xe1">The Cavendars weren’t a big family, but they were on the map.  They didn’t earn enough to send kids to the Blue Heron, nor did they have the status to get in on merit alone.  That owed mostly to the fact they scraped by as war mages with no ‘real’ job and none of the high profile clients that the Hennigars and Anthem Tedd managed.<br>[...]<br>At the mention of his name, Anthem glanced over.  He nodded once, as if in answer to Sawyer’s question.<br><br>Oh.<br><br>What did they all have in common?  They were all combat practitioners.  War mages. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/03/26 Excerpt] from [[Gone and Done It 17.x]]</ref> 

He uses his [[Second Sight|sight]] to aid him in combat and show him trajectories, lines of effects and area of effects. He normally uses this to assisted him with aiming firearms and over weaponry.<ref> drew his gun, using his Sight as he swept the area.  He didn’t have much use for the investigative side of the Sight, so he’d tuned it into something complementary to various tools and practices.  Trajectories, lines of effect, areas that would be included in any blasts.  A laser sight or laser guidance for anything, whether it was a gun or a large scale explosive.  Incoming or outgoing.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/07 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.c]]</ref>

He has the ability to break through magical [[Law Magus|Law]] that would prevent violence, claiming that he represents an older Law, that of trial by combat.<ref name=":2">Anthem was apparently not hunting Miss anymore.<br><br>“It’s no-violence, right?”<br><br>“A rule Anthem can break,” Avery said.<br><br>“Didn’t know that part.  Will he break it?”<br><br>“Don’t think so,” Verona said.<br>[...]<br>Musser was talking to Anthem.  Anthem’s skin was covered in papers, and they’d pressed down hard enough that it looked like extensions of flesh rather than something on the outside of that flesh. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/04/06 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.1]]</ref> This happen in no small part because of months of work with Musser on the latters Lordship campaign.<ref>“It’s [[Law Magus|Law]].”<br><br>“It’s ''your'' Law.  I draw my power from older Law, closer to the Seal.  It stands as a basic principle, of competition, violence, and duels.  Dig deep enough in most bodies of law and Law, there is always a right to trial by combat.  It supercedes.”<br>[...]<br>“Respectfully…” Anthem said.  Then he finished the sentence by throwing the knife.  He was hit by five pieces of red paper in the course of the throwing motion, and something in reality cracked and grated against itself as he pushed through with the final part of it.<br>[...]<br>“Anthem pushed past the Law of Kennet found,” Nicolette said.  “He’s got a lot of clout, helped by the fact he’s had a long string of victories, defending territories.  Apparently enough to make it happen.  The Founder is wounded.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/03/29 Excerpt] from [[Gone and Done It 17.y]]</ref>

He has a Practice that generates a magic circle in front of a projectile he's using and then divides it, duplicating the projectile and aiming it at the vitals of dozens of targets simultaneously.<ref>Practice caught the knife as it left his hand, a magic circle eating the knife on its way to turning fractal, twelve similar circles converging on one another before spreading out.<br><br>Twenty-four knives flew out.  One for each Other at the front of the crowd.  Everyone that wasn’t protected by an Other standing in front of them was caught- knives to the heart or forehead.<br><br>He took a step forward and three more writs plastered themselves to him.  Gun drawn, practice flowing, moving around the weapon.  Magic circles found their alignment like missile targeting systems in a movie dogfight.<br><br>He shot down the center of the crowd.  The bullet went through at least ten more Others, and dropped Miss to the ground, hole in her chest.  Heart-shot. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/03/29 Excerpt] from [[Gone and Done It 17.y]]</ref> A similar Practice will duplicate a melee weapon and then levitate the copies<ref>The Fae turned, swatting the blade out of the air as it speared in.  An awkward strike, owing to those injuries.  The blade was hit hard enough that it cut through the cards.<br><br>It didn’t matter.<br><br>Every single card in the arena, scattered, had been turned into a duplicate.<br><br>A cold iron blade suspended in air, willing to strike. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/07 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.c]]</ref> that can then travel into a target at speeds most would find too fast to dodge.<ref>Anthem drew a paper from one pocket, glanced at it, then held a sword with palm flat under the blade, at roughly eye level.  When he pulled his hand away, it suspended there for a moment, then dropped down about two feet to the waiting hand.  At set intervals, it duplicated itself.  Five swords horizontally suspended in the air.<br><br>He tapped the butt end of one blade, and it flew forward, the others chasing it.<br><br>Too fast to dodge, moving with enough force that the blade pierced chest and sank down to the handle.  Right through the heart.  The other blades caught throat, leg, shoulder, and belly. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/26 Excerpt] from [[Fall Out 14.z]]</ref>

He has also shown the ability to create Simulacra that generate copies of himself based on certain aspects of himself.<ref> - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/07 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.c]]</ref>
===Tools===
He has a variety of spell cards; one relays to him the state of his weapons as well as other information about them,<ref>Pulling out a card, he touched it to the gun, unraveling it into a series of dark lines.  It became a dark, inky sketch on the card, with words surrounding it, describing its state and various details of the weapon, including how recently he’d acquired it and the care he’d given it.  He could angle the card and let the scribbled, barely-legible text drift across the surface, giving other information.  It would need a good clean, with plastic caught in the rifling and mechanism. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/07 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.c]]</ref> or allow him to put temporary enchantments on his weapons,<ref>He sorted through some spell cards.  Temporary enchantments he could lay on the blade, his eyes scanning the surroundings.
<br>[...]<br>He took the temporary enchantments out of his jacket.  Each inscribed on a paper, papers all placed together, with a clip to secure them.  There were tabs at the side, and each was marked with a symbol that let him identify them in a moment, their backs heavily decorated.<br>[...]<br>Anthem tossed them into the air. [...] Anthem speared two cards with the knife as he twisted in the air. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/07 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.c]]</ref> still others serve as an inventory space that lets him hold various weapons and or magic items,<ref>His card became a gun.
<br>[...]<br>Anthem reached into his coat for cards, pulled one out and whipped it at his counterpart.  The man glanced momentarily at it, then shook it out, until it became a leather thong and a small bag. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/07 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.c]]</ref> Examples include:
* The Cat's Eye Sling, a sling designed to penetrate [[augury]].<ref>The Cat’s Eye Sling is good at penetrating augury.  Every augury has a tell, and if you catch the right one, you can punch right through to catch the person on the other side.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/07 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.c]]</ref>
* Thread Cutter, a knife that when it hits something ricochets of the target, following the line of [[connection]].<ref>He pulled a card out.  Thread Cutter.  A knife.<br><br>He shook it into existence and threw it hard at the fallen simulacrum’s body.<br><br>It ricocheted off, chasing the connection to the girl who had stabbed him. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/07 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.c]]</ref>

On one occasion, he used a shotgun loaded with inscribed pellets that he could then recall with a diagram, glowing with energy and doing subtantially more damage on the way out.<ref>The rune on the paper glowed.<br><br>And so did the shotgun pellets, those buried in flesh and those that had missed the target, scattering to road and wall behind the Other.<br><br>Every single pellet darted toward the rune, leaving a streak of light and smoke behind it.  Nearly every single one did more damage to the Other on the return. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/26 Excerpt] from [[Fall Out 14.z]]</ref>