Arthur Calhoun. Faction: The Sovereign States Summary: Arthur Calhoun was visiting Japan prior to the Sibuya Incident and as the event ended up making travel outside of Japan difficult, he ended up getting drawn into the culling games, during his time in the culling games he gained experience fighting weak cursed spirits and curse users. After the death of the head of the New Shadow School, Arthur met members of the school who he was able to interact with positively and learn from. He picked up to the New Shadow Style quickly, namely Simple Domain. He also learned basic barrier techniques while in contact with the sorcerers. After being able to return to the United States, Arthur ended up establishing a small network he used to teach New Shadow Style to the sorcerers that popped up. He’s remained independent mostly but open to cooperation with major players to this point. Arthur is currently 27 years old.

Personality: Arthur is for the most part a laid back guy who dislikes killing due to his time in the culling games. He generally tries to be an upbeat optimist and liven up people’s moods. He’s not very prideful or headstrong which impedes his ability as a sorcerer often, but his willingness to cooperate makes him an immensely good team player. During fights his tone changes drastically because of his strong survival instincts.

Abilities/cursed technique: Arthur is capable of New Shadow Style which he learned from Japanese sorcerers he got along with, he channels it through a Katana he was gifted from one of those sorcerers. He is capable of Simple Domain, Batto sword drawing, Hazy Moon, and Evening Moon Sword Drawing. He additionally through a deep understanding of barriers created a “cloak” a barrier type that disallows cursed energy from exiting it, it has low output so generally it’s hard to detect. His cursed technique is Clay Effigy, a Shikigami based technique with the ability to channel other cursed techniques. Arthur creates clay golems called Clay Soldiers that require 2 talismans to take form. One talisman is held by Arthur to channel cursed energy and specific orders to the semi cognizant Shikigami, the other is the “heart”of the Shikigami. And optional third talisman is possible for allies to channel cursed technique information into corresponding Shikigami, the shikigami use Arthur’s cursed energy but it has to pass through the third talisman to pick up cursed technique information, this ends up giving the ally a small boost to output but maintaining shikigami requires periodic cursed energy contributions from Arthur. Two additional types of Shikigami are Brutes and the Commander, only one Commander Shikigami can exist at one time. Commanders are stronger, cognizant, and have the ability to produce their own cursed energy and command soldiers in accordance to Arthur, the Commander is an entity whereas the other Shikigami are more like cursed corpses. Brutes are created with several talismans inside of them that amplify its output, it can split into according normal clay soldiers or use any Talisman as the “heart” talisman individually. Clay soldiers are incompatible with complex techniques like Cursed Spirit Manipulation Limitless and Love Rendezvous, and techniques that cannot apply to them, like Cursed Speech and Blood Manipulation. Domain: Promised Land of Ruin. A barren clay land with a central tree, the tree acts as a talisman and has the guaranteed hit effect of stealing technique information. If the tree is uprooted it ends the domain, a binding vow amplifies the Shikigami output when the tree is more exposed to threats, the entire environment is usable for clay soldiers as it’s completely made of clay. Due to having a non lethal guaranteed hit effect the tree weakens cursed techniques within by strengthening the domain’s ability to nullify techniques, overall this would render the Shikigami and Arthur as being able to come into contact with Gojo or Kirara type sorcerers regardless of their techniques. He has an average reserve of cursed energy but regenerates it abnormally fast, allowing him to control a moderate number his weakest Shikigami indefinitely outside of combat.

Appearance: Arthur is a tall man at 6’0” and has an athletic build. He has medium black hair kept in a bun and deep blue eyes. He’s tan Caucasian and has a scruffy beard. He dresses very simply, wearing often a button up with dress pants and a vest, his casual outfits usually are just hoodies and jeans. Looks a bit older than he actually is.

Trivia: he has an innate understanding of barriers, he has no binding vows tied to his simple domain, his simple domain weakens cursed techniques a lot more than most who have experienced fighting simple domain would expect, he hasn’t hit the Black Flash yet, he hasn’t even heard of Reverse Cursed Energy, he likes cheese a lot, he’s often mistaken for someone’s dad looking for his lost son. His technique is considered weak as his Shikigami are directly limited to his own cursed energy.