Bankai
Bankai name: Saigo no Kaze (最後風, literally meaning "The Last Wind")
Thinking of changing the name with: «Kamishini no Kaze» (神殺風, God-Killing Wind) Bankai appearance: While his Bankai is active, Eldridge gains a reiatsu shroud, which manifests around his entire body. This shroud of reiatsu not only provides a better protection than Eldridge’s clothes, but also doesn’t slow him down as it is made of reiatsu and thus weightless. The shroud is silver-white like Eldridge’s reiatsu in Bankai, and releases spiritual pressure constantly looking like flickering flames. Eldridge’s clothes and even his skin, except the places with markings, take this color. A circular marking appears on Eldridge’s chest and both arms. The shroud forms a medium sleeved haori, which looks like it's being held in the front by yet another marking. Lateral and lineal markings also appear at various places, mainly on Eldridge’s hands and arms. These markings are all dark gray in color. In addition to his robe and hair, his sword changes too and takes a pure white color, including the blade and the scabbard. Seemingly blue winds engulf the sword, but it's something that changes its appearance and doesn't provide a new ability whatsoever. Additionally, ten spheres of malleable black reiatsu form behind Eldridge. These are called Gudōdama (求道玉, literally meaning "Truth-Seeking Balls"). Eldridge can move and control the Gudōdama at will, though they do not possess an extra property other than the physical damage they can cause by hitting. |
Zanpakuto Spirit: The Bankai form of Shinseikaze resembles a teenage version of himself, shorter and younger than Eldridge in height and age, with a noticeably slimmer build. His attire is a more defined, white and robe-like version of his Shikai form's overcoat, with the addition of a hood. It is worn so that his arm only goes through the left sleeve, and the right half droops down over his obi. Underneath, he wears a black, red-lined shirt with a popped collar and black pants. The blade of the sword he is holding is pure white, just like his reiatsu. His hair and eye color remain the same, except the length of his hair which seems to be slightly shorter than before. He usually seems to carry a murderous look in his eyes, something that is often commented by his master along with their unusual red color.
Spirit's Personality: In his Bankai form, Saigo no Kaze seems to have the same cool and calm collected disposition as he would when not in Bankai; however, he is far more aggressive. He no longer has the same respect he had in Shikai for Eldridge, even though he still acknowledges him as his master. In fact, he is much more rebellious just like Eldridge.
In addition to that he gets angry if somebody makes the mistake of calling him and his Shikai form, Shikkyaku no Kaze, the same being, as he believes they are not. He sees not only his Shikai form but also others as weak and inferior beings; a personality trait that has been reflected to his master as well.
Spirit's Personality: In his Bankai form, Saigo no Kaze seems to have the same cool and calm collected disposition as he would when not in Bankai; however, he is far more aggressive. He no longer has the same respect he had in Shikai for Eldridge, even though he still acknowledges him as his master. In fact, he is much more rebellious just like Eldridge.
In addition to that he gets angry if somebody makes the mistake of calling him and his Shikai form, Shikkyaku no Kaze, the same being, as he believes they are not. He sees not only his Shikai form but also others as weak and inferior beings; a personality trait that has been reflected to his master as well.
Zanpakuto Spirit: The Bankai form of Shinseikaze resembles a teenage version of himself, shorter and younger than Eldridge in height and age, with a noticeably slimmer build. His attire is a more defined, white and robe-like version of his Shikai form's overcoat, with the addition of a hood. It is worn so that his arm only goes through the left sleeve, and the right half droops down over his obi. Underneath, he wears a black, red-lined shirt with a popped collar and black pants. The blade of the sword he is holding is pure white, just like his reiatsu. His hair and eye color remain the same, except the length of his hair which seems to be slightly shorter than before. He usually seems to carry a murderous look in his eyes, something that is often commented by his master along with their unusual red color.
Spirit's Personality: In his Bankai form, Saigo no Kaze seems to have the same cool and calm collected disposition as he would when not in Bankai; however, he is far more aggressive. He no longer has the same respect he had in Shikai for Eldridge, even though he still acknowledges him as his master. In fact, he is much more rebellious just like Eldridge.
In addition to that he gets angry if somebody makes the mistake of calling him and his Shikai form, Shikkyaku no Kaze, the same being, as he believes they are not. He sees not only his Shikai form but also others as weak and inferior beings; a personality trait that has been reflected to his master as well.
In addition to that he gets angry if somebody makes the mistake of calling him and his Shikai form, Shikkyaku no Kaze, the same being, as he believes they are not. He sees not only his Shikai form but also others as weak and inferior beings; a personality trait that has been reflected to his master as well.
Bankai: Unlike most Bankai forms, which usually create some sort of massive creature or effect, Eldridge’s Bankai actually shrinks. Much like its Shikai form, it is used heavily for melee combat, but also possesses a certain special ability.
Hyper-Speed Combat: Eldridge takes all the power of his Bankai and compresses it into a small, condensed form. Then, he uses the power of the Bankai to perform high-speed combat.
Bankai Special Abilities: Saigo no Kaze retains the use of Shikai powers and can be used in the same ways, but in an enhanced form.
Wind Manipulation: It activates itself after Bankai is activated. With this power the user can create, control, and manipulate the winds as well as the air using very little reiatsu. It is not an attack but with enough creativity and the right usage it can be used offensively.
Kazekiri (風切り, literally meaning "Wind Cutter"):
Kazeyūheki (風流壁, literally meaning "Wind-Style Wall"):
Shinkūgyoku (真空玉, literally meaning "Vacuum Sphere"):
Dai Arashi: Kazenaki no Sora (大嵐 無風, literally meaning "Great Storm: Windless Sky"):
Hyper-Speed Combat: Eldridge takes all the power of his Bankai and compresses it into a small, condensed form. Then, he uses the power of the Bankai to perform high-speed combat.
- Enhanced agility: Air movements can also be used as a levitation aid. User can jump high and far by riding on strong gusts of wind, and can slow or deflect falls by creating cushions of air. The constant movement required by this art makes the user naturally flexible and agile. Even without air, the user can easily maneuver around an opponent by ducking, jumping, and side stepping, appearing to flow around their opponents without expending any energy at all, letting the opponent tire themselves out and thus creating exploitable openings. This conservation of energy combined with high stamina gives them an advantage in prolonged combat.
- Enhanced speed: The user can enhance his movement in battle; he can run swiftly by decreasing air resistance around him and even sprint across or run up vertical surfaces by generating a wind current behind him to propel himself forward.
Bankai Special Abilities: Saigo no Kaze retains the use of Shikai powers and can be used in the same ways, but in an enhanced form.
Wind Manipulation: It activates itself after Bankai is activated. With this power the user can create, control, and manipulate the winds as well as the air using very little reiatsu. It is not an attack but with enough creativity and the right usage it can be used offensively.
- Air blast: A more offensive move involving a direct pulse or jet of almost solid wind from the hands, feet, or sword. The force of the attack is generated more from the user's own power, rather than assisted by momentum. This direct blast can reach further with greater accuracy, and is used to inflict greater damage.
- Air manipulation: By using circular, evasive movements, user builds up massive momentum; this build up of energy is released as massive power. It also allows for wind-based counter-attacks that knock opponents off-balance, mimicking the sudden directional shifts of air currents. Attacks vary from simple gusts of wind to miniature tornadoes and cyclones, maintaining the circular theme
Kazekiri (風切り, literally meaning "Wind Cutter"):
- Description: Kazekiri is an offensive technique that combines brute force and keen precision. At the instant of the slash or the swipe, the Zanpakutō or the limb (depending on which one is being used), uses the Air Manipulation to manipulate and enhance pre-existing air currents. After the air is sharpened and compressed during the swing or the swipe, it's released from the tip of the blade or the limb, magnifying the slash attack, which then flies forward. The wind flows out of the blade in different shapes as it fires in the arc of the sword’s swing but the slash usually takes the form of a crescent-shaped structure of compressed air or the shape of a wave. Kazekiri is a powerful technique with great force, capable of creating large-scale damage and destruction or slicing through multiple targets located a significant distance from the user, causing grievous injuries to those hit. Eldridge has used this technique in several different manners, such as striking the ground to create an omnidirectional blast to knock away incoming attacks or slashing at the ground to upturn it and crush everything in its path. This technique can also be charged up by adding reiatsu to it and can produce more damage. Additionally, Kazekiri is often seen being used as a ranged attack, though it's also possible to utilize it in short range by keeping the technique intact around the sword, limb or hand without releasing it. The technique receives an overall speed and power boost in Bankai, being able to use more winds to attack and so on.
- Mechanics: Kazekiri's most outstanding feature is the fact that it uses the existent air to form itself. This allows Eldridge to use spiritual pressure not to create or form the technique, but enhance it instead. This makes Kazekiri effective since the same amount of reiatsu can be used for a stronger attack. As Eldridge has elemental reiatsu and is able convert it into air itself, even if there is no air around (which is hardly possible) there is still a way for Kazekiri to be utilized.
- History: Before getting an Asauchi specially created for his blood, this technique was known as Koroshi no Kaze. Unlike Kazekiri, Koroshi no Kaze didn't make use of the already existent winds. Instead, it used only the spiritual pressure channeled inside the sword, which was deemed to be pretty inefficient in terms of depleting Eldridge's reiatsu reserves quickly over prolonged use.
- Trivia: Kazekiri is performed by making reiatsu as sharp and thin as possible. Its name is actually a reference to this quality, as it's so sharp that it can cut even the wind itself.
Kazeyūheki (風流壁, literally meaning "Wind-Style Wall"):
- Description: Kazeyuuheki is a defensive technique that lets Eldridge create a barrier. The barrier can be created either in front of the sword or a limb. Creating it in front of the sword results in a barrier without a stationary shape: it looks as if it has a rounded outline but the edges seem to constantly move like the winds. It is greater than Eldridge himself, both in height and width. Choosing to apply the technique in front of a limb, however, results in a more solid-looking barrier. In such sets of circumstances, a hexagonal-shaped barrier forms in front of the said limb. The barrier is smaller than Eldridge, but still relatively bigger than the limb he uses it with. This actually allows him to freely switch between offense and defense, allowing him to even use the shield to attack an opponent with a sharp tackle. He can also be seen using the barrier to parry an attack and proceed with a counter with his sword. The technique receives an overall endurance boost in Bankai, being able endure stronger attacks with less difficulty.
- Mechanics: Like Kazekiri, Kazeyuuheki also uses the existent air to form itself and spiritual pressure to strengthen and enhance it. Both types of the shields are created by compressing the already existing winds, enhanced by reiatsu. They only protect the direction that the barrier is facing. Yet, Eldridge can turn and face his opponent or the attack in the direction that it is coming from and block it, not to mention that he is able to move around with the shield active.
- History: Before learning about his true Zanpakutou, Eldridge used an incomplete form of this technique called Kaze no Tate. Unlike Kazeyuuheki, Kaze no Tate didn't make use of the existent winds at all. It used reiatsu instead. It also concentrated the power of the technique at a single point rather than distributing it evenly, making it rather easier to break. Kaze no Tate also required Eldridge to remain motionless in order to function better.
- Trivia: Eldridge thinks of this technique as a great wall standing between him and his enemies, preventing them from advancing any further. This is a reference to the technique's name.
Shinkūgyoku (真空玉, literally meaning "Vacuum Sphere"):
- Description: Shinkuugyoku is a neutral technique that is based on the concept of nullification. Eldridge rotates his sword facing it in opposite direction, engulfing his blade, legs or arms (depending on how he uses it) with a large wind. Afterwards, he aims towards his target and releases it. The wind forms a spinning circle of wind. Upon contact with a target, it envelops the target with tornado-like intensity. Shinkuugyoku is not only dangerous, but can disorient an opponent trapped within it. If a limited source of spiritual pressure is hit, such as a projectile (a Soukatsui for example), the technique absorbs the reiatsu stored inside and transfers it to Eldridge, thus nullfying the incoming attack. If a living and potential source of spiritual pressure is hit (a source that can produce reiatsu to be exact), the technique absorbs 20% of the target's reiatsu and transfers it to the user. The technique receives an overall speed and power boost in Bankai, being able to absorb and transfer more spiritual pressure in a faster fashion.
- Mechanics: Shinkuugyoku is quite unique among other techniques, since it's set to be activated at a certain time, which is in fact the moment it hits its intended target. It uses pre-existing air to form its wind just like the other techniques, but waits until it receives a further reiatsu enhancement. With these pre-programmed actions, the technique uses a small amount of spiritual pressure from the first source it makes contact with to activate itself. Afterwards, it starts functioning as it ought to and transfers the reiatsu from the same source to Eldridge. This way, he can conjure the technique and use it without having to use his own spiritual pressure. The only risk is the possibility of Shinkuugyoku missing its target. In that case, Shinkuugyoku uses Eldridge's reiatsu only and gives him a temporary exhaustion, as if he had been exposed to prolonged activity. Eldridge is also able to manipulate the size and range of the aforementioned wind. But doing so will have an influence on the overall usefulness of Shinkuugyoku, as making it bigger decreases the amount of spiritual pressure that can be absorbed from a target. At one point the amount of reiatsu required to activate Shinkuugyoku surpasses the amount that is transferred, due to its size. This makes the technique use Eldridge's reiatsu and make him feel the fatigue, even if it hits its target successfully.
- History: Gensoku no Kaze, the name of the former version of Shinkuugyoku, was incapable of transferring reiatsu stored up in projectile-type attacks. Not only that, but its usage in Bankai would block his access to his ultimate technique. This was caused by how abnormally Gensoku no Kaze functioned, as it would alter Eldridge's reiatsu pathway system. With Eldridge learning and mastering the true nature of this technique, these obstacles were lifted.
- Trivia: Shinkuugyoku is often referred as the technique that resembles a void because of its concept of nullification. This is also a hint to its name, since vacuum defines a space that is entirely devoid of matter.
Dai Arashi: Kazenaki no Sora (大嵐 無風, literally meaning "Great Storm: Windless Sky"):
- Description: Kazenaki no Sora is Eldridge's ultimate technique. Placing his right arm is above the left while making his right palm faced down and left palm face up, Eldridge makes an “X” sign. Then he creates great spiraling winds, which are centered on his location. These winds seem to enclose him, but they are actually amassed at a focused point (i.e. the palm of the hand. Eldridge turns this into an energy ball that is many times greater than a normal person in size. The technique can result in a tremendous explosion upon impact, that sends shock-waves in all directions.
- Mechanics: This technique combines vast amounts of winds with Eldridge's entire reiatsu. The great size of the attack makes it harder to avoid, but it was also noted that despite its gigantic size the energy ball is actually weightless because of being formed of only spiritual pressure and air. This makes it quite fast once it is thrown. Eldridge has attained a better control on the technique, where he can use it as a melee weapon without having it burst or shatter violently (even though it's highly unlikely of him to do so). Or he can give it an entire new shape such as a gigantic sword.
- History: Kazenaki no Sora used to explode upon any contact, which required Eldridge to throw it at all times.
- Trivia: The name of the technique implies its after effects. The sky refers to Eldridge and the term windless refers to his reiatsu levels, as the usage leaves Eldridge with no spiritual pressure whatsoever. It was also said to be based on the vast amounts of winds used to create the technique, leaving no winds in the skies. Eldridge also likes to call this technique Zenmetsu (全滅, literally meaning “Complete Annihilation”).