Focused Ones
also known as metacha-im
A variety of Fused — *metacha-im*, *the Focused Ones* — over seven feet tall, who walk the field looking enormously obese, as if costumed in hundreds of slack leather belts. On engagement those layers cinch tight and weave together to outline (or become) muscle, leaving each as a sculpted, androgynous figure of immense weight and density. Hoid has warned the coalition that they outweigh a Magnified One and that their density grants them strength sufficient to stop a Shardblade. Among the slowest of the Fused to awaken since the Everstorm returned; first met at Narak. SA:WaT:Ch 61
Known facts
- killable-by-forced-tension-releaseSigzil establishes by trial that the Focused Ones *can* be killed: each is held together by hundreds of taut leather wraps acting as springs, and a four-Lashing accelerated dive drives a spearpoint through the chest and head with enough force to overwhelm them. When killed, the body releases its tension in one sudden burst, like hundreds of very taut ropes snapping at once.SA:WaT:Ch 63
Events
- SA:WaT:Ch 61 Twenty of them advance on Narak Four amid three hundred ground forces, then condense their slack-belt layers into tight, sculpted, immensely heavy bodies — the first time Sigzil has seen *metacha-im* in the field.
- SA:WaT:Ch 63 Walk the field with sculpted inevitability; one kills an Edgedancer with a foot-crush; Sigzil drives a Shardspear through one's chest with a four-Lashing dive.
Backreferences
- summarySA:WaT:Ch 61
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