Spiritual Weaponry

Spiritual Weaponry
Invented by Oetsu Nimaiya, Zanpakuto (Bleach) are the ultimate spiritual swords, with absolute potential to evolve in proportion to their wielder's spiritual power and potential, developing special powers that reflect their wielder's soul and personality.
Power/Ability to:	Wield or create spiritual weaponry.

The ability to wield or create spiritual weapons. Sub-power of Soul Energy Constructs. Variation of Life-Force Weaponry, Spiritual Object and Power Weaponry.

Also Called

• Soul Weaponry
• Spirit Weaponry

Capabilities

The user of this ability is able to create and wield a weapon of great spiritual power. The weapon can be created from anything that houses spiritual force, such as spiritual material, spiritual energy, spiritual entities, and even souls. Depending on the spiritual force, the weapon can possess a wide array of abilities that affect not only the physical world but also the spiritual world. Some weapons may even be capable of destroying, controlling, or reviving souls.

Applications

• Life-Force Constructs
• Resurrection
• Soul Absorption
• Soul Energy Constructs
• Soul-Bound Weapon
• Soul Manipulation
• Soul Mutilation
• Soul Sealing
• Spiritual Power Link
• Strong Soul

Variations

• Spiritual Artillery
• Spiritual Blade Construction
• Spiritual Bow Construction
• Spiritual Polearm Construction
• Spiritual Whip Generation

Associations

• Deity Soul
• Demon Soul
• Demonic Weaponry
• Divine Weaponry
• Power Weaponry
• Soul Creation
• Soul Energy Constructs
• Soul Projection
• Spirit Magic
• Spirit Physiology
• Spiritual Plane Lordship
• Spiritual Object
• Strong Heart
• Weapon Creation
• Weapon Proficiency

Limitations

• If the user is killed the weapons dies too.
• The power of the weapon depends on the user.

Known Users

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• Shinigami (Bleach)
• Quincy (Bleach)
• Arrancar (Bleach)
• Fullbringers (Bleach)
• Voids (Guilty Crown)
• Kurohime (Magic User Kurohime)
• Gloxinia (Seven Deadly Sins); via Spirit Spear Basquias
• King (Seven Deadly Sins); via Spirit Spear Chastiefol
• Users of Susanoo (Naruto)
• Obito Uchiha (Naruto)
• Shamans (Shaman King)
• Spirit Energy users (Yu Yu Hakusho)

Comics

• Magik (Marvel Comics); of Soulsword

Video Games

• Raziel (Legacy of Kain series)
• Ryu Hayabusa (Ninja Gaiden series)

Gallery

Mine (Akame Ga Kill!) wielding the Roman Artillery: Pumpkin that fires spiritual energy bullets.

Creed Diskenth (Black Cat) wielding his Imagine Blade, Level Max.

Coyote Starrk (Bleach) wielding Colmillo.

Yasutora Sado (Bleach) possessing Brazo Derecha de Gigante in its first/incomplete form...

...second/complete form...

...and defensive shield/true form...

...and Brazo Izquierda del Diablo.

Traditionalist Quincy (Bleach) wielding Heilig Bogen.

Gerard Valkyrie (Bleach) wielding his Spirit Weapon, Hoffnung...

...And generating his own Heilig Bogen.

Robert Accutrone (Bleach) wielding a spiritual handgun.

Yhwach (Bleach) can create swords and other weapons out of spiritual particles.

Lille Barro (Bleach) wielidng his spiritual rifle, Diagramm

Combining his unique spiritual metal powers and supernatural swordsmithing talents, Oetsu Nimaya (Bleach) can create Zanpakutō, spiritual swords with evolving superpowers

Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto (Bleach) wielding his Ryūjin Jakka, the oldest and the most powerful of all fire-type Zanpakutō.

Kisuke Urahara's (Bleach) Zanpakutō, Benihime

Ichigo Kurosaki's (Bleach) Zanpakutō, Zangetsu

Lisa Yadōmaru's (Bleach) Zanpakutō, Haguro Tonbo

Kenpachi Zaraki's (Bleach) Zanpakutō, Nozarashi

Shūhei Hisagi's (Bleach) Zanpakutō, Kazeshini.

Rōjūrō Ōtoribashi's (Bleach) Zanpakutō, Kinshara

Raziel (Legacy of Kain series) wielding the Wraith Blade, the spiritual form of the Soul Reaver.

Kurohime (Magic User Kurohime) wielding the Ultimate Sword.

Shamans like Yoh Asakura (Shaman King) can merge spirits with weapons to materealize them in a Over Soul for combat.

Madara Uchiha's Fisrt Stage Susanoo's (Naruto) Blades of Chakra.

Sasuke Uchiha's Susanoo (Naruto) can use Blaze Release: Susanoo Kagutsuchi to shape the black flames of Amaterasu into destructive arrows.

Itachi Uchiha's Susanoo (Naruto) wielding the Totsuka no Tsurugi.

Kakashi Hatake's Susanoo (Naruto) forming Kamui Shuriken, throwing blades created from chakra that can warp the slashed targets to another dimension.

Obito Uchiha (Naruto) wields the holy sword Nunoboko no Ken.

Kazuma Kuwabara (Yu Yu Hakusho) can form his Spirit Energy into his Spirit Sword.

En, Kai and Ryo (Yu Yu Hakusho) creating weapons (Angel Chakram, Hound Claw and Swing Crush) out of Spirit Energy.