Loki, The Huckster God
He was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering, flickering, melting, mixing, he was the shape of a shapeless flame, he was the eddying thread of needle-shapes in the shapeless mass of the waterfall. He was the invisible wind that hurried the clouds in billows and ribbons. You could see a bare tree on the skyline bent by the wind, holding up twisted branches and bent twigs, and suddenly its formless form would resolve itself into that of the trickster.
Stage One:
The introduction of Loki's possession initiates the basic principles that will help to develop the remainder of his stages. Loki's influence spreads throughout the reality with an effect similar to the purest forms of chaos. Starting in Stage 1, the user will be able to manipulate the full reality of things about their person, and within their possession. While the stage produces no specific techniques, it holds very broad application. It can be used to alter the visible length of a weapon in order to mislead their opponent. It can alter energy signatures that can fool even the most sensitive energy sensors. A person can change their height, width, length; all to create illusions without actually influencing the opponent. This remains true because of the manipulation of your own reality, and none of their own. Your creation becomes amorphous and fluid to your own desire. Your weapon could appear to strike sideways when really its being plunged forward. Your presence could be sensed miles away, but truthfully be breathing down the back of your enemy. Lightning bolts of vast voltages could truly be a vast tunnel of icy wind, all disguised in the most perfect shroud.
Second Stage
The second stage encapsulates the abilities of when Loki's deep rooted control over the natural world sets its claim among the reality. Its within this stage that the world around you becomes beneath your control. Any additional energies and forces that reside outside of your opponent in an attempt to halt your abilities will be consumed by the warped aspects of nature. The world, beneath your control, will now subjugate energies by breaking it down and enhancing your control over the order of the world. Its within this stage that you gain access to two techniques:
-Ao Bua Drauminn: To enact this technique is to solidify your control over the natural field around you. While utilizing this technique you will be able to entirely conceal your presence, indefinitely, by erasing it from nature. Additionally you will be able to shape to any form, appear as any texture and any hardness within the field of effect. The entire reality becomes your appearance, allowing you to adopt the guise of trees or the dirt beneath the opponent's feet, but with indistinguishable accuracy. Your body can feel, smell, taste, like bark, while your energy remains undetectable. Perfect stealth is now easy to achieve as you wear the entire natural world as your cloak of disguise. In addition, your appearance can be mimicked by the surrounding world indefinitely as well. Clones of whatever device you choose can be cast from any and all directions. They will possess every indication of your real body up until it is the proper time to strike.
-Náttúruval: Performing this technique will momentarily disallow you the ability to completely conceal your appearance within the surrounding area. This means you will be able to be detected, and will be at your most vulnerable. However, the technique turns the focus to the increasing hold on the natural world around you. By utilizing this technique you will be able to take the energies unnaturally brought into the world by your opponent, and use them to enhance your control. While active, Náttúruval will eat away at the energy of the opponent, or of their technique and use it to solidify your power in Stage 2. This will severely reduce the scale and power of whatever technique or form they might be using, and it will also render any counter-reality-warping obsolete by making the energy provided of insubstantial pedigree to overtake your influence. The effect of this technique increases over the amount of area beneath your hold, and the amount of energy being pushed into the domain. The larger the area of effect, the more the natural reality within your control will reject and influence the energy. The more energy produced by the enemy, the more energy that is able to be sapped and used (which then increases the amount of land held by the effect). Eventually, as the opponent continues to have their energy drained away (the more they output, the faster the drain), reality will be fully encapsulated in your grasp and you will be able to enact Stage 3.
Third Stage:
At this stage, you have successfully encapsulated the entirety of the reality within your madness as Loki. Now, even without directly placing your energy onto an enemy, you will be able to begin assaulting them with your deceptions. This is due to the reality they reside within being 100% under your control, and therefore any space they reside in contains your residual influence. Its now at this stage that you may begin to alter the opponent is a plethora of ways. These ways may include, but are not limited to: How much energy their body is expelling with a particular technique of form (I.E. if an opponent casts a fireball, their energy system is effectively consumed in your deceptions and will consume an inefficient amount of energy to cast, or perhaps a small amount of energy accidentally resulting in a small spark rather than a fireball), their perception of time and space (I.E. if you threw a punch to their jaw, by the time they see it coming it will have already struck them, but they have no felt or experienced such a reaction due to their delayed sense of time and physical reality), muscular control, manipulation of all 5 senses, the way certain things appear to them (I.E. you can alter the appearance of a fireball to look like a burst of confetti, or feel like a gentle breeze).
-Eitraðir Martraðir: This technique allows you to secrete the poison used to famously torture Loki during his imprisonment. By physically introducing this poison into an opponent, you will be able to entirely control them amidst the reality. The resulting effect will result in the corrosion of their stomach, as chains of rusted iron spill from their cut belly. The illusion will be fueled through the affected person's own energy system, and will end when they ultimately run out of energy. At the end of this "illusion", all of the chains will snap tight and finally chain the target, physically, as the last of their energies produces a materialized version of the horrific entombment of Loki. This will leave them mentally destroyed (as result of the horrific illusion), spiritually diminished (due to taking all of their energy to produce), and physically bound by their own entrails.