I'm seeing him as a really pragmatic, no-nonsense kind of guy so his techniques as a magic user will be very battlefield-relevant; he's about martial arts as practical combat rather than martial arts as a dance or art form, meditation, spiritual expression etc that some of the other ones seem to work as. Probably a lot of buff spells - strength-boosting and so on. Maybe some direct damage or stuff that can augment allies, like the troops around him, but this main focus will be personal augmentation. Like I say, he's meant to be a Dynasty Warriors character, or a Dawn Solar Exalt. Have you seen how they fight?

Like I say, I'm basing him on Xiahou Dun. The story about that guy is he took an arrow to the eye, so he ripped the arrow - and the eye - out of his own head, took the eye and ATE IT to scare his enemies. He was known as the General Of Uplifting Might and The Colonel Who Breaks And Charges.