Saarebas said
1) Who can he turn into exactly? Is it anyone who fills the role of a warrior? Is it just people from human history or are other species included like aliens? How far back into history can he go to retrieve a spirit, can he just pull the spirit of a soldier that died recently giving him modern weaponry?2) What exactly are his limitations when he is channeling a spirit? Is he still vulnerable to normal stuff like stabbing, bashing, bullet wounds? Is he only as physically capable as the person he is channeling?3) What type of magic can he use when he is channeling a spirit that has access to it, like Arthur.4) Why would he come to a school to train him to use his power when his power is literally to instantly know all the skills of former warriors.5) What do you mean by Caliburn? I thought Caliburn is Excalibur, they are just different names for the same weapon. Anywho what can Caliburn/Excalibur do exactly, there are many different forms of the sword with many different descriptions of its power.
1: its only humans and only the greatest warriors known to mankind's past...people who earned a place in the crystal of memories.
2: Yeah he's still human, the crystal gives him the natural attributes of a hero for the spirits to use when they enter him, he's harder to kill than a normal human think Achilles, not as strong as him though... More so he could take a super punch go flying hit a wall and survive. He can take damage to contend with something say Jason could dish out...he'd live but he'd wish he was dead lol
3: Well with Arthur its his light magic used to dispell shades and things of evil. That's mainly what it would be for things that aren't really attacks.
4: well because he doesn't remember the skills or powers, think of the crystal as training wheels for the worlds next great legendary warrior. Keeping him alive and giving him a taste of what he could be, he's at the school to try and learn about the crystal and its origins, but he's also there to train himself to be a better warrior and protector to mankind...he just doesn't know that yet lol.
5: Actually you are right I had my fact backwards, the sword in the stone was placed back in the stone while Excalibur or Caliburn was a gift from the lady in the lake, its powers are of course dampened because its not in the hands of the real king Arthur, the sword itself can create blinding bright light for short times being an inconvenience for some and death for demons and thing of hellish or void natures, Excalibur's scabbard was said to have powers of its own. Injuries from losses of blood, for example, would not kill the bearer. In some versions, wounds received by one wearing the scabbard did not bleed at all.
Nineteenth century poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, described the sword in full Romantic detail in his poem "Morte d'Arthur," later rewritten as "The Passing of Arthur," one of the Idylls of the King:
There drew he forth the brand Excalibur,
And o’er him, drawing it, the winter moon,
Brightening the skirts of a long cloud, ran forth
And sparkled keen with frost against the hilt:
For all the haft twinkled with diamond sparks,
Myriads of topaz-lights, and jacinth-work
Of subtlest jewellery.
I'm gonna say that was either electricity or frost magic...but that's about it I think.