The six codified chemical combat arts of the Phialguard — reagent, delivery, and reaction for each. All fictional: a fan-made combat system for a fictional character.
Signature art
Reagent: vitriol teal — a clinging, brilliant teal liquor that burns cold and bright.
Delivery: high arcing throw; the phial is timed to break above the target.
Reaction: a sheet of teal fire that blinds and herds — Orin's opening move in nearly every recorded engagement. On the Green Glass Night he used it to light the barricade street so the defenders could see.
Reagent: marrowmist — a heavy violet vapor that sinks and spreads.
Delivery: rolled phial, broken low against stone.
Reaction: a crawling violet fog that deadens sound and sight. The Phialguard's retreat-and-regroup art; Orin famously veiled an entire alley during the Ashen Siege to evacuate a glassworks crew.
Reagent: none carried — the art is in the gauntlet.
Delivery: a blow from the Alembic, his brass catalyst gauntlet, against a surface already wetted with reagent.
Reaction: the gauntlet's catalyst lattice detonates the residue on contact. This is Orin's close-quarters art: one measured smear, one strike, one very bad day for whatever is wearing the smear.
Reagent: gallowglass — a slow, patient acid that eats armor and locks.
Delivery: pressed phial or brush application; never thrown.
Reaction: over minutes, not seconds, it etches through plate, hinge, and chain. The quietest art in the codex — and the reason the Council of Measures keeps a file on him.
Reagent: sunfall salt — crystalline grains that ignite white-gold in air.
Delivery: scattered by hand or burst from a broken phial at chest height.
Reaction: a flash like a dropped sun; temporary blindness in a thirty-pace radius. Orin's preferred answer to being outnumbered.
Master art
Reagent: kingswater, cut with nightshade violet — the most expensive draught on Crucible Row.
Delivery: a single phial, placed — not thrown — at the exact center of the engagement.
Reaction: a slow, silent, total reaction that ends fights by removing the *reason* for them: weapons slagged, cover dissolved, nobody able to stand quite where they stood. It is used once in the codex's current arc, and the [Episodes](/episodes) page treats it as the story's hinge. The name is also the title of the current story arc.
Every art obeys the Phialguard doctrine: measure twice, throw once. In practice this means Orin is never the fastest fighter in a scene — he is the one who already decided where every phial would land before the first one left his hand. See Combat Style for the full doctrine, and the Field Manual for the reagent craft underneath it.