First appearance: Coriander Society - Fate of the Faithful Part 2 (A Crossover) · watch it on YouTube
Ganyu Sinmal is an enormous suit of armor with no flesh showing anywhere. His mouth is bolted shut with a furnace grate, and violet fire burns behind it. He came out of the world of Yokai Blossom and turned up in The Void as part of a kill team hunting Kenny. To Asena and her companion John he was a familiar face with a complicated history. To Lyrus he was a very large problem that had to be punched until it stopped.
Story
Coriander Society - Fate of the Faithful Part 2 (A Crossover)
Ganyu Sinmal arrived in Coriander Society - Fate of the Faithful Part 2 (A Crossover) alongside ninjas lurking in the shadows and an explosive barrel sitting nearby. Asena recognized him at once and summed up the relationship as best she could: “He used to be our friend, enemy, then friend, then…” Lyrus asked her to rate the titan’s strength from one to ten. She guessed eight. Lyrus asked how strong she thought he was, and she said ten. “Oh, easy then.”
Over a private mental link, the heroes weighed their options: fight now, split up, or lead the enemy to Kenny. Lyrus refused to lead them to Kenny. Asena didn’t like “her attitude” and just thought they should punch him. John claimed Ganyu Sinmal for himself as “kind of the specialist when it comes to killing fiends.” He also suspected this wasn’t the Ganyu they had known but “one of the many that got killed previously.” Asena raised a similar doubt about whether Slakura was the real one.
Coriander Society - Fate of The Faithful Part 3 — A Crossover
In Coriander Society - Fate of The Faithful Part 3 — A Crossover, the reason for his visit became clear. Ralzamon, now working for The Arbiter, had found Kenny through psychic spying, and a kill team had come for him: Circe, the Master of Magitek, and Ganyu Sinmal. Lyrus ended up dueling the titan in the middle of the city, which the Arbiter called “a mini D20 Deathmatch going on right here in the city.” Every blow Lyrus landed only made Ganyu angrier. Fire flared through the cracks in his armor and roared out of his grated mouth.
Then Ganyu struck back. He knit his wounds closed, grabbed Lyrus in his fist and roared in his face with a noise like “the furnace from Home Alone.” Still holding the werebear, he leapt high into the air and swelled to huge size mid-jump. He came down with a power-bomb that nearly flattened a bystander and sent shoppers screaming for the guards. Lyrus, who briefly thought he was done for (“I’ll see you guys later”), came through with a little help from the watching Acolytes. He took only half the punishment and stayed on his feet.
The fight turned into a contest of fires. Purple flame leaked from Ganyu’s belly and tried to devour Lyrus’s soul, but it found nothing to eat beneath the shroud of the Void. In a fury, Ganyu opened his “spirit eater gate,” a power meant for the spirits of Yokai Blossom. It drained a great deal of Lyrus’s life into the titan. Lyrus’s void energy erupted in return and hurled Ganyu into a wall. Lyrus charged in shouting “I’m gonna rip you a new one!” and the Arbiter added, “Portals don’t rip themselves.” The blow split Ganyu open, with violet light pouring out of him. Only the life he had stolen kept him alive.
That was when the truth showed itself. Inside the armor was a dead creature, and Ralzamon was the one animating it, staring out through it with ghostly blue eyes. Through Ganyu, Ralzamon hurled a mind-crushing attack at Lyrus, who weathered it. At the same moment, Ralzamon tried to fry Circe’s brain “for disloyalty,” until John threw his shield gauntlet over her. Ganyu then grew one last time, to gargantuan size, and flung Lyrus off his chest plate. In the end, the broken titan plunged into the depths, into the shackled grasp of a lurking beast. A tendril crushed the armored body. Kenny had glued himself to Lyrus’s boot (“Don’t worry, I got you”), but it turned out he had no idea what came next.
Personality and Abilities
Ganyu Sinmal never showed a face, only armor, burning seals written in the language of Yokai Blossom, and a mouth of iron grating with violet furnace-fire behind it. He raged, roared and grew. The more he was hurt, the bigger and angrier he got, going from towering to huge to gargantuan over a single fight. He regenerated, grappled and leapt great distances. His signature power was the spirit eater gate, which drained life from a victim to heal himself. In this appearance he was less a free agent than a weapon: a dead body in armor, driven by Ralzamon’s will.
Relationships
- Ralzamon: The puppeteer who animated the dead creature in the armor and fought through it.
- The Arbiter: Ralzamon’s master.
- Circe: His partner on the kill team, whom Ralzamon turned on mid-fight “for disloyalty.”
- Lyrus: His opponent in the duel, and the one who finally broke him.
- Asena: Knew him, or a version of him, as friend, enemy and friend again.
- Kenny: The target the kill team came for.
Memorable Quotes
“He used to be our friend, enemy, then friend, then…” (Asena, Coriander Society - Fate of the Faithful Part 2 (A Crossover))
- “Oh, easy then.” (Lyrus, after Asena rated Ganyu an eight and Lyrus a ten, Coriander Society - Fate of the Faithful Part 2 (A Crossover))
- “I’ll take Ganyu Sinmal, since I’m kind of the specialist when it comes to killing fiends.” (John, Coriander Society - Fate of the Faithful Part 2 (A Crossover))
- “I’m gonna rip you a new one!” (Lyrus, Coriander Society - Fate of The Faithful Part 3 — A Crossover)
- “Portals don’t rip themselves.” (The Arbiter, Coriander Society - Fate of The Faithful Part 3 — A Crossover)