Sun Lord

Sun Lord
Umbrella term	Kai Grand Master
Discipline bonuses	Grand Weaponmastery Herbmastery[NOGM] Assimilance Grand Huntmastery Kai-surge Telegnosis Magi-magic Bardsmanship[NOGM]
Previous rank	Sun Knight
Next rank	Sun Thane

Sun Lord is the eighth Kai Grand Master rank, and the twenty-sixth Kai rank overall, after Sun Knight.

Training

Sun Lords reaching this rank have mastered seven Grand Master Disciplines, and New Order Sun Lords have mastered ten. In both cases, they have also mastered all the Magnakai and Kai Disciplines.

Improved Grand Master Disciplines

Sun Lords have improved Grand Master Disciplines over their original, initial mastery of them. Some improvements only apply to the Grand Master series (indicated by ^[GM]), and some improvements only apply to the New Order series (indicated by ^[NOGM]).

Grand Weaponmastery

Sun Lords with this Discipline are able to cause the metal edge of any non-magical weapon to ignite and burn fiercely. When a Weapon thus affected is used in combat, it inflicts an additional 1 Endurance point loss upon an enemy in every successful round of combat. This ability cannot be used with a wholly wooden Weapon such as a Quarterstaff.

Herbmastery^[NOGM]

Sun Lords who possess this Discipline are able to cause living plants, e.g. grasses, bushes, flowers, weeds, rushes, to entwine themselves around the limbs of hostile creatures, thereby hampering their free movement. Sun Lords are able to target only one creature in this way. An additional creature can be affected for every level a Grand Master rises above the rank of Sun Lord.

Assimilance

Sun Lords who possess this skill are able to cause the outline of their bodies to become blurred and indistinct. By so doing, they can greatly increase their chances of avoiding magical and/or non-magical missiles directed at them.

Grand Huntmastery

Kai Sun Lords with this skill are able to see, with acute accuracy, light in the infrared spectrum, i.e. they can see the complex patterns generated by heat in near or total darkness. They can also see light in the ultraviolet spectrum.

Kai-surge

Sun Lords who possess mastery of this Discipline are able to launch a Kai-blast — a pulse of intense psychic energy which is capable of affecting both psychically active and inactive enemies. This form of psychic attack is very effective, more so than a usual Kai-surge, Psi-surge, or Mindblast. It can cause an enemy to lose between 2 and 18 Endurance points in one attack. A Kai Sun Lord using Kai-blast determines the damage inflicted on an enemy by picking two numbers from the Random Number Table. These numbers should be added together (a '0' = 1) and the resultant total equals the damage inflicted. However, use of a Kai-blast will reduce a Sun Lord's Endurance points total by 4. It cannot be used in conjunction with any other form of psychic attack.

Telegnosis

Sun Lords who possess this Discipline are able to alter their body weight in order to walk successfully upon different kinds of surface, e.g. water, mud, lava, and quicksand. Time duration — and degree of surface difficulty — increases as a Grand Master rises in rank.

Magi-magic

Grand Masters who have reached the rank of Sun Lord are able to use the following battle-spells of the Elder Magi:

Penetrate

This increases the penetrative energy of any Arrow, or Arrow-like missile, launched by a Sun Lord.

Energy Grasp

This spell enables a Sun Lord to discharge a powerful electrical force into anything he or she touches. It is similar in effect to the Brotherhood Spell Lightning Hand. It differs in that it is easier to control and channel the resulting energy. It also requires the actual touching of an object or enemy to effect the spell.

Bardsmanship^[NOGM]

Kai Sun Lords with this skill are able to direct their musical abilities to disrupt the structure of inanimate breakable objects, e.g. glass, ceramics, urns, flasks, causing them to explode violently. Any person or creature in close proximity to the destroyed object risks injury from flying fragments.

In the gamebooks

In the Grand Master series, completing three gamebooks promotes the reader to Sun Lord. The earliest this can be played as, and canonically for Lone Wolf, is The Legacy of Vashna.

In the New Order series, completing six gamebooks promotes the reader to Sun Lord. The earliest this can be played as, and canonically for Grand Master, is Vampirium.