This quote should kind of explain why Apsalar is cool.
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Approaching fast from behind, the figure's movement aquired a fluidity, sinuous, weaving a flow of shadows, and the approach that had been quick transformed into something else - faster than a mortal eye could perceive in this night of gloom and smoke - and then the lone attacker struck the first of the Hands.
Blood sprayed, sheeted into the air, bodies spun to either side from its path, a whirlwind of death tearing into the ranks. Claws spun round, shouted, screamed and died.