Thalim

Thalim (タリム) is a fictional character in the Shaman King manga and anime series. He is one of the Ten Patch Officiants who oversees the Shaman Fight 2000 in Tokyo and runs the series of Patch's Cafés. He is also responsible for overseeing Team "Kabbalahers" and Team "Cowboys".

Appearance
An average build man, Thalim have long black hair that is tied in a long ponytail and wears a headband with small squares lined all around it. Like the rest of the Patch Officiants, he wears native American robes with black patterns on them and has a hexagon shaped silver plating on the chest of his robes.

While working at the Patch's Cafe, he wears a white dress shirt and black pants with a simple lime green tie that has several triangular figures on it. Around his waist he wears an apron with the writing "Patch's Cafe" on it.

Personality
Unlike most of the Patch Officiants, Thalim has a timid personality and is easily intimidated as he began to stutter at the smallest sign of hostility from Hao. Despite his timid nature, he is still able to openly question Hao on his decision to have Sakurai Sakutaro, a human class ghost, to become Asakura Hana's guardian ghost.

While protecting his Plant of the Sea, he seemed unhappy about the prospect of fighting, but was prepared to do it anyway, seeing as it was his duty.

Abilities and Powers
In battle, Thalim is very analytical and has tactics planed before engaging his opponents. When the Five Elemental Warriors invaded the plants, he had already prepared various ways to counter their respective elemental attacks.

Spirit

 * See More: Green Seeds

Green Seeds is not one but actually many small spirits of plants of varying species and they hardly consume any Furyoku. This helps Thalim be prepared for many situations such as using a tree to conduct Tao Ren's lightning and a flower that can survive freezing temperatures against Usui Horokeu's ice.

Shaman Fights Second Round
In the Patch's Cafe, Thalim served an espresso and a cappuccino to Asakura Hao and Asakura Yoh. When Hao decided to leave, he asked Thalim for the bill and when he did not recognize him, he also asked his name. Thalim, stuttering, introduced himself as one of the Patch officials. When Hao repeated the price of the bill, Thalim, frightened, said that it was the opening day and as a special offer, the first five customers drink for free. Because of this, Yoh still paid Thalim a tip for the latte he made for him.

Invading the Plants
After Hao was announced the Shaman King and led by Lip & Rap to the King's Sanctuary, Thalim went with Goldva and the other Nine Patch Officiants to guard the Plant of the Ocean.

Thalim watches Nichrom's defeat through the cameras placed in each plant. As the group reaches the 8th plant, Thalim greets them politely, remembering the tip Yoh gave earlier at the Patch Café, and they seemingly have a friendly conversation. Tao Ren, however, is unfazed by all of this and quickly summons his Armor Over Soul to attack Thalim with "ElecBang", but it is blocked by a gigantic tree, that suddenly grows up around Thalim. Thalim then reveals that Ren's lightning is largely ineffective against him as the tree disperses the electricity into the ground. After Usui Horokeu also fails against Thalim plants, both Ren and Horohoro are tied up by Thalim's O.S. "Clematis".

Chocolove McDonell steps up and battles him. Thalim unleashes O.S. "Rafflesia" to combat Chocolove's enhanced sense of smell easily overwhelming his nose. Chocolove overcomes it by stabbing his claws into his nose, forcing himself to smell blood instead of the flower. Thalim then uses his O.S. "Great Impatiens Balsamina" to attack from every angle. As Thalim fires the gigantic seeds at him, Chocolove disbands his Armor Over Soul and uses Pascal Avaf and Mic to Over Soul with the air itself as a medium and manipulates air currents, literally eroding away all of Thalim's plants. Thalim reveals that he knew such an attack would most likely come, and hoped to defeat Chocolove before he himself would realize it. Chocolove only chuckles and asks about his full strength, and exclaims his turn to attack, creating Ayers Rock one more time and ending the fight.

Thalim would later appear, together with all the other Patch Priests, within the Great Spirit.

Flowers
After Asakura Hana was sent to hell to train, Asakura Hao insisted that Thalim helped him. As such, Thalim appeared before Hana and Sakurai Sakutaro and invited them to Mini Asura Realm branch of the Patch Cafe. There, served the pair coffee and explained to them the inner workings of the Great Spirit and the work, he and his fellow Patch Priests did for Hao, due to his many responsibilities. When Kamogawa Yohsuke attacked the café, Thalim used Green Seeds to create a tree that protected him and Sakutaro. After Hana was sent flying by Yohsuke, Thalim considered interfering in the confrontation between Sakutaro and Yohsuke, but was stopped by Hao and Goldva and though Thalim tried to question Hao´s intentions for Sakutaro, he was stopped by Goldva, who reminded him, that Hao´s will, as Shaman King, was absolute.

After the confrontation between Yohsuke and Sakutaro was over, Thalim was left alone, standing in the wreckage of the Patch Cafe. Kalim appeared, comforting Thalim, who was saddened by all the violence, Sakutaro had to relive, while inside hell. Renim then revealed himself to have been there all along and questioned what they should do with the pyramid figure, left behind by Yohsuke. All three of them were shocked, when three people, wearing armor and cloaks, appeared to claim the pyramid figure. The three of them are revealed by Renim to be their ancestors, responsible for the previous Shaman Fight. Their leader politely introduced himself as Thorim of the Knights Templar and revealed that they had recently opened a bar on the opposite coast, named Patcy Cat.

Anime/Manga Difference
Thalim does not appear in the 2001 anime series.

Trivia

 * Like all the other members of the Patch Tribe, Thalim is named after one of the chemicals in the periodic table of elements. His name is derived from thallium.