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Chapter 8 - Essence & Bloodlines part 4

Essence of the Transcendent Self

[*You gain a body that is the peak of your species mentally, physically, and spiritually sculpted to your tastes.

You are immortal and undying, and will not succumb to the ravages of age and can continue to live in perpetuity not requiring any form of sustenance to live.

Your body will never degrade, decay, or weaken even if you sit alone in a void for eons.

This also makes you immune to all poison, disease, mundane or supernatural as well as any form of corruption or curse.

You have limitless amounts of stamina and life force.

Any supernatural energies you can manipulate or tap into are internalized allowing you to generate those energies independently of the original source.

Any supernatural energies you possess are incredibly pure and always filled to capacity allowing you theoretically limitless endurance with any powers or techniques using those energies.

Any energies that come with negative side effects of their use or existence are blunted so you won't be accelerating entropy of the universe by harnessing the cosmic abyss or twelve you might have crammed into your body unless you want to.

You are also self-cleaning, and dirt and grime roll right off of your body, you will never smell bad either, at worst being odor neutral.

You can alter your appearance at will and can shift between male, female, both or neither or even alter your apparent age near instantaneously.

*Your memory is perfect with infinite storage and indexing with potentially limitless trains of thought and multitasking ability as needed.

You are immune to all types of mental and spiritual attacks, control, or manipulation.

Your mind and spirit will never degrade, decay, or weaken even if you sit alone in a void for eons.

You are unique and there is and can never be another version of yourself unless you allow it.

You cannot be erased from reality, killed through time travel, or retconned from existing.

Your singular existence renders things such as luck, fate, prophesy, narrative force, plot armor and similar things as weak as tissue paper.

These things can still function if you allow them too, only surviving within your proximity at your leisure.

Your body, mind, and soul is shielded from hostile or detrimental form changing, body control, or modification from any source including transformations as the result of one of your own powers.

You regenerate within seconds from the damage you take and cannot completely die, at worst taking some days to reconstitute from your soul if destroyed completely.

You will find that you will always manage to get free of any prison eventually whether it be dropped to the bottom of the ocean chained to a stone or cast into a void between realities, they can't stop you, only slow you down.

*The transcendence of your form means your body and its fluids are extremely valuable in several regards.

They act as universally potent reagents and foci for supernatural abilities, your blood could easily substitute for the sacrifice of virgins or the use of one-of-a-kind artifacts to cast a spell or perform a ritual.

They are also universally useful in the creation or modification of items, able to enhance the essential qualities of anything they are used with bringing it closer to an ideal perfected form as well as repairing and purging any corruption or weakness from its form.

Finally, it acts as a universal panacea and can supply all the nutrients that an individual needs to survive.

It will re-energize them, filling their stores of energy, stamina, and heal any injuries, correcting flaws, weaknesses, or impurities to their mind, body or soul.

It will even repair the damage of age and restore a person to their prime and purge any corruption or curses from their system.

This can even be used to revive the dead regardless of how long they have passed on even those who have been reduced to ashes or fragments.

You can also use this to share lesser versions of your transcendence to others, improving them across the board.

Others can only benefit from these properties that you allow, cutting you to pieces or collecting samples from you will render only impotent material with a much weaker effect.

Any material from yourself that hasn't been refined or used in some manner such as working it into an artifact, potion, or healing someone will quickly and harmlessly dissipate into the aether as long as you wish it to.

Nothing of your body will ever rot or decay otherwise.

*You have infinite and unbreakable willpower, and you are able to forcibly mute or shut down feelings of fear, guilt, anger, and other emotions so you can keep going even if it should be gut-wrenching to a normal person.

You can keep going even if your body is falling apart and breaking at the seams.

Getting your head cut off or destroyed is merely an inconvenience as your body could keep fighting until you were damaged to the point of immobility.

You retain absolute control over your body under all circumstances as long as that piece is still attached even if it's mangled.

You do not feel pain but you still register where you have been damaged.

*You have the ability to learn and train in anything you have the capacity for at a blistering rate.

You could go from an untrained novice to a master of a profession or set of skills in a few weeks, effectively growing in leaps and bounds to achieve the same sort of prowess it would take others a whole lifetime or more.

*This speed increases if you have a teacher or some form of instruction cutting it down to under half but you can get by just with experimentation on your own and figure it out.

Your self-experimentation is self-correcting and you won't have to worry about accidentally giving yourself lasting injuries, suffering catastrophic failures, or introducing an unnoticed flaw in whatever you develop.

You can also bend or even break established rules with things like magic or other supernatural powers with enough improvement.

*You can also train others quickly, though they will learn at a much slower rate depending on their aptitude for what you are teaching and possibly teach them any exploits you know.

*You are able to bring mind shattering levels of pleasure to any of your partners just by natural talent.

Hentai orcs, tentacle monsters, and faceless fat old bastards have nothing on you.

You have all the benefits of porn physics on your side when you desire, letting you perform inhuman feats of lewdness.

*When it comes to your preferred sex it is not so much a question if you can but if you want to court them.

There is no being holy, unholy, eldritch or abstract that you couldn't eventually get into a relationship with.

With the same absolute destruction your presence brings to fate, narratives, and prophesy the red strings that bind lovers together no matter how strong are vulnerable to yourself.

You could successfully woo someone that has only ever had eyes for one person, effectively usurping the position of their old partner or even go so far as to drag both into your bed.

*You have complete control over your fertility/virility.

Neither you or those you have children with will suffer negative effects of pregnancy including delivering offspring.

You can set the parameters of what your children will inherit from you and the mother including any particular abilities, physical characteristics, and even skills or genetic memories.

None of your descendants will ever suffer from any genetic flaws or complications related to their makeup.

They will instead have idealized genetics, inheriting all of the best traits while outright expunging the worse ones leaving them very impressive specimens regardless of their heritage.

Your offspring have a strong genetic loyalty to you; it would take heavy and pointless abuse to see them turn on you.]

Essence of the Akashic Grimoire

[*You come into possession of a book of supernatural origin that can shapeshift to any kind of "book" format you want, whether it be a tablet or big fat metal tome with bronze plates for pages and seemingly infinite pages or storage capacity.

This book is filled with knowledge and secrets large and small.

It can give you ways to strengthen yourself through rituals, studying, and summoning.

*The book is Soul bound to you and can't be stolen since it will always find its way back to you.

It is also completely invulnerable to damage and self cleaning.

You can summon and dismiss the book at will.

Others who attempt to read it without your consent will not be able to understand the contents of it regardless of whatever special abilities, wisdom, knowledge, or other strange abilities of comprehension they might possess.

*Anything you have acquired with the help of the book will function as intended even divorced from its home reality that it may or may not depend on to work.

*The book can at a great cost of any kind of supernatural energy send you to different worlds and if drawing from your own reserves at a low level of enhancement would leave you near empty of whatever energy you used.

Once you have been to a world the energy cost to travel to it is half as much.

The method of travel defaults to a portal that lasts long enough for you and any others you want to travel with you to step through it though you may decide to use something different like teleportation.

If you wish to transport yourself while in a vehicle, even something as large as a spaceship you may take the entire vehicle with you including any passengers onboard.

You can choose the specific world you go to, even going to alternate timelines, "fanfic" versions of that world, or let the book fling you to a random world.

The book will transport you to a relatively safe and out of the way location so you don't have to worry about getting jumped when you come out the other side.

Once you have been to a world you can decide where you will appear when you visit said world again.

*The book is preloaded with enough 'generic' supernatural energy specifically to send you to another world once and get back home before requiring you to provide more energy from there on.

Built in safeties prevent you from using this store of generic supernatural energy for any other purpose.

Should you use it all and strand yourself on a world that lacks any sort of supernatural energy and have not undergone any enhancement to let you generate your own supernatural energy the book will still generate a small trickle of the same generic supernatural energy.

Enough that you could after waiting a two weeks to a month travel to a previous world or a new world respectively.

*When you travel to a new world the book will attune you to that world and its metaphysics.

So you can function without suffering whatever horrible consequences you might otherwise have from being a being from a foreign dimension.

None of these attunements will clash with the other or weaken you, even if they might otherwise.

You can extend this attunement to any that travel with you or that you summon.

You can, with the same energy cost to transport yourself to a new world link two worlds you have been to and seamlessly blend their metaphysics.

You may link more than two worlds like this at once and in the future but the energy cost increases for each new world.

Once this is done, it cannot be undone.

This allows you to create permanent bridges between worlds, meaning anyone with the ability can then transit between those worlds that are linked without use of the book.

*These rituals vary from ways to enhance your mind, body, and soul to granting you supernatural abilities, magical powers, and more.

They are unique to the book and give you a way of breaking through your limits in ways that might not be possible in some worlds.

These rituals are designed with you in mind, as the holder of the book, and thus cannot be used to strengthen others though through time and effort you may devise your own rituals to strengthen others with the aid of the book's knowledge.

The first few rituals to enhance your attributes are rather simple and usually only require a modest donation of supernatural energy and blood to perform.

The enhancements available depend on what worlds you have been to.

Traveling to the Nasuverse and using an enhancement to gain magic would grant you a few high quality magic circuits that could be improved upon further in quality and quantity for example.

The book includes rituals to collect supernatural energy from a given environment to power enhancements and summoning should you lack the ability to generate your own, but it is slow compared to what you might otherwise have if you were naturally generating your own energy with a modest amount requiring a few days to collect unless you happen to have a large source of supernatural energy to tap into.

*The more you enhance yourself the greater the costs become for more powerful enhancements requiring more supernatural energy and more exotic components usually related to the kind of enhancement.

Note that lower level enhancements do not become more expensive, only that as you grow stronger you unlock more powerful and more expensive enhancements.

No enhancement will lock you out of other enhancements, even if some power or ability would be mutually exclusive normally.

*The book can store supernatural energy and you can donate your own supernatural energies or those energies you have access to and have it act as a battery from you to draw from in times of need.

The book can also filter different kinds of supernatural energy and transform it from one kind to another as long as it has come in contact with said types of supernatural energy.

*The book can provide the specific knowledge you might need to make use of these enhancements such as teaching you a sword style or how to cast a certain kind of spell.

It can also provide detailed information on different things like supernatural beings, individuals, artifacts, lost magics, and anything else you might want to know.

*This information is limited to whatever universe you are currently in though travelling to a new universe will unlock the secrets of that one as well.

Depending on what you are trying to learn it can take more or less time for the book to "find".

Getting a well known and practiced style of martial arts would be simple for the book and take little to no time but finding rarer or more obscured things takes longer.

Gaining access to a branch of magic that has been extinct for thousands of years or learning the one true weakness of a cosmic entity might take a long time.

The book can search multiple things at once but the more you task it and the rarer it is the slower the process becomes.

Once the book finds something it can access it at any time then on letting you reference back to anything you have looked for previously.

*Navigating the book is as simple as it has an ever evolving index that will guide you to any information it has collected that you seek.

You can have the book either imprint the knowledge into your mind and the requisite skill for basic proficiency in something and train to grow from there or read and train it the hard way from the beginning.

The book can also automatically record your experiences, whether they be in a journal, log, illustrations, or multiple forms of media in a format you would find most useful to review or find entertaining.

*It is also capable of giving you the means to summon things to yourself.

The strength of these things depends on your overall strength, as an unenhanced human you might be able to summon a handful of very minor supernatural creatures at once or summon a slightly magical blade, lump of gold, or useful resource for crafting as an example.

Things you summon require no upkeep as you have simply moved them from one place to another, things that require an external supernatural energy source to persist probably require some upkeep however.

You can be as specific or as vague as you want with what you want to summon as long as it is possible for the book to find it in whatever universe and or any alternate or future timelines, even if those timelines have been destroyed.

All you have to provide is the cost of supernatural energy to call it to your side.

Note some materials might be hazardous if you have not taken the necessary precautions to keep yourself and others safe.

The book will not summon hazardous material to you unless you intentionally want to summon said material.

*The stronger you get the more powerful the things you could summon to yourself seemingly with no upper limit as you get more supernatural energy.

If you can supply more power then you can generate like with an artifact or ritual sacrifice you could summon things beyond what you would normally be capable of.

These summons come from across time and space and normally cannot be traced back to you.

You can choose to have the book summon directly from your current world and though they cannot be tracked, someone may end up looking for whatever you "borrowed." *Anything with a level of intelligence from simple animals or basic magical constructs to sapient artifacts or people is unable to harm you intentionally or unintentionally by lack of control or instability instead simply becoming inert or subdued enough until you are safely beyond the range of effect.

They cannot disobey or subvert any commands you give them, you may also layer commands or set triggers for certain commands to take effect.

Any items you summon that require a certain set of characteristics or user to be "worthy" will work for you even if you wouldn't otherwise fit the requirements or criteria.

You can choose to have your summoned be resurrected if they were deceased beforehand or summon just the corpse or spirit if you only need what is left of them.

*Once you have summoned something you can call it to your side instantly whether that be an object or person.

You can also store it away in an otherwise unreachable pocket dimension in the book where summons will be kept in perfect stasis with seemingly no upper limit on storage space.

You can also store non-summoned things in this pocket dimension.

The book will provide you an accurate manifest of all things inside including the condition and any notable traits or history of these things.

You can store yourself inside as well and set triggers for when to release you from the book, if you set no triggers the book will release you automatically once the immediate area is survivable and there are no clear and present threats.

You can determine exactly how things exit the pocket dimension, whether that be via portal, it simply appearing in your hand or nearby depending on its size.

Things inside an object like passengers on a ship or items in a chest will be brought with the object, this includes for summoning an item to your side, storing it, or retrieving it from the pocket dimension.]

Essence of the Godbound

[*You receive the spark of a Godbound, shreds of divine power that emerged well after the collapse of the old Empires and their assault on Heaven.

You have the strength of a newly created godbound with vitality beyond most mortals and three words and several gifts bound to you.

By going on adventures and expending your divine power (Dominion) you will grow as a godbound and reach the heights of true divinity should you strive to do so.

*Optionally you can import Godbound metaphysics into whatever worlds you may find yourself into introducing them for good or ill.

This means you are able to delve into shards of heaven for lost lore, hunt for celestial engines to repair or loot, or find rare and strange items of great value.

It also means there is now a threat of the uncreated, angels, made gods and remnants of fallen empires though without open night roads this is not much of an issue.

You can open night roads to get to other worlds and settings however.

Should you not want this you can still obtain critical resources like celestial shards by expending dominion even if you do decide to import the metaphysics.

*Optionally you can recieve a tome that details your strength as a godbound as well as any contacts, allies, factions, quests, important information you have uncovered, etc.

It reflects it accurately and in real time.

Additionally the tome has infinite pages and can optionally hold many spells of theurgy of the Gate, Way, and Throne to make use of if you are sorcery inclined.

*Optionally the usual restrictions on a godbounds ability to truly benefit from mortal magical items, restrictions on amounts on summoned creatures, etc, is waived for you and any you ally you care to extend it to as it pertains to Godbound mechanics or metaphysics.]

Essence of the Planeswalker

[*You have a planeswalker spark ignited by drinking this essence.

This spark is like those before the mending and independent of said event.

The Oldwalker Spark as it were.

*You are immortal and nearly invincible as long as your mind is intact and functional, you are also capable of shapeshifting *Possess incredible amounts of magical power, can use all colors of magic and possess an affinity for one or several colors in particular.

Regardless you can learn and understand magic incredibly quickly and bolster your reserves further by bonding with various lands that hold the different types of mana.

*Are capable of traveling to all planes in the multiverse and bring individuals with you safely.

Similarly any planeshifting tech you create will function correctly letting you build machines like the Weatherlight in its prime.

*Can create objects, creatures, people, and even entire planes though your magical power.

You are able to create copies of any objects, creatures, or people you encounter who are completely loyal and summon them to your side.

You can also bind the originals to you through a geas and summon them to your side.

*You can use your own spark to create and ignite post mending level sparks in others without a spark but the process is exhausting and you can only do it every so often.

*Optionally you can begin on one of the various planes of Magic the Gathering before or after the Mending.]

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