Essence ofTalent

Tastes like loneliness, false praise and the jealousy of others…

• Beyond genius level intellect, perfect memory and with infinite storage.

• Your natural aptitude, intuition and inherent understanding of anything you have even the slightest potential for is so ineffably vast that even the greatest of supreme geniuses who came before and after you all look positively inept. It would only take a few minutes to reach a proficiency levels that geniuses need to spend lifetimes to reach.

• Additionally, the ability to instantly comprehend and understand any and all knowledge, data and concepts you perceive, regardless of how new, strange, alien, or eldritch they may be.

• From the most widely available/basic of introductory knowledge you can/will reproduce the entire knowledge base of that sample, regardless of how complex or illogical it might be. If you struggle to understand how this works, think of it like a 'seed' being nurtured, maturing in a natural way and analyzed by both your conscious and subconscious mind as it 'grows'. This 'seed' and 'grows' comparison are purely allegorical and not literal.

• Your mind is always full of accurate, innovative and inspired new ways of improving upon any skill, knowledge or abilities you have: plugging flaws, reducing inefficiencies, thinking of new/better ways of doing something, replacing aspects for greater efficacy, etc. Taking skills and knowledge to levels beyond mastery and into the domain of myths and legend rapidly.

• You never make the same mistake twice, literally. Any mistake or error you make will be noticed as soon as you make it and you will never repeat it again if at all capable of avoiding them. From trial and error you can/will easily and quickly recreate any skill or knowledge base.

• You will subconsciously analyze and understand all data you perceive and using that data extrapolate massively greater amounts of data. This insight will be applied to your own knowledge and skills subconsciously and you will repeat them reflexively. Basically: you can/will passively copy and internalize any new knowledge or skill you come across and replicate it for your own ends. If you walk normally and your senses perceive someone who walks silently and efficiently then without even noticing you will copy that skill in walking both quietly and efficiently. If you get into a fight with someone then you can/will analyze everything that they're doing and replicate it as long as it's useful or greater than whatever you're currently capable of. Or, to put it as simply as I possibly can: you can/will instantly understand, master and replicate (if you're capable of it) any sort of skill, knowledge or abilities you consciously/subconsciously perceive/notice/sense.

• The previously mentioned aspect can/will easily divine objective facts from lies or false/junk data, even without evidence to support it, so you won't have to worry about your mind being filled with contaminated knowledge or data, learning things incorrectly or flawed, etc. This ability only concerns itself with objective and factual data, subjective opinions will be ignored if false or unhelpful.

• If you can't utilize a skill of ability for any reason then it will be automatically adapted and translated into the closest approximation of that skill/ability that you can use. i.e.- not having the tail to use a tail attack so it's adapted as a form of kick or seeing a spell and instantly coming up with your own version of it if you couldn't use the original one for some reason.

• You will intuitively sense the dangers and/or dead ends in learning and/or progressing in a skill or certain field of knowledge. If you still want to learn it then you will do so with full knowledge of the hazards ahead and having accepted them.

• Immunity to memetic/cognitive/info hazards and insanity. You also won't spread these same hazards around like a plague carrier.

• Your skills and knowledge won't fade or become rusty with time, always as razor sharp as the level you cultivated them to. Also; immunity to skill thieves like Victor (Worm).

• Sports, martial pursuits, technology, sciences, magic, etc. it's all just out there and waiting to be mastered.

• (Note: this Essence won't grant you any additional potential that you didn't already have, so without a magic granting Essence you can easily learn and understand the theoretical aspects of magic but not actually use it yourself.)