Essence of theTrump
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Grants you a thousand new powers every month, most of them trivial, along with full knowledge of everything in your arsenal and a guarantee that nothing you gain will change you in ways you dislike. The real value is sacrifice: you can give up any ability to strengthen another, boosting its potency, versatility or scope, and this works on any power you hold from any source — including your natural attributes and other Essences. Sacrificed abilities can be reclaimed at the end of a month, your powers cannot be stolen, copied or suppressed, and you may optionally start with one wished-for ability in a heavily weakened state to build back up.
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Description
Too many powers to count? Say less.
Effects
12Every Earth month (730 hours) you will gain 1'000 powers and abilities, mostly things like being slightly more flexible than usual or always having clean and lustrous hair. Most of it's useless but there are a few powers worth having. What powers you gain can be influenced by your needs and desires.
You will always have full knowledge of each and every ability in your arsenal and the best ways to use them.
You will never physically, mentally or spiritually change in ways you don't want or wouldn't be comfortable with as a result of gaining new powers.
Doesn't sound very appealing as far as Essences go does it? Well the part that might appeal to you is the aspect that lets you sacrifice one thing to increase another! What this means is that you can sacrifice an ability you don't care for or want and use it to increase aspects of the abilities you do care for and want to be stronger.
Back to the lustrous hair power, don't want it? Sacrifice it to the slow self healing ability you (theoretically) have to increase how quickly it will heal you or the scope of what it heals, or maybe to that fire manipulation ability to increase the range at which you can control fire?
Any and all aspects of your powers and abilities can be enhanced using this method, even your own natural attributes like intellect, strength, charisma, magical power, etc. but the potency of the boost to the chosen aspects/attribute is based on how powerful the ability you sacrifice is. For example: sacrificing the lustrous hair to another power won't increase whatever you target much because it's a weak, near useless, power, but the more potent a sacrificed ability is the more power it bestows to another, a sort of "equivalent exchange".
And not just increasing aspects, you can even use this feature to grant the powers and abilities you like more versatility and greater scope, like giving a healing power the ability to heal not just physical wounds but spiritual ones too, or maybe granting a flight power additional abilities like reduced air resistance and so on. As long as the new aspects of an ability are "in theme" with the base ability itself then the sky is the limit with how they can grow and evolve. Maybe one day that power to cause vibrations can destroy continents with catastrophic earthquakes or an ability that makes you slightly better looking can one day make Aphrodite herself feel weak in the knees.
And not just abilities this Essence grants either, any ability you possess, regardless of its source or how you gained it, can be made more powerful with this method, even aspects of this or other Essences in your possession.
If you don't have any power or ability you want to increase then it's suggested that you sacrifice all the abilities you don't care for to another ability you don't care for for the sake of cleaning out your power arsenal and making a stockpile of immense sacrificial energy ready to be used when you actually gain an ability you want to enhance.
If you sacrifice an ability then you can regain it back at a later date at the end of a month.
As one final gift, complete immunity to having your powers manipulated negatively or against you or in way, additionally, your powers cannot be stolen, copied, suppressed, etc.
Optionally, as a one time offer, you can gain any one ability you wish for, but will be massively weakened from what it originally was and in need of sacrificial empowering to reach its original strength and beyond.
- Categories
- utilitymagicsupernaturalsurvivalcombat
- Traits
- charismaenhanced intelligenceflightimmunity
- Keywords
- intelligencehealingelemental powersfire