Essence of theYazata Hero

By devouring the soul of a empty man.

• Your body is remade and is free of any previous imperfections with one-time appearance customization. This new body is a blank canvas of infinite potential that is capable of housing an infinite number of souls, powers, and bloodlines with no repercussions. Any mutations that occur will always be your benefit.

• Within this body is also an unlimited wellspring of stamina and supernatural energy that has its output grows with time and training. This energy is compatible with any form of magic system that you may encounter in the future.

• From the consumption of the hero’s soul; you have gained all of their accumulated combat experience and swordsmanship. This swordsmanship has been refined and perfected to such a degree that you are capable of casually defeating a god of war without getting serious or cutting abstract constructs with little effort; so perfected that a simple stick is a deadly sword in your hands.

• You are capable of finding and effortlessly exploiting an opponent’s weaknesses, but should weaknesses not exist within a target, you are more than skilled enough to create them.

• Additionally, the memories and experiences gained make you exceptionally adept at fighting opponents with strange, overwhelming, reality-warping, and unorthodox abilities; as such, you will remain calm and level-headed during combat; not even battles against a sentient death star weapons factory or a daemon planet full of tangible nightmares will affect your performance. Any skill you possess will never diminish with lack of use and will grow with practice until they transcend its mortal limitations.

• You will find learning new skills to be extremely easy and will take at most a year to master without external aid.

• Your instincts and observational skills have also been similarly refined thanks to the memories and knowledge gained; Capable of predicting your opponent’s next moves using a combination of observation and instincts to effortlessly dominate them in combat; sense danger and avoid attacks like you have eyes at the back of your head; quickly deduce a room’s situation and a person’s character; plan and deduce the optimal actions to achieve victory or escape; analyzing and copying your opponent’s techniques and using them more efficiently than the original owner. A skill born from a combination of a perfectly attuned sixth sense and immense combat experience.

• Your mind has also been rebuilt and is capable of enduring and repairing itself from any form of punishment, breaking free of illusions, and repelling mental attacks. The ability to comprehend emotions, concepts, and ideas regardless of complexity and abstraction will come easily to you. Your memory is similarly upgraded to be immutable to tampering with perfect recording and indexing. Finally, your mind has such perfect control over your body that you can selectively disable senses, manipulate the individual atoms of your body, or manipulate the internal chemistry and electrical signals of your body.

• Your soul has been strengthened and refined to be of the highest divine quality; possessing a radiance that will easily blind others that look upon it and cower them into submission less they be burnt by its power. In addition, your soul has gained an <Immutability>; an embodiment of a concept that cannot be stolen, changed, damaged, or suppressed that transcends all of reality; This has made your soul eternal and incorruptible. You may choose what concept to embody; becoming exceptionally talented in anything related to that concept and will receive a power worthy of that concept. Perhaps one day after a lot of self-discovery, you may awaken your <Immutability> and ascend as either a Hegemony or Transcendence God. Examples:

  • Magsarion holds the concept of <Void>: His body became a mass of swirling black flames that could withstand any attack that wasn’t on his level and delete parts of reality touched by his power. He was also to absorb other people’s wishes and desires and incorporate them into his existence.

  • Khvarenah holds the concept of <Beauty>: The specific type is artistic beauty and had he managed to achieved godhood, he would have been a Hegemony God that gave all of reality beauty and given people extreme levels of artistic genius and sensitivity. Creating a feedback loop of artists being inspired by other artists that advance what beauty means.

• Because Heroes are symbols of hope; You are imbued with a magnetic personality that exudes pure charisma. You are capable of inspiring others to put their faith in you and rousing them to fight by overcoming their fears and insecurities. Heroic speeches capable of making opposing forces put aside their difference to fight a common enemy or see the bigger picture are another tool at your disposal. Know that your speeches may not change a person should they be firm in their beliefs and convictions, but it will have an effect on how they accomplish their goals. Naturally, you will attract the attention of powerful and talented individuals that seek to either impede or aid your progress. Being able to manage a group full of highly diverse backgrounds and personalities is a skill you naturally possess.

• Having devoured a soul that came from the world of Ahura Mazda that is governed by the Throne God Mithra; you are capable of taking Commandments and the ability to convert feelings of hatred & anger into raw power. Commandments are self-oaths that restrict yourself in some way and receive a blessing in compensation. The more extreme the restriction, the more powerful the blessing. You may share this power with others, though the consequences of breaking a Commandment are death or a complete shift in moral alignment (similar to The Balance from Deck of Many Things). However, since this connection is granted by an Essence, you (and those that you allow access to Commandments) are capable of rewriting them or disabling them when not needed. Examples of Commandments:

  • Archdemon Frederica restricted herself from dodging or blocking her opponents attacks and was blessed immortality that was capable of resurrecting her regardless of injury.

  • Archdemon Kaikhosru’s Commandment was to expend treasures without regret and was blessed with receiving a boon equivalent to the expended treasure’s value.

  • Automaton Quinn’s Commandment had her “not being able to act without it being on someone’s order or indication” and was blessed with a boost in ability to complete her assigned task. Though she was allowed “ignore” certain orders if they contradicted the orders of someone of a higher rank or are of lower priority.

• However, you have inherited the Commandment of the soul you previously devoured; in exchange for always achieving “victory” regardless of the situation, you may add the strength & ability of the defeated enemy onto yourself. If the condition for victory is not obvious and straightforward or there are multiple interpretations of what victory represents in the current situation, you are allowed to choose what the victory conditions are. But these chosen conditions must be difficult for you to accomplish in some way; the more difficult the victory conditions are, the more strength & ability you may steal from your defeated opponent. This Commandment can be used in any form of competition or challenge; such as mundane chess or duels to the death. You may choose what to loot from your defeated opponent, but if you don’t then the Commandment will automatically select the most valuable thing they have.

  • The “loot” stolen from the defeated opponent can be anything; From a person’s luck, their ability to feel love, their talents, their bloodlines, their conceptual archetypal roles, their memories, or even special abilities like Commandments.

  • The stolen “loot” will be adapted to fit your body and it is possible that they will not resemble their original forms at all.

  • Loot that is similar to or is the same as existing powers or abilities that you have will instead be merged and have their effects compounded.

• In addition to gaining access to Commandments, you gain access to the Star Spirit Divine Blessing of Vohu Manah. These appear on your body as wing-shaped seals that can appear anywhere on the body (your choice where) that can be expended for unique effects; the potency of these effects scales with the owner’s power. These seals regenerate 24 hours after being used. You start with five seals and will gain more after demonstrating feats of military success & ability. Optionally, you may grant this power to others, but they start with only one seal. The powers gained by consuming the seals are:

  • Saam – Boosting Attacking Power at the cost of speed.

  • Kshatra – Boosting Defense but makes the user heavy.

  • Haoma – Regeneration via cellular manipulation; this power works on entities that have non-organic bodies.

  • Sewatir – Teleportation to any location you have previously been to or within line-of-sight. Long distance teleportation can bypass entire dimensions to reach the destination.

  • Fravard – Flight but makes the user lighter.

• It is possible to consume multiple Star Spirit Divine Blessings at the same time to create powerful techniques. But these are a high-risk, high-reward gambit that is capable of backfiring if mishandled. Examples of combinations:

  • Alastor = Sam + Sam + Sam + Sam + Fravard.

    • Coating your weapon in a deadly black flame capable of completely obliterating an opponent(s) that is equal or less strength than you.

  • Khvarsed = Kshatra + Kshatra + Fravard + Sewatir.

    • Creates a massive explosion via extreme pressure and ultra fast oscillation.

  • Kamingir = Saam + Fravard.

    • Sending a shockwave attack.

  • Gaokerena = Haoma + Haoma + Haoma + Saam.

    • Causes the opponent’s to over-heal; causing cell division to go mad and eventually crumble.

• Next, you receive the ability to use the <Power of Ego>; the ability to warp reality and defy the world’s natural laws through sheer willpower. People that use the <Power of Ego> are capable of unleashing great strength and speed regardless of what their appearance may suggest, denying injury and regenerating to the point of nigh-complete immortality, or even using two contradictory Commandments/Powers at the same time. The strength of the <Power of Ego> is directly proportional to how large the user’s egotism is.

• The final power that you received from devouring this soul is the ability to create an army of Aeons. Aeons are reproductions of people according to the understanding of the commander (you). Any power/characteristic that is beyond the commander’s ability to comprehend cannot be reproduced perfectly. But Aeons that are perfectly recreated are no different from to complete resurrection and continuation of the original and may even exhibit powers that are superior to the original. The Aeons you create have a special anti-eldritch property.

  • Aeons that you create are naturally cooperative with you but may reject your orders or outright refuse to fight depending on their personalities.

  • Aeons that die and then later resummoned retain their memories of the previous incarnation.

  • Aeons that move too far away from you will disappear. Perfect Aeons don’t share this issue.

  • The body of an Aeon doesn’t have biological needs such as food or sleep, but it may choose to participate in such activities. Despite this, Aeons are completely alive and ageless; with Perfected Aeons even capable of reproducing.

  • Perfected Aeons can’t be unsummoned.

  • If you are in possession of another individual’s soul, then you may project them as a Perfect Aeon without needing to understand them and they will control the body.

• Finally, a Hero is not complete without their faithful sword; In your hands is the Divine Sword of Ahura Mazda. The mythical weapon that has existed since the dawn of the world, Ahura Mazda, and the perpetual symbol of the side of White; as such, this blade will never be corrupted or destroyed. If you choose to join/create a faction/group, the sword will automatically gain a conceptual advantage against foes that are against your side. Simply holding this blade boosts your abilities exponentially to the point that a normal farm boy can fight a god. The Divine Sword is also a repository where the prayers & wishes of those directed at you will be turned into power. Since the sword has existed since the dawn of its world, it already holds the accumulated prayers of half of everyone that has ever existed. Finally, the Divine Sword is sentient & sapient with a soul of its own. The identity of the soul can be the original or it could be someone else of your choosing. Regardless of who the Divine Sword is, they will be your compatible equal and eternal partner against “Evil”. Since it has a soul, the Divine Sword is capable of taking Commandments.

  • The world of Ahura Mazda is not a planet. It is a universe filled with countless galaxies that are arbitrarily divided between the sides of White & Black. Even the celestial bodies (planets, stars, black holes, etc.) are sentient and represented by avatars that fight on either the side of White or Black. That’s a lot of prayers.

  • If you choose someone other than the original soul of the Divine Sword, the weapon will inherit the intrinsic abilities of that soul.

  • The original soul of the Divine Blade comes with a Commandment; in exchange for not revealing the truth of how the world works, she gains a power close to omniscience. But if this Commandment is disabled, she will lose all knowledge that she has learned from its use.

  • Regardless of who you pick; the soul inside will hold the memories and information on all the techniques and technologies of Ahura Mazda and the world that came before it. They will also be able to manifest themselves as a Perfect Aeon and shift between their two forms at will; they will always appear near you when you need them.