Essence ofBasic Human Decency

This essence tastes of freshness, reminding you of cool summer breezes, pure ocean air, and the feeling of being healthy.

• You now understand all things to do with how to treat people kindly like people as if you were a person of the land. You also easily recognize other people with the same values so you can surround yourself with honest people.

• You see the worth of hard work, both yours and others, and why being ungrateful only makes you look ugly instead of powerful.

• You recognize the value of a promise, especially your own, and how it weakens your position in the eyes of others when you break them.

• You know why fairness is important and why cheating others is not a good solution in most dealings, as well as why treating anyone in a lower position from you decently is a good thing, as long as they are not physically hostile to you.

• You see how generosity towards others is important but also when frugalness is needed to grow, just as rain will grow crops or drown them.

• You gain insight into the value of human life and how it's wrong to treat the autonomy of others like window dressing that’s only there to serve you.

• You understand the value of serving others and paying back the good that is done for you, why community is important instead of trying to stand above everyone.

• You recognize why kindness and good hospitality is worth more than gold and why honesty is worth a kingdom, how lies and hatred can quickly bury it.

• You know why directness and speaking plainly works better for trading and negotiations than deceiving customers, contractors, and clients, and how it opens doors to continued business.

• You gain enlightenment towards the inner beauty of others, how imagination sparks innovation, and how gentle guidance transforms but too strict an edict smothers.

• You are not made weak by this understanding. You know why violence and the taking of lives should be a last resort but also when it simply must be done, like removing weeds from the garden or protecting your fields from pests.

• Though you might be friendly when approaching others, you have a titanium spine when it comes to standing up for yourself when you need to show it.

• You're also very shrewd about the intentions of others. You can spot a cheat and a con a mile off, can tell when you're being dismissed and marginalized, and just about any time someone intends to treat you or others like trash or an easy mark.

• You'll find, in such times when you have to deal with such people, that you can out con the con, beat the cheat at their own game, put the Karen in their place, and generally set them straight.

• You are not compelled to act like an angel with your new epiphanies, only that you will now realize why a mob might show up outside your house when you tax the economy into oblivion.

• You may share the effects of this essence with anyone you care to, you may at will cast its effects at range on any person who's an asshole that you would desire to. Watch the Xianxia protagonists weep from their hubris.

• You also are a breath of fresh air to anyone you meet, able to radiate an aura of wholesomeness that inclines the general populace around you towards the same values gradually over time and with effort on their part. You are able to leave behind permanent fields of this aura that have the added effect of making any ill intentioned people entering the field feel as though their evil intentions will blaspheme something sacred, just as one might feel when entering an old and gothic church rich in history.