Essence of thePhoenix (Esper Edition)

Drinking this imbues you with the nature of a phoenix.

• You gain eternal youth. If you are past your prime, you will instantly de-age back to your prime.

• Your natural lifespan (unless you have a longer lifespan or immortality from another source) is 500 years. You will not suffer from the kinds of things that make immortal life spans difficult, such as inability to connect, adapt with the times, or ennui, and each rebirth is akin to a renewal of your self which causes any detrimental influences to be removed, restoring your mind and body from things like PTSD, supernatural maladies, mind control, etc.

• Whenever you die (whether naturally or otherwise), you will burst into flames (that will not harm anything, not even your clothes, except beings hostile to you or your friends) and instantly be reborn, in your prime [dressed in clothes made from fire if you were naked before, with another full 500 years of natural lifespan ahead of you (or more, if you have a longer lifespan or immortality from another source)

• You can heal others with a touch. You can heal any wound in seconds, even regenerating wombs, and you can cure any illness, repair damaged DNA and RNA and even cells, remove chronic diseases, restore the body to what it biologically should be for someone's age if they ever suffered withering effects such as osteoporosis or brittle bone disease, purge any venom, toxin, poison, infection, parasite, etc. You can even affect magical and supernatural ailments, poisons, etc. including curses and tainted energies like residual dark magic. This same healing is always automatically applied to you, increasing your body's natural healing rate to half the time it takes a normal human when not actively healing yourself, thus granting you a potent healing factor.

• You are immune to harm from fire [as well as heat, even boiling magma has no effect, though you'll still feel the temperature it won't burn you, and you can wreath yourself in flames without harming your stuff, even cause your eyes to light within with fire. You can also turn into fire and scattering into sparks won't cause you any difficulty, you can even teleport via fire anywhere within your range whether you started the flames or not.

• You can transform into the form of a phoenix perfectly suited to you and can carry many times your weight in either form. You may freely toggle on or off a mystical glow from your feathers that trails after you when you fly.

• Your phoenix body starts out as a small juvenile form able to perch on a person's shoulder and will take time to grow in power and to enormous size, as large as a building, and able to carry a few people on your back. Once mature though you can freely shift sizes between juvenile to an adult phoenix while losing none of your strength.

• You're able to magically occupy any flat unbroken surface as a 2D image, becoming essentially the emblem of a phoenix, to sleep or watch the world from and you can even partially transition your body between 2D and 3D such as poking your head out to speak. While in this 2D state your body doesn't require food or to purge waste but nor does it age. You're not limited by materials either as you can turn yourself 2D on rock, metal, glass, and even cloth as long as it is a nice smooth and undamaged surface, though sound still transfers loudly if say the metal you occupy gets banged or knocked on, which can be used to get your attention or force you out of safety. You can only transition between dimensions in your phoenix body.

• Your natural call as a phoenix is soothing to the trustworthy, capable of breaking hostile sound magic meant to charm the mind and ensorcel, and calms those that you choose who've been taken over by panic and despair, restoring their awareness, morale, and courage but those who are untrustworthy cringe or flinch when they hear you and only the truly evil react strongly such as shouting and gnashing their teeth. On non-sapient animals, it returns them to docility and a non-aggressive demeanor. This carries over to your voice and singing in any other form. As a Phoenix you can also mimic the sounds of any Earth bird that has ever lived no matter what kind or how strange from seagulls to shoebills, parrots, owls, and Lyrebirds.

• Your vision is exceptional, as crystal clear as a high resolution tv and able to see as far as an eagle's. The affects of the glare of the sun too is lessened greatly on your vision allowing you to see without squinting while the sun is at its peak, even while it reflects off of pure white snow.

• Your tears have potent healing powers on par with your active healing towards others. You can shed tears on command and they have an indefinite shelf life if you need to store them.

• Your feathers likewise are magical and can be used as useful crafting ingredients. They are always better than other top quality phoenix feathers, too.

• You can detect good and evil magics via smell, sight, and occasionally through a feeling in your feathers, no matter how it tries to disguise itself. When your phoenix body matures you are able to ward off any wicked magics, outright dissipating spells, or creatures that can't overpower you and resist corruption, it would take power fueled by a dark god to do either of these things.

• You can generate and sense any flames at any range you can see, or within half a mile if vision is obstructed, even fire that does not require oxygen to burn. You can tell how large the fire is as well, whether it's as small as a spark or originates from a star. Any technology or other source that harnesses fire and plasma, such as magic or another essence, will be detectable to you.

• You can control or extinguish any flame though expect resistance if the fire is controlled by someone else. You can also tell what the fire is sourced from at a glance and through your sensory range such as normal wood-burning flames, from magic, oil, electrical, gas, and chemical infernos, divine or demonic fire, etc. that you didn't generate yourself. This way you'll know how dangerous the fire is to other people and if they'll need help snuffing it out.