Essence of theHive God

By drinking from this bottle, you gain the awesome power of a God of the Hive.

• You gain a body built like a brick shithouse, but taller. It, unfortunately, also looks like a zombie.

• You gain such a long lifespan that you might as well be immortal.

• You gain a throneworld, what's basically a pocket dimension you can retreat to in the event of someone killing you. In the throneworld, you are at your strongest, and become nigh impossible for anyone to reach, barring those you let in. These throneworlds start small, but can be grown by the defeat of powerful entities. Also, within the throneworld, you can shift your size at will, becoming kaiju in scale.

• You gain some understanding of the Sword Logic, a form of social darwinism that allows the user to "become sharp", gaining paracausal power. By defeating a strong foe, you prove you were stronger, or by outsmarting a cunning foe, you prove you were more cunning, and become so in reality. Those who follow the philosophy long enough develop their own throneworlds, and those who follow it further still gain the ability to "take" things.

• You gain the ability to take beings and things. This basically boils down to infecting something's very existence, and binding them to your will. Those so taken develop powers or abilities based off of fears or insecurities in an attempt to compensate for them. Weak enemies will generally become mindless automatons, while stronger ones will retain some degree of independent thought and personality, but will do as you say regardless.

• You gain knowledge of how to build Hive technology and how to cast their spells. This includes anything from Oryx's moon-sized ship to the magitech guns used by Hive footsoldiers. This also includes a way to artificially create enough Hive to begin the species anew.