Essence of theRunesmith

By drinking this Essence glimmering with teal and gold, you become a Runesmith, able to engrave runes of power on items and living beings. In addition, you gain the following boons:

• The opportunity to rebuild your body the way you want; regardless your mind, body, and soul will be ready and fit for adventure. Stats, knowledge, abilities, etc., will not degrade from lack of use or old age, and similarly, your powers and knowledge cannot be negated, stolen, copied, etc.

• Immense willpower to keep you going through hardship, yet retaining a flexible mind, open to new ideas. You also have an equally unbreakable spirit that never gives in to despair and immune to any form of corruption, including cognito hazards.

• A retroactive eidetic memory with instant recall, unlimited storage, tamper-proofing, perfect indexing, and protection from any form of harmful / traumatic memories.

• Awareness of any mental illness, disorders, disabilities, or any other conditions you may be suffering from, and you may have any or all of them cured at your discretion. You become as physically fit as any highly physically active person would be or remain at your current level of physical fitness, whichever is higher.

• The power, talent, and knowledge to create and empower arcane runes- sigils that produce supernatural effects when inscribed on objects, structures, and living things. The abilities such Runes confer are vast indeed, and things engraved with Runes are strengthened and fortified to a degree- this includes living beings. In addition, Runes last virtually forever without needing specialized rituals to refuel them, and require little maintenance; they refuel themselves by absorbing ambient energy, both mundane and magical.

• No more than three Runes can be inscribed on 99.99% of all things, living things included; such are the potency of the Runes that most things can’t withstand the power of a fourth Rune. Similarly, there are certain Runes of greater potency, Master Runes, so to speak, which cannot coexist on the same object.

• That is to say, no more than a combination of one Master Rune and two Regular Runes, or three Regular Runes on the same object, period. While you will eventually be able to circumvent or even outright ignore the limits as said above, you will need a greater mastery over your power to perform such feats.

• While the art of Runesmithing is universally compatible with all sources of supernatural juju, from spirit energy and qi seen in Xianxia settings to psionic energy and Mysterious Energy X more prominent in sci-fi settings, should you find yourself in a mundane world much like RL 21st century Earth, you can use your own stamina as fuel, catalyst, and reagent for whichever Runic workings you wish to create.

• The more metaphysically significant or potent the original reagent, the more stamina and/or other forms of energy is needed to act as a substitute. Invest in good portable electric generators.

• You also gain knowledge of a simple but tiring ritual to transmute normal, industrially processed/forged iron and/or steel into Gromril, or Star Iron. This is an incredibly strong, yet light and flexible metal superior to anything currently in use on Earth that channels Runic energy the best.

• You can only forge / transmute a couple of ingots' worth of Gromril per day, assuming you start out as a peak human. No chance to create a fortress or something unless you’re willing to save up for years, or even decades.

• As a bonus, you gain a supernatural degree of insight and skill into the process of working with ores, jewels, and things borne of stone and earth, allowing you to swiftly become a world-class metalworker, both for intricate, detailed work such as jewelry and ornaments, to more ancient styles such as the forging of armor and weapons.

• Should you find yourself in a world where the art of Runesmithing is limited to a select race, such as Dwarfs in Warhammer Fantasy, then you are retroactively reincarnated as one such member, with the memories, training, identification papers, etc., to boot.