Essence ofPseudo-Worldblood

By drinking this crimson red essence, you will gain a number of boons.

• Within you is a limitless reservoir of vital, crimson energy. No matter how you expend or draw upon this energy, it will never run out.

• This energy naturally concentrates at discrete levels called Ranks. Each Rank is 70% denser than the previous Rank.

• With meditation, you may begin to draw out this energy and concentrate it within your body. Over a period of a week with three hour periods of meditation, doing nothing but guiding the process of saturation, you may advance to the next Rank. Advancing to successive Ranks always takes the same amount of time.

• The energy improves your body in a myriad of ways to an extent determined by your Rank. Rank 0 is your natural body. Rank 1 is 70% better than your natural body. And Rank 2 is 70% better than that. Each successive Rank compounds on the previous Rank.

• Traits improved by the energy include, but are not necessarily limited to, strength, speed, durability, dexterity, agility, stamina and your physical senses. All areas of your body are enhanced like this, rendering every facet of your body proportionally stronger in keeping with your Rank.

• Your physical needs such as eating, drinking, sleeping and breathing are rendered 70% less necessary per Rank. You also age 70% slower per Rank.

• The energy defies normal reality when in larger concentrations, allowing you to achieve feats that shouldn’t be possible at higher Ranks such as leveraging your strength in impossible ways, moving at high speeds without causing destruction, hearing things faster than sound, smelling things beyond a vacuum, walking on clouds or cutting a man in half from across the room.

• Higher Ranks also raises the caps on your skill and development by 70%. Though you develop and learn no faster, you will be able to take your skills and body to supernatural realms through repetition and determination.

• Supernatural skill will allow you to develop tools and implements that are simply better than their competitors, achieve feats of martial glory that will go down in legends and any number of similar things.

• Supernatural development allows you to develop your Rank 0 body further than should be possible, inevitably raising your amplified abilities further as the compounded increase from higher Ranks is applied.

• At any time you may choose to burn the energy suffusing your body, steadily using it up in exchange for a temporary magnification of it’s benefits. Burning enough energy to use up a Rank in fifteen minutes is sufficient to raise your effective Rank by 1. Burning enough to use up a Rank in ten seconds is enough to raise your effective Rank by 5.

• You can, alternatively, choose to burn up your body instead. Flames that would consume your entire body in a minute will increase your effective Rank by 1, with the effects increasing exponentially from there as the flames grow stronger.

• Igniting your energy like this allows you to extend the amplification effects to things not normally included in the amplification such as other sources of energy or your healing rate. All of your Ranks are applied in this case, not just the effective Rank gained.

• The energy is slowly consumed to maintain your heightened effectiveness and fulfill your needs. A short period of meditation every couple of days is sufficient to maintain your Rank perpetually, assuming that you are not undergoing strenuous activity.

• As your Rank falls, the amplification lessens with each lost Rank.

• You will not lose access to your feats of heightened skill and the body you’ve forged for yourself, but you will not be able to improve yourself further until you reach the same Rank once more.

• Instead of accumulating energy in your body, you may pass it outside your body for a variety of reasons. By continually adding the energy to an item, you may raise it’s Rank and, consequently, it’s effectiveness. A sword will be sharper and tougher without increased weight.

• You may feed this energy into people to increase their Rank at the same rate that you increase your own, though they will have no method of sustaining their Rank without you to top them up.