Essence of'Salvation'

By drinking for a vial of pure white liquid that glows just bright enough to be hard to look at directly, except for a pitch black core directly in the center, you have become an extremely powerful force of hope…and despair.

• Your entire existence transforms, taking on both infernal and celestial traits. By default, you have a prehensile tail adapted for grasping and holding objects, a pair of white, leathery bat wings which allow you to fly, a pair of horns that jut upwards, black sclera and an ominous red halo. The rest of your form, however, is malleable to any humanoid appearance you wish as a one-time change.

  • Your halo acts as an indicator of the general state of the world or universe, growing darker and closer to black the worse things are and closer to gold the better things are. As an average, the modern world leaves it at its default red.

  • Your diligence and willpower become limitless, making you significantly more driven and motivated, no matter what hardships you face you will always persevere. Furthermore, you are also purged of excessive indolence and procrastination. That is to say, while you still value relaxing and chilling out, you won't put something off if it's important.

  • No matter how much time passes or how many things you experience, you will never grow jaded or sick of simple pleasures or tasks. The sights and sounds you experience will always be as uplifting as the first time you saw them. Also, your skills and abilities will never degrade with disuse, even if you languish for eons.

  • You are immortal and undying, requiring neither food nor water or any other thing needed by regular creatures to survive. Your body now has limitless stamina, can completely regenerate in seconds after being reduced to just your skeleton and is immune to the ravages of time.

  • If needed, you may conceal your inhuman traits, and even your powers and nature, though the more you conceal the more said concealment will interfere with the flow of your Divine and Demonic Energies and using too much of either may partially or fully release the concealment.

• You gain access to a pocket dimension that allows you to search through the multiverse from within, and pick out any universe you wish to enter and what time and place in said universe you wish. This multiversal movement defies space, merely requiring you ‘step’ out into the universe from the pocket dimension.

  • The dimension highlights universes that have some kind of serious or apocalyptic crisis or major change in the world towards a ‘climactic event’ in their timeline, be it positive or negative, on earth or elsewhere, and pinpoints an opportune time and place to enter them that would allow you to decide the course of the event. If you choose to follow this guiding influence, then instead of simply stepping into it, you’ll descend from the sky of your entrance spot with light shining on you from above, highlighting your presence.

  • Your pocket dimension acts as its own afterlife that retroactively accepts anyone that you would judge as worthy upon your entering into a specific universe, undoing any corruptive and deleterious effects from their souls that you want gone.

    • You are effectively omnipotent within the pocket dimension, able to change anything about it and within it as well as everyone accepted inside coming under your control. However, anything derived from this ability cannot be utilized in any way outside of your dimension.

    • Your dimension is beyond the reach of most entities and is practically impenetrable to any being you do not want inside; even a supreme deity could not pierce the barriers surrounding your dimension.

  • Your body automatically generates and is capable of utilizing both Divine Energy and Demonic Energy, though at your base level your internal reserves of both start off rather small. As a side effect of your dual nature, you are immune to all corrupting or purifying effects.

    • Divine Energy can be used in a variety of ways, such as performing miracles, slaying entities through smiting, resurrecting the deceased, healing injuries and purifying corruption. Mortals as well as most monsters and infernal foes are poisoned by too much raw divine energy without being accustomed to it. High levels of divine energy poisoning if left untreated inevitably result in death, however those who can adapt to it gain immortality, immunity to most effects like poison, disease and curses, superhuman attributes, and can lead to transforming into a celestial being.

    • Divine energy represents order, and wielding it requires intense precision and concentration. In general, divine energy can be used to do nearly everything and is seemingly only limited by one's imagination, as it can be used to manipulate both space and time, and warp reality.

    • Conversely to divine energy, fel energy is an extremely destructive form of energy, It is entropic, chaotic, and extremely volatile. Its use by the wielder, or its effects on the victim, frequently results in an alteration of the individual, colloquially called corruption. Fel corruption can manifest with positive effects in which case it can be considered a gift, or a blessing, or with negative ones in which case it can be considered a curse. Physical transformation normally ensues with use, such as a change to an individual's eyes or skin colour, or heavy mutations such as the growth of demonic traits like spikes, scales, and horns. Negative corruption tends to lead to physical or mental deterioration. Either way, corruption gives the individual increased strength, more magical potential, and can lead to transforming into an infernal being.

    • Demonic Energy is mainly attuned to chaos and causing destruction, but it can also be used to scry, turn oneself invisible, and create portals which are much more efficient, long-lasting and easier to maintain than those made with Divine Energy. It can be used to breathe life into constructs creating living automata, or in a necromantic way by resurrecting creatures as undead. Fel can also be used to heal, though it leaves a mark on creatures who are not fel-based.

    • Both of your energies can be used to enhance your body and passively fortify it, your mind and your soul against unwilling transformation or damage, the protection scaling to the amount of power you actually have. This fortification is perfectly effective against anything that would nullify or negatively affect your powers specifically, regardless of how strong it is.

  • You draw energy from feelings of hope or despair. The ambient feelings of those around you grant slight, temporary increases in power that grow the more prevalent that feeling is, with hope boosting your Divine Energy and despair boosting your Demonic Energy, but people actively associating you with those feelings will give you a lot more of a temporary boost and cause your power to slowly creep upwards permanently. A lone person still doesn’t give you all that much energy, however.

    • To anyone that can detect the difference, you register as both an angel and a demon simultaneously, and anything that affects you reacts as though you are whichever is more beneficial to you unless you will it to do otherwise.

  • Whenever you tip the balance of an ‘area’ in favor of hope or despair, you’ll gain a large boost in the corresponding energy depending on the size and population of the area. Turning a near-empty city would give you an incomparably small amount in comparison to a planet full of people.

  • You have the ability to perceive the flow of destiny, and an intuitive understanding of how to interfere with this flow to best influence the ‘tone’ of the world around you. This also allows you to identify, locate and draw towards yourself individuals with some form of importance or grand destiny within their world.

    • You can use this ability to lead specific people towards ‘Good Endings’ or ‘Bad Endings’, which guarantee a life full of happiness with no major instances of suffering or with some manner of life-long/eternal torment respectively. This does require you dedicate your attention to them specifically for a time, however.