Essence ofSelf-Sealing

By drinking for a vial of golden liquid that seems to have chain links floating within it, you have intentionally weakened yourself.

• You can choose to place any ability, knowledge or even body parts, bodily functions and even parts of your own existential nature behind seals, which may partially or fully release upon fulfilling a condition or set of conditions.

  • These conditions may be anything you like, whether they be tied to internal factors such as your emotions or determination, external factors such as your situation or the condition of those around you, physical objects that act as releasing mechanisms or even things like the state of your goals or the world.

  • The sealing of abilities may do more than simply reduce their power, and can even alter the way the abilities take shape. This altered ability must always keep some elements of its full form and be ‘weaker’ than said full form, but may cause it to have different effects or take shape differently. (e.g: Pyrokinesis might manifest as a flame aura caused by extremely high body temperature).

    • The sealing of things such as your nature can also do strange things to your form, from changing your species to splitting you into fully formed copies of yourself representing different fragments of your existence and holding different parts of your abilities.

  • This sealing can bind your form within the form of an outside 'Host', whether it be some kind of weapon or artifact, or the body of someone else. You can choose whether damage to this 'Host' causes damage to the seal(s) or not.

    • You may also choose whether being sealed within such allows your 'Host' (or the wielder of your host object) to make use of your powers or be affected by your essence, and how it allows for this. This may be tied into the conditions on the seals themselves if you wish.

  • You may choose to represent these seals with any cosmetic effect, physical object or transformation, such as chains binding your limbs if they are sealed, tattoos that appear when your powers are either sealed or unsealed, or demon powers being partially unsealed being heralded by horns growing on your head. This can apply to a 'Host' as well.

  • You may choose the strength of the seals that bind you, and whether they can be broken using either brute force or any other methods of bypassing seals that are available.

    • You may also choose a particular ‘method’ of sealing if you have one in mind, as well as any side-effects of said sealing method. Even if the method doesn’t exist, it will be created.

  • You may choose to keep some of the functions of things you’ve sealed despite them being sealed, such as keeping your blood flowing despite having no heartbeat.

  • You may choose to have the act of straining against the limits of the seals act like resistance training, increasing the strength of whatever is sealed away.

  • Optionally, you may gain the ability to put the same kind of seals you have placed on yourself on others.