Essence ofOne For All

By consuming this torch-bright essence, you become the beginning or the inheritor of a legacy.

• You're capable of directly "stockpiling power" over time, impressing your own puissance upon a bottomless and intangible inner reserve. This isn't merely the ability to store accumulated energy, but the meta-ability to cultivate and safeguard a source of energy.

• This stockpiled power can be drawn upon to magnify the physical parameters of your body - including strength, speed, durability, and more. Because this power stockpile accumulates without any obvious limit, refutes decay, and applies holistically, it indirectly serves to allow your physique to be trained without limit, prevents your physique from being functionally crippled, and allows all aspects of your physique to be improved simultaneously.

• The rarefied aspect of your power stockpile lends even its basest expressions a degree of idealization, allowing the traits it enhances to be used in ways that shouldn’t be physically possible. You could run and jump at superhuman speeds with blatantly physics-defying traction and leverage, create carefully and precisely shaped shockwaves with "brute force" alone, and flawlessly and seamlessly reinforce your body against the physical strain otherwise logically imposed by your own power.

• As this power stockpile grows and you grow better at channeling it, it may even grow to encompass other aspects of yourself, flowing to reinforce your quirks - that is, your 'individualities', your most iconic attributes and abilities. You will always be able to express your quirks with at least as much potency as the stockpile bestows upon your more ordinary aspects.

• Discrete personality-based powers, generic cape superpowers, one-off mutant abilities, and their ilk will always count as "quirks". Within a wider context, other forms of distinguishing ability may also be subsumed under the banner of the flame within you, such as a more static inherited bloodline or an ability to access a particular magic system.

• You are capable of passing all of the benefits of this essence on to another - that is, the accumulated power stockpile, the ability to stockpile yet more power, the ability to choose another successor, and so on - by whatever method you find most fitting. You could pass this power on via a genetic transfusion, leave it as a literal inheritance in your last will and testament, or hurl it through the cosmos to exalt any hero who meets your standards.

• As if to safeguard your power to choose, you can never transfer the benefits of this essence against your sincere will, and any influence that would compromise your judgement in this regard is flawlessly rejected. You may even have some uncanny resistance to mind control in general, shrugging off strictures with an outsized will.

• Anyone who recieves this power stockpile in the future may draw out an echo of any quirk that the stockpile was able to grow to augment in a previous wielder, and wield all of those echoes as their own. Conversely, anyone who holds the power stockpile and passes it on will retain an echo of all of the benefits it gave them, for a time proportional to the strength of the stockpile at the time they released it.

• Instead of fully passing this essence on to another, to see their newly inherited powers side-by-side with the echo you'll briefly retain, you may instead keep the nucleus of this power for yourself and pass the echo on to them. There is, technically, no limit to how many echoes you can pass on, save that they'll all still burn out in due time - a stockpile of a given size may only be able to emanate and sustain so many echoes at once.

• You may leave an echo of your very self within the stockpile when and if you pass it on. This echo of your spirit will only be aware as it and you would want it to be, but it will be able to flawlessly weather the ages, tap into the knowledge of its successors, and give advice and counsel, as wanted or needed, to anyone who holds the stockpile. Your successors may also make the same choice when it comes time for them to pass the stockpile on.

• As a one-time choice when you, personally, first take this essence, you may discover that you're not the first to hold it, and that this essence was actually the means by which your predecessor decided to pass their abilities on. The magnitude of the stockpile you've inherited, and any quirks it might hold, are up to you to discover.