Essence of theUnfaltering Hero

Upon consuming this essence, you awaken the hero inside you, you wish you could have been.

• The Heroic Spirit will guide the development of your body, making it slowly move towards the best version of it you could have had. If you had a genetic tendency towards a problem, but it didn't nessessarly have to manifest, it will fade/not appear. You will grow as tall as you would have if you had the best possible diet/nutrition. You lungs will slowly change to what they would have been if you had grown up at a high altitude, your body hardening as if you had gone through specialized training to achieve it. This will go into the slightly impossible - your bones with strength as if they had been repeatedly broken and allowed to heal, without the stiffening and accumulating micro-damage that causes. You will become slightly better than best physical you, you could have ever been. This will slowly move you towards your physical prime, and keep you there.

• The Heroic Spirit is always read for action. It's always paying complete attention to through all of your senses, and is always expecting, planning for, and ready to react to danger, violence, fast motion, sudden action, chaos, betrayal, and opportunity from every possible angle in your immediate environment, and from anywhere your senses cover. Therefore, you need do none of these things, as it's awareness is always completely but effortlessly at the back of your mind. This doesn't wear on you or demand your attention, you just have a thoughtless awareness of everything it's thought or focused on.

• The Heroic Spirit is talented at all physical pursuits, and the logic of physical pursuits on the personal scale. You will both pick up any physical skill easily, often the first time you see it, but you will get the logic of how it's applied. You won't just learn mountain climbing, you'll instantly understand what are good decision to make while mountain climbing even before you master the technical skills. You won't just learn wrestling, you'll instantly understand the logic of control aggression and the philosophy of a fight on the personal scale level. This might make other skills easier to learn by inference, but it won't give you tactics on it's own, as that's no longer personal scale.

• The Heroic Spirit knows your heart. It can always give you the correct moral answer, via your own morals, instantly. You instantly know what moral position you would adopt in any situation where you know all the factors and costs, if you were being honest with yourself and you had unlimited time to ponder it. That doesn't mean it will always give you a complete answer - you might have to spend time figuring out the costs, or the second order implications, and so on. It won't do the logic for you, just the moral calculus. But with whatever logic or data you have, you can instantly know what your final, personal, honest position would be on the subject with that data. Note that this means that if the situation changes, you'll instantly know if your moral convictions would make you take a different position, if you weren't caught up in the heat of the moment.

• You gain a mental "map" of fulcrum points, places where the determined actions of a single person could change lives. This isn't a map of direction or distance, but of action and choice, and it doesn't tell you what or when you will find that point, just a "direction" to move in along the decision-axis and a vague sense of what's at stake. Choices you could make, but never would, won't appear on the 'map', while choices you are unlikely to make will be "hard" to "read" or notice.

  • As an example: An orphaned prince running from his pursuers is moving through the city you're in. Your map won't point to him, because while there are a series of choices you could make that would lead you right too him, those aren't organic choices you would ever make in a vacuum. However, if he might break into you house to steal food provided you're out of the hosue, you might sense a fulcrum point to decide the fate of the kingdom, provided you go out shopping today, and once you were out, you would get a sense of when you should start heading home, as all of these choices are choices you might otherwise make.

• Lastly, it can steady your mind and lend you the determination to calmly act on your convictions. It won't force this on you. You never have to use it. But at any time, you can choose to follow through with your moral conviction, and once you do you can hold steady to them, unflinching of the consequences.