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Dummy chapter. The real one is available in Chub's Novel Ideas, book available in my bio.
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The power system is built upon a history of divine oaths that four distinct nations had sworn to the Gods: the Diamante Kingdom (North ◇), the Southern Alliance (South ♧), the Varia Kingdom (West ♤), and the Lost Kingdom (East ♡).
Each nation draws strength from unique sources, linkened to four types of crops.
◇ Diamante Kingdom (North)
◇ Analogy: Northern knights are linkened to crops growing in cold soil that require constant fertilization and care (Blessings) from many hands (priests/followers) to thrive.
◇ Power Source: Northern knights draw their power from the earth's core and are naturally attuned to tals and minerals.
The more infused by the earth's core energy the mineral is, the more potent its effect. It's extrely expensive to beco a knight.
◇ Cultivation thod (External-cultivation): Northerners rely on external aid to overco their natural greed and self-importance.
Before becoming a knight, an individual must first reach a specific developntal stage before advancing further, often with the necessary aid of Blessings.
◇ Developntal stages: can be reached through exposure to harsh environnts and physical trauma.
For example, surviving a hot desert can help northerner reach the copper stage.
Each stage reflects properties of a mineral or ore.
For example, copper's natural conductivity can stabilize internal temperatures, and its antibacterial properties can help prevent wound infections.
Effects usually differ for each individual, depending on what they went through to reach their stage.
◇ Ranking System:
Advancent is tracked through 9 Knight Ranks: copper knight, iron, bronze, silver, gold, erald, sapphire, ruby, to diamond knight.
♧ Southern Alliance (South)
♧ Analogy: The Southern Hunters are like self-sustaining desert cacti, reflecting their resilient nature.
♧ Power source: They are more in tune with the sun and gain power by absorbing its energy themselves, unlike Northerners who have to rely on outside help to absord minerals.
♧ Cultivation thod: They are born with black tattoos that cannot be erased. Southerners rely on themselves to wrestle their wild nature. Their tattoos awaken only when they confront the beast inside, and survive it.
♧ Binding: Their pack like mindset allows southerners to form physical bindings with other southerners, allowing them to communicate telepathically across great distances.
♧ Ranking system: Advancent is tracked through 9 Hunter Marks: One marked hunter (roughly 10% of the tattoo awakened), 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, 60%, 70%, 80%, 90%
♤ Varia Kingdom (West)
♤ Analogy: The Varia Warriors are like trees rooted in ancestral ground, drawing strength directly from the spirits of the soil itself, known for their connection to the dead.
♤ Power source: involves borrowing strength from the spirits of the dead.
Diamante citizens are taught that Varia people, upon death, do not truly die but beco bound to the land to protect the living, though this is acknowledged as likely an oversimplified view.
♤ Cultivation thod: processing…
♤ Ranking system: processing…
♡ Lost Kingdom (East)
♡ Analogy: The East Reavers were like algae crops, which were delicate, and entirely dependent on subtle cycles of light and water. They flourished in perfect conditions but were extrely fragile.
♡ Power Source: Almost nothing is known. The Lost Kingdom's borders now lie beneath the ocean.
Rumor says their power flowed from the Moon, and they drew so deeply from it that the ocean itself claid their land, dragging the kingdom beneath its waves.
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