The power system is built upon a history of divine oaths sworn to the Gods by four distinctive nations: the Diamante Kingdom (North ◇), the Southern Alliance (South ♧), the Varia Kingdom (West ♤), and the Lost Kingdom (East ♡).
Each nation draws strength from unique sources, linked to four types of crops.
◇ Diamante Kingdom (North)
◇ Analogy: Northern knights are linked 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 metals and minerals.
The more infused by the earth's core energy the mineral is, the more potent its effect. It's extremely expensive to become a knight.
◇ Cultivation Method (External-cultivation): Northerners rely on external aid to overcome their natural greed and self-importance.
Before becoming a knight, an individual must first reach a specific developmental stage before advancing further, often with the necessary aid of Blessings.
◇ Developmental stages: can be reached through exposure to harsh environments 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:
Advancement is tracked through 9 Knight Ranks: copper knight, iron, bronze, silver, gold, emerald, 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 method: 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: Advancement 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 become bound to the land to protect the living, though this is acknowledged as likely an oversimplified view.
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♡ Lost Kingdom (East)
♡ Analogy: The East Reavers were like algae corps, which were delicate, and entirely dependent on subtle cycles of light and water. They flourished in perfect conditions but were extremely 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 claimed their land, dragging the kingdom beneath its waves.