Hanged Man Pathway/Abilities

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Sequence 9: Secrets Suppliant

New Abilities

• Knowledge (Mysticism): Secrets Suppliants are bestowed with a decent amount of knowledge regarding sacrifices and some knowledge on Ritualistic Magic.
  • There are some honorific names included in the potion's knowledge, but they're all secret entities with sinister names that includes elements like "depravity", "true kin", or the "gaze of fate".
• High Spirituality: Secrets Suppliants have a high spiritual sense which they can use it to detect some mysterious and horrible existences.
  • Ritualistic Magic and Divination Arts: They can use their strong Spirituality to perform Divination and Ritualistic Magic, but it's not as accurate as pathways that specialize in this field.
  • Their High Spirituality also allows them to detect auras of relatively powerful Beyonders (provided that those Beyonders did not conceal their aura beforehand).

Sequence 8: Listener (Whispered)

Description

Nighthawk files state that every Listener is a lunatic - even if they look normal on the surface, they are always crazy on the inside. The files also state that it was difficult for Listeners to survive the next five years after taking the potion if they were unable to advance, because they frequently came into contact with powerful, distorted entities.

New Abilities

• Listen: Every Listener can listen directly into the whispers of the secret entities; thus, they frequently come into contact with information from powerful, distorted, and unique entities.
  • At this stage, this Beyonder power is always active (in a passive state). At later Sequences, they can choose whether or not to proactively use it.

Sequence 7: Shadow Ascetic

New Abilities

• Shadow Manipulation: A Shadow Ascetic gains a preliminary control and grasp over Shadows
  • Shadow Servant: They can summon a Shadow Servant that has a few special abilities.
  • Shadow Lurking: Shadow Ascetics can Conceal themselves in larger Shadows.
    • In a Shadow Ascetic's visual perception, their surroundings will appear grayish-black and transparent with the surrounding area being blurred.
    • All the sounds a Shadow Ascetic will hear in this Concealed state will seem to come from the empty depths of the starry sky, empty and distant.
    • This state would occasionally evoke the sensation of being watched by the darkness to the targets a Shadow Ascetic looks at.
  • Shadow Binding: They can bring the Shadows to life to restrain targets to some extent.

Sequence 6: Rose Bishop (Rose Priest)

New Abilities

• Every Rose Bishop is an expert when it comes to using abilities in the Flesh and Blood Domain.
  • Flesh Creek; They can enter into the stomach of another similarly sized creature, hiding within it without killing the host. To be better Concealed, they can integrate with the host's body.
    • However, integrating with the host's body will kill them once the Rose Bishop leaves their body.
  • Flesh Bomb: A Rose Bishop is able to plant Flesh Bombs on other creatures of Flesh and Blood, or throw their own Flesh as explosives, which will explode into a rain of corrosive Blood.
  • Flesh Softening: They can soften blows on their body as though they were boneless piles of rotten Flesh. Even gunshots would only sink into their body, failing to do damage.
  • Regeneration: They can heal from and fully restore entire lost limbs. Even seemingly fatal wounds to the Rose Bishop's head or heart are not necessarily fatal.
  • Body Hiding: A Rose Bishop is able to wrap a corpse up within their body by consuming it with their Flesh and Blood to clear a crime scene quickly.
  • Flesh Cloak: A Rose Bishop can create cloaks of sticky Flesh (either procured from them or others) that can reduce magic and spirit damage.
• By consuming Flesh and Blood, they can recharge their abilities within the Flesh and Blood Domain and also reduce the risk of losing control after being injured.

Sequence 5: Shepherd

New Abilities

• Grazing: Shepherds can swallow a target's Soul and Beyonder Characteristics or Boon powers into their body, including Wraiths and Evil Spirits, and use those Beyonder powers for themselves.
  • A Shepherd, upon full potion digestion, will be able to Graze up to 7 Souls.
    • They can only use one Soul at a time, but they can instantly switch between them.
  • They can only use up to 3 Beyonder powers from a particular Soul.
    • When Grazing a new Soul, a Shepherd will be able to choose which powers to acquire.
    • They can still use their own Beyonder powers when using a Soul's Beyonder powers.
      • Beyonder powers that normally don't allow its user to move freely like a Nightmare's Nightmare State can be used without the Shepherd needing to stay still.
    • Shepherds can't activate Grazing continuously which restricts passive abilities.
      • As such Beyonder powers that are more passive in nature (like a Devil's Danger Premonition) are effective only when actively Grazing that particular Soul.
  • They can Graze Saint-level Souls, however, doing so will greatly increase their risk of losing control.
    • If a Grazed Soul is at the level of a Demigod, it can be directly released into the real world to fight. This is due to the corporeal Spirit Bodies that Demigods posses.
      • Only one of such Soul can exist in the real world at a time.

Strengthened Abilities

• A Shepherd has further mastered abilities related to the Flesh and Blood Domain.
  • Devouring: Shepherds can directly Devour a target's Flesh and Blood, along with their Soul, leaving no traces behind. This is a strengthened version of Body Hiding.

Sequence 4: Black Knight

New Abilities

• Cull of Spiritual Flesh: This is the core Beyonder power of a Black Knight, stemming from the Degeneration domain. It manifests as a Black Greatsword and has the following effects:
  • It can render any living creature with Degenerate thoughts to lose their defenses.
  • It corrodes both Flesh and Blood while also obliterating Souls.
  • It can cleave through powerful physical barriers.
• Black Armor: A Black Knight can manifest a full-body Black Armor formed from the powers of Degeneration, protecting them from various attacks.
  • While wearing Black Armor, they can grow up to 2-3 meters tall.
• Shadow of Depravation: They can peel off one of their Depraved thoughts into a Shadow, forming an uncontrollable, independent creature.
  • A Shadow of Depravation has the following characteristics:
    • It can instantly corrode and break things.
    • It can dissolve into a piece of darkness.
    • It can cover things in stick blackness.
    • It can induce Degeneration.
  • A Shadow of Depravation can counter certain abilities:
    • For instance, they can eject a Manipulator's Virtual Persona from their mind and turn it into a Shadow of Depravation, effectively canceling it's effects on their mind.
      • If the Manipulator could not quickly resolve the Shadow of Depravation, those Depraved thoughts would turn them half-mad, even causing them to lose control.

Strengthened Abilities

• A Black Knight's grasp of abilities in the Flesh and Blood Domain have been strengthened.
  • Flesh Rug: They have the ability to transform themselves into a thin, Bloody, and Flesh-dripping rug that covers an area, effectively dividing the battlefield and preventing grouping among enemies.
• Commandeering Shadows: They are better able to use the power of Shadows
  • Shadow Enclosure: A Black Knight can use the surrounding Shadows to create an Enclosed space to confine an enemy and chain them inside of it.
  • Shadow Binding: A Black Knight could now control their enemy’s own Shadows in order to entangle and restrict their enemies' movement.

Mythical Creature Form

• As Sequence 4 Demigods they receive some level of Godhood, and with it comes an incomplete Mythical Creature Form. Disregarding all consequences, they can release their incomplete Mythical Creature Form to become a Shadow Curtain with eyes hidden within it.

Sequence 3: Trinity Templar

New Abilities

• Trinity Body: They can sprout out 2 Shadowed heads (one youthful and the other elderly) from their shoulders on each side that can furthe separate to form 3 bodies via Flesh and Blood.
  • In this form, up to three Grazed Souls can be used at the same time.
• Degeneration: They can directly make Beyonder powers Degenerate.
  • This will make the Beyonder power either instantly Corrode or Betray its user.

Strengthened Abilities

• Commandeering Shadows: Their grasp over Shadows now allows them to create Shadow Substitutes.
  • Shadow Substitute: A Trinity Templar can weave the surrounding Shadows into their own image and swap places with it at will to avoid a fatal attack.
• Grazing: They can release up to 3 Saint-level Souls and use their Beyonder powers simultaneously.

Mythical Creature Form

• As a Sequence 3 Beyonder, they can listen and respond to prayers within a certain range.

Sequence 2: Profane Presbyter

Authorities

• Evil Word: By using a person’s reply, "They" can extract a portion of the ambiguity or expand on it to create the effect of spirit language.
  • Applications on others include but are not limited to the following:
    • When Klein answered who he was, it ended up separating "a lonely traveler" from him, splitting his Gehrman Sparrow persona that has the same thoughts and abilities, effectively canceling Klein's Historical Projection Summoning.
    • When Klein said that he didn’t know where the owner of the city had gone, Angel of the Holy Word Steph extracted the words “I don’t know where I went,” trapping him and isolating him from the outside world.
  • "They" can achieve certain enhancements on "Themselves":
    • When "They" reveal "Their" identity, every word enhances "Their" level and strength.

Strengthened Abilities

• Degeneration: "They" can bring out the Degenerate thoughts of "Their" opponents as their Soul plummets, sinking into the viscous black depths of their inner psyche, restraining their actions.
• Shadow of Depravation: "They" can allow a Shadow of Depravation to mimic the enemy's actions, effectively cancelling the enemies' Beyonder abilities they do while being mimicked.

Mythical Creature Form

• "Their" Mythical Creature Form has become complete. "Their" Mythical Creature Form is that of flowing Shadows with eyes hidden behind a Shadow Curtain.

Sequence 1: Dark Angel

Authorities

• Degeneration: "They" have mastered the authorities of Degeneration domain.
  • "They" are able to make persons, objects, projections and abilities Corrode and Betray their owner.

Sequence 0: Hanged Man

Authorities

• Degeneration: "He" can instantly Degenerate and thus cause Betrayal and Corrosion to anything encompassing the Darkness, Shadows, Fallen, Corruption, and Mutation Domain.
  • Corruption: "He" can plant a "seed" of Corruption that melts into the Spirit Body of "His" target. Part of their body would be merged with the Corrosion, making it extremely hard to Purify.
    • The True Creator planted a "seed" of Corruption in Klein that forced him to meet Sasrir in the Giant King's Court. This is partly due to mystic means, alterations in the mind, and Fate.
  • Darkness: "His" own divine power can create uncountable monsters out of thin air in the Darkness who also possess the particularity of resurrection.
    • The Forsaken Land of the Gods is cursed with the influence of the Ancient Sun God, spawning countless Corrupted monsters in the Darkness.