Patriarch Pathway/Abilities

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Sequence 9: Scrooge

New Abilities

• Avarice: A Scrooge can induce an extreme sense of greed in a target, forcing them to comply with this desire.
  • The effects is strengthened if a specific object is used as a medium.
    • Ive gave Lumian a coin during his fake mugging, compelling Lumian Lee to take the coin and run instead of continuing with his original plan.
• Ownership: For a limited time after losing track of their possession, Scrooge can track objects that belong to them and eventually find the object's current location.
  • After Lumian Lee gave Ive's coin to a beggar, Ive located the beggar the next day through his coin.
• Gluttony: They can induce hunger in others, more effective with a tangible food item as a medium.
  • Not wasting food gives Scrooges a physique stronger and more resilient than appearance suggests.

New Desire

• Greed: A Scrooge is exceptionally greedy and stingy. They will go out of their way to pay as little money as possible, pick up any coin they see on the street and never give back a found item if they can help it.

Sequence 8: Sex Addict

New Abilities

• Aphrodisiac: A Sex Addict is capable of placing others in a lustful state, like they were dosed with a powerful aphrodisiac.
  • Through direct contact and spell-like abilities, the target will experience varying degrees of lust.
  • Employing one’s gaze, speech, and actions to subtly induce a measure of lust in the target.
  • They can stimulate others' appetites.
• Perpetual Condition: Their bodies and minds are constantly changing.
  • They are constantly utilizing mental faculties to augment strength, reflexes, agility, and resilience.
  • Their body is constantly maintaining a robust and healthy physical state.
  • Their bodies constantly exist in a state of perpetual hunger and thirst.
• Drug Knowledge: They will receive an influx of knowledge on how to prepare rape drugs and other similar concoctions.
  • Some known concoctions include, but are not limited to:
    • Odorless gaseous sedative, that after inhaling knocks you out, leaving your body in a feeble state.
      • A whiff of it at close range was enough to severely weaken an Assassin's strength.
    • Foul-smelling stimulating gas, that after inhaling, makes you sneeze a few times, each time gradually returning one's strengths, after being knocked out. This substance is the antidote to the prior one.
    • Truth Serum: Serum compelling people to speak the truth. Once the target's desire to spill secrets is triggered, along with the interrogator's questioning, it becomes exceedingly challenging to lie. What they utter would stem from their innermost desires.
• Hormonal Analysis: They can acquire differentiating hormonal information of various individuals.

New Desire

• Lust: Sex Addicts are extremely lustful to the point of needing frequent sex. If there are no willing partners available, Sex Addicts will often fulfil this desire through rape. This constant state of excitement grants them resistance to some influences while significantly reducing resistance to desired targets.

Sequence 7: Actor

New Abilities:

• Performance Inducement: An Actor can invoke a deep yearning for attention and a desire to perform inside their targets.
  • During the fight between Rentas and Lumian Lee, Lumian was compelled to confront Rentas and speak to him instead of immediately attacking.
• Acting: An Actor can convincingly portray as anything through the process of Acting.
  • They can imitate certain features of an occupation or identity.
    • If an Actor portrays an ordinary person, their Astral Projection will appear ordinary as well.
    • If they were to Act as a soldier, they'd display remarkable combat and marksmanship abilities.
    • They can Act as the opposite gender, but they need to prepare various props such in advance.
    • They can Act as a person’s shadow and later, detach themselves from the owner to sneak attack.
  • When Acting as animals, Actors can exhibit certain traits of the animal they’re Acting as.
    • Charlotte Calvino was able to Act as a serpent-like creature and as a result, her body instantaneously grew pliable and secreted a slimy substance.
  • If an Actor portrays another Beyonder observed before, they can replicate their corresponding abilities. These abilities won't have tangible effects and are more like illusions.
    • If the Actor is allowed to closely observe, and learn from the Beyonder for several months, they will be able to perform similar but significantly weakened abilities.
• Physical Enhancements: An Actor possesses a heightened control over their body.
  • They can manipulate their muscles, skin and bones to a certain extent
• Performance Preparations: They become skilled in actions that prepare them for a performance, such as makeup techniques and prop production

New Desire

• Acting: An Actor awakens their hidden desire to showcase themselves and perform. They require a proper stage to satiate this desire without arousing suspicion. Every applause from the audience validates them. This makes it so that Actors need to be cautioned against becoming too engrossed in their roles while acting.

Sequence 6: Recipient

New Abilities

• Adrenaline Rush: They can enter an adrenaline-fueled state, dramatically enhancing capabilities.
• Fullfillment Inducement : A Recipient can invoke a deep yearning for Fullfillment.

New Desire

• Success and Recognition: They crave success and recognition from high society or the public.

Sequence 5: Fallen Tree Spirit (Spirit of Lust, Baby Cupid)

New Abilities

• Oneirokinesis: They can project themselves into someone's dreams as either gender, influencing their victims to engage in intimate acts within it.
• Energy Draining: Through the medium of the intimate act, they can absorb their victims' vital energies.
• Tree Manipulation: They can create vines and shoot branches as arrows.
  • Their host tree choice affects special abilities.
    • Those of higher status makes them harder to destroy.

Strengthened Abilities

• Desire Manipulation: At this level, a Fallen Tree Spirit’s ability to invoke desire is greatly improved, planting cues on a target’s actions, emotions, and thoughts.
  • Susanna is able to imbue onto Lumian the desire to live, thus preventing the possibility of suicide.
  • Heightened by the desire to live, Franca succumbed to intense fear that stems from her understanding of the current situation, placing her in a dilemma to either flee or stay.

New Desire

• Fallen Tree Spirit's possessiveness gradually leads them to believe they're their victim's spouse, driving them to kill the victim's lover(s).
  • Susanna became very possessive of Charlie Collent, even convincing herself that she was his wife.

Sequence 4: Tree Supplicant

New Abilities

• Tree Supplication: They can pray to different Trees which grants varying responses and abilities.
  • Fundamentally, the Mother Tree of Desire is a Tree, so it responds with its perpetual blathers.
    • They can store power gained from the Mother Tree of Desire, but not for too long.
  • The abilities they get cannot be maintained permeantaly.
• Treant Summoning: They can summon and control Treants.

New Desire

• They represent desire for Knowledge and Survival.

Sequence 3: Desire Priest

New Abilities

• Desire Executor: They are the executors of the concept of Desire.
  • So long as a being has Desires, they can be affected by Desire Priests.
  • They can temporarily strip others of rationality, making them feel as if they have lost their soul.

Sequence 2: Cupid

Authorities

• Love: "They" are masters of Love.
  • "They" can make anyone fall in Love with them.
  • "They" can mediate Love between two or more entities through a medium.
  • "They" can fire arrows that would steal True Hearts.
    • The Cupids incited internal strife within Medici's legion of Angels by firing arrows that stole "Their" True Hearts.
  • Love is a divine authority, not merely a human emotion.
    • As such, "They" can make people fall in Love with certain ideas as well as effect abstract concepts through Love.
      • For example "They" can make "Their" target fall in Love with the concept of "Killing".
    • They can make the abstract concepts fall in Love.

Mythical Creature Form

• "They" become a complete Mythical Creature, "Their" Mythical Creature Form is a Cupid wearing fresh flower wreaths, appearing beautiful, holding wooden a bow and arrow like true deities.

Sequence 1: Leviathan

Authorities

• Envy: "They" have authority over Envy.
  • "They" can stir Envy and dissatisfaction.
    • The influence of the Leviathans caused many Angels to become Envious and dissatisfied, nearly leading to the disbandment of Medici's legion.
  • "Their" authority could also be applied on the abstract concepts.
• Reason: "They" gain initial authority over Reason.

New Desire

• "They" gain the desire to Dominate others.

Mythical Creature Form

• "They" become a complete Mythical Creature, "Their" Mythical Creature Form is a Leviathan, a tree-like sea monster, covered in slimy blossoms and chaos-slick scales, dotted with brown-green tumors.

Sequence 0: Patriarch

Authorities

• Sentient Beings: "They" are the sovereign of all Sentient Beings—like another father.
  • "They" embody wrathful reprimands and agonized murmurs.
  • "Their" perpetual blathers echo through desires and emotions, leading Sentient Beings to degradation and illusionary pursuits.
    • So long as desires persist, "Their" perpetual blathers will never cease.
  • So long as rationality fades, the Patriarch will always exist.
    • Should "They" perish, another one will be born within desires and emotions.