And Okertaku being old and experienced but not quite as old or experienced as Tzeench would have a total bonus of +400 at attention 100 which he could parcel out to pay attention to multiple things at once.
Fully expect some infiltrators, wouldn't be surprised if some of our half steps fell to them, or some second steps who fear tribulation, I am guessing we would notice a fake tribulation or one of tempering, so if any fell, it was probably after the first tribulation, otherwise we would notice.
Likewise, I fully expect that there are some demonic cultivators who are currently hiding and biding their time, or mortal spies who try to get into positions where they can destabilize us.
There are a few rumors about it (as the mortal workers spread what they saw) but it hidden from the papules at large to prevent some idiot attempting to get in and awaken something dangerous.
That I think is purely experience, Tzeench probably got more demons and more divine qi to draw on.
Maybe this tyrant god is the unborn fifth chaos god of tyrant, or a candidate, I don't know where the rumors started, but a lot of people seem convinced the emperor is becoming that.
Keep in mind that domains make a big part of a gods power and Tzeentch both has more of them and they are generally more developed (at 100 attention that divination domain would give him 50,000 points to spread over his rolls).
Plus, how many demons/deva and greater deamons/deva and tha rank above that, that you have.
Maybe this tyrant god is the unborn fifth chaos god of tyrant, or a candidate, I don't know where the rumors started, but a lot of people seem convinced the emperor is becoming that.
Adhoc vote count started by Aria the Mage on Jun 4, 2024 at 10:06 AM, finished with 76 posts and 3 votes.
[X] Plan scrying to apocalypse, healing and selling cultivation
-[X] expansion and preservation of the schooling system.
-[X] preservation of skilled workers.
-[X] the track of progress. (must be in the top three priorities).
-[X] military refitting.
-[X] arrange mass prayers.
-[X] welfare for the needed.
-[X] culture preservation.
-[X] mercenary board (doesn't take an action) 23 tokens.
--[X] 1 advancement point- 2 divine charges per. X 27
--[X] Foresight lessons- 10 divine charges.
--[X] Soul surgery lessons- 5 divine charges.
--[X] we take 26 divine qi from our cultivators, not touching our personal production and leaving them 2, and transform them into tokens.
-[X] Teaching- free. Okertaku will take a bit of his time to teach Kuvara about her instincts as a god, and he will defiantly insure she at least knows how to fight. (new).
-[X] intervention- teach Okertaku the secrets of cultivation and for the next 3 turns he will personally fight along side you in the warp (with all of his deva), he's not going to win especially because Tzeentch will start gathering more of his power to contest him but he will buy you much needed time. (this is additionally to the normal price of selling the secrets so you still get your tokens and discount). (new).
-[X] expend the farms- there is no denying that the spiritual herbs are far more effective and potent as ingredients for alchemy and immortal cooking both and while you currently produce more then you need this wont be true for long so expend the farms that produce them.
-[X] concentration of intent- The emperor has grown a herb like no other yet what is the difference between him and another? Sure, his cultivation is advanced but other third steps have tired their hands at herbalism and while their herbs where more potent the difference wasn't major form what a mortal could grow. The answer than is intent, the question is if someone else can concentrate their intent so purely at a single herb to produce something better?
-[X] fang shui- a new path opens itself before your disciples, task them to spend time and effort to push further down it and complete your understanding of its basics. (new).
-[x] the building blocks of the world part 3- the world is full of possible alchemy materials that you haven't even touched yet, with at least a somewhat better understanding of the underlaying principles of alchemy you can continue to attempt mixing and matching materials and see what new recipes you can come up with.
-[X] The wonder of a well cooked meal- already the immortal cooks are adding spiritual herbs into their meals and they become all the better for it but they could do more, be more if only given the time to refine their art.
-[X] the power of sacrifice (no option under here takes AP)- either by way of insight or technique you have found a way to greatly empower yourself by sacrificing something. (current lifespan 470)
--[X] sacrifice life- sacrifice 10 years of life span for 1 AP (current lifespan 450). X4
-[X] To purify the corruption- following your tribulation one of your pillars has been corrupted, spewing the tainted energy of the warp into your core, you will need to spend some time to study your corrupted pillar to see what you can do about it. (new).
-[X] Harmony of the core- the pillars of your core clash with one another, their energy slowly rejecting one another, in time things will get settled and they will mix more but perhaps you should study this interaction and see if you can increase their harmony in some way? (new)
-[X] Glimpse the future- you have a gift, a gift that no other has. It has set you on this path and you must both hone and use it, to see the end of this path. Cast your eyes into the future and the apocalypse to come and attempt to draw any piece of information that might give you an advantage.
--[X] Pin down the date- currently you know that the apocalypse will start anywhere between a fourdecades to a century from now, attempt to pin down when it would actually start so you may better prepare. the closer to the apocalypse you get the more
--[X] The all-consuming flame- The black flames of Akerktu are already extremely effective in their effect of your divination, could you perhaps improve their quality by allowing them to burn for years without interruption? Always feeding the flames? So long as you have someone constantly watch them you shouldn't burn down your palace. (new).
--[X] The nature of the beast- you know almost nothing about what's to come besides an unending tide of beasts, attempting to understand the coming apocalypse.
--[X] The tide- in your vision you saw many types of beast's, small and big, deformed and consisting of perfect form. Attempt to more correctly ascertain what it is that you'll be fighting.
-[X] The burden of a god- whether it was a mistake you will perhaps never know but you are now a god or at least worshiped as one. and being divine -fake or not- comes with some benefits and no less reasonability.
--[X] spend time with your daughter's- form the sacrifice of your pillar and the soul of your people has your new daughter been born and while she is far older then, she is also incredibly young and ignorant, you cannot teach her of her domain or her nature but you can certainly tach her about mortality. Besides that just spending time with her Avatar would help her with the stress of the coming decade, kekita would also be happy to join the family time. (new).
--[X] the nature of godhood- you have recently met a god, this meeting raises many questions for which you have very little answers. Meditate on the insights gleamed form your encounter and attempt to discern some truth of godhood.
-[X] Push higher- your power alone would not save you or your kind, but more power would certainly be useful, so push ahead on this path that you've created oh so long ago.
--[X] seek life (costs 2 AP)- you have spent a decade in the realm of the dead and have come out with new knowledge but now your understanding is unbalanced, seek death counterpart to regain the balance, seek life and the great Dao so that balance may be returned. (updated). (Divine qi)
-[X] condense your core (0/5)- pour ever graters amount of power into your core to increase the pressure placed upon the Qi inside it and then crystalize your insights at the moment of condensation. (new). (Divine qi)
Gods don't really have skills as such, they have experience which gives them a boost to everything and they have domains.
Their experiences is what determines the bonus per attention level, so Kuvara being a young and inexperienced goddess gains -20 to every roll at attention 100, while tzeench at attention 100 (meaning 100% of his attention is on something) would have a +2000 for every roll.
And Okertaku being old and experienced but not quite as old or experienced as Tzeench would have a total bonus of +400 at attention 100 which he could parcel out to pay attention to multiple things at once.
Shouldn't 100% attention be impossible for a chaos god?
Oh also I'm curious what rank do you guys think we can do cosmic stuff? Like absorb a sun for cultivation resources, move our planet with our cultivation, destroy entire fleets with our mind? All things im fairly sure the emperor could do considering there are reports he can freeze time across a solar system just he wouldn't want to since most of those things aren't very directly useful.
It's functionally impossible because... Just imagine what the OTHER chaos gods (or all their other enemies, really!)would do in the face of such an opening!
It's functionally impossible because... Just imagine what the OTHER chaos gods (or all their other enemies, really!)would do in the face of such an opening!
I mean even working together in the case of the primaries seems like they were backstabbing each other while doing it and employing bullshit. Because the destinations of the primaries was certainly not ideal in all cases for them.
Seeing as there are no other plan I think I'm safe enough to close the vote.
Now to our first order of business.
Combining your insights.
As a reminder, to be eligible to advance to nascent soul you must have at least one insight from every pillar combined into a single core insight.
For the sake of the above core insights count as insights from all of the pillars that constructed it.
Divine insights aren't eligible to being combined.
You may combine as many insights at once as you want, in general combining more will result in a stronger core insights (I say generally because throwing insights that don't fit in very well can lower the power gained) and it always increases the chance of failure.
Then chance of failure is determined both by how high your core harmony is but also by who fitting the various insights are and how well they go together.
We'll be having a 4 hours moratorium to allow people to ask questions and post their insights combination ideas.
A little advice, craft a narrative to the insights, take what they represent and combine it to a whole, even a bad explanation or narrative for such will confer better successes chances then just picking a few insights to combine with no explanation.
Another thing, you don't have to be the player who raised up a possible combinations to do the above, more then a single narrative can be used (and it wont hurt your chances, might even rise them) and I'm going to be reading the thread when the vote is done to see all of the various explanation.
Scheduled vote count started by uri on Jun 3, 2024 at 11:51 AM, finished with 57 posts and 4 votes.
[X] Plan scrying to apocalypse, healing and selling cultivation
-[X] expansion and preservation of the schooling system.
-[X] preservation of skilled workers.
-[X] the track of progress. (must be in the top three priorities).
-[X] military refitting.
-[X] arrange mass prayers.
-[X] welfare for the needed.
-[X] culture preservation.
-[X] mercenary board (doesn't take an action) 23 tokens.
--[X] 1 advancement point- 2 divine charges per. X 27
--[X] Foresight lessons- 10 divine charges.
--[X] Soul surgery lessons- 5 divine charges.
--[X] we take 26 divine qi from our cultivators, not touching our personal production and leaving them 2, and transform them into tokens.
-[X] Teaching- free. Okertaku will take a bit of his time to teach Kuvara about her instincts as a god, and he will defiantly insure she at least knows how to fight. (new).
-[X] intervention- teach Okertaku the secrets of cultivation and for the next 3 turns he will personally fight along side you in the warp (with all of his deva), he's not going to win especially because Tzeentch will start gathering more of his power to contest him but he will buy you much needed time. (this is additionally to the normal price of selling the secrets so you still get your tokens and discount). (new).
-[X] expend the farms- there is no denying that the spiritual herbs are far more effective and potent as ingredients for alchemy and immortal cooking both and while you currently produce more then you need this wont be true for long so expend the farms that produce them.
-[X] concentration of intent- The emperor has grown a herb like no other yet what is the difference between him and another? Sure, his cultivation is advanced but other third steps have tired their hands at herbalism and while their herbs where more potent the difference wasn't major form what a mortal could grow. The answer than is intent, the question is if someone else can concentrate their intent so purely at a single herb to produce something better?
-[X] fang shui- a new path opens itself before your disciples, task them to spend time and effort to push further down it and complete your understanding of its basics. (new).
-[x] the building blocks of the world part 3- the world is full of possible alchemy materials that you haven't even touched yet, with at least a somewhat better understanding of the underlaying principles of alchemy you can continue to attempt mixing and matching materials and see what new recipes you can come up with.
-[X] The wonder of a well cooked meal- already the immortal cooks are adding spiritual herbs into their meals and they become all the better for it but they could do more, be more if only given the time to refine their art.
-[X] the power of sacrifice (no option under here takes AP)- either by way of insight or technique you have found a way to greatly empower yourself by sacrificing something. (current lifespan 470)
--[X] sacrifice life- sacrifice 10 years of life span for 1 AP (current lifespan 450). X4
-[X] To purify the corruption- following your tribulation one of your pillars has been corrupted, spewing the tainted energy of the warp into your core, you will need to spend some time to study your corrupted pillar to see what you can do about it. (new).
-[X] Harmony of the core- the pillars of your core clash with one another, their energy slowly rejecting one another, in time things will get settled and they will mix more but perhaps you should study this interaction and see if you can increase their harmony in some way? (new)
-[X] Glimpse the future- you have a gift, a gift that no other has. It has set you on this path and you must both hone and use it, to see the end of this path. Cast your eyes into the future and the apocalypse to come and attempt to draw any piece of information that might give you an advantage.
--[X] Pin down the date- currently you know that the apocalypse will start anywhere between a fourdecades to a century from now, attempt to pin down when it would actually start so you may better prepare. the closer to the apocalypse you get the more
--[X] The all-consuming flame- The black flames of Akerktu are already extremely effective in their effect of your divination, could you perhaps improve their quality by allowing them to burn for years without interruption? Always feeding the flames? So long as you have someone constantly watch them you shouldn't burn down your palace. (new).
--[X] The nature of the beast- you know almost nothing about what's to come besides an unending tide of beasts, attempting to understand the coming apocalypse.
--[X] The tide- in your vision you saw many types of beast's, small and big, deformed and consisting of perfect form. Attempt to more correctly ascertain what it is that you'll be fighting.
-[X] The burden of a god- whether it was a mistake you will perhaps never know but you are now a god or at least worshiped as one. and being divine -fake or not- comes with some benefits and no less reasonability.
--[X] spend time with your daughter's- form the sacrifice of your pillar and the soul of your people has your new daughter been born and while she is far older then, she is also incredibly young and ignorant, you cannot teach her of her domain or her nature but you can certainly tach her about mortality. Besides that just spending time with her Avatar would help her with the stress of the coming decade, kekita would also be happy to join the family time. (new).
--[X] the nature of godhood- you have recently met a god, this meeting raises many questions for which you have very little answers. Meditate on the insights gleamed form your encounter and attempt to discern some truth of godhood.
-[X] Push higher- your power alone would not save you or your kind, but more power would certainly be useful, so push ahead on this path that you've created oh so long ago.
--[X] seek life (costs 2 AP)- you have spent a decade in the realm of the dead and have come out with new knowledge but now your understanding is unbalanced, seek death counterpart to regain the balance, seek life and the great Dao so that balance may be returned. (updated). (Divine qi)
-[X] condense your core (0/5)- pour ever graters amount of power into your core to increase the pressure placed upon the Qi inside it and then crystalize your insights at the moment of condensation. (new). (Divine qi)
[] knowledge is power insight
-[] "Water is ever flowing, it may be diverted or even stopped for a time but it always flows forward in the end '' mental resilience is increased, effect decreasing mental resilience are easier to defeat and last less time (both those cast on you and cast by you).
-[] "Clear water is a reflection, a reflection of you and of the world and you may find greater insight form it, yet you may not always like what you find" you may now choose 2 insight out of 4 instead of 1 out of 3 but every insight action carries with it a small chance of creating a minor heart demon.
-[] "The blue skies represent hope above all, they give us a sense of wonder and beauty unmatched, they give us our dreams and motivations, look to the sky and forget your earthly concerns" become resistant to supernatural emotion tempering.
-[] "The earth sees all and hears it all, and if you listen attentivity it may share its wisdom with you" you may attempt to listen to the earth and have it revel to you pieces of information it knows that are relevant to you (a few example's would be pinpointing where an army is, accertain type of tree, finding something buried and eventualy conversition's)
The concept behind the insight is thus, advancement through knowledge.
Three of the insights include blurbs about listening to nature to gain different abilities.
One look at your reflection (in the warp I am guessing, as the sea of souls), and in return has allowed us to gain more insights per attempt, it allows you to contemplate the knowledge to make more of it, allowing Shitaku to advance further for lower effort, to gain more.
The second is of the earth, similar to our divination talent, it gives us a supernatural sense, we can listen to the earth and in return it gives us information, the information doesn't directly empower us as water, but could potentially allow us to make more informed actions through listening to the world, guiding our efforts more easily.
The third is of the sky, the knowledge the sky grant us is less of the intellectual kind, but of the emotional, it gives us hope and inspiration, while at the same time countering the dark impulses that we risk by delving into our reflection.
In a similar way, so does the final water, symbolising the progress we take in our quest for knowledge and insight, the path forward, that it can be slowed or diverted for a time, say by having a heart demon, or by not having the time to truly explore our earth hearing, but those things are temporarily, and the path fowards, enriching ourselves on knowledge, power and hope can not be diverted.
This insight is less of the physical kind but of the mental ones, I am picking those choices hoping for multiple results, to empower our divination as am information gathering ability, and to serve as amp for our future insights just like the water insight did.
In my plan for future insight, you could say this insight is the first step, the step of learning, the next insight would be the step of comprehension, using our life and death dao insights, the third insight would be an insight of teaching, empowering the Keku with our knowledge and power, and the final one combining them all, in a concept similar to our core concept.
So any chances the further in cultivation we get the easier to get dao fragments or even higher ranked portions than mere fragments? Because if not it's basically straight up impossible to get actual daos later.
So any chances the further in cultivation we get the easier to get dao fragments or even higher ranked portions than mere fragments? Because if not it's basically straight up impossible to get actual daos later.
Yeah my concern is basically if they don't get easier as we get smarter and more in tune with cultivation getting anything beyond the stage after dao fragments is borderline impossible. Let's not even talk about entire daos or the complete dao.
Yeah my concern is basically if they don't get easier as we get smarter and more in tune with cultivation getting anything beyond the stage after dao fragments is borderline impossible. Let's not even talk about entire daos or the complete dao.
If they don't get easier, I can kind of understand, contemplating the dao takes time, and considering the timespan Warhammer operate on, us starting late doesn't mean it should be fast.
But if it gets harder, than I agree, would quickly grow impossible.
I am not sure if find life is permanent though, or if it will exist only until life matched death.
It got harder because it becomes harder to just meditate and get Dao, in general Dao isn't meant to be gotten but pure cultivation but by strokes of insights and understanding (like what happened with that place of power).
The increased difficulty is only for finding life fragments other types of Dao would be easier (you'll unlock a way to meditate for other fragments when you fix the imbalance in your current Dao).
If they don't get easier, I can kind of understand, contemplating the dao takes time, and considering the timespan Warhammer operate on, us starting late doesn't mean it should be fast.
But if it gets harder, than I agree, would quickly grow impossible.
I am not sure if find life is permanent though, or if it will exist only until life matched death.
Ehh if time skips don't get larger we won't get beyond what comes after dao fragments period. Also it makes total sense if it becomes easier for higher levels of dao comprehension seeing as later stage cultivators have more senses and are literally smarter by greater and greater magnitudes. Also we are late in the timeline the galaxy is going to get worse and worse and worse.
Really love that insight combo idea. Sky, earth, water, and knowledge. The first are a nice foundation, the source of knowledge, while knowledge itself basically represents shikatu, the teacher himself. Also narratively appropriate, maybe this is why he went crazy and spent all the royal divine coffers on tech
I'm without a pc for a few days and sleepy, soni don't want to write long arguments and combos right now, but I'll quote something I wrote about a potential knowledge insight when we first were introduced to the concept.
Maybe something from it can help with the one Roth proposed
1) Fire: "The flame, it is ancient wisdom that fire cannot be controlled, yet it is wrong for dos not the smith control the flame when he fashions a blade, civilization has long learned how to do what wisdom dictated cannot be, learn from them and assume control of your flames"
2) "Clear water is a reflection, a reflection of you and of the world and you may find greater insight form it, yet you may not always like what you find"
3) "To understand life is to understand a profonde truth of the universe"
4) "teaching is nothing but the conveying of concept to another person the pinnacle of teaching is to convey the most with the least amount of word's"
5) "The earth sees all and hears it all, and if you listen attentivity it may share its wisdom with you"
6) "Death, the great equalizer. In time all will know its kiss from the mightiest of gods to the lowliest of ants, it is the end and the beginning and to understand it means harnessing power unmatched. But to truly understand death one must experience it"
the unifying concept here is power through knowledge, wisdom and understanding.
From fire civilization, from water self-reflection, from life a truth of the universe, from earth informations and wisdom, from understanding death power, and what you understand you can teach with the fewest words.
I'm not 100% convinced they ALL fit. I suppose there's an argument for removing fire or teaching, but I think they can work well together.
If I had to guess what power could come out of this, it would relate to gaining understanding and information. Possibly some kind of power related to training our skills faster, or a boost to our divination methods?
I'm without a pc for a few days and sleepy, soni don't want to write long arguments and combos right now, but I'll quote something I wrote about a potential knowledge insight when we first were introduced to the concept.
Maybe something from it can help with the one Roth proposed
Dao of Life Insight, Die to learn Dao of Death insight, and Fire of Rebirth insight could be a good Rebirth leads to knowledge of life and death combo.
Or even more simple, Earth Feeds Life plus Dao of Life. Leads to a life is nurtured combo.
Fire is can not be controlled but can be used and Water Flows insights. Leads to a more general the world/nature is what it is and we work with it combo.
I think starting out with a two or three combo for our first combination is a less risky attempt that more insights that are more of a reach... For our first one, it should be almost self evident.
[X] knowledge is power insight
-[X] "Water is ever flowing, it may be diverted or even stopped for a time but it always flows forward in the end '' mental resilience is increased, effect decreasing mental resilience are easier to defeat and last less time (both those cast on you and cast by you).
-[X] "Clear water is a reflection, a reflection of you and of the world and you may find greater insight form it, yet you may not always like what you find" you may now choose 2 insight out of 4 instead of 1 out of 3 but every insight action carries with it a small chance of creating a minor heart demon.
-[X] "The blue skies represent hope above all, they give us a sense of wonder and beauty unmatched, they give us our dreams and motivations, look to the sky and forget your earthly concerns" become resistant to supernatural emotion tempering.
-[X] "The earth sees all and hears it all, and if you listen attentivity it may share its wisdom with you" you may attempt to listen to the earth and have it revel to you pieces of information it knows that are relevant to you (a few example's would be pinpointing where an army is, accertain type of tree, finding something buried and eventualy conversition's)
Dao of Life Insight, Die to learn Dao of Death insight, and Fire of Rebirth insight could be a good Rebirth leads to knowledge of life and death combo.
Or even more simple, Earth Feeds Life plus Dao of Life. Leads to a life is nurtured combo.
Fire is can not be controlled but can be used and Water Flows insights. Leads to a more general the world/nature is what it is and we work with it combo.
I think starting out with a two or three combo for our first combination is a less risky attempt that more insights that are more of a reach... For our first one, it should be almost self evident.
I think two or three is too little, but I also agree we shouldn't go too crazy, but we also shouldn't be too tame when it is relatively cheap as it is now.
I think keeping our death insight (and thus life insight) for a powerful insight with more insights is the best, we would likely succeed in the insight you suggested, but we could make an even bigger one and more powerful one later on.
I also think first insight should have our water insight, in case that would influence the resulting insight into giving us a cultivation amp, that insight served us extremely well in foundation, having a core version would be amazing.
"Fire is rebirth, it spreads and destroys sparing nothing its wrath but, in its wake, new growth is found" grants a minor regeneration factor.
"You have known of the cycle of creation and destruction, felt it in your flesh and in your Dao, this knowledge can be used to help your body heal for as the flame consumes so dos it single new life" gain a medium regeneration factor (which replaces the one from your previous insight).
"The flame, it is ancient wisdom that fire cannot be controlled, yet it is wrong for dos not the smith control the flame when he fashions a blade, civilization has long learned how to do what wisdom dictated cannot be, learn from them and assume control of your flames" increased control of all fire mundane or supernatural.
2. water.
"Water is ever flowing, it may be diverted or even stopped for a time but it always flows forward in the end '' mental resilience is increased, effect decreasing mental resilience are easier to defeat and last less time (both those cast on you and cast by you).
"Clear water is a reflection, a reflection of you and of the world and you may find greater insight form it, yet you may not always like what you find" you may now choose 2 insight out of 4 instead of 1 out of 3 but every insight action carries with it a small chance of creating a minor heart demon.
3. sky.
"The blue skies represent hope above all, they give us a sense of wonder and beauty unmatched, they give us our dreams and motivations, look to the sky and forget your earthly concerns" become resistant to supernatural emotion tempering.
4. flight.
"We don't think about it much but flight isn't just something we do it is a way of life" your flight skill is always considered one step higher.
5. life.
"Life is a preciouses thing indeed but it is also a fragile thing and must be guarded carefully" healing techniques are considered a step higher.
"To understand life is to understand a profonde truth of the universe" gain Dao fragment "life".
"life is energy, this you have known, the demonic use the life of others to harvest unparallel power yet a life freely given is so much more powerful than one taken by force and who can decide your life but you?" gain the ability to burn your lifespan for energy both for the use of advancement (10 years for one AP worth) and as a major combat boost.
6. Teaching.
"teaching is nothing but the conveying of concept to another person the pinnacle of teaching is to convey the most with the least amount of word's" your students are better able to comprehending your teachings, gaining a small bonus to their learning and allowing the teaching of advanced concept's without certain requirements.
"teacher to student, there is a heavy bond in this relationship, a bond that passes through generations, for what is a teacher student's if not students to that teacher, teacher? "Gain a connection to all of your students and their students and their students and so forth to the ninth generation, this connection allows you to ascertain their status at time (general level of health and general location) and may allow more with further experimentation.
7. Earth.
"The earth sees all and hears it all, and if you listen attentivity it may share its wisdom with you" you may attempt to listen to the earth and have it revel to you pieces of information it knows that are relevant to you (a few example's would be pinpointing where an army is, accertain type of tree, finding something buried and eventualy conversition's)
"The earth nourishes all life, and if you'll let it will nourish you too" so long as you touch the earth you will need no food and would effectively count as having a pure grade 2 spiritual diet (which makes you slightly stronger, healthier and even speeds up cultivation and Qi regeneration although at your stage the benefits are negligible on the cultivation front) if the land you touch is particularly healthy or full of spiritual energy (like a place of power) this effect will be increased (seeing as you live in a place of power -or right next to one but same thing- you will actually have grade 3 spiritual diet).
"Though a creature of the sky, the earth loves all of her children, seek shelter in her depths and in time your wounds shall heal" you may ask the earth to burry you deep in ground doing so grants you a major regeneration factor additionally you may spend 1 AP to halve your aging for the turn.
8. Keku. corupted. "This path that you have forged, this power you have taken, is no longer just your own your species follows you into ascension and in time they will overcome you but this is your path align it more with your specie rather than yourself and see them take flight" the average Keku talent is increased by half a grade.
9. Death.
"Death, the great equalizer. In time all will know its kiss from the mightiest of gods to the lowliest of ants, it is the end and the beginning and to understand it means harnessing power unmatched. But to truly understand death one must experience it" Die and at the end of the next turn come back to life and in doing so gain the following, a Dao shard of death, the ability to resist death for a short while and the ability to impart death upon another a soul/comprehension based attack that deals instant death.
Mh... I had an idea. Probably better for the next insight AFTER we purify the KEKU pillar though GUIDING A CIVILIZATION
"Fire is rebirth, it spreads and destroys sparing nothing its wrath but, in its wake, new growth is found" grants a minor regeneration factor.
"You have known of the cycle of creation and destruction, felt it in your flesh and in your Dao, this knowledge can be used to help your body heal for as the flame consumes so dos it single new life" gain a medium regeneration factor (which replaces the one from your previous insight).
"The flame, it is ancient wisdom that fire cannot be controlled, yet it is wrong for dos not the smith control the flame when he fashions a blade, civilization has long learned how to do what wisdom dictated cannot be, learn from them and assume control of your flames" increased control of all fire mundane or supernatural.
"The blue skies represent hope above all, they give us a sense of wonder and beauty unmatched, they give us our dreams and motivations, look to the sky and forget your earthly concerns" become resistant to supernatural emotion tempering.
"Life is a preciouses thing indeed but it is also a fragile thing and must be guarded carefully" healing techniques are considered a step higher.
"teacher to student, there is a heavy bond in this relationship, a bond that passes through generations, for what is a teacher student's if not students to that teacher, teacher? "Gain a connection to all of your students and their students and their students and so forth to the ninth generation, this connection allows you to ascertain their status at time (general level of health and general location) and may allow more with further experimentation.
"This path that you have forged, this power you have taken, is no longer just your own your species follows you into ascension and in time they will overcome you but this is your path align it more with your specie rather than yourself and see them take flight" the average Keku talent is increased by half a grade.
Civilizations grow with time. The cycle of creation and destruction that happens uncountable times inside the lifes of people and countries is what we define as change.
Like fire, life and civilization Ka born, spreads and flourishes, but if not properly tended and guarded, risks leading to its own end. And thus Shikatu comes in.
Shikatu loves his Keku, he believes in their potential. He knows they can do great things, and in fact he saw it multiple times in his life.
He also knows that the Key can fail, that they might not see the big picture. That they need a guiding hand to better reach their potential. That's his role, to be the first and the best among his people, so that others might reach their full potential.
Shikatu is not perfect. He's not the best at everything. He created cultivation, but it wasn't he that discovered the steam and combustion engines, or that invented Feng Shui or the various pill recipes and runic arrays. But those discoveries were only made because Shikatu gave the creators the opportunity to develop their potential.
By the destruction of the old world order, burnt to the ground, by the proper tending of the flame we call the Keku civilization, the keku have healed.
They've grown strong.
The old was used as fuel to grow the new, and with hope in their heart they aim at a sky full of hope.
Keku lifes are precious. Shikatu is leader, emperor, father, teacher to his people. He tends to them, he directs them, he gives them the opportunity to reach their full potential, stopping those unruly fires that would burn too much, allowing for continuous prosperity.
To be more blunt and synthetic: the fire insights represent how the keku changed, from the pre-Shikatu past to the current empire. How he took control of them like a smith controls a flame, and in doing so allowed them to reach their full potential. How he destroyed what had to be destroyed (the old world order) so that new and more wonderful things might be born of it. It was controlled destruction, in other words.
The sky is the hope for the future, the goal. We destroyed and created, and in doing so aim for a better future. Isn't that also what Kuvara represents?
We gave up the winds for the sky, and in doing we gained a daughter, the winds (which now belong not to just us but to the Keku as a whole through Kuvara!) and the Sky as well!
Life and, if we wait until the pillar is purified, keku, indicate what we're doing this for: for the good of the lifes of all the keku under our protection. These lifes are precious and worth protecting, and their the ultimate goal and metric by which our success is judged.
If the Keku prosper, we've done our job.
The teacher insight represents one of, and maybe the most important role of Shikatu: as the emperor he leads the Keku, giving them a chance to develop their potential, to go beyond what they were in the past while safeguarding them from total destruction, acting as their railguards.
He is, from another point of view, a stern teacher that will share his knowledge with his students, warning them of the dangers ahead, and trying to prevent them from committing the most dangerous mistakes while also allowing them to progress and move forward.
The power I think such a core insight would grant would be a power connected to his position as emperor, teacher, tender of the flames of Keku civilization in their quests for the hope represented by the distant sky.
More bluntly, a power that makes us supernaturally good at guiding and teaching our people.
So, any opinions on the above? Uri, Roth?
I could have added the flight and other teaching insights, but I don't think they fit quite as neatly (flying towards the sky? Teaching with few words, or even better by example?), and I was already at 6 insights, 7 if we add the Keku insight (which would be my proposal IF we wait until after purifying the pillars to pursue this idea I had, which I really like. )