Essence of the Manipulator
By consuming the Essence of the Manipulator, you gain several boons:
● You gain conscious control over your charisma. You can switch between being the most fascinating person in any room to having so faint a presence only the most attentive people will even notice you're there.
- You can also apply your charisma selectively, becoming a dazzling presence in the eyes of your targets while others would be unable to describe your appearance if questioned, and decide how they perceive you, if you seem charming or intimidating to others.
- You can also make your charisma fade in the minds of others, so that while they listened to you with rapt attention, over the span of the next few days they will forget the impression you left on them until they forget you completely.
- This however doesn't mean your words fade from their memory if you don't want to, instead they'll merely forget that the ideas you planted in their mind weren't their own.
● You become a masterful actor, able to play any role and present any personality you choose.
- You will instantly be aware of anyone attempting to read your mind or sense your emotions and can immediately create false thoughts, feelings and even memories that will show any mental scan exactly what you want them to see.
- You also gain great oratory skills both for simple conversation as well as in speeches before immeasurable crowds.
● When observing someone you will within minutes gain a complete understanding of their mind, how they think, what motivates them and how they tick is revealed to you.
- You can read people like books, their deepest secrets and most hidden thoughts may as well be written on their foreheads.
- Their subconscious thoughts and biases can be revealed with but a glance.
- This also works on large crowds, though to a lessened extent when the crowd as a singular entity is targeted.
● Any person you focus on, you know how to remold them to your liking.
- You can break them with but a few words, you know how to tear down their ego, how to use cruel insults and sweet promises of relief to wear down even the most stubborn resistance.
- You can also uplift them, give them the greatest confidence in the bleakest circumstances.
- You can make the most stubborn and bullheaded man see reason, or turn the most open-minded and accepting person into a close-minded bigot.
- You can turn people into simpering slaves completely dependant on you or manipulate them freely without them even being aware that you exist.
● You can also manipulate crowds of people on a larger scale, with only minimally less fine-control.
- You could lead a hopelessly-outnumbered force into a heroic charge without a single man breaking ranks, as well as demoralize a force with an overwhelming advantage to the point of making a well-armed army of thousands to take flight when charged by children wielding sticks.
- You can fan the population of a utopian society into complete revolt, or make the population of the most tyrannical dictatorship adore the boot that crushes them.
- Social engineering on all levels is child's play, you could start a political movement or even a religion and turn it into a universal belief, no matter how drastic or ridiculous.
- You can turn a noble caste consumed by greed and hedonism to altruism and selflessness, convert a group of radical feminists into a patriarchal faith preaching that a woman's reason for existence is to please men, or simply make the act of wearing a plate of cooked spaghetti as a hat into the latest fashion-trend.
- The time needed to mold others to your will depends on the extent of your change, from a few moments to encourage someone to act on their impulses, a few minutes to rally a group of men into an action they believe correct but lacked the courage, to a few days to completely reshape their world-view into something that goes against everything they were before.
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Essence of the Binder
By consuming the essence of the binder you gain several boons
● Have the ability to mark targets with a sigil of your own design. This sigil manifests wherever you want on their body and may even be full body tattoos should you wish.
The Mark can become invisible without active use. At its base lets you telepathically speak to each other and know the exact location and status of whoever marked. This mark is completely immune to any sort of tampering save yourself and is otherwise permanent though you may remove any mark with but a thought.
● Those bound by the mark on your discretion can gain access to weaker versions of the essences you have, even this one. You choose which essences they are empowered with. They can also be granted weaker forms of other powers you may possess at your discretion. If the mark is removed they will retain some but not all of this power just wisps of it.
● Marked beings who mark others can give weaker versions of their own powers to their marked.
● Marked beings can have infallibly loyalty hammered directly into their mind, body, and soul.
Those marked this way will not and cannot consciously or unconsciously choose to hurt you or go against your will unless you allow it or outright order them to. This loyalty may be dialed from slight trust all the way to complete and total devotion. This function only rests with you. You may discard this function permanently.
● The Binder has the ability to invoke 'commands' which are absolute orders the marked is compelled to follow to the best of their ability even temporarily ramping up abilities or forcing their body to do something it isn't normally capable of to achieve it. This function only rests with you and those you explicitly give it to. You can optionally discard this function permanently.
● Those marked may be summoned and dismissed by you at will and even stored away in a void inaccessible by all but you for safe keeping when not needed. They will be in a sleep like stasis when in storage and will not suffer from the passage of time or basic needs.
● If a marked individual is killed even down to the soul they will instead respawn safe and sound inside your storage. Dead beings can be marked if you have remains, a object heavily associated/meaningful to them, or a soul to interact with, they will reform alive as if they had died as one of your marked.
● You and others marked may set conditions and requirements for certain powers or essences, even restrictions that lock down powers should they violate a restriction or other punishment.
● Those marked can have their appearance, traits, attributes, and mark changed by the binder to anything possible within the limits of their species or abilities. You can reset any changes made or revert to an earlier change.
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Essence of the Broker
You become a master of contracts and legalize
• You can easily compose long, intricate and ironclad contracts as easily as breathing, containing or closing any loophole you wish.
• If you so desire, you may conjure these contracts out of nothingness and dismiss them to a pocket dimension only you have access to.
• You instantly become aware of any loophole or wording which may have positive or negative repercussions in any deal you are aware of.
• Anyone who agrees to a deal with you or one that you broker, whether by handshake, signing a contract or verbal agreement, must follow through with it.
• You may set it so that those who agree are compelled to carry out the contract, establish penalty clauses should they fail to fulfill their obligations, or forgive their debts.
• Agreements you make may range from the exchange of goods and services, to the transfer of things which are normally impossible to exchange.
• So long as the parties of a deal possesses ownership of something, you may "trade" or "broker" a deal for it, instantly transferring it to the appropriate party.
• This allows you to broker the exchange of kingdoms, landmasses and marriages so long as they are owned, and extends to more esoteric traits like years of life, memories or supernatural abilities and powers.
• You may choose to store anything obtained as a result of a contract, in said contract without it being dispersed to anyone.
• If you so chose, the person who previously possessed it loses access to it, and it remains in the contract until a relevant party signs for it.
• Signing these contracts may subject the person to any clauses and obligation you have embedded within it.
• While the subjects of trades must do so of their own free will, doing so under coercion is still free will.
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