Talents

Talents are "birth defects" formed in human babies that develop and manifest as unique supernatural abilities each Kimyo possesses.

Chi[]

Chi is the energy force emitted by the Kimyo race used to manifest their Talents, and is the very power source of all their inherent abilities. Immensely powerful Kimyos can sense the Chi of other Kimyos and their emotions to a certain extent, as their emotions can affect their Chi output. Also, Kimyos can even conceal their Chi to avoid detection. Even though it is tricky but strong enough Kimyo can use this technique.

Chi Limit[]

Every Kimyo possesses a Chi Limit, a boundary of Chi that limits how strong a Talent can grow in strength and effectiveness. It is possible to push the boundary of one's Chi Limit by being injected with the Blood of the Shadow, whose cells are saturated with Chi. When this limit is increased, the new space allows the talent to grow stronger, or the void can be filled with brand-new, stronger talents.

Ether Realm[]

The ether realm is a vast unending area of pure potential which act as boundary where the chi-limit of an individual does not extend beyond. When a kimyo dies their chi spills into this realm eventually erasing all of it. Every kimyos are connected throughout this realm with their own section of the void unable to have contact with themselves like atoms.

History[]

The first talents to appear in the world were known as the Four Great Talents: Thanatos, Okeanos, Ilios, and Kataigida. The first men, also known as The Great Four, were born with such ancient talents and were seen as gods among men. After their appearance, Kimyos began slowly populating the world.

Transfer of Talents[]

There are three ways in which a human can become a Kimyo:

Talent Transfer[]

This occurs when an individual with enough experience and training can mentally pass their talent to a specific human. This method can only be used moments before death as it is immediately fatal. It is often done among the Top 150 to retain powerful Talents within a family bloodline.

Kimyos can also split this talent with others, as seen with Che Heart and Andrea Thomas. However, the talent will be reduced in power if split. As seen with Rokash and his nephew, Rokash split his talent entirely in half, keeping the strength and power for himself and giving its durability to his nephew with no drawbacks. It also seems that once a portion of a talent is given, the original holder can take it back.

If a Kimyo decides not to transfer their talent, then the talent will die with them. However, this doesn't mean the end of the talent. It can reappear later in the body of a new Kimyo, as seen with the 4th Lord killing the former user of the Kirin talent and it now being in the possession of Azam Aziz.

Talent Extraction[]

An illegal and forced way to remove talents from Kimyo, which is considered extremely painful and results in immediate death. The forces of Cain used this way of talent transfer to extract talents from other Kimyos and pass them on to his followers.

Object Possession[]

A highly rare phenomenon in which Talents develop a mind/conscientiousness of their own as an interdependent life force that manifests within an object rather than a human child. The wielder of this object is the wielder of its talent. These objects are known as Talent Weapons.

Types[]

The world of Ordeal possesses many types of Talents. Each Talent can fall into one or more of the categories, such as Nanaku's ability, Blood Frenzy, being both a state and shift type Talent. The Talent types are:

Control: Allows the user to manipulate objects or direct manifestations of their talent by infusing their chi into it.
Corrode: Alter the natural decaying process by decreasing, hastening, or reversing it
Creation: Form new matter from scratch by molding chi into physically manifest objects.
Elemental: Control one or more of the elements identified in the periodic table.
Haste: A talent that quickens the user by burning chi as fuel. Haste talents increase durability to withstand the trauma the body endures due to speed.
Hide: A chi formed shell that covers the user’s body, it then protects the Kimyo or adds new attributes to their arsenal. Experienced users can clad it around other things/people remotely.
Kinesis: Stimulates chi to create malleable protrusions from the body.
Power: Easily cause damage or destruction via explosive expression of chi manipulation. May also increase physical strength by great amounts or potentially adjust power output depending on adversary.
Psychic: Move, manipulate or otherwise interact with objects/matter/living things without physical interaction.
Range Control: Dominate matter/objects from a distance by manipulating chi or a chi-controlled manifestation.
Range: Precision shooting that can also be done by creating various forms of trajectiles or projectile weapons.
Shift: Alter the forms/structure through personal transmutation, gaining access to all or some traits of the chosen biological animalia.
State: A rare power-up mode or ‘state’ that grants the user access to excess abilities atop the initial special one.
Support: Users, often referred to as paladins, offer covering suppression or medical treatment, talents that focuses either on protective aid or restoration of health.
Toxic: Contort chi in order to make it poisonous or hazardous to those who come in contact.
Void: Access a dimension controlled by or linked to the user. The size of a single Kimyo void has never been fully mapped.
Warp: Distort matter, space, or time to close vast distances.

List of Talents[]

Skill Enhancements[]

Apart from the typical Kimyo Talent abilities and extra techniques that come with caveat of training themselves and their unique capabilities to the limit.

Semi-Immortallity: A select few Kimyo's can exhibit an advanced semblance of mortal longevity that borderlines on the functionally undying. Many of whom pushing their talent's to such an extent that it can give them the path to eternity.
Overdrive: Some ability users can kick their powers into high gear, attaining new forms that bolster their physical & esoteric power to even greater degrees than what they've originally showcased, at least temporarily.
Invincible: Few talent rosters can grant an odd faculty where the Kimyo's bonding with said ability enables to become impervious to injury. Honing these superpowers bequeaths a unison with their abilities that affords them permissible intangibility. It is an advanced practice that requires a vast chi pool to implement perpetually.

Trivia[]

Talents of the same type and function can appear in people.
It is common for powerful talent to be passed down for generations in tha same family.