Power System: Divine Veins
Divine Veins are spiritual circuits imprinted into the soul at birth, passed down through godblood. Each Vein unlocks a deeper layer of divine potential, awakening traits, artifacts, and transformations linked to a person's lineage. Few ever awaken more than two. Only legends have reached the sixth.
Each Vein has three stages, and every awakening reshapes the soul permanently. Once a Vein is opened, it cannot be closed.
Vein I: Aspect Vein
Focus: The user's divine trait or elemental affinity
Stage 1: Flicker – Basic sensory enhancement and unstable elemental response
Stage 2: Surge – Full control over the elemental or divine aspect
Stage 3: Resonance – The user radiates their aspect. Passive abilities begin to influence their surroundings
Vein II: Relic Vein
Focus: Summoning the Divine Artifact bound to their soul
Stage 1: Echo – The artifact appears in incomplete or unstable form
Stage 2: Bond – The user forms a link with the artifact. It responds to their will
Stage 3: Evolution – The artifact transforms based on the user's growth, trauma, or purpose
Vein III: Spirit Vein
Focus: Calling on divine spirits or ancestral echoes
Stage 1: Whisper – The user hears voices or instincts from their bloodline
Stage 2: Invocation – A spiritual projection or partial summon can appear in combat
Stage 3: Fusion – The spirit merges with the user temporarily, greatly enhancing power
Vein IV: Flesh Vein
Focus: Transforming the body into a vessel of divinity
Stage 1: Reinforcement – Enhanced speed, strength, and durability beyond mortal limits
Stage 2: Mutation – Parts of the body take on divine traits such as wings, scales, or energy threads
Stage 3: Ascendant Form – A godlike form unique to the user that channels their full divine nature
Vein V: Dominion Vein
Focus: Control over concepts tied to the user's lineage
Stage 1: Influence – The user begins to bend one concept around them such as time, shadow, memory, law
Stage 2: Rule – Their presence actively warps this concept in a large area
Stage 3: Authority – They become a walking embodiment of the concept, like a minor god of that domain
Vein VI: Origin Vein
Focus: The source of the god's true essence. Forbidden and rarely accessed
Stage 1: Revelation – The user gains flashes of divine memory, forbidden knowledge, or lost history
Stage 2: Awakening – Their blood rewrites itself, partially restoring the will of the ancestor god
Stage 3: Godfall – The user either becomes a new god or consumes their origin, breaking all known limits
Vein VII: Primordial Vein
Focus: Power from before the pantheons. Unknowable and reality-breaking.
Stage 1: Stirring
The user begins to influence the world in ways that cannot be explained by divine law. Reality bends subtly. Time slips. People forget conversations. Symbols appear in places the user never touched.
Stage 2: Descent
The user's soul becomes alien. They begin to see the world differently. Divine powers around them malfunction or weaken. Gods feel fear in their presence. Dreams, space, and perception bend where they walk.
Stage 3: Return
The user's existence becomes a paradox. They can no longer be fully seen, named, or predicted. The rules of all Veins before no longer apply. They are not a god. They are something older. Their presence alone can awaken or unravel other bloodlines. The gods once sealed this Vein to prevent the return of the first being. Now it breathes again through Kaien.