Law Ascension System
A progression framework for a fantasy RPG where growth is measured by mastery of reality's fundamental truths, known as Laws.
Stage — Life Span
0. Mortal — ~100 years
1. Rule Initiate — ~300 years
2. Rule User — ~500 years
3. Rule Integrator — ~700 years
4. Rule Controler — ~1,000 years
5. Rule Constructor — ~2,000 years
6. Rule Synthesizer — ~4,000 years
7. Rule Dominator — ~6,000 years
8. Law Pathmaker — ~8,000 years
9. Law Prospect — ~10,000 years
10. Supreme / Transcendent — Nearly Immortal
11. Law One — Infinite (conceptual existence)
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Core Concepts
Laws: Absolute, unchanging truths that govern reality (e.g., Gravity, Flame, Time). They are not energy but the logical structures reality obeys.
Rules: Partial or fragmented manifestations of a Law. Users start by sensing and interacting with these fragments.
Energy: The fuel for interacting with Rules and Laws (Mana, Aura/Qi, Soulforce). It powers Skills and Arts.
Skills: System-granted "scripts" for applying Rules & Laws. They are efficient but rigid. Skills grow in power with understanding, though unaligned ones weaken as specialization deepens.
EXP: Energy used to level up, it is gained through System Missions, Dungeon Clearing, Ruin Exploration, Class based achievements, Monster Cores absorption, killing extra terrestrial beings, etc.
Authority: A soul-bound measure of conceptual weight that defines the maximum level cap.
1. Formula: 1 Authority = +10 Level Potential.
2. Authority rises through Rule comprehension, Skill mastery, and System milestones.
3. It prevents growth from outpacing true understanding.
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Progression Stages
Cultivation is divided into realms that reflect increasing mastery over reality.
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Stage 0
• Levels: 0–99
• Title: Mortal
• Concept: Physical & Energy Foundation
• Description: Awakening spiritual potential, refining energy, strengthening the body, and stabilizing the soul. The vessel for future comprehension is built here.
• Power: Skills & Magic only
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Stage 1
• Levels: 100–199
• Title: Rule Initiate
• Concept: Rule Awareness
• Description: The soul resonates with natural Rules, granting sensitivity to truths like flame, gravity, or decay. Passive perception marks the shift from energy manipulation to conceptual awareness.
• Power: Rule Sense & Indirect Use of Rules
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Stage 2: Rule Application
• Levels: 200–299
• Title: Rule User
• Concept: Rule Interaction
• Description: Awareness deepens into deliberate invocation of minor Rule effects. Skills gain affinity when aligned with understood Rules.
• Power: Direct Use of Rules
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Stage 3: Rule Internalization
• Levels: 300–399
• Title: Rule Integrator
• Concept: Rule Tempering & Internalization
• Description: Rules reshape essence, permanently attuning body, aura, and soul. Specialization strengthens aligned skills while weakening unaligned ones.
• Power: Start Specialization in Rules
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Stage 4: Rule Influence
• Levels: 400–499
• Title: Rule Controler
• Concept: Rule Externalisation
• Description: Presence alters the environment. The user can impose Rule effects outwardly and attempt unstable combinations.
• Power: Higher Rule Preception & Use of Environmental Rules and Energy
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Stage 5: Zone Creation
• Levels: 500–599
• Title: Rule Constructor
• Concept: Rule Zone Creation
• Description: A Rule Zone manifests—an area where mastered Rules dominate and incompatible ones weaken. This creates overwhelming combat advantage.
• Power: Create Personalized Rule Zone to strengthen yourselves
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Stage 6: Zone Consolidation
• Levels: 600–699
• Title: Rule Synthesizer
• Concept: Zone Stabilization & Rule Synthesis
• Description: Rule Zones stabilize into semi-permanent constructs. Multiple Rules can now be fused deliberately, creating advanced techniques.
• Power: Empower the Rule Zone and extend its reach
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Stage 7: Rule Understanding
• Levels: 700–799
• Title: Rule Dominator
• Concept: Domain Establishment & Control
• Description: The Rule Zone evolves into a Domain, a microcosm of comprehension. Fragments of Rule understanding are arranged like cards into a deck, forming the foundation for a Law Seed.
• Power: Complete control over the area and it's rules within your rule domain
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Stage 8: Law Seed Creation
• Levels: 800–899
• Title: Law Pathmaker
• Concept: Law Seed Formation & Fusion
• Description: Rule mastery crystallizes into Law Seeds—embryonic truths. Multiple Seeds may be created, but advancement requires fusion into a singular Law Core, anchoring future growth.
• Power: Law Sense & Indirect Use of Laws based on Specialized rules
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Stage 9: Law Crystallization
• Levels: 900–999
• Title: Law Prospect
• Concept: Law Seed Integration
• Description: The Pure Law Seed or fused Law Seed integrates into the soul, reshaping body and spirit. A System Trial validates the Law. Success allows the seed to bloom, transforming the cultivator into a conceptual entity.
• Power: heightened Law & Soul Preception, with Increased Soul Force.
• Level up based on law seed integration only.
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Stage 10: Ascension
• Levels: 1000–9999
• Title: Transcendent / Law Incarnation
• Concept: Law Bloom & Total Integration
• Description: The Law Seed blooms into a true Law. The Domain becomes a self-sustaining Law Domain, a pocket reality ruled entirely by that Law. Body, soul, and energy unify with the concept itself. Transcendents exist beyond mortal lifespans, with limitless time to refine their Law.
• Power: Direct Use of Laws, Personal Law Domain, and Privileged Access to System functions with a cost, Advanced Circle Magic as a freebie.
• Level up based on Core Law Mastery only