Sacred Artist Physiology (Willverse)

==Summary==
Sacred Artists are simply a humans capable of harnessing the spiritual energy known as Madra, which has also played a role in shaping their inherent characteristics, to practice the Sacred Arts. The Sacred Arts consists of a relatively ridged progression system organized into stages known as "Advancements" which a Sacred Artist cultivates alongside a Path, the unique set of techniques, practices and training which form the basis for an individual Sacred Artists powerset and as they advance they gain new abilities and resistances.
Sacred Beasts and Ancestral Trees are the animal and plant equivalent to a Sacred Artists which largely share the same abilities though with certain notable exception.
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==Copper==
===Abilities===
*Superhuman Physical Characteristics: Sacred Artists utilizing even the most basic degree of madra based enforcement possess superhuman capabilities
*Enhanced Senses: Copper Sight allows Sacred Artists to see all the invisible auras of the world allowing them to see through solid objects, see the flow of blood in a persons body as blood aura, view lifeforce as life auraSoulsmith; Page 18 and even view heat in a way similar to infrared vision as fire auraGhostwater; Page 176
*Information Analysis: Focusing on any particular aura gives a Sacred Artist information about its propertiesBlackflame; Page 31
*Absorption: Sacred Artists at Copper become able to absorb aura from their environment which they can cycle converting it to madraUnsouled; Page 13
*Ectoplasm Manipulation/Energy Manipulation: Every Sacred Artist in Cradle possesses MadraUnsouled; Page 6, which is an immaterial spiritual energy that serves as the substance of soulsSoulsmith; Page 121 which they can manipulated in various waysBlackflame; Page 14
*Non-Physical Interaction/Soul Manipulation: Every Sacred Artists can interact with Madra which is the Immaterial substance of the soul and Madra based attacks inherently attack the soul of a targetWintersteel; Page 322
*Power Nullification: Sufficiently strong Madra can negate and disperse weaker madra on contactUnderlord; Page 204
*Statistics Amplification: Sacred Artists can enforce themselves with madraBlackflame; Page 75Ghostwater; Page 101 which increases their strength, durability and speedUnsouled; Page 15
*Energy Projection: Sacred Artists can project their Madra outwards for various techniques categorized as Striker TechniquesUnsouled; Page 75
*Elemental Manipulation: Sacred Artists can utilize Madra to control Aura in the surrounding area via Ruler Techniques allowing them to manipulate the corresponding element or substance to said AuraBlackflame; Page 135
*Limited Damage Reduction and Limited Deconstruction (Internal Attacks Specifically): Due to a Sacred Artists soul being sovereign within their body attacks which are inserted into their bodies tend to do limited damage and are degraded quickly
*Gravity Adaptation: Madra allows Sacred Artists to adapt to higher gravity
===Resistances===
*Soul Manipulation and Disease Manipulation: All Sacred Artists have an inherent degree of spiritual protection due to their souls being sovereign within their bodies which includes protection from spiritual diseases
*Mind Manipulation: A Sacred Artists spirit is comprised of both their mind and soulReaper; Page 117 as such the inherent principle of spiritual sovereignty applies to their minds granting them an inherent resistance to mental attacksWintersteel; Page 405
*Blood Manipulation: Blood directly in or on a Sacred Artists body is inherently under their spiritual protection rendering it resistant to abilities attempting to affect itSkysworn; Page 111
*Cloth Manipulation: Clothing on a Sacred Artists body is directly under the influence of their spiritual protection making it resistant to damage and abilities intended to affect itWintersteel; Page 253
*Sound Manipulation: Madra inherently protects a Sacred Artists hearing during combat though they have to actively focus their spirits on protecting their ears to increase their resistanceWintersteel; Page 321
*Gravity Manipulation: Madra naturally supports a Sacred Artist because it allows them adapt to the high gravity of Cradle
*Durability Negation (Internal Attacks): A Sacred Artists inherent spiritual protection provides them with resistance to various internal attacks including the manipulation of water within their bodies and this resistance scales upwards proportionally to how advanced they areBloodline; Page 127
Notable Examples:
Wei Shi Kelsa, Wei Mon Teris and Wei Shi Lindon
==Iron==
===Abilities===
All previous, plus:
*Immortality (Type 7): Upon death Sacred Artists above copper have their souls rise from their bodies in the form of spiritual beings known as remnants which can continue fightingUnsouled; Page 16
*Enhanced Senses: Iron Bodies generally have enhanced sensory capabilitiesSoulsmith; Page 10 like improved vision and hearing to the point where Sacred Artists can track the movement of muscles under a persons skinSoulsmith; Page 192 and hear subtle sounds like people blinking in close enough proximity to themSoulsmith; page 80
*Immense Pain Tolerance: The process of developing certain Iron Bodies often require a Sacred Artist to undergo preparationsSoulsmith; Page 177 that involve subjecting themselves to immense physical pain for prolonged periods of timeSoulsmith; Page 179
*Regeneration (Low): Iron Bodies allow for a degree of regeneration which lets a Sacred Artist heal much more quickly than they would otherwiseSoulsmith; Page 132
===Resistances===
*Greater Soul Manipulation, Mind Manipulation and Durability Negation
Notable Examples:
Wei Shi Jaran, Wei Shi Sasha and Wei Shi Lindon
==Jade==
All previous, plus:
===Abilities===
*Extrasensory Perception: With Spiritual Perception, commonly known as Jade Sense, Sacred Artists can sense souls, aura and spiritual energy within range of themselvesBlackflame; Page 132
*Information Analysis: Spiritual Perception is able to ascertain information about a targets level of power, the nature of their madra, their position and even whether they are human or notUncrowned; Page 151
*Stealth Mastery: Through the use of a Veil Sacred Artists can hide their presence and detailed information about them from the senses of othersSkysworn; Page 18
===Resistance===
*Greater Soul Manipulation, Mind Manipulation and Durability Negation
==Lowgold==
===Abilities===
All previous, plus:
*Greater Extrasensory Perception, Enhanced Senses and Non-Physical Interaction: More advanced Sacred Artists at Lowgold can perceive and interactSkysworn; Page 14 with less tangible forms of aura that deal with intangible concepts which others cannot like Destruction Aura or Death Aura
*Limited Instinctive Action: A Golds Life Aura reacts automatically to protect them from Death MadraUnderlord; Page 91
*Aura (Overwhelming): Golds release an aura of spiritual pressure which overwhelms those with weaker spirits than theirs while preventing them from breathing and inducing paralysisBloodline; Page 154
===Resistance===
*Greater Soul Manipulation, Mind Manipulation and Durability Negation
Notable Examples:
Wei Shi Kelsa, Yerin Arelius and Lindon Arelius
==Highgold==
===Abilities===
All previous
===Resistance===
*Greater Soul Manipulation, Mind Manipulation and Durability Negation
Notable Examples:
Jai Chen, Jai Long and Sandviper Kral
==Truegold==
===Abilities===
All previous
===Resistance===
*Greater Soul Manipulation, Mind Manipulation and Durability Negation
Notable Examples:
Orthos, Bai Rou, Sandviper Gokren
==Underlord==
===Abilities===
All previous, plus:
*Enhanced Senses: A Lord senses are enhanced each time they are reforged in soulfire upon ascendingDreadgod; Page 109
*Willpower Manipulation: As a sacred artists advances through the lord realm their willpower is focused and refined with each step and Lords can directly manipulate their own willpowerReaper; Page 176
*Aura (Explosive, Overwhelming, Fear Inducing): An Underlord spiritual pressure induces a plethora of effects like Soul Manipulation, Madness Manipulation, Paralysis InducementSkysworn; Page 170 and shockwavesSoulsmith; Page 212 while their attacks can kill Gold level Sacred Artists by proximity with spiritual pressure aloneGhostwater; Page 170
*Acrobatics: Lords have been reborn in soulfire with an intuitive ability to perform feats of extreme agility like twisting in midair to dodge attacks and land perfectly despite falling in different anglesBloodline; Page 30
*Enhanced Statistics Amplification: Can imbue their preexisting enforcer techniques with soulfire to enhance the increase in statistics granted by themUncrowned; Page 77
*Damage Boost: Underlords can imbue soulfire into his attacks to magnify them far beyond what they are capable ofUncrowned; Page 21
*Power Bestowal: Soulfire enhances the durability of objects imbued with it as well as grants them energy conducting propertiesBlackflame; Page 251
*Limited Elemental Manipulation: Soulfire can control all forms of aura to a limited degree at UnderlordUnderlord; Page 93 to which aura operates by controlling the natural elements associated with each individual type including blood auraWintersteel; Page 160 and life auraUnderlord; Page 133 granting them a limited control of fire, water, wind, earth, lightning, ice, light, darkness, life and death though this control is enhanced by learning soulfire artsWintersteel; Page 294
*Power Nullification: By controlling an area with soulfire Lords can negate the effectsWintersteel; Page 372 of techniques corresponding to any aura typeWintersteel; Page 247 that directly manipulate elements in their bodiesWintersteel; Page 371, negate techniques which directly manipulate their mindsReaper; Page 85 and can seize control of these attacksWintersteel; Page 250 to simply push them awayWintersteel; Page 251
*Dimensional Storage: The process of becoming and Underlord requires one to create a pocket space within their soul known as a soulspace in which they can store things withinUnderlord; Page 107
===Resistances===
*Greater Soul Manipulation, Mind Manipulation and Durability Negation
*Poison Manipulation: The body of an Underlord having been reforged in soulfire is immune to most conventional poisonsSkysworn; Page 7
*Disease Manipulation: An Underlords body is resistant to diseasesSoulsmith; Page 96
*Corrosion Inducement: The body of an Underlord is resistant to substances which can dissolve objects like stone on contactSkysworn; Page 6
*Age Manipulation: Underlords can resist attacks which cause targets to wither awaySkysworn; Page 8
*Limited Biological Manipulation: Sacred Artists at Underlords and above are immune to the effects of eating Silverfang carp meat which can cause biological deformities leading to death by inducing uncontrollable muscle and organ growthGhostwater; Page 111
Notable Examples:
Meira, Akura Pride and Jai Daisho
==Overlord==
===Abilities===
All previous, plus:
*Greater Soul Manipulation, Mind Manipulation and Durability Negation
*Greater Enhanced Senses, Willpower Manipulation, Statistics Amplification, Damage Boost, Power Bestowal, Elemental Manipulation and Power Nullification: Overlord Soulfire is one grade more potent than Underlord SoulfireBloodline; Page 265
*Pseudo-Flight: Newly advanced Overlords can manipulate aura to achieve levitation even in low aura environmentsBloodline; Page 256
===Resistance===
*Greater Soul Manipulation, Mind Manipulation and Durability Negation
*Greater Poison Manipulation: As a Lord advances through the Lord Real their inherent poison resistance increases with each stage
Notable Examples:
Seishen Dakata, Naru Huan and Sopharanatoth
==Archlord==
===Abilities===
All previous, plus:
*Even Greater Enhanced Senses, Willpower Manipulation, Damage Boost, Power Bestowal, Elemental Manipulation and Power Nullification: Archlord Soulfire is two grades more potent than Underlord SoulfireBloodline; Page 138
*Even Greater Statistics Amplification: Archlords can directly imbue their bodies with soulfire to enhance themselvesBloodline; Page 276
*Limited Dimensional Travel: Archlords are able to ascend under their own powerBloodline; Page 11 which is a process that involves ripping a path through the Way to another universeBloodline; Page 40
*Kinetic Energy Manipulation and Damage Reduction: Soulfire used to manipulate force aura can alter the kinetic energy of objects, disperse the force of attacksDreadgod; Page 342, redistribute the users own kinetic energyDreadgod; Page 326 and manipulate objects with extreme precision at higher levelsDreadgod; Page 284
*Limited Self-Healing: Lords can utilize soulfire in order to heal themselvesBloodline; Page 289
*Flight: Archlord-level soulfire is potent enough in aura control to allow Archlords to flyUncrowned; Page 103
*Platform Creation: Archlords Soulfire can control aura to create invisible platforms to stand in midairDreadgod; Page 41 and control force aura to create small platforms to kick off while in the airDreadgod; Page 341
*Free Movement: Aura control can be used to walk on water by manipulating water aura
*Surface Scaling: Archlords can use soulfire to control force aura in order to bind themselves to objectsDreadgod; Page 319
===Resistance===
*Greater Soul Manipulation, Mind Manipulation and Durability Negation
*Enhanced Poison Manipulation, Statistics Reduction, Sleep Manipulation, Paralysis Inducement and Memory Manipulation: A Lords inherent poison resistance increases as they advance all the way up to Archlord being thrice reborn in soulfire making them immune to a variety of poisons which can induce effects ranging from spiritual restrictions, sleep, paralysis as well as memory alterationWintersteel; Page 10
*BFR, Reality Warping, Law Manipulation, Physics Manipulation and Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1): Archlords are ascendent beings to some capacity and are able to resist the commands of Sages who are holding backWintersteel; Page 398 which operates by directly controllingDreadgod; Page 264 an archetypal greater concept of realityWintersteel; Page 129 to change the world worksWaybound; Page 91 as well as alter its physicsBloodline; Page 63 and lawsBloodline; Page 268
Notable Examples:
Akura Justice, Kahn Mala and Eithan Arelius
==Notes==
*As a Sacred Artist advances through each stage they strengthen their spiritUnderlord; Page 184 which inherently enhances their spiritual protection such that stronger Sacred Artists can inherently resist the mental/spiritual attacks of weaker Sacred Artists simply because they are more advancedReaper; Page 10 as Illusions from a person at JadeBloodline; Page 159 can easily affect multiple IronsBloodline; Page 164 but are broken out of by a single JadeBloodline; Page 166 while prior that person at Lowgold could affect multiple Jades including the one that later breaks out of his illusion once he is reduced to JadeBloodline; Page 153
==References==
Category:Verse-specific Powers and Abilities
Category:Willverse
Category:Cradle