Spiritual Cultivation

Spiritual Cultivation is an 'archetype' of Heaven's Path. Its practitioners pursue a relatively rapacious approach to cultivation, drawing 'qi' and anything else from their surroundings to be stored, or to be expended through arts and formations.
== Overview ==
Spiritual cultivators begin by forming a dantian within which to store refined qi, and then expend it in the form of arts or formations, or use it as a transmission and amplification medium for intent, soul sense, principle, laws and possibly higher-realm abilities. They can, in D&D terms, be roughly considered as multi-classing fighter/mages, generally with more focus on the fancy magic side. While a majority of spiritual cultivators do use weapons of one type or another – commonly swords, usually soul-bound if the cultivator in question is of a high enough realm to do so– they often aren't well-practiced in actually using the weapons as weapons rather than glorified flashy wands, preferring to rely mostly on channeling qi-based attacks.
See the Cultivation page for a unified table of realm advancement compared to other archetypes.
== Eastern Azure ==
To the common folk of Eastern Azure Great World, spiritual cultivation emerged in an ancient era on the Imperial and Argent Gate continents. In the modern era, it is one of the most populous methods of cultivation alongside Body Refinement, and many of the world's most powerful entities practice spiritual cultivation.
By the standards of Eastern Azure, only upon reaching Immortality is a spiritual cultivator regarded as a 'someone' in the eyes of the powerful. See Eastern Azure Great World for more on age and realm-based standards.
== Martial Axial Region ==
Little is known of spiritual cultivation beyond Eastern Azure, though it is likely a widespread form of cultivation with localized 'flavor' that changes from world to world.
Category:Cultivation