Awakening Abilities

**Abilities** are sometimes gotten from other sources, however most of the time they are "Awakened". Awakening an ability is basically gaining or unlocking an ability. Sometimes this is something that just "happens" to a person. It could happen in response to stress, or perhaps some big event. It could also just occur at a time when nothing is happening. This can vary depending on the individual and the ability being awakened.

Once one awakens, they may gain a certain level of awareness of what they awakened.

There are a few abilities that awaken differently than usual.

**Were-Creatures** can awaken naturally like the others; however, curses and magic can also do the trick. The nature of the Were-creature ability is often affected by this, with the "curse" version being less controlled. Some were-creatures can give this ability to others, but it's sometimes temporary.

**Artifact Users**: Artifact-users awaken in two primary ways. They either find the artifact and become an artifact user, or they become an artifact user and the Artifact just so happens to appear somewhere they will find it. Losing an artifact on purpose is often harder than it may seem, unless the type of artifact prefers to get lost every so often. Due to the fact that Artifacts vary so much, the way they are found can vary that much too.

**Monster Trainer**: Monster trainers often find a monster soon after awakening. It is uncertain if it is the monster or the trainer that has to do with this, but it is theorized to be both. Since monsters can vary a lot, one would recognize the monster and know they have become a monster trainer.

**Transformation Item User**: Awakening could be as easily as finding a compatible transformation Item. Making an item is also possible. In the event someone finds something like a transformation Item they could become one as well. It really depends on what the item requires from the user.

**Duplicator**: Supposedly this ability awakens very slowly at first, then quicker. It may appear to be like others; however, it becomes apparent eventually that this type of person has something unusual and rare. Awakening may appear unusual as well, with abilities one has duplicated coming and going in the beginning, then becoming something one can access whenever they want later.

**Ghost Photographer**: It is unknown how this awakens or even if it is a real ability.

"Learned" abilities: Abilities such as **Cook**, **Medic**, **Ninja**, and **Blacksmith**.

Using Cook as an example...

Cooks: Cooking is a skill that can be learned; however, the ability can awaken when one learns enough cooking skill. The ability can be something one gains with enough hard work, or just gained from innate talent. Some people who learn cooking never truly awaken as chefs, and it is possible for someone to awaken as a chef but not learn much besides basic cooking.

Ninja: Training to become a Ninja is not easy. It can be learned but the process of learning to be a ninja is so difficult it is hard to gain. Awakening allows one to learn the techniques and skill much more easily.

Other things about learned abilities: There is a certain something one unlocks when one gains a "learned" ability. It's something that lets the user of that ability to learn easier and gain access to the more supernatural aspects of those abilities. A Cook for example can make food, but with the ability one could memorize the recipes easier. In the case of the Ninja a person's body may become more able to handle the magical aspects of becoming a ninja.

Non-learned abilities that may seem like they can be learned are a thing too.

An **Analyst** for example, may appear to be a learned skill for analyzing, however there is a supernatural aspect that would be difficult to copy with skill or knowledge alone. This difference is clearer with Higher level Analyst abilities. A person who knows the value of money may be able to just guess correctly about how valuable something is even if they have only just seen it for example.

**Psychic** powers are debated as being unlockable or not. Some believe they can be learned like a skill, but others debate only those with the proper ability can actually learn them. Because of the vague nature in which psychics can awaken it is hard to determine. It is thought that maybe there is an unlockable method via interaction with other psychics, however that would imply that psychics can simply give others powers. The exact process is not known, and it seems to be more difficult than that. There may be a trick to it.

Using abilities to grant other people abilities is something a lot of people think is a thing and may be but is hard to confirm due to rarity or difficulty.

Supposedly there is an ability that allows one to unlock abilities called an "**Awakener**".

Awakening one ability with another is supposedly do-able but very tricky. One can temporarily bestow abilities, but that isn't the same thing. It is thought only those with a high ability level could accomplish this, but it is possibly it may not be needed.

For example, an **Alchemist** making a potion that unlocks abilities in people.

For each one there may be a trick, and each trick might be more complicated the more powerful of an ability one would want to unlock.

They say there are books or other objects that can awaken abilities out there. These things may be very rare and it is thought them may have been made by some unknown means.

Some also think there is a way via **The Crystal Method**. Such a way has not been discovered yet, however it was found it can grant temporary abilities by the ones who discovered it.