Innate Spiritual Techniques

Innate Spiritual Techniques are Spiritual Techniques that are (usually) unique to the user. When someone is born, they have an Innate Spiritual Technique embedded into them. An Innate Spiritual Technique can awaken in one of two times in the life of a being. Firstly, they may be able to use their Innate Spiritual Technique immediately, without any knowledge of Spiritual Energy or it's manipulation, or they will learn about it once they learn spiritual energy manipulation, if they do.

An Innate Spiritual Technique is, as stated before, usually unique to the user. Although the same effects can be replicated through other Spiritual Techniques, it will usually never be the exact same as the Innate technique. This can vary, as if someone's Innate Spiritual Technique allowed them to do something as simple as creating a spiritual flame, this can easily be replicated perfectly, but if they possess a much more complex Innate Spiritual Technique, it can be almost impossible to replicate it.

Innate Spiritual Techniques often give an edge in combat to the user. One of the most known Innate Spiritual Techniques was utilized by Durian Arelai. He dubbed it 'Hunt For Hearts'. It allowed him to glimpse clean through any being and locate their heart, the key weak point of every single living being. So long as they had a heart, he was able to pierce it and rip it out by finding it with his Innate Spiritual Technique.

Many Innate Spiritual Techniques can also be entirely useless. For example, someone could get one that simply made potatoes in their vicinity explode. This COULD be useful, but in the grand scheme of things, it's useless unless they turn into a potato-bomb wielding terrorist.

## Known Innate Spiritual Techniques

### Hunt For Hearts

Used by Durian Arelai / Nero Mumei, it enabled him to glimpse into the true weakpoint of every living being: Their heart. He was able to see the heart of any being that possessed one, giving him a direct way to kill the being immediately. This is what made Durian such a dangerous combatant, alongside his intense skill. Any who faced him who possessed a heart would almost immediately have it pierced, or carved clean out of their chest, rendering them dead, as often happens when your heart is ripped apart by a sword.

### Photographic Memory

Edward's innate spiritual technique is an ability he has dubbed "Photographic Memory". Anything Edward has seen with his own eyes is permanently cemented into his sub-conscious. Through this, if he channels spiritual energy through his body, he can think of a specific thing or person he has seen whilst placing a pencil / pen / any writing instrument on paper, or anything that can hold the actual drawing. He can draw it without truly remembering what it looked like, as the image of it is in his subconscious.

Also, he is able to draw certain things and replicate qualities of the original. For example, if he paints a cloud and then touches the paper, he can apply it's floating properties to allow him to fly on top of the paper. He also is able to replicate the appearances of people by slapping pieces of paper across himself that are all painted to resemble the person. Oddly enough, the paper seemingly shapes into the form of the person, making him virtually indistinguishable in appearance.

### Light Creation & Manipulation

It has been speculated that Remus Arthur's ability to create and manipulate light is an Innate Spiritual Technique, as it is not of magical origin.