White Core

The **white core** is the peak an individual can reach aside from Guardians. A white cored individual is someone who has reached a state of individual evolution due to achieving enlightenment. White cored individuals are one with the world energy but cut off from Mogar's will. When an Awakened reaches the white core, their will becomes so strong that they can ignore the planet's needs, yet it caps their powers as well. This and the fact that their powers and abilities are not passed down to their offspring is the reason why they don't receive a pillar.

Upon reaching the white, an individual also evolves to a unique species of their race (e.g. Golden Griffon, Sun Weaver, Darkness Phoenix). Eldritch Abominations, white cores, and Guardians share many similarities but slight differences. Without Mogar's aid and guidance, however, they become living natural disasters prone to madness. All the white cored Awakened before Baba Yaga either killed themselves or were put down by the Guardians.

There are approximately 20 white cores per continent.

The World Tree stores countless information within its bark, including the secret of the white core, but refuses to use it since eternal life would allow its mind to age.

## Process

The violet core is the natural apex, otherwise there would be white cored individuals even among fake mages. Trying to feed the core more world energy is pointless, just like trying to refine the auxiliary cores - they are nothing but an extension of the mana core, forming a web that reduces the strain on the body and quickens the natural absorption of world energy. They cannot get stronger unless the mana core gets stronger yet the core is capped at violet.

Thus, the answer isn't to further refine either the mana or the auxiliary cores but to make more of them to turn the entirety of an Awakened's body into an amplifier (and placing new vortexes between pairs of already stabilized auxiliary cores - or where the mana flow is the weakest - strengthening the network that spreads the energy of the mana core throughout the body). By having many auxiliary cores, the natural mana flow becomes so powerful that it nurtures the mana core and allows it to break past its natural limits to achieve the white. Up to the bright violet, vortexes form naturally in the body with the excess mana the mana core can't store. However, to achieve the white an individual must learn how to create vortexes on their own. This requirement can be subverted using methods such as Arthan's Madness, which grants a vortex.

## Traits

Achieving the white core nearly breaks the boundary between energy and matter. A white core's body becomes akin to a block of Davross, with each of their body's cells capable of drawing and storing the world energy. Unlike the magical metal, however, the world energy assimilated takes their energy signature and converts it into their own mana, turning them into a huge living white mana core as the internal and external energy become one.

Unlike Guardians who serve Mogar to strive to uphold an ideal, white cores, instead, are still egotistical creatures. For example, Baba Yaga loves children above everything similar to Scarlett, the Guardian of Children. Unlike Scarlett, however, Baba Yaga focuses solely on her own. She doesn't care about the kids of humans, Emperor Beasts, or of any other race but the undead. It's not because Baba Yaga has lost her original drive, but because it's in the nature of non-Guardians to put themselves before others.

While white cores are cut off from Mogar's will, they still get summoned during world tribulations along with Guardians due to still being ingrained in the world energy. They are the apex of their race and the closest thing to a Guardian that a living being can become. In a way, they can considered their potential akin to that of a whole race comprised by a single person. White cored people are usually individuals that cause one of the ripples or that develop their skills because of it, making the change reverberate through time without stopping. Even those who achieve their white core simply due to their outstanding talent, like Baba Yaga, can produce a ripple just like Guardians do. She altered the balance of Mogar by creating the undead race, replacing those too weak or conceited in the natural order of things. Mogar summons the white cores during important tribulations to let them know that a change is about to happen.

A single lab can only contain so much magical energy before overloading and two white cores are too much for any array - thus, it is impractical for more than a single white cored individual to occupy a lab.

## Abilities

Achieving a white core also means turning into a unique being capable of tapping into their full potential and abilities. White cores cannot pass down their bloodline skills simply because it's the presence of the white core that allows them to manifest. Even if a white core's children reaches the white core as well, their powers would be different from their parent's.

White cores are able to restore mana reserves at a speed comparable to an Awakened breathing technique. They still need sleep, but usually have no need to reset Invigoration due to their recovery abilities.

## White Cored Individuals

### Feeding Frenzy

Unlike normal Liches who can only mimic the physical abilities of the living beings they feed upon, the Devourer Lich can also imitate all of their bloodline abilities. She carries around part of the life force from the strongest creatures she had fought in the past in the form of crystallized blood. She etches those crystals on the same pendant of her phylactery.

### Food Chain

Adds foreign life forces to her own. After absorbing the foreign energy, Aylen's appearance becomes that of an odd hybrid. She looks like a humanoid woman in her 20's with feathered wings coming out of her back, three sets of arms of wood and vines, and skin covered in scales. Thanks to the overflowing life force she can more freely cast cursed element spells as all the damage that casting so many dangerous spells at the same time inflicts upon her body is almost instantly healed.

## Baba Yaga

***Evolution**: Sunweaver*

Baba Yaga can split her body into three different people, displaying abilities similar to the Hydra bloodline despite the fact that she's an Odi.

## Sinmara

***Evolution**: Phoenix of Darkness*

Unlike an Abomination, Sinmara's feathers aren't black due to the absence of the elements. When she achieved the white core, she evolved into a form different from that of a regular Phoenix, that is both capable of absorbing all elements and of Dominating them. She has no colored streaks because she has no natural elemental affinities except for the two that she had been born with. The others belong to her unique Phoenix of Darkness bloodline's abilities.

### Echo of Darkness

Turns the surrounding shadows, even of targets, into a copy of Sinmara that can unleash a different Tier 5 spell. Sinmara's shadows channel her mana, allowing her to weave and cast spells even during the fight.

## Trivia

* A theory of achieving the white core is taking the secret to the violet core a step further - if mastering the vortexes and turning them into auxiliary cores is the secret of the violet core, then turning the auxiliary cores into violet and making them capable of independent thought is the secret of the white core, which would explain why people like Baba Yaga survive even with their head and heart destroyed, because they are akin to a Horde.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Chapter 1596: Waves and Ripples (Part 2)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 1595: Waves and Ripples (Part 1)
3. ↑ Legion on Discord
4. ↑ Chapter 1492: Changes and Moving (Part 2)
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Chapter 1567: Vortexes and Cores (Part 1)
6. ↑ Chapter 1549: Fire and Metal (Part 1)
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Chapter 1609: Shadows and Crystals (Part 1)
8. ↑ Chapter 1530: Mirror Magic (Part 2)
9. ↑ Legion on Discord
10. ↑ Chapter 1612: Origin Demons (Part 2)
11. ↑ Chapter 1608: Food Chain (Part 2)
12. ↑ Chapter 1519: United They Stand (Part 1)