Awakeners

**Awakeners** are people who have special abilities that range from psychic to physical abilities. Little is known about when the first awakener appeared or how they came to exist. Their existence is generally kept a secret from the normal populace and are active in the Awakened World.

## Awakened Energy

The awakeners store **awakened energy** inside a body organ, the **core**. In Korean novels Murim/martial arts the place where the **Ki (awakened energy)** is stored is called "**dantian**".

## Awakener Types

*(PS. The types of awakeners are not officially confirmed by the authors, they are to help better understand the awakeners and awakened abilities of the webtoon.)*

**Physical Awakener** - are awakeners that have awakened energy without attribute and that can strengthen some physical ability. **(Ex. Strength, speed, defense, transformation and etc.)**

**Elemental Awakener** - are awakeners who have awakened energy have some sort of elemental attributes without using an elemental-type force control technique. **(Ex. Electricity, wind, fire, ice, sound and etc.)**

**Mental Awakener** - are awakeners that use awakened energy with the mind being able to manipulate and control objects, animals and people and etc. **(Ex. Animal communion, illusion, analysis, mind reading, tracking and etc.)**

**Special Awakener** - are awakeners that do not fit into any of the other three categories of awakeners. **(Ex. animal Transformation).**

## Awakened Abilities

*Main Article: Abilities*

The powers Awakeners have acquired are known as Awakened Abilities. An awakener can strengthen its ability thorugh training in order to increase its duration, power, intensity and developing new techniques or usages. Force control also plays a huge part in how fast and effectively an ability develops. This is shown with Jiwoo Seo's Super Speed. With constant training and Kayden's force control, he was able to increase the duration and the speed of his ability.

## Awakened World

The Awakened World is another name for the society that awakened people live in. Since the existence of awakeners is kept a secret from the general populace, awakened people live at their fullest in their own society. The Awakened World (as described by Kayden) "is a cutthroat place where many can die if they offend the wrong people". Strength determines an awakener's status in the awakened world.

The Awakened World is split up into territories that are led by the strongest awakeners of their area, notable examples being Suman Kang for Baekdu and Subin's Grandfather for The Union. The strongest awakener of the country has the most authority and influence amongst its awakeners, as they usually handle international business and ward off national threats.

Awakened organizations are vital for awakeners. Being affiliated comports several benefits (force control techniques, social status, protection, training grounds) and usually guarantees the safety of its members, which is essential for new awakened ones. Even though it's possible to not belong to any organization, Independent Awakeners are often judged much more harshly and (unless they're top rankers or deemed incredibly strong) are treated as the scum of the awakened world.

It is assumed that these organizations enforce certain rules on their territory. However, it is unknown whether the awakened world has a specific organization that actively enforces the awakened law or acts as the awakened government. So far, the Awakened Union has shown to be the most similar to the police amongst all known awakened organizations.

Crime in the awakened world is a major issue as many of the criminals are quite strong and form their own criminal associations, one of the most known being the FRAME.

In addition, helping each other or standing up for someone else in the awakened world is not common. As stated by Lia, to awakened ones, their well-being and power are the most important things. Because they live in a world where without power they will be trampled on. It's a world that is not controlled by the common sense and laws of ordinary people. Only the rules made by those with power are the only law. That's why awakened ones will do anything to gain power. And it was the same as protecting the power they already had. Stepping up for someone else is not an option. Because if they make even the smallest mistake, it will cause enormous damage not only to individuals but also to the organizations they belong to.

Rather, betrayal is a common thing, such as betraying organizations, families, and friends to gain power. Therefore, even both Kayden and Kartein said Jiwoo and the others are weird. Because they treat each other equally, and instead of greedily taking more for themselves, they give everything they had and put their own lives on the line to protect each other, even sacrificing themselves for strangers.

## Awakeners' Traditions

Awakeners follow several rules or codes in their society. For one, newly discovered awakeners should be introduced to the awakened world by older/more experienced awakeners. While well established organizations teach new awakeners the ways of the Awakened World, criminal awakeners and corrupted organizations often don't abide by this rule.

Secondly, awakeners usually should stick to their own territory/organization. It is generally frowned upon for awakeners from another organization to go to another territory unannounced. Awakeners who wish to travel to other places must first inform the leader of the organization in charge of the territory they plan to go to.

Injuring normal civilians who don't have any abilities is frowned upon. It is also taboo for awakeners to reveal their powers in public, as the Awakened World and the existence of awakeners are meant to be a secret.

## Ranks List

Global Ranking: *(not in order)*

* Veramonte Patrick (Rank in Top 10)
* Schneider ( Rank in Top 10)
* Supri Baster ( Rank in Top 10)
* Astra (Rank in Top 10)
* Andrei ( Rank in Top 10)
* Pluton (Rank in Top 50)
* Kartein (Top 20th)
* Vatore (Rank in Top 50)
* Seongik Han (Top 50th, retired)
* Kayden (??th Rank in Top 10)
* Lutrein (Rank in Top 10)

South Korea's Top 20 Ranking: *(not in order)*

* Seongik Han (retired, ex-Rank 1st)
* Jiyoung Yoo (Rank 1st)
* Inhyuk Goo
* Seongha Park
* Giwook Jang

South Korea's Top 18-year-old Awakeners: *(not in order)*

* Jisuk Yoo
* Subin Lee
* Gangseok Choi
* Sucheon Kang
* Wooin
* Jiwoo Seo

## Trivia

* Awakeners can live up to 200 years old.
* Awakeners also age slower than normal people. The more powerful you are, the slower you age.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Episode 4
2. ↑ Episode 131
3. ↑ Episode 90