Greater Visualization (Path)

## Rewards

**Intermediate rewards:** +2 free Stats every 50 PP.

**Completion rewards:** +50 Willpower, +20 Wisdom. Your skill Visualization had evolved into Greater Visualization (A), but due to synchronicity it became Conviction of the Smiling Horror (L).

## Related notifications

* Congratulations! Your have completed the Greater Visualization Path! There are many Paths forward, but it simply isn’t true that all routes can be traversed by mundane means. The further toward the Pinnacle you travel, the bleaker the terrain becomes. As you walk forward, you pass unmarked graves and shards of broken blades littering the ground. The Path leads forward, yet passing through the broken ground leaves you without sight of your destination.
* Dirt and bones soaked in blood have slowly oxidized, resulting in a vast stretch of grey-green wasteland as you travel upward on this vast slope. As you gaze at the surroundings, it is obvious that this is a playground of disease and death. Fissures into the abyss are laying beyond ever lip of ground, gleefully waiting to take the lives of the unwary. They are so prevalent that you begin to wonder if this vast mountain you have spent so long climbing is hollow.
* And that makes you wonder what forms the foundation of this path toward the Pinnacle.
* Gas seeps upward from cracks in the ground; visibility becomes increasingly scarce as your legs carry you up the slope. If the goal has vanished, you at least trust that upward is forward. With the creeping mist comes an increased danger from the faults in the ground beneath your feet. As your speed slows to avoid danger, silence descends to hush all but the sound of your own breath. Trailing behind you, your shadow laying against the surrounding mist is your only companion in this broken land.
* Yet as you continue upward along the mountain path, the tint of the mist around you changes. While at first appearing to be innocuous steam, it now thickens and curdles like milk left out to sit under the beating sun. The scent of it is heavy and clings to the roof of your mouth as you continue to breathe. The sound of air passing through your throat is rough.
* What follows the curdling of the mist is the darkness. Perhaps it is simply your imagination, but under the cover of the surrounding shroud, a greedy darkness is reaching its cold fingers out to grasp at your flickering life. Its long tongue slips up through the gashes in the ground and laps up your sweat.
* But the darkness is not even the final shift. As the mist around you deepens and darkness begins to dance, your shadow steadily twists and shudders. Its joints silently twitch. One sharp, broken movement at a time, it warps into a monster. Each of your breaths cause the twisted creature trailing behind you to shudder with repressed hatred. The change weighs on your mind.
* To reach this place… have you become… a monster…?
* Yet you cannot stop now. Take this gift, so that your corpse might trudge just a little further into the grip of the darkness before it collapses and feeds the horror that slumbers here.

## Notes

* This Path opened when the skill Visualization reached 300th level.