Aaru

The Aaru is a mysterious and primordial stream of eternal energy which predates the multiverse itself. The Aaru is the physical manifestation of life energy, from which life spawns and to which life will always return to.

## History

The exact origin of the Aaru is unknown, but it is theorized to have existed far before recorded time. Once, it was undisturbed as it flowed endlessly through the blank canvas that was the darkness of the void, before a mysterious shuddering caused some of its stream to flow off-course, inadvertedly creating the first universe. As a result of these tremors, powerful and enigmatic beings known as the Vdesh spawned from the Aaru as an automated defense mechanism, to attempt to guide the flow from there-on. The Vdesh were the very first lifeforms to ever be created by the Aaru.

As the flow went further and further, more of the stream began to split off and create more and more universes. The Vdesh, noticing these universes and retaining their prime directive to protect the flow of the Aaru, decided to gift their power to worthy beings from these verses in order to bolster their ranks. The people they awarded their power to became the legendary warriors known as the Valkyr.

One Valkyr, Aldruidt, did not agree with the splitting of the Aaru and believed that the only way to truly maintain life was to destroy the universes, as he foresaw that the coming of intelligent thought would signal war, suffering, and the ultimate halting of the flow of the Aaru. He rallied the entire first wave of Valkyr to his cause to try to attempt a rebellion against the Vdesh who opposed him. Severely outnumbered, they called upon the First Valkyr to help them stop Aldruidt. While she was unexpectedly powerful, she was unable to defeat Aldruidt and they had to resort to sealing the rogue Vdesh away in a prison dimension.

## Forms of the Aaru

Over several eons of evolution, the Aaru has taken on many forms and methods of manipulation, relating to the wide berth of its involvement in several of the aspects and laws of the universes it creates:

Stands are the physical manifestations of one’s high spiritual Aaru, but not their aura.

Quirks are the manifestation of high Aaru levels in one’s body.

Abnormalities and Minuses are the manifestation of surplus Aaru in one’s mind.

Nen is the unique manifestation of one’s Aaru, but not the spirit.

Ki is the combined manifestation of internal and external Aaru.

The Force is the ability for one to manipulate the Universe’s raw Aaru directly, unlike Sorcery.

Sorcery is the ability to absorb the Universe’s external Aaru and influence it into other forms, one of the most varied and vague manipulations.

Bending is the ability to manipulate the Aaru that exists within the Universe’s basic elements.

Chakra is the combined manipulation of elemental Aaru and one’s aura.

Senjutsu is a unique, exclusively ‘teachable’ ability that only exists to supplement other manipulations, allowing for the absorption of Aaru from the world around one’s self.

The Infinity Stones are the individual culminations of the most prevalent forms of raw Aaru.

The Culmination of All Manipulations:

As the closest to the Vdesh, Celestials are beings of pure power, possessing extreme amounts of mana in all aspects of their being. This is not a form of mana manipulation, as it does not involve bending mana to one’s will.