Karma

**Karma** is a source of a being's power, as well as their life force. This is the overall power system in the universe which allows people to use abilities, or, as most people would just call, super powers. It is a vital function, as it is needed for everyday bodily functions in all life forms.

## History

Karma was first discovered in 1251, philosopher monks, doctors and scientists all coming together from all over the world to compare knowledge and come to the realization of what gave humans life. They discovered an essence that is contained within all humans, finding out that after a person died, they lost a very finite amount of weight that was an unknown energy that was lost when their life ended. They named it **Karma**, and it was to be found within all forms of life, human or not. Anything that lived, it held trace amounts of Karma, with humans containing the most. It wasn't until 1254 when Karma was able to be utilized, with a man named Sir Corellas Hart being able to tap into his Karma energy when he witnessed the death of his lover. From his pure willpower and drive to bring her back to life, he was able to unlock his Karma and bring her back to life. Sir Corellas Hart was then titled with, **‘The Aspected One’**, leading all subsequent users of Karma to be known as **The Aspected**.

After Sir Corellas Hart unlocked karma for the first time, many others tried to mimic him. They trained for weeks, months, years - Pushing themselves to the human limit to try and unlock their karma. But all failed. Karma could not be forcibly unlocked, and everyone who tried failed. That was until some time after Corellas, in 1311 when a woman was attacked by a group of thieves who tried to rob her and after she fought back, she was beaten to near death. Just before her death, she unlocked her karma and immediately got up, the spike of Karma induced adrenaline driving her to fight back once again, unlocking a flame power within her to scorch and kill all of the thieves. This was how the second form of karma unlocking was discovered, via **near death experiences**. Many attempted to mimic her unlocking, throwing themselves off of buildings, doing extremely dangerous actions that risked their lives, but all failed once again. Karma can never be forced, it must happen naturally. For the first half of the Aspected, they were shunned from communities, seen as cursed with a power so dangerous and frightening to the majority of normal people that they couldn’t risk that person being near due to their volatility, they had no clue what the Aspected were capable of. Many, though, saw it a different way. They saw them as greater humans, who were blessed with great power, and destined for great things. Come the second half of the Aspected time period, and they had proved that they could be amazing additions to society, their superhuman abilities allowing them to do things that no normal human could accomplish, and with the amount of aspected steadily rising as the years went by, going from 1-2 a century, all the way up to their being thousands and thousands in the modern time, they were seen as more normal as time passed.

## Overview

Karma is not only a potential power, but more importantly, a life force. Everyone has a somewhat innate sense of their limit of karma based on how weak they feel:

* **100-60%:** They will be able to function completely fine. You need at least 60% of your karma available to use karma attacks.

* **59-30%:** The individual will have a little trouble moving around and will tire easier, but it’s nothing significant, though they should find somewhere to replenish their karma, just to be safe.

* **29-11%:** The individual will be even easier to tire than before and will become noticeably weaker. They will have trouble doing basic things and will need Karma replenishing attention ASAP.

* **10-1%:** The individual will be lucky to even be moving or breathing. They will need to have their karma attention prioritized, as when their karma is this low, it will slowly begin to drain, and thus, kill the individual.

* **0%:** Death.

Daesynn Danvers is stuck in between the threshold of 59% and 60% of karma, due to a birth defect in her special karma organ in her heart. She can function and act normally as a human being, but cannot use her karma in any other way but life energy. Luckily, her unique superpower, ‘Karma Magnet’ allows her to absorb the extra 50% of karma into her body that she isn’t able to naturally produce, allowing her to follow in the footsteps of her father and older brothers, by using karma as her main form of attack.

The method to unlock access to Karma to be able to utilise it into powers, you have to go through your first **Awakening**. There are a few recorded methods, ranging in rarity. **Near death** is the most common, large traumatic incident, huge ignition of willpower to accomplish a goal, and the rarest being extensive training to unlock it with no loss and only gain. Once you have awakened and you unlock access to Karma, you are known as an **Aspected**. Your **Aspect** is your power. The aspect itself links to how your character is in that current moment, so that the power links in helping you accomplish that characters goals and ambitions. Karma itself is an internal energy that is in all living organisms, and humans can gain access to that raw energy to utilise it into powers.

**Anatomy**

In the universe, the heart has a special organ inside of it that produces and spreads karma out across the entire body. Just like blood, with every heartbeat, more karma is sent throughout the body. A human heart looks like a normal beating heart, except it has a faint glowing on the inside. That glow is actually the immense aura the individual’s karma organ is giving off; every individual has this special organ that glows, but it's not visible to the human eye.

You can only see pure non-concentrated karma, **Karma Aura,** through special vision. Karma only becomes concentrated when the users want to use it.

## Known Aspects

P³

Graviton Eclipse

Storm Call

Double Peace

Bad Bad Luck

## Known Aspecteds

Unit PXL

Jason Sunstar

Izaiah Graham

Casanova

Calven River

Diana Wilson

Blueshade

etc (ill add more folks when more stuff gets updates)