Septima

## The Lifewave

An abstract, almost spiritual concept. Described as the "force of nature which connects all living things in this world"1.

Several researchers have investigated this phenomenon for ages, they concluded there were seven stages of the Lifewave. Primordial, Diploid, Trinary, Tetrad, Quinary, Senary, and Septimal. Depending on the stage a being is born, they may develop different physical and mental capabilities.

They are all increasingly rare, most people are born into the Primordial, Diploid, Trinary or Tetrad stages, those who are born in the Tetrad stage usually possess supernatural powers beyond your average human. There have been cases of people who have access to the supernatural being born in a Trinary stage, however, this is exceedingly rare and it's considered an inconvenience, a limiter of sorts. The most powerful supernatural beings are usually those born into the Quinary stage.

Beings born into the Senary stage are often considered "divine", holy beings.

Septimal beings (referred to as adepts) often have abilities beyond the supernatural, such as manipulating vectors, matter, the minds of other septimal beings, etc.

Theoretically, it could be possible to ascend even further, as there could be further stages that haven't been found or researched yet. If enlightened people do exist, they are possibly practically impossible to find, for they would be ridiculously rare. (Wip, do not include this in rp yet, this topic gotta be discussed first)

## Septima

Septimal abilities tend to first appear on people below ten years old who have been born into the Septimal stage.

Several groups have attempted to utilize adepts in many different ways, most notably, power generators, mind-controlling machines, soldiers and test subjects for septimal research. Though opinions are divided on whether it's safe or ethical.

The first adept depends on universe and chance, most of the time is either an adept with the Azure Striker or Psychokinesis Septima.

There have been successful attempts at creating artificial adepts by experimenting on people with septimal compatibility. Though most of the time whether the process succeeds or not is based entirely on chance, as implanting the wrong Septima on the wrong person can have disastrous consequences, laboratories burnt, hundreds of researchers killed in a rampage, cities turned to ashes, etcetera.

It is said that Septima is greatly influenced by the user’s mental state as well. So it’s very hard to perform brainwashing on the user when the Septima is on a rampage or when the user’s personality hasn’t been erased.

## Armed Phenomenon and storing Septimosomes

### Armed Phenomenon

Also known as weaponization, the act of using a Septimal compatible device as fusion material to change an adept's body structure, augmenting their capabilities.

### Types of containers

Research institutions have managed to create containers able to hold Septimosomes, an adept's septimal power.

#### Glaives

One such container would be a glaive, glaives are mostly used as control devices to control adepts and make sure they don't go haywire, they are also used to contain Septimas that are overwhelmingly powerful. If a single glaive is not enough, one can use sub-glaives, even then some adepts have been known to use two sub-glaives and still retain a fraction of their powers without using them.

If using a glaive, it will perform an Armed Phenomenon in which the glaive's energy will fuse with the user together with the glaive itself, this will also equip the adept with armour designed to make the most out of their combat abilities.

Glaives are known to have side-effects unless your septimal energy is overwhelming, using septimal abilities without the glaive will cause strain on the body, there are also psychological effects too, in some cases a glaive can twist your personality to extremes while activated or reduce its presence while inactive.

Glaives resemble swords, and adepts usually name them like swords. Each glaive is unique to each adept, and unless your Septima is exactly the same, you will not be able to activate it, which also means its theoretically possible to steal glaives with a lot of luck, and there's perhaps means to acquire someone else's Septima.

#### Grimoires

Another kind of container created by researchers were the Grimoires, these would not actually hold back the adept's Septima, as they were built for the sole purpose of empowering adepts through an upgraded Armed Phenomenon.

The use of grimoires is mostly discontinued after whoever finds/creates them tests their creation, not only does it make adepts even more dangerous than a glaive's Armed Phenomenon, there's no way to control it's activation and the process of creation is highly unethical.

#### Quills

The better successor of the glaives, these did not restrict an adept's Septimal powers, but they offered a higher degree of control over the Armed Phenomenon. If given by an institution, you can be assured while they can be mass-produced, they will not just hand out quills to just about everyone. It's Armed Phenomenon is greater than that of a glaive.

Just like with glaives, it is not possible to utilize someone else's quill.

## ***Disclaimer***

For rp purposes, whenever a chanted Septima skill is used, the chant is uttered instantly and the skill begins immediately after.

Also, no, the Lifewave is NOT energy, despite what the sentence "force of nature which connects all living things in this world" may lead you to believe, the "force" is not referring to energy.