Dragon Authority of Lust

The **Authority of Lust** (色欲の権能 Shikiyoku no Ken'nō) is the authority possessed formerly by Theresa, the **Dragon of Lust** and now by ??? The Dragon Bishop of Lust. Unlike the canonical Authority of Lust the Authority focuses less on appearance and attraction and more on self-obsession and the desire for connection and procreation.

## **Theresa's Authority**

The Lust Dragon Theresa's Authority manifests as 4 seemingly distinct but related powers which allowed her to become such an influential entity that her influence on the world persists long after her depature.

* **Touch the Hearts of Men.** The primary ability of the Authority of Lust for the dragon, and the foundation upon which the others are built. It is an ability which allows the dragon to **literally** touch the hearts of anything they come in contact with, including themselves. What this translates to is that the Dragon of Lust is able to physically interact with a person's soul or the spiritual body of a spirit for a variety of effects.
	+ **Beating Heart.** By using her Authority of Lust the Dragon is able to remove a part of a person's heart, their soul, without hurting or impairing them much, by doing this to 2 entities the Dragon of Lust is able to merge both soul pieces and create an entirely new kind of full fledged spirit, colloquially known as a **Wyrmborn**. The newly formed spirit will create a womb for itself to evolve and grow, constantly draining the mana from the environment to sustain the womb and grow its own body and once enough time has passed a new creature will emerge with characteristics from both "parents" but being a spirit they will often not be of the same species as their "parents".
	+ **Heartbreak.** By using her Authority of Lust the Dragon is able to directly touch and thus crush, stab, punch or otherwise harm someone's heart and thus their soul. By using her Authority the Dragon is able to crush minute and quasi spirits like bugs between her fingers and inflict damage which can only be restored with spirit arts to other beings.
	+ **Heartburn.** By using her ability on herself the Dragon of Lust is able to splinter her heart, and thus her soul, discarding the bits of herself she does not love into a **red** quasi spirit which will eventually grow into a full fledged spirit reminiscent of the dragon. These new spirits are imperfect copies of the Witch herself and possess many of her abilities despite being merely shells of her, with exaggerated features signifying that which the witch has discarded. Whenever the Witch discards something from her heart she permanently loses it, she is able to make use of this ability to change both her physical body and mind. Should the witch die her authority primarily jumps to one of her many splinters.
		- **Inheritances of Lust.** By splintering her soul the Dragon Theresa was able to also "splinter" some of the infinite potential of the Authority of Lust and through the mechanisms of her Authority also link this "splinter of Authority" intrinsically into the new spirits the Authority created, the end result of this process is that each of the fire spirits naturally possesses an Authority of Lust like ability, but on a much smaller scale of effect and power than a full fledged authority. These Authority of Lust like abilities are referred to as the **Inheritances of Lust** and are the main ability of the wyrmwidows.

### ***Wyrmborn***

The **Wyrmborn** is the name given to the spirits created by the **Beating Heart** ability of the Dragon of Lust in the past. Most Wyrmborn were created by Theresa as a trade for riches or for worship, but a few of them were made out of charity for couples who had travelled long distances for a chance of bearing children when otherwise they would be unable to. The oldest Wyrmborn would be now hundreds of years old and the youngest would be about as old as the Lust Dragon has been dead.

#### **Traits**

There is no specific set of traits which can be attributed to the Wyrmborn other than every single one of them is indisputably a spirit even if they appear humanoid, and as such possess the properties of a spirit on top of all the properties and abilities they inherited from each of their parents in their physical form. Because their creation involves forging a new spirit from bits of soul the Wyrmborn often are born with knowledge, abilities and other things their parents would normally not be able to pass down to their children, including tattoos, plastic surgery and other bodily alterations.

### ***Wyrmwidow***

The **Wyrmwidow** is the name given to the various splinters of Theresa's soul created by her **Heartburn** ability. Most wyrmwidows have been slain by the Dragon Cult in search of the Dragon Authority of Lust which transfers to the Wyrmwidows when the current wielder dies, but after finally managing to acquire a compatible host the cult has since seized their hunting.

#### **Appearance**

Because the wyrmwidows are splinters of Theresa's own soul they are fire aligned spirits with physical bodies similar to Theresa's at the various points in her life, and each can be easily identified by a particularly exaggerated feature of their body which represents which part of herself Theresa sought to abandon when creating this Wyrmwidow. It is possible to tell which Wyrmwidow is older by looking at which Wyrmwidow is closest to the final appeareance of Theresa before her death, since the wyrmwidow's appearance is a bad copy by Theresa's appearance during their time of creation.

#### **Powers**

Each Wyrmwidow possess an **Inheritence of Lust** which allows them to survive and even thrive in the world, as well as the capability of using Fire magic and fire based spirits arts due to being powerful Red Spirits themselves. It is by using these powers and the draconic might of their physical bodies that the Wyrmwidows have been able to survive longer than their "mother" the Lust Dragon Theresa did.

#### **Known Wyrmwidows**

The following is a list of known Wyrmwidows:

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