Force of Evolution

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## Pathway

### High Sequence Group

Desert
Jungle
Trench

### Sefirot?

Element Core

**Force of Evolution** is the title of the Above the Sequence for the Desert, Jungle, and Trench pathways.

## Honorific Names

* Main Honorific

"Force of Evolution;

Alteration of Elements;

The Emergent Composition;

Incarnation of Nature."

## Formula

Become the Sequence 0 of either the **Desert**, **Jungle**, or **Trench** pathways.

Master and Accommodate:

* Element Core
* The **Uniqueness** for each adjacent pathway of the group.
* One Sequence 1 Characteristic for each adjacent pathway of the group (Resource Pharaoh, Envoy of Emergence, Heart of Alteration).

## Power & Abilities

A Sequence 0: Jungle with some degree of control of the Element Core can grant portions of the **Desert**, **Jungle**, or **Trench** authorities to "their" sequence 1 **Twisted Boons**, allowing them to reach the level of **Kings of Angels**. If the **Jungle** has neighboring authorities, "their" **Twisted Boons** can reach even higher levels, though increasing levels of power are larger burdens.

A Sequence 0: Trench is the most suitable pathway to accommodate the **Element Core** due to the combination of the **Natural Process** and **Ancient Manifestation** authorities. The **Natural Process** of the awakening of the Oldest One can be suppressed, while **Ancient Manifestation** can strengthen the humanity and mental status of the **Trench**. Once with control of the **Element Core**, if the **Trench** had once been the **Force of Evolution**, the **Trench** can use **Ancient Manifestation** to regain some of "their" past strength and authorities temporarily.

## Development and Design

### Symbolism

Aspects of Nature relating to Life and Birth have already been taken by the Mother Goddess of Depravity, so Force of Evolution deals with the other aspects of Nature not really covered by the existing pathways. Most clearly, Nature is full of environments with natural selective pressures, but it also transforms the unliving in various ways, which helps maintain the Natural Order for the creatures to live with. In the end, combined with the Life that already exists, a complex soup of different individuals, environments, and materials all combine together to cause something completely new to Emerge. That Emergent Property could be called Nature.

### Foil To God Almighty

It's a pretty common opinion in academia that the Abrahamic religions has led to the exploitation of natural environments IRL, and this idea bleeds over to the Tyrant pathway in LOTM, which deals majorly with dominance over nature. So, I thought there was a decent amount of room with nature symbolism to play around with this relationship between God Almighty and Nature.

* The Desert pathway foils the Hanged Man pathway, as the Hanged Man's omnipotence is challenged by the Desert's universal Drought of abilities. Also, the Desert's testing of creatures in disasters differs form how the Hanged Man's deals with their subjects (by shepherding).
* The Jungle pathway's attempts to create unpredictability (even to the Jungle themselves) in all beings challenges the Visionary, who attempts to understand and manipulate everybody.
* The Trench pathway's intuition introduces a different approach to understanding the world as compared to the White Tower's logic and rationality, eventually leading to two different forms of omniscience. At higher levels, the White Tower attempts to understand the Natural Order, while the Trench pathway is perpetuating a Natural Order that cannot be pried into easily (Trenches are dark).

Note how Force of Evolution has no direct answers to the Sun and Tyrant pathways. This is mostly because the Sun and Tyrant pathways are more connected to nature than the others, making antagonists to these more difficult to create. I also view Force of Evolution as being pretty complete as is.