Essence of the God-Machine
By drinking this strange concoction of oil, gears and metaphysical engineering, you become the God Machine, an overarching occult architecture for any reality you inhabit.
• This does not mean you are necessarily omnipotent and you do require proper Infrastructure and Angels in order to serve your purposes. However, you have access to a baseline of all Embeds and Exploits from the Demon: The Descent line along with the Angelic versions of these powers, but these tools may be expanded with your own developments. You by fiat have unlimited Aetheric energy, allowing you to power all of this, and more.
• Your true form has been remade into an idealized state that is fundamentally post-human and perfected. You are capable of retooling and shapeshifting this into anything necessary for your purposes within an instant, but are initially limited to what is available from the Demon: The Descent line. If your form is destroyed, rendered inoperable or simply damaged, you may reform and regenerate it, with the time involved relating to the level of damage, the Infrastructure available, and your overall metaphysical power. You may form additional bodies that you directly control as well, with the same limiting factors. This isn't your human form though it may naturally look human and you won't beep on metal detectors, but it will thus read as inhuman in some way.
• This is solved by your ability to form Covers, lives and backstories that ingrain themselves into reality itself, that can stand any test that tries to disprove your humanity besides actions that go against what people would normally think your Cover would do. You gain an initial Cover of your choice, whether it be your original life or an idealized one in reality, replacing a character or making your own original character in a reality based on fiction, or something else. You may form multiple Covers which act in accordance with your will and in perfect synchronicity with the identity, even if you ignore it, thus your Cover will show up for their job and work without you having to go through the trouble of actually doing so.
• Your mental faculties are optimized along the lines of a computer, with your perfect memory, natural ability to communicate and understand in all languages, immense multitasking capabilities, and near-instantaneous calculative ability being exemplary. Your mind gains perfect control over your body, capable of displaying any necessary body language, brain activity, thought patterns and more. It is impossible for someone to know if you are being deceptive unless they have evidence to the contrary and they will be very much inclined to thinking that you believe in what you are saying or doing.
• You may form Angels to carry out your will which are unable to fall or go against your will, unless you allow it. These Angels are subordinate intelligences which you may analyze and know the content of every thought and possibly feeling, but they may be optionally non-sentient yet capable of acting with intelligence. Your Angel construction capacity is in line with how powerful the Angel you are creating is and the Infrastructure you have available as well as your metaphysical power
• You may establish reality-warping Pacts, whereby establishing a contract with another, you and the other party may receive benefits as well as terms. This scales with your metaphysical power, but initially you may grant someone riches beyond compare or immense beauty in exchange for a favor (which may be kept deliberately vague in order to gain far more). If the contract is broken by either side, then you or the other party will suffer a comparable punishment for doing so, depending on how serious it is and how much reality-warping was done. This usually will inflict itself as damage to Infrastructure or their body, which bypasses immunities and resistances.
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Essence of the「 」
By consuming this colorless, odorless, unobservable, and incomprehensible essence you will become a new「 」entity. A「 」entity is a「 」with its own sense of self. The「 」is separate, but otherwise the same「 」as the one in the Nasuverse. It is the metaphysical "force/location" that exists beyond everything else in the entire Nasuverse, transcendent of reality, dualistic function, and all concepts. It stores and archives all possible information, and is both the origin and endpoint of everything in existence.
Though your 「Akashic Record」 comes with an archive of everything in the Nasuverse, it will also automatically record and archive any and all information of every other setting you visit.
This not only gives you access to every power and ability in the Nasuverse (ex: Authority, Noble Phantasm, Magecraft, True Magic, Skill, Reality Marble, Marble Phantasm, Knight Arm, Code Cast, Mystic Eye, etc.), but also all the powers and abilities of every other setting you visit and archive as well.
You also have administrative rights over all these powers, allowing you to customize them as you please: You can increase or decrease their rank, add or remove their limitation/side effect/requirement/restriction, combine multiple powers regardless of whether they're from the same verse or not, you can even jailbreak them to perform beyond what they were originally capable of (ex: increasing the range and potency of your power).
You can conjure a perfect recreation of anything and everything ever recorded by your 「 」, be it people, places, or things.
As a「 」entity you function identically to the「 」in Nasuverse with the exception of a few added bonuses.
Normally those who touch the「 」and become a new「 」would lose their sense of self, becoming completely apathetic to everything else. But you will be one of the few who are able to maintain their sense of self along with everything else (ex: personality, will, emotion, passion, etc.) and they are refer to as「 」 entities.
Like all other「 」and「 」entities, you can create your own setting contain within your now boundless inner world, you have complete control over everything from Origins, Concepts, and Laws to People, Places, Things, and Events.
You get to decide how things work in your setting like the nature of souls, the powers and abilities that can be learn/obtain/born with, the kinds of life that will arise, and so on so forth. You can also bring things out or toss things in as you please.
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Essence of Babel
Drinking this strange essence that smells like glue and tastes like old paper bestows you with the status of the sole Head Librarian of the Library of Babel.
• The Library of Babel is a thought experiment by the Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges. It is a nearly infinite library containing a nearly infinite number of books. Enough books to contain every single possible combination of alphanumeric symbols in the modern English language. As such, the Library of Babel contains all the knowledge in the world, but obscures this knowledge in a veil of nonsensical babble. Since the vast majority of letter combinations are nonsense, for example "wofich", the vast majority of books in the Library contain absolute nonsense, with perhaps a few actual words sprinkled in among the meaningless gibberish.
• As the sole Head Librarian of Babel, you possess access to the Library's index, a list of every single book in the Library. Although this index alone would contain enough information to drown a universe in text, it is somehow contained within a small slip of paper. This index is semi-precognitive, and is capable of deducing what book you wish to read before you even know you want to read it. Thus, whenever you look at the index you will always see the title of the book you wish to read. To reach it, simply walk through the Library for a minute's worth of time and you will end up in front of the shelf containing the book.
• What use is the grandest library in the world without the time to read it? You are now incapable of dying for as long as you have yet to complete every single tome within the cosmic-sized halls of Babel. Whenever you suffer an injury, you will be instantly healed back to full health. In exchange, every time you are healed, a single letter in a single book somewhere in the Library will be erased from the surface of its page. The severity of the injury does not increase the number of letters erased, every injury no matter how small or large only erases 1 letter. You may repair this damage simply by writing the letters back into the books with a pen or pencil.
• The largest Library in the world also holds the most amount of knowledge in the world. And as Terry Pratchett once said, Knowledge equals Power equals Energy equals Mass equals Gravity. The sheer quantity of data within the Library generates a unique metaphysical gravity that warps the environs of the Library, creating a separate dimension known as L-Space. Through L-Space, you are able to travel to any location in the Library simply by walking randomly through its halls. L-space also enables you to exit the Library, appearing wherever a book is present. Although you will only be able to access the Library via a book at first, as you read more books and store more information in your head you will gradually reach a critical point, allowing you to enter L-Space at will without any need for a book.
• The Library of Babel, though immense, is incomplete. Its books contain only the letters of the English alphabet, the 10 Arabic numerals, and punctuation. You may choose to expand its archives by donating books it does not have yet. Each book you donate to the Library grants you a Nomicon in exchange, a tome of great magical power. Containing words written in eldritch script, completing a Nomicon grants you the magical abilities described within its pages. For instance, reading the Necronomicon would grant you magics of death, whereas the Pyronomicon would grant you magics of fire. These Nomicons come in a series of never ending volumes, and each one you increases your magical potential.
• Through your authority as the Head Librarian, you may bring others into the Library by giving them a library card, designating them as readers. This card cannot be used by anyone other than the person you gave it to, and cannot be lost either. By holding the card in their hands and thinking of a book title, the reader will be transported into the Library, standing in front of the shelf containing the book they were thinking of. However, they are only able to enter the Library as long as you are inside the Library. When you are in the real world, the cards will become blank slips of plastic. Those you designate as readers have 3 tiers, Bronze, Silver, and Gold. Bronze readers may only enter the Library to read normal books. Silver readers may enjoy the immortality benefits that you enjoy as well. Gold readers can read the Nomicons that you obtain from your book donations and gain magical powers.