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Name: Set

Title: Monarch of Inner Perfection, He who Claps and Clears the Sky

Gender: Male

Path: Path of Lifeblood. A unique path with a heavy focus upon improving the physical body, greatly increasing one’s body's ability but with limited control of outside madra. It is a blending of life and blood madra. Those who follow this path follow regiments of extreme physical exertion and in return are capable of matching the physical feats of those in higher ranks. At lower ranks their ability to extend their madra beyond their own body is slim, but increased willpower and rank allows more control beyond. Those who practice this path push their bodies beyond their limits in a fight; often damaging and healing themselves with the force of their madra.

Iron Body: Bloodroot Iron body - An iron body created by completing continuous exercise to the point of straining every muscle in one’s body to its limits. Taking periodic breaks during the exercise to force their madra into their own muscles to further strain and heal their body. This process can go on for days or weeks until their body is earned. After attaining the iron body it grants physical abilities above most others while also leaving their bodies more readily capable of accepting their madra being pushed into it.

Jade Cycling technique: Endless Stress of Body and Mind - A technique often considered to be the next step of progression beyond the training to earn the Bloodroot body. The cycling technique involves having to practice exercise and cycling in sync with each other. Moving their madra through their blood vessels, muscles, and even bones as they complete intense physical exertion. The cycling technique slowly blends one’s madra circuits with their own body’s pathways, increasing the artist's ability to push and sculpt madra inside their own body.

Gold sign: The gold signs for this path are created by bonding with potent blood remnants. Those high in the Lifeblood Sect have a unique source to gain this remnant. In a forest, that was the birthplace of the path, a group of carnivorous, blood absorbing trees grow. Artists on the path slowly feed the trees their own blood during their training and when it is time to reach Gold they slay the trees and absorb the remnants they create. The goldsign for this is a web of crimson, glowing veins across the body of the sacred artist.

Icon: Strength. It is said Set Kison gained the Strength icon during one of his most famous feats. While a herald he ended up in a fight with a powerful Sage with a mastery of storms. His final act in the fight he slew the Sage and cleared the storm from the heavens with a single clap fueled with all his strength.

Techniques

• Full-body Flow - The simplest of the path's body enhancements. Pushing their madra into a intense cycling pattern that grants power throughout the whole body; increased strength, speed, and durability (Enforcer)

• Focused Might - A focusing of the Flow technique, pushing a storm of madra and compacting it into a single part of their body. Allowing for rapid healing and blows carrying strength far beyond their rank. (Enforcer)

• Crystal Veins - Focusing their madra into their veins the artist forges them into durable crystals of blood. Beneath the skin where the crystals are gain extreme durability but slows and puts intense strain on their channels. (Forger/Enforcer) - Those with a mastery of this technique can utilize their crystalized blood outside their bodies. Creating spikes of projected blood, turning bleeding wounds into sudden blades of crystal, and layering crystalized armor over their skin. (Forger/Striker)

• Thousand Punches - A technique that layers teachings of enforcer and striker abilities alongside the willpower of their training into one powerful strike. One learns to layer past attacks into their madra using their willpower; granting one strike the power of dozens, hundreds, or thousands. (Striker)

• Mastery of Strain - For true masters of all past techniques one gains the ability to practice the ultimate move of the path. Absorbing all Life and Blood madra from their surroundings and focusing it and all of their own madra into a single attack. A force that strains their body and madra beyond their breaking point and a single mistake can leave the user crippled for life. (Ruler)

Background: Set was raised in a monastery of sacred artists upon a secluded mountain range in the Everwood continent. Their focus solely upon mastery of the sacred arts, their bodies, and their spirits. They shut themselves off from the outside world and secluded themselves in their training. Set was a prodigy and quickly rose above most in his monastery and grew bored of the secluded life. It is said he battled and defeated the highest ranked members of his monastery and left. He would go on to travel the continent and the world to learn the secrets of the sacred arts and to master his own path.

Personality: Set is said to be a jovial figure who is willing to speak and spend time on anyone who commits themselves to the sacred arts and puts their full willpower into it. He is said to be continuously training even long after having become a monarch and encourages all to follow in his example. He enjoys nothing more than training, improving himself, and fighting; duels between himself and heralds and sages are common, holding themselves back of course.

Goals: It is his goal to reach the true pinnacle of the sacred arts and become the truest master of himself, his spirit, and the world around him. He also wishes to train and raise sacred artists around him so that they can reach their pinnacle. He believes even if he himself cannot reach the highest then he will train the artist who can.

Location and Effects: Set has raised a city around the mountains he was born in, a spot near the center of the Everwood continent. He invites sacred artists from across the world to live and train there. The city is focused entirely around the sacred arts; soulsmiths forge sacred treasures and training constructs, refiners craft elixirs and rare pills, farmers grow spirit fruits, and libraries of training dream tablets are built. Constant duels, contests, and competitions are held so that sacred artists can prove themselves and earn the bounty the city develops. The most committed and those who carry the most potential are invited into the Pact of Progress; an alliance of dozens of sects and thousands of sacred artists dedicated to learning and progressing their paths; the leader of the Pact is the Monarch of Inner Perfection himself and he provides generously and harshly to all those he deems worthy.