The Cosmic Essences

The Cosmic Essences
"When one looks to the stars and sees the long-dead light of once-living forms of energy, they forgo the idea that it is alive. They accept it's existence, but never think if it may have some sort of mind of its own." ~ Unknown


Home Planet
The Cosmic Wellspring

Starting Power Level
5,000 - 7,000

Appearance
The Essences themselves do not necessarily have an appearance, per say, but rather a manifestation of their existence in the form of cosmic energy that is represented by what they stand for and are fueled by. The Essence of Order being a burning golden-white light of indescribable justice, while the Essence of Chaos is a deep, foreboding void of chaotic death that consumes all who view it. Their truest forms being that of alien geometries, figures far outside of the spanning of mortal consciousness. The incorporeal forms of an Essence would prove dangerous to the mind of a Mortal being.
However, there are two instances where an Essence may have a form. When an Essence is possessing the body of a mortal creature, where it assumes the actual body of said creature and does not show any semblance of itself through it (aside from its immortality), as well as by using its energy to create its very own physical manifestation. The latter being the most difficult to do, as it is creating a body where none previously existed out of mental constructs. When an Essence uses the body of a mortal, its mental and physical aspects overlay that of the creature it inhabits, reducing its previous racial and genetic traits null and void to the inhabitor. A Saiyan possessed by an Essence would never become an Oozaru under the full moon.
'Appearances' of their astral forms


History
Long, long ago, born from the branches of nothingness brought on by the primordial soup that was the universe, the Cosmic Essences were born from the Cosmic Wellspring. Seven of these beings have existed since the start of time and existence itself (Order, Chaos, Null, Fire, Water, Earth, and Air), being a fundamental part of the cosmic equilibrium. Each Cosmic Essence first formed during the dawn of the universes themselves when the Wellspring sprouted in the very precipice of all the universes, expelling elemental energy such as Magic and Ki. The Cosmic Essences held no true physical form, being the embodiments of their specific condition, but held within themselves powers unrivaled in their ability to command their specific source.
However, after the forming of the universal governance, they were deemed too hostile by the afterlife’s attendants, and it has been said that the entire species as a whole has since disappeared. Most of them believed to have been killed off by the attendants. However, it is speculated that a few remain, dormant and locked permanently from their once great and luxurious powers, hoping for a day to return to the immortal realms and seek their vengeance on the horrid Kais that put them where they are now.

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Racial Biology

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Eldritch Life Force
Due to their nature of being inexorably ancient and before the concept of Ki, Power Levels, and other conventional forms of increasing one's potential, they were fueled purely on primal cosmic energy. This energy is sense-able by conventional means, however it cannot be accurately scanned by machines as all attempts give numbers wildly off the charts. If someone attempted to sense their power or species using a technique, they'd be hit with a sense of cosmic dread that would haunt them with severe traumatic stress. This, however, can be stopped by the Essence manually as to not affect certain individuals they deem worthy or friendly. This cannot affect other Essences. [SP below]
[SP]Eldritch Life Force: By forcing their true existence onto their opponent when being sensed, it forces the opponent into a five turn bout of uncontrollable rage caused by the trauma of witnessing such cosmic horror. [Forces opponent into an uncontrollable rage for 5 turns if sensed by them using a natural technique, not a scouter/machine.] [Only works on someone once per thread before they learn their lesson] [Only one use before 50k, before getting another use, and receiving one more use every 100k afterwards with a maximum of 5 uses per thread].

Primal Knowledge
By reducing their power level in increments of 25% (capping at 75%), for every increment dropped they can add an additional 10% (capping at 30%) to their Ki OR Stamina. For every increment dropped they gained an additional 5% power level game (capped at 15%) at the end of the thread. [This has to be specified at the start the thread and if taken out of, bonuses are lost. Must retain throughout the entire thread and cannot increase/decrease increments throughout the thread.]

Genetic Memory
The Essences are not a common memory by current standards, but species definitely do recognize superior beings when they hear one. By speaking the native tongue of the Essences, any enemy of ANY species instantly goes into a fight-or-flight response in their head, forcing their body to return to long to extremely long range from the Essence. Even if they do not understand why themselves, their body and all senses in the enemy will keep informing them that they are in the presence of something they do not want to get caught messing around with, and should they ignore their genetic memory demanding they leave, they may find themselves fighting their own body and emotions as well as the Essence. [Enemies caught 'hearing' an Essence using this racial become agitated and begin to subconsciously fear the Essence without substantial reasoning. Every turn after the initial speech will slowly begin to make the enemy see the Essence as more and more powerful, fearful, and dangerous despite zero changes on the Essence themselves.]

Ability to Hybridize
Complicated, but Yes, to a degree.
The Essence cannot in-and-of themselves breed. They're amorphous, asexual, and omnipresent deities. They can only produce offspring through cosmic offshoots, such as Arcana's children of Chaos, the Born of Negativities. However, when an Essence inhabits a mortal body, they can reproduce with another similar member of the species like any normal member of that species and produce offspring. These children are no different from their normal appearances, and only possess latent (but dominant) Essence genetic code. This gives them the following Racial on top of their original species racials. (Requires permission from the current owner of the Essence to be their child.)

Born of the Wellspring
Due to odd circumstances and the sheer amazement of your ancestors, you're filled with a ripe amount of Cosmic energy inside of your body. Due to this, you attain a portion of the power of your ancestors before you. This comes in the form of your ability to tap into the primal energy that coincides with your heritage to use primal energy techniques. Techniques using primal energy can be sensed like any normal technique, except its power and intent is hidden behind a shroud of cosmic horror, preventing any would-be defender from attempting to scan the power of the attack to defend accordingly. It's all up in the air from there!

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Transformations

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Due to the nature of Cosmic Essences, their first two transformations (aside from all beastials and berserker forms) will be identical to the ones of the race they inhabit, though with a flair to match the scheme of the Essence in question. The following forms are the ones that exceed the first two forms, once they have been reached by their specific Essence in mortal form.

God Head [250,000 Power Level Required]
Having finally reached a suitable power to once again tap into the Wellspring, the body of the host will begin to deteriorate away a fraction, small pieces of skin falling off to reveal what looks like a galaxy below the skin.
[x22 Perm]

Divinitas [375,000 Power Level Required]
Feeling more and more of their energy return to their body, slowly destroying the outer layers of their mortal form, the skin would begin to deteriorate more and more on the host body, showing galactic skin below. Stars and galaxies in their flesh moving about like fish in a pond. Their eyes completely disappearing and appearing just as a burning sensation of light.
[x33 Perm]

Pater Omnium [500,000 Power Level Required]
Finally reaching the maximum capabilities the mortal body can take of Cosmic Energy, bringing their body to completely reject the external bits to their mortal form, reverting to a disgusting mass of galactic energy shaped like their host species, organs and other such bits inside floating aimlessly. A total lack of eyes, a mouth, nose, etc gives an extremely uncomfortable appearance for those of the same race as the host.
[x65 Perm]


Deus Ex Machina [650,000 Power Level Required]
Rejecting everything about the host and simply holding onto their intertwined soul inside of them, the total abandoning of all organs and fleshy parts of the body, the Cosmic Essence becomes a being of solid cosmic energy and mass, looking more along the lines of the outline of their host species with a more spacial physical appearance. It is impossible to hide this physical feature.
[x70 Perm]

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God Forms

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Restoration Path

Archetypon Ex Corpis [750,000 Power Level Required]
Destroying your once old body and returning to the way things were before you were banished away, you forgo future training and potential mortal growth to accept the massive original strength you were born to always contain. Your omnipresence lacking and destructive capabilities severely out of order, you're a husk of what you were once... But you're now yourself again.
[x87 Perm, Requires a wish on the Dragon Balls to change paths]