Though blessed with extraordinary powers and innate talents that filled myriad races with envy, the Naifem are an unfortunate people—and it all boils down to the discrepancies between the Astral Pulse and the Ground Pulse, the Shootings Stars vs. the Caged Birds.
The average Astral Pulse Naifem lived 30 years and died brutally. But in those 30 years, they'd accomplish feats that for other species would count as legendary. Blood Longevity in ten years. Embryonic Wisdom in 30. Divine Power and Dark Glory. One new Divine Secret per decade. The Astral Pulse blitzed through power levels at psychotic speed. Compared to those freaks, Vel was slow.
But it was precisely because of that slower pace that she managed to become a Great Sage—and at a speed that ranked number one anyway. The rest of her fellow Astral Pulse on the other end…don't even get to become Dark Preceptors.
No other Astral Pulse ever managed to.
