Essence of the Samurai
By imbibing the Essence of the Samurai, you gain several powerful boons:
Cybernetic Transformation: Your body becomes a self-repairing, cybernetic entity, capable of regenerating all damage, including regrowing limbs in minutes. Acknowledge defeat, and regeneration ceases.
The Key: Your core is a metallic spinal column known as the Key, with your soul housed in a black box. You can connect to any device for data transfer by extending the Key.
Enhanced Stats: Your capabilities are measured in several stats: Strength, Speed, Technical Skill, Intelligence, Gravity (natural attraction to significant events), Key Holder, Heroism, and Charisma. These stats determine your skill learning potential.
Sword Mastery: While wielding a sword, you can perform incredible feats of strength and precision, capable of cutting through heavy armor without harm to its occupants.
H-Particle Control: Manipulate concepts of connection and severance, enabling upgrades to mechanical beings (Holders) into Key Holders.
Custom Key Holder: Design your own Key Holder, which can transform into samurai armor and additional weapons. This Holder armor protects against conventional attacks and grants a bone hilt.
True Sword: Use your bone hilt to extract your soul and transform it into a lightsaber katana known as the True Sword, capable of cutting through Holder Armor.
Ship Holder: Acquire a Ship Holder with FTL capabilities, capable of carrying you and passengers across the galaxy. It can mentally be manipulated and transformed into mech-sized armor for you.
Soul Generation: Over time, generate additional souls for various techniques, including the Incarnate Body, creating clones of yourself, and imbuing pieces of your soul with special powers for others.
Samurai Knowledge: Gain access to the knowledge of five Samurai schools, each offering unique skills and techniques. Skills are influenced by your stats, and learning them incurs Stress on your Key.
Kongou Yasha: Sword techniques that can transform Holder Armor into firearms.
Gozanze: Techniques for transforming your True Sword into various weapons.
Gundari: Hidden weapon techniques that utilize your cybernetic body.
Daiitoku: Transform Holder Armor into extra limbs or body parts.
Ususama: Space-warping abilities with techniques named after cats.
School Combination: Combine skills from different schools for powerful effects, such as warping enemies and severing their connections to their Holders.
Ultimate Skills: The most powerful skills from each school inflict 0 Stress but require all stats to reach Infinity to learn.
Destined Relationship: Fate draws you toward a compatible person, your Princess, whose prayers can multiply your stats based on your Heroism. Nurture this relationship, as neglect can lead to its end. Your Gravity will help you find another if needed.