Progression of Rule Indescribable
Level 1 - Whisper of Death
Effect: Anyone who learns the protagonist's true name and seen him once suffers excruciating physical pain, their bodies contorting and writhing uncontrollably. The pain often leads to heart failure or complete paralysis of the body, followed by death if they try to act on this knowledge.
Control: The protagonist can suppress the effect but only for brief moments, and attempting to do so may cause severe physical backlash to them.
Fatality: Nearly guaranteed death if the name is weaponized. The curse also prevents the dead from being resurrected by normal means.
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Level 2 - Curse of Knowing
Effect: Any individual who gains personal knowledge of the protagonist's identity (such as their appearance, voice, or past) begins to physically rot and disintegrate from the inside out. Their organs decay rapidly, and they experience agonizing spasms as their mind unravels, eventually losing their will to live. The longer they dwell on this knowledge, the faster they deteriorate.
Control: The protagonist can halt the decay temporarily, but each time they do, the curse strengthens, becoming even more painful for those affected.
Fatality: Victims die within hours or days, and their bodies deteriorate to the point where they can no longer be identified, leaving nothing but a husk.
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Level 3 - The Forsaken Trace
Effect: Anyone who attempts to track or investigate the protagonist loses their sense of self. Their memories are consumed and erased, leaving them as hollow, soulless beings. Those affected experience an endless mental void, where they are aware of their own disappearance but unable to stop it.
Control: The protagonist can focus this power on individuals or entire organizations, erasing all traces of their past existence from the world. However, each use erodes the protagonist's own sense of identity, slowly causing them to lose touch with their humanity.
Fatality: Those erased become mere shadows of their former selves, with no ability to function in society. If they remain "erased" too long, they die mentally, becoming incapable of even basic survival.
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Level 4 - The Spoken Doom
Effect: Speaking the protagonist's name or even mentioning their existence results in instant physical mutilation. Speakers suffer violent convulsions, their voices turning to blood, and their bodies deteriorate, often exploding under the strain of the curse.
Control: The protagonist can selectively allow or block speech about themselves, but the curse feeds on the world's attempts to speak of them, making even the smallest slip-up dangerous.
Fatality: Instantaneous, gruesome deaths occur upon speaking about the protagonist. Those who merely hear their name suffer intense internal hemorrhaging, leading to a slow and painful death.
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Level 5 - The Sight of Agony
Effect: Anyone who gazes upon the protagonist, whether directly or through any form of media, is subjected to horrific, mind-shattering visions. Their eyes liquefy and burn from the sheer intensity of the curse, and they are left in a state of unrelenting agony. Those who survive this torment go blind and insane.
Control: The protagonist can hide their appearance, rendering themselves imperceptible to others, but each time they do, the cost to their own mental stability rises, slowly unraveling their sanity.
Fatality: Death is nearly inevitable for those who see the protagonist without permission. The pain is so overwhelming that many are driven to tear out their own eyes to escape it.
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Level 6 - The Curse of Perception
Effect: Merely thinking of the protagonist causes a soul-crushing agony. Victims experience unbearable pain in their hearts, mind, and body, with the sensation escalating the more they try to resist. Those who persist in thinking about them slowly deteriorate mentally, physically, and spiritually, dying from the despair that overcomes them.
Control: The protagonist can target specific individuals and control the intensity of their torment, but each use of this power fragments their own consciousness, causing them to lose moments of clarity and self-control.
Fatality: Prolonged thoughts about the protagonist lead to a slow, agonizing death, with individuals slowly losing the will to live as their perception of reality warps.
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Level 7 - The Wretched Memory
Effect: Those who remember the protagonist are cursed to relive their worst memories forever, trapped in an eternal nightmare where they are forced to endure their most traumatic experiences repeatedly. As they suffer, they begin to lose all sense of self and reality, often becoming hollow shells of who they once were.
Control: The protagonist can selectively remove themselves from memories, but each use makes them more of a phantom, with their own memories becoming increasingly distorted.
Fatality: The curse inevitably leads to self-destruction or insanity, with the victim either taking their life or fading into oblivion.
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Level 8 - The Shroud of Despair
Effect: The protagonist radiates a suffocating aura of despair that crushes anyone within its reach. Those affected experience violent internal destruction, their bodies decaying from within, their minds plunging into insanity. The longer they stay within the aura, the faster they decay, eventually becoming mummified husks, their souls stripped away.
Control: The protagonist can control the radius and intensity of the aura, but every time they use it, they risk losing their grip on reality, becoming just as consumed by the despair they spread.
Fatality: Immediate or gradual death depending on the proximity to the protagonist, with most victims becoming nothing but lifeless shells.
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Level 9 - The Herald of Oblivion
Effect: The protagonist can erase entire bloodlines or groups from existence, wiping them from memory, history, and reality. Those targeted experience complete annihilation—no body, no trace, no recollection. It is as if they never existed at all, and their entire lineage is eradicated from the universe.
Control: The protagonist can target specific individuals or entire cities, but each use pulls them deeper into the void, threatening to erase even their own identity.
Fatality: Complete obliteration, leaving no trace or memory of the targeted entity.
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Level 10 - The Rule Indescribable
Effect: The protagonist becomes an existential force of annihilation. Their very essence cannot be understood, described, or even perceived. Those who attempt to comprehend them are obliterated on a molecular level, experiencing eternal torment or complete obliteration. Reality itself shifts and bends to avoid their presence, making them untouchable.
Control: The protagonist has complete and absolute control over all aspects of their curse, capable of shaping reality itself. Their power is limitless, allowing them to decide who lives, who dies, and what is remembered.
Fatality: Absolute destruction for anyone who defies the protagonist's rules, with no chance of survival or resurrection.