Part 1: Awakening (Soul 0 to Soul 3)

Soul 0 (Unawakened)

Abilities: No clear control over soul power. The individual may have latent abilities that are triggered by extreme emotions or life-or-death situations.

Traits: Raw potential. This stage marks the beginning of an individual's journey, with only dormant power waiting to be awakened.

Soul 1 (Initial Awakening)

Abilities: The first flicker of soul power is unlocked. The individual gains basic abilities such as minor superhuman strength, quick reflexes, or enhanced senses. The abilities are crude and unstable, requiring intense concentration to control.

Example: Agility Enhancement – Temporary boosts to speed and reflexes, allowing quick dodging or increased melee strikes.

Traits: The user is beginning to understand their power and learns to focus their abilities, though it remains a challenge.

Soul 2 (Growth of Power)

Abilities: Powers begin to stabilize. The user gains more sophisticated abilities, such as manipulating small elements (fire, water, air, etc.), or enhanced physical traits like extreme durability or strength boosts.

Example: Elemental Attunement – The ability to tap into one basic element like fire or electricity and control it in combat.

Example: Physical Enhancement – Superhuman durability or strength, allowing the user to endure more damage or deal powerful blows.

Traits: The user has a better grasp on their abilities, allowing them to fight more effectively and control their surroundings with greater precision.

Soul 3 (The Transformer)

Abilities: The user can fully tap into their power, gaining control over more complex abilities, including minor transformations or advanced energy control. They can start transforming into more powerful forms, utilizing kinetic energy, or manipulating their surroundings with ease.

Example: Shapeform – The ability to change their body's structure (e.g., growing wings, or becoming a more durable form to increase combat efficiency).

Example: Energy Construct Creation – The creation of weapons or tools from raw energy (like forming a sword of fire or a shield of electricity).

Traits: The user's power is refined and versatile. At this stage, they can control their soul energy consciously, starting to explore higher, more refined abilities.

Part 2: Ascendance (Soul 4 to Soul 7)

Soul 4 (The Elementalist)

Abilities: The user begins to fully understand and manipulate advanced elemental powers, pushing their abilities to new heights. They can now manipulate multiple elements simultaneously or manipulate reality in a limited scope.

Example: Elemental Fusion – The power to merge two or more elements into new forms (e.g., creating storm clouds by combining water and air or creating magma by combining fire and earth).

Example: Soul Eruption – A concentrated burst of energy that overwhelms enemies or the environment, similar to a powerful energy blast or shockwave.

Traits: The user has gained control over advanced elemental abilities and can now wield them strategically.

Soul 5 (The Shifter)

Abilities: Users gain access to powerful transformations that enhance their physical or metaphysical qualities. These transformations can be temporary but extremely potent.

Example: Soulform Shift – A full transformation into a different state of being (e.g., a more powerful, agile, or durable form that enhances combat or defense abilities).

Example: Time-Twist Energy – The ability to momentarily slow or accelerate time within a limited space to gain an advantage in battle.

Traits: The user's body and soul become one with their powers, allowing them to shift into new forms or enhance existing ones for immense power.

Soul 6 (The Worldshaper)

Abilities: At this stage, the user starts to bend the fabric of reality itself. Their powers are so refined that they can manipulate multiple layers of the environment, control minds, or influence large-scale phenomena.

Example: Reality Refract – The power to distort the physical laws around them (e.g., bending gravity, creating force fields, or warping space to confuse enemies).

Example: Mind Dominion – The ability to control minds or influence the actions of others, turning their enemies into allies or puppets temporarily.

Traits: Users are now capable of changing the fundamental laws of nature, and their mastery of soul power allows for large-scale manipulation.

Soul 7 (The Transcendent)

Abilities: The user's soul reaches near-godlike potential, allowing them to create and destroy with just their will. They can manipulate energy on an absolute scale, controlling environments, changing the nature of existence, or creating new dimensions.

Example: Existence Split – The power to divide the essence of reality into parallel versions, creating multiple dimensions or paths that split reality itself.

Example: Omni-Force Creation – The ability to generate energies or entities capable of interacting with any aspect of the universe, from life creation to altering time itself.

Traits: The user is a master of reality itself, capable of manipulating vast forces and shaping worlds with their will.

Part 3: Transcendence (Soul 8 to Soul 10)

Soul 8 (The Cosmic Force)

Abilities: The user taps into an almost omnipotent level of power. At this stage, they can create new forms of life, alter time on a universal scale, and manipulate entire ecosystems or galaxies.

Example: Cosmic Nexus – The ability to open gateways to new realms or timelines, creating alternate realities or jumping across dimensions with ease.

Example: Soul Rebirth – The power to regenerate or resurrect entities by tapping into universal life force, making death a temporary state.

Traits: The user exists beyond the ordinary confines of time and space, having access to vast cosmic forces.

Soul 9 (The Infinite)

Abilities: The user can manipulate existence itself. They can warp the fabric of time and space, create and destroy entire realities, and become a being of pure energy.

Example: Eternal Resonance – The user's very essence creates ripples across the universe, causing events to happen according to their desires, from natural disasters to universal shifts in time.

Example: Void Command – The power to command the void of non-existence, erasing objects, people, or even concepts from reality.

Traits: These beings are beyond mortal comprehension, capable of shaping the fundamental fabric of existence at will.

Soul 10 (The Absolute)

Abilities: The pinnacle of soul power, users are essentially gods in their own right. Their abilities are beyond understanding, enabling them to control the fundamental laws of nature, life, and death.

Example: Total Creation and Destruction – The power to create and erase entire universes with a single thought.

Example: Omniscience and Omnipresence – The ability to perceive everything in existence, everywhere, and at all times, knowing the past, present, and future.

Traits: These beings exist beyond all time and space, with power that transcends reality itself.