Shape of Monstrosity
Noun
This is a Master-Tier Skill Evolution exclusive to a specific kind of monster: A Cursed Tarrasque. No other being in Integration has been known to receive this Skill Evolution when they advance their Intimidation.
Shape of Monstrosity can be compared to the Feardrinker Individual Pathbearer Intimidation Skill Evolution. However, while Feardrinker merely enhances a Pathbearer’s Physicality by consuming an adve...
2025-08-05 12:28:52 +0000 UTC
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I prefer fighting an orc rather than talking to them. At least, the worst thing that happens when you fight an orc is that they overcome you. They kill you. They maybe torture you. But there's an end to the madness. There's a final point where it finishes and you feel no more. You suffer no more.
But if you talk to an orc, if you talk to an orc, they will twist your mind with their words. They will strike at your heart using psychology, philosophy, rhetoric, anything t...
2025-08-04 18:21:07 +0000 UTC
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Greatest. The once Prince of Pride. I cannot call him an ally, but I will not declare him an enemy either. Ultimately, it is hard to say what is right and what is wrong after all I experienced in the Claimed Hells.
But I will say this, I would not have succeeded without that strange man. And he would not have reached where he got without me. There was more than meets the eye, far more, and I didn't see it at the time.
He distracted us with far too much about ...
2025-08-04 16:58:29 +0000 UTC
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+Hey, hey there people. Cala Marlowe coming at you from New Vultun. If you're hearing me now, this is not a live broadcast, no. This is a special spirit contagion, spreading through your thoughts, burrowing through your minds, and feeding you this latest update about all the wonderful fucked up shit happening across Idheim.
And for my long-time viewers, hey, hey, we finally got a guild sponsor! Well, 'guild.' More like, we got sponsored by the only ...
2025-08-04 16:39:52 +0000 UTC
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Despite the chaotic nature and requirements of most rituals, they are not, in fact, randomized actions performed to amuse the predilections of certain gods. Rather, they influence the ambient mana of the world in specific ways, which then allows said god to reach across the system's thresholds ever so slightly and deliver the conditions of the ritual.
However, that is not the only kind of ritual in existence. There are non-divine rituals. These can be seen more like formula...
2025-08-04 12:15:40 +0000 UTC
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Every form of attuned magic gives off its own frequency. Every spell is an adjustment, a manipulation of that frequency, but also the structure of the field itself. To understand it simply, it is like a reshaping of personal reality, a manipulation of the rules that govern the broader aspects of existence restructured into something you could wield within the confines of your influence.
However, when someone has a similar kind of magic, they can view what you are doing beca...
2025-08-03 18:25:05 +0000 UTC
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"What is the matter, Lord Scorn? I can hear you raging across four different dimensions. What has you so angered, dear boy?"
"Fuck off, Challenger. I don't have time to hear you flapping your cunt lips at me. I need to get to my gate. There are people I need to FUCK to death. I'll show those cunts what the price is for detonating an Animancy Bomb in my dimension, for taking my gate away from me, for killing my Vultegs."
"Oh, Scorn, we both know you care littl...
2025-08-03 15:40:31 +0000 UTC
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Reviewing the last few chapters: we know there are two kinds of mana cores, artificial and natural. Most mana cores fall into the natural category. These cores usually serve as the foundations for gates, as it requires a significant amount of mana clashing between two worlds to truly begin the process of crystallizing a mana core. On top of this, there also must be an unfolding narrative happening between the worlds. An incursion, migration, or other events will feed a gate’s mana core,...
2025-08-02 19:06:46 +0000 UTC
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The core function of Animancy is the restructuring of one's soul. It is the only skill, aside from when one is allowed to delve into their Legendary-Tier Skills, that allows you to shape your own story. You become an editor, so to speak, of your legend or someone else's legend at that.
Not everything can be changed, but the soul itself is valuable and certain details are open to interpretation.
Most treacherously, Animancy allows you to damage this soul...
2025-08-01 20:17:58 +0000 UTC
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There's gonna be a war at some point between us and the fictionals.
I don't like it. I don't want much want to fight it. I don't want to be here in the fathoms, but there's gonna be a war. Why is there gonna be a war? Because some of you other Trespasser assholes can't stop making a mess. Listen, I understand that some of you have problems. All right, but you think that this is some kind of post-death paradise that you're going to enjoy every aspect of Your life down ...
2025-08-01 18:02:54 +0000 UTC
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As Pathbearers we constantly evolve. Our skills are engines of metamorphoses. With every experience, every feat, every trial we survive, they grow watered by the stories of our lives, shaped by our rising legend.
From Initiate to Hero, our Skill Evolutions evolve of their own accord. They are shaped by our choices, by our actions, by what we lived through, but we don't choose what they become. It is an unconscious progression, and that seems to be the case of things. But wh...
2025-08-01 12:14:49 +0000 UTC
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The next chapter III-37 is in editing, but I'm having a bit a post-storm fever now, so it might experience a bit of a delay.
I apologize for not delivering consistent 10ks these two days. Writing pace return to normal when I recover. This week has been a bit hard.
2025-07-31 17:26:51 +0000 UTC
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"I'm not sorry, father! He deserved it! He deserved every second of the pain I gave him! I should have hurt him more! More!’
"I'm not asking you to be sorry. I'm telling you to be controlled. Are you a Pathbearer, Adam?"
"Yes."
"No. If you were a Pathbearer, then you know that what he said couldn’t be forgiven—but the magnitude of your retribution should have been controlled! You must take responsibility for your actions, but you also mus...
2025-07-31 15:59:46 +0000 UTC
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“What the hell is this?
“My apron, my knife. I understand that what I did today-”
“Shiv, fuck off. What are you doing? Get that thing, get that out of my fucking face. I'm not firing you, and you're not quitting.”
“I- I hit the chef de partie over the head. I splashed boiling water into his face.”
“Yeah, after the cunt threatened you with a knife, after he fucked up my order, after he tried blaming it on you...
2025-07-30 18:16:59 +0000 UTC
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“We welcome you, Jaus Avandaer. Know that you are the first Kosgan in many years to descend this place, to stand before us and be spared immediate death.”
“I am honored, O Dowagers combined, Dowagers alloyed. I have long wondered how you managed to avoid the notice of the dragons. I must compliment you. I must commend you for using your blood in such a way as sublime and uniquely human.”
“There is a symbolism in your victory, and the only cost is de...
2025-07-30 15:03:38 +0000 UTC
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“Leonid, Captain Leonid, wake up.”
“What is this? What's happened?”
“Well, technically what happened is, on your world, you're dead.”
“What?”
“Yeah, you're dead. However, due to some kind of quirk in the Fathoms and something about you, you slipped through a gap in existence. You're now in the Fathoms.”
“What?”
“Are you going to keep saying what?”
“What?...
2025-07-30 14:33:03 +0000 UTC
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"Alright, Chef. You're officially a commis now. You know what that means?"
"Are you going to start paying me to peel these potatoes?"
"You're being a felling smartass with me, boy."
"No, Chef. I just got used to saying yes, so you stop yelling at me."
"Oh, now you're being a smartass. Well, keep peeling those potatoes. Don't let me see you cut your hand. Otherwise, you're going to be peeling a thousand more."
"Yes,...
2025-07-29 19:12:39 +0000 UTC
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Orcs call their army an orchestra for a reason. They make music with each other. They're not cooperating, they're just filling in the gaps.
Orcs call their army an orchestra for a reason. They make music with each other. They're not cooperating, they're just filling in the gaps. Make no mistake, every orc is a soloist. They play to their own beat, to their own tune. They have their own skills. They don't coordinate about how they develop, how they grow. There is no overall planning ...
2025-07-29 12:22:55 +0000 UTC
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To be Sang is to be caged in a cycle, to be bound to the fates of our mothers, our forebears before us, to taste the sting of ever reaching to the masculine, and to know that our fathers, our brothers, our sons are never to be again, or so the dragons would hope. What they believed would be our chains became our tools for preserving our future.
They thought coding our fates into us would make us more subservient, would make us more pliable. They thought that ensuring we all...
2025-07-28 17:08:30 +0000 UTC
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Earth-based technology doesn't work very well with Essence. There are a lot of theories as to why, but in simplicity, it's because we have hard laws. We're not narrative-based. There's nothing spiritual about our materials, the mechanisms we use. There isn't a satori behind what rituals work, or why certain metals are as hard as they are. It's all just a function of physics. And when physics and Essence meet, well, one has to bend.
The most common outcome is, effectively, s...
2025-07-28 14:59:26 +0000 UTC
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An average Pathbearer assault team numbers four. Four to magnify each other's strengths and make up for each other's weaknesses. Four so tha
An average Pathbearer assault team numbers four. Four to magnify each other's strengths and make up for each other's weaknesses. Four so that at least one of you has the skills to face every possible scenario that might be thrown against you while the others act as support. There are no set paths for the four, but there are archetypes that you ...
2025-07-28 11:06:28 +0000 UTC
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Greetings:
Most of you are new here, while some of you have been here for a while. To newcomers, welcome. I hope you're enjoying Deathless. I hope the same for older readers, but this update will go over the state of my older stories as well.
The first item is weekly feedback. It's just a place for you guys to leave comments about what you feel is working or could be improved upon in the writing.
Now, I've already noticed some issues I'm trying to fix. Some inconsistencies...
2025-07-27 18:34:17 +0000 UTC
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No two armies in integration can be led the same way. Despite fighting as a collective whole, every army is made up of individual Pathbearer
No two armies in integration can be led the same way. Despite fighting as a collective whole, every army is made up of individual Pathbearers. Individual Pathbearers with a variety of skills, skill evolutions, experiences, and more. Beyond that, there are also the races, and I have fought in a very, very mixed company.
Elves, hum...
2025-07-27 18:27:30 +0000 UTC
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Strife had always been here. Before I was, Strife waited for me, the ultimate discipline, awaiting its ultimate disciple. You look upon me l
Strife had always been here. Before I was, Strife waited for me, the ultimate discipline, awaiting its ultimate disciple.
You look upon me like I'm some unfathomable entity, some icon of cruelty, an avatar of brutality and bloodshed. That is an incorrect assumption. It is also an act of cognitive self-def...
2025-07-27 14:54:03 +0000 UTC
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I don't know how to stop the works. Let's start there. I have no idea. This war has been going on for generations. Longer than my grandmothe
I don't know how to stop the works. Let's start there. I have no idea.
This war has been going on for generations. Longer than my grandmother can remember. Maybe just as long as the last incursion. We're Lone Star. We fight. Our automata build their inheritors to be bombers, gunners, processors, makers. They yearn to become walki...
2025-07-26 19:55:27 +0000 UTC
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"What is death?" If you ask a Biomancer, it is simply a state of being. It is when all functions of the body stop and the organism begins t
"What is death?"
If you ask a Biomancer, it is simply a state of being. It is when all functions of the body stop and the organism begins to decay. Certain individuals will even declare death to begin when the organs fail, the brain in particular.
Should you ask a philosopher, "what is death?" You could ...
2025-07-26 10:57:09 +0000 UTC
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Because Unique Skills fall beyond the bounds of anything the system has seen before, it is hard to judge exactly when they will evolve and w
Because Unique Skills fall beyond the bounds of anything the system has seen before, it is hard to judge exactly when they will evolve and what they might become. But that they do evolve is a certainty.
My own Unique Skill evolved once it passed the level 51 threshold. Then, until level 300, it didn't do anything at all. It remai...
2025-07-25 20:32:07 +0000 UTC
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"Hello? Hello? Is anyone there? I've been trapped here. Trapped. Trapped for years. Is anyone there?
I... I made Greatest angry. The Prince of Pride. I didn't know he was the Prince of Pride. I... I should have never... I should have never insulted him. I should have never laid my hands on him.
I'm sorry. Greatest, can you hear me? I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. Just let me out. Let me out of your ass. I want to eat something other than nuts. I want I want to l...
2025-07-25 16:51:52 +0000 UTC
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Adept gives you a taste of becoming more than mortal, of evolving beyond the constraints of an ordinary body. Master lets you experience the
Adept gives you a taste of becoming more than mortal, of evolving beyond the constraints of an ordinary body.
Master lets you experience the flavors of godhood, allowing you to lift more than just a boulder, smash through the face of a mountain, and challenge storms.
Hero lets you become the storm. The scale of you...
2025-07-25 11:34:00 +0000 UTC
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There is one skill an orc retains between all their reincarnations, just one. Their soul is refreshed as they pass through the Challenger, a
There is one skill an orc retains between all their reincarnations, just one. Their soul is refreshed as they pass through the Challenger, as they return to the Tutorial. They are stripped down back to zero, but they retain one skill, one and only one, and that is the skill that matters to them above all others.
Per...
2025-07-24 18:32:18 +0000 UTC
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