Gaining A New Sign
Jul 24, 2006 14:21:33 GMT -5
Post by Kender Bard on Jul 24, 2006 14:21:33 GMT -5
There are three ways to gain an additional sign: Blessings, Disciplined Work, and in Crisis.
With Blessings, you have to find a Force and simply request a new sign. It will be granted to you. If a World Leader dies or is unable to lead anymore and someone takes their place, they will be given another sign of the same element as themselves as a gift from the Forces.
With Discipline, you need to exercise your element daily, doing routine 'training' with it. Not only that, but you need to exercise the mind, spirit, and body as well. Rigorous physical training, mental sharpening, and devoted praying are all ways to cover these bases. Priests and monks often gain their new signs this way.
And lastly, and most painfully, there is Crisis. There are three requirements that need to be fulfilled in order for a situation to warrant a new sign: Life-Threatening, Emotionally Charged, and Mentally Willful. First, the situation you're in must be a life or death one. Nothing less will suffice. Secondly, your emotions must be running high - either your loved one is in the same position you are in, or dead, or maybe you're facing a rival for whom you've longed to defeat for twenty years. Something like that - it must be extreme. And to be mentally willful, you have to be in a mindset where you would give anything, ANYTHING to be able to remedy the current situation.
If all of these criteria are met to my satisfaction, you may be allowed to have a new sign (if that's what you're wishing for). However, this process is painful since you're effectively forcing something to surface before it naturally can. The mark of your new element seems to burn itself into your flesh, and it will feel like a giant branding iron is being pressed against you.
With Blessings, you have to find a Force and simply request a new sign. It will be granted to you. If a World Leader dies or is unable to lead anymore and someone takes their place, they will be given another sign of the same element as themselves as a gift from the Forces.
With Discipline, you need to exercise your element daily, doing routine 'training' with it. Not only that, but you need to exercise the mind, spirit, and body as well. Rigorous physical training, mental sharpening, and devoted praying are all ways to cover these bases. Priests and monks often gain their new signs this way.
And lastly, and most painfully, there is Crisis. There are three requirements that need to be fulfilled in order for a situation to warrant a new sign: Life-Threatening, Emotionally Charged, and Mentally Willful. First, the situation you're in must be a life or death one. Nothing less will suffice. Secondly, your emotions must be running high - either your loved one is in the same position you are in, or dead, or maybe you're facing a rival for whom you've longed to defeat for twenty years. Something like that - it must be extreme. And to be mentally willful, you have to be in a mindset where you would give anything, ANYTHING to be able to remedy the current situation.
If all of these criteria are met to my satisfaction, you may be allowed to have a new sign (if that's what you're wishing for). However, this process is painful since you're effectively forcing something to surface before it naturally can. The mark of your new element seems to burn itself into your flesh, and it will feel like a giant branding iron is being pressed against you.
