Prana, Qi Cultivation and Inscriptions, How does it work and where did you get the idea? Some of these types of power systems are intriguing and unknown to me.
And yes, large-scale battles are always fun and fascinating, the fact that a cosmic object whose size compared to the earth is the difference between a speck of dust and a planet is destroyed is enchanting.
Prana is life-force energy. I actually did not make this one, it was created by my friend. However, pretty sure he was inspired by general ki/chakra-type power systems, such as from Naruto and Highschool DxD.
It exists within all living beings and is generated by the soul alongside mana, which is used for magic. Unlike magic, prana does not create and manipulate reality-warping phenomena, but rather seeks to manipulate the life of what already exists.
Those who use Prana are able to absorb life-essence from their surroundings to amplify themselves through techniques such as "Senjutsu" and some branches of "Omnyoudou." In this way it can be used to life-steal and heavily stat amp yourself. Though, one can siphon and displace life-essence to anything with life as well, allowing for the manipulation of all lifeforms, controlling growth, size, and nature. You could turn a tree into a single piece of bark, cause the death of an entire species, generate massive plant-lifeforms to fight for you, and etc.
At the highest-level Prana can also be used to invoke the six Dravya. The Dravya are Jiva, Pugdala, Dharmastikaay, Adharmastikaay, Akasha, and Kala.
For now I'll focus on Akasha, since it's the most used. You can consider this the essence of space, I suppose. By embedding your Prana within Akasha, you can manipulate space. This includes creating separate worldscapes, overlaying the world with your personal worldscape, altering the fabric of space by controlling the deeper geometry of the universe, and... basically ******* anything that has anything to do with space and math. It gets pretty wild.
There's a lot more I could explain but I'll leave it at that...
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Qi Cultivation is quite simple. It comes from Xianxia Cultivation novels and Daoism and is very similar to Chi.
Qi is the energy of "change in process." It is broken up into three types. The Qi of Earth. The Qi of Heaven. And most importantly, the Qi of Humans.
Earthly and Heavenly Qi control destiny and nature. Some beings have an inherent affinity to these two types. Rather than subduing it, they work with it in a more harmonious relationship. Human Qi controls one’s own body. By increasing one’s control over it, as well as its amount, one can gain control of the other two types of Qi and independence of destiny and the Heavens. One can get resistant to illness, poison, prolong their life, etc. Qi is circulated through the Meridians, the network of vessels in the body through which Qi flows.
There are five elements of Qi: Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood. These elements differ a lot from the standard magic system as they are based in
Daoism. And ones element is determined by their Spiritual Roots.
Cultivation has its own crazy wild scaling system... But for the sake of summary you could consider my verse to have... Almost a composited version of what you see in Xianxia novels. The point of Cultivation is essentially... to become an immortal god by rising the Cultivation ranks, becoming one with, and the exceeding, the source of all things, known as the Dao. As of current, there are 5 Steps with multiple ranks in-between them.
I'm not going to bore you with this one too much, it is really just a
composite of many, many Cultivation novels.
You can do literally ******* anything with this power and it's ridiculous.
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"Inscriptions" are conceptual constants of character embedded within yourself. Rather than acting like a power-system, they could be describe as driving forces to your nature. My main character, for example, is Inscribed with the concept of Growth, which causes them to endlessly grow rapidly in mind, body, and soul.