Project V17/Powers/Shardless/Physical Power Upgrades/Nekomata

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Nekomata

Cost: 10 SP

Required: Catfolk

The cat within your inner spirit has finally grown to a proper maturity, granting you a new form. You are able to assume a large, seemingly normal, quadrupedal cat form. The most notable feature, aside from your size, is your forked tail. As you continue to grow, your tail will eventually split into two full tails. Once this happens, your original tail will fork once again. Every tail you grow in this manner represents an extra life you can expend to continue should the worst come to rear its head. You will never be able to grow more than nine tails in total, however. As the number of your tails increases, you will find a corresponding decrease in the rate at which you age.

You will find that your senses have taken another leap in potency. Your vision is now capable of seeing in complete darkness, but will be reminiscent of low-light conditions rather than day-like. You are also able to see and hear spirits and other spiritual entities in your viscinity.

Your main supernatural ability in this form arises in the manipulation of a special ghost-like fire that you can emit from the tips of your tails or paws. Emitting these flames from your paws can allow you a form of flight by running on the air itself and leaping further than should be possible for the amount of force you use. Fire emitted from your tails take-on a more spiritual nature and is capable of harming ghosts, spirits, and other similar entities. Your fire can interact with souls, themselves, allowing you to harm someone without damaging their body. With time and practice, your flames can take the place of a soul for the purpose of reanimating and controlling the recently deceased. As you learn to manipulate your flames, you will come to learn how to affect their properties to cast impressive illusions. At the peak of your manipulation, you will find the ability to fully consume any object that is completely engulfed in your fire, with no harm to yourself.