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Spirit Energy becomes part of a living thing at it's birth, both as the spark of life that invigorates it, and an immortal soul that contains a person's memories and personality. When a living thing dies, this Spirit Energy returns to the Planet, adding its knowledge and experiences to the Lifestream. Eventually, this energy will be reborn in another being, ensuring a cycle of reincarnation, and enriching Gaia's Lifestream as a whole.<br> | Spirit Energy becomes part of a living thing at it's birth, both as the spark of life that invigorates it, and an immortal soul that contains a person's memories and personality. When a living thing dies, this Spirit Energy returns to the Planet, adding its knowledge and experiences to the Lifestream. Eventually, this energy will be reborn in another being, ensuring a cycle of reincarnation, and enriching Gaia's Lifestream as a whole.<br> | ||
| - | In high density Spirit Energy forms a physically tangible condensate state called Mako. Mako is typically green in coloration, sometimes turquoise. It ranges in solidity from a foggy, semitransparent gas, to a viscous, syrupy liquid. | + | In high density Spirit Energy forms a physically tangible condensate state called Mako. Mako is typically green in coloration, sometimes turquoise. It ranges in solidity from a foggy, semitransparent gas, to a viscous, syrupy liquid. Mako has an odd sort of hot/cold feeling to it, and causes tingling sensation and pressure which quickly fade to numbness. Prolonged exposure to, immersion in, or ingestion of Mako is hazardous to the human body and mind, resulting in a form of sickness known as Mako Poisoning. The Mako in the body unbalances the flow of the body's personal flow of Spirit Energy, and the memories and knowledge of the Planet's life flooding the mind rapidly, resulting in severe mental trauma. Symptoms include lowered immune system, failure of bodily functions, hyperactiveness of bodily functions, cancer due to improper cell division, schizophrenia, dissaciotive identity disorder, and amnesia. Mako Poisoning is frequently fatal if not treated quickly. |
Revision as of 04:52, 7 October 2007
INTRODUCTION
2000 years after the civilization of the ancient Cetra collapsed with scarcely a trace, on the Planet of Gaia, where all things that live and die are bound by the same spiritual energy, it is a time of beginnings and endings. Shinra Electric Power Company, an empire in all but name, essentially rules over most of the known world, the bastion that was the Wutai Empire having fallen 8 years ago. They rule with a power stolen from Gaia itself, Mako, drained from the Planet in cyclopean edifices to soulless industry. Opposing Shinra is the secretive terrorist group AVALANCHE, led by the charismatic Sephiroth, ex-Shinra general, considered the greatest warrior and military mind of his time, with the blood of thousands on his hands over the course of his strife filled existence, which extends to the brutal, violent tactics of AVALANCHE. And between these forces stand a brave few, and the life of Gaia itself.
THE LIFESTREAM
The world lives. Spiritual energy pervades Gaia, and all living things on it, in a naturally ethereal state. It gathers and flows deep under the surface in high density. Collectively, this Spirit Energy is known as the Lifestream.
Spirit Energy becomes part of a living thing at it's birth, both as the spark of life that invigorates it, and an immortal soul that contains a person's memories and personality. When a living thing dies, this Spirit Energy returns to the Planet, adding its knowledge and experiences to the Lifestream. Eventually, this energy will be reborn in another being, ensuring a cycle of reincarnation, and enriching Gaia's Lifestream as a whole.
In high density Spirit Energy forms a physically tangible condensate state called Mako. Mako is typically green in coloration, sometimes turquoise. It ranges in solidity from a foggy, semitransparent gas, to a viscous, syrupy liquid. Mako has an odd sort of hot/cold feeling to it, and causes tingling sensation and pressure which quickly fade to numbness. Prolonged exposure to, immersion in, or ingestion of Mako is hazardous to the human body and mind, resulting in a form of sickness known as Mako Poisoning. The Mako in the body unbalances the flow of the body's personal flow of Spirit Energy, and the memories and knowledge of the Planet's life flooding the mind rapidly, resulting in severe mental trauma. Symptoms include lowered immune system, failure of bodily functions, hyperactiveness of bodily functions, cancer due to improper cell division, schizophrenia, dissaciotive identity disorder, and amnesia. Mako Poisoning is frequently fatal if not treated quickly.
