Adept World

Within the vast and complicated development hierarchy of Adept World, there were four branches that stood out:

It could be said that most of the other Adept branches were matched up to these four major branches.
 * 1) Bloodline Adepts
 * 2) Body Refining Adepts
 * 3) Principle Adepts
 * 4) Profound Adepts

Bloodline Adepts
Bloodline Adepts were a bunch of lunatics who craved having the purest bloodlines. They used the power of said bloodlines to improve their own strength. Usually, they would choose some incredibly strong creatures from another world as the source for their bloodline, then they would improve the purity of their own blood, generally using a method which could be traced back to some ancestor. After doing all of this, they would gain incredible abilities that aligned with that of ancient powerful creatures. In general, their ultimate goal was to relive the glorious life of these ancient creatures. However, they are incapable of reaching heights exceeding these ancient creatures.

Also, Bloodline Adepts are often limited by the present power of the giver of those bloodlines i.e. the cires of vampires. And the bloodline they use can be used against them if another adept got their hands on the same blood as a Bloodline Adept

Body Refining Adepts
Body Refining Adepts, they were another group of lunatics who went all out in the pursuit of strengthening their own bodies. In their eyes, all resources were just a medium, a consumable supply that could be used to make their muscles stronger. In order to stimulate their muscles, they might soak themselves in a container full of poisonous chemicals, or implant a deadly, highly radioactive meteorite into their body. They might go out and endure the most extreme and deadly environments… and they would do all of these to make their bodies strong so that nothing could hurt them.

Those who transplant their organs with those of other creatures are also classified as Body Refining Adepts.

Principle Adepts
Principle Adepts were the most common type of Adept in the Adept World. No matter it was the Elementium Adept, who chased after the peak powers of their Elements, the Curse Adept, who used strange abilities to kill people unseen, or even the Black Adept, who just enjoyed using violent killing abilities, usually utilizing the force of souls and emotion; all of them belonged to the branch of Principle Adepts. Although it seemed that there was a tremendous difference in what they did, when they arrived at the advanced stage, they would try their best to master specific Principles or Rules of the Universe.

There are differences in adepts of the "principle" path, adepts that cannot reach Fourth Grade are called "Elemental Adepts". Adepts that reach the Fourth Grade are called "Principle Adepts", and Adepts that reach the Fifth and Sixth Grade are called " Natural Law Adepts".
 * First Grade Elemental Adepts use the laws of their local Plane to form a meta-physical core of their consciousness within themselves in order to advance, should they stand on a plane different from the one which they advanced in, they would be pressured and weakened by the difference of the laws within the plane and the ones within their core
 * Second Grade Elemental Adepts are capable of infusing their Elementium powers with raw spirit and fragments of planar laws to boost their power.
 * Third Grade Elemental Adepts can do the same as above but at a greater scale.
 * Fourth Grade Principle Adepts utilize "principle" which is the smallest unit of a law. These principles are basically attritubes or effects one can attach to objects or attacks, effects such as [always hit your mark], where no matter what the opponent does (unless they use principles themselves) the attack will always hit the mark regardless of things like dodging, teleportation or defending.
 * Fifth Grade Principle Adepts utilize an entire law after they master and combine multiple principles. These prinicples would be stored inside a principle heart, from which they can be drawn out at a moments notice.
 * Sixth Grade Principle Adepts master and combine multiple laws to form a bigger law. They can also temporarily ignore the power of a smaller plane in order to fully use their power regardless of the plane's laws.
 * Seventh Grade Grand Adepts
 * Eighth Grade Grand Adepts have their own law origin, a set of own personal laws like a plane does, which they are capable of injecting into other planes, forcibly changing their laws.

There are a limited amount of laws that can be mastered, once an adept has mastered a specific law then no one else can master that same law.

Profound Adept
Profound Adept, they were the purest type of Adepts. They were not willing to ‘contaminate’ their own bloodline just to obtain powerful ability, and they refused to coupled with Principles of Planes and became the ‘Slaves of Principles’. They gathered knowledge, immersed themselves in the world of knowledge, and used the knowledge they learned as their weapon. Thus, they became a weird group among Adepts, who only cared about gathering and expanding their knowledge, but totally ignored their own development. They instead use machinery, golems and other creations to do the fighting for them.

Those who enhance their bodies with machinery like cyborgs are also classified as Profound Adepts.

Profound Adepts advance by using rare resources they find/cultivate to improve their soul origin.

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Distribution
Throughout the entire multiverse, the Plane of Lethon was a rather rare major scale Plane. It was a Plane with a single political system, led by Adepts, which made it a pure Adept world. Their enemies were other major scales Planes. For example,


 * the Plane of the Gods, which was guarded by 12 deities;
 * the Plane of the Dragon, which was protected by a Divine Dragon;
 * The Plane of the Gnomes, which was a highly advanced mechanical civilization;
 * The Dark Plane, which was filled with foul demons and evil spirits…
 * The Disaster Plane, which contains all kinds of creatures of war, guarded by 4/11 disaster gods.
 * The Titan Plane, guarded by few but very powerful titans
 * The Elementium Plane, the plane that contains the greatest concentrations of elementium in the entire universe.

All major scale Plane had mature civilizations. The Adept World of Lethon had established a complete framework for Adept development, with it, batch after batch of qualified and powerful Adepts were cultivated. Afterwards, they used these new Adepts to expand their territory, invading intermediate and small-scale Planes.

In order to seize the resources and intellectual property of different Planes, there would be violent conflicts and wars between all major Planes. Therefore, if one wanted to describe it, the Adept World was a powerful and aggressive civilization that loved engaging in wars.

This was the current state of the Adept World’s foreign ‘policies’. Internally, there wasn’t a single clan powerful enough to unify all the Adepts. Thus, according to territories and regions, many clans of Adept had formed. Among them, four of them held the most dominate positions.

Northern Witches
Northern Witches

Silver Union
The South West side of the Adept Mainland was mainly the territory of the Silver Union. Strictly speaking, it was the haven for Profound Adepts.

It is based on top a floating city in the middle of a monster forest at least 280,000 km across (7 times the circumference of the earth). And boast a staff of over 100 third grade and 10 fourth grade adepts.

The Silver Union was made from a group of Profound Adepts who were notable for always wearing silver robes. Using alchemical knowledge and resources gathered from countless Planes, they constructed a magnificent and majestic floating city in the sky and countless fortresses which they used to invade new Planes.

In brief, most of the crafted weapons used by the Adept World when invading new Planes were supplied by the Silver Union. They were like a group of crazy, yet amazing, engineers, machinists, and alchemists. Using massive amounts of resources and tremendous knowledge, they invented all sorts of creatively crafted machines, providing the Adept World with powerful devices.

They also have a free market, where anyone who owns a store may trade freely any item, however there are only 165 stores and they can be freely contested by anyone once a decade. The owner is then required to defend their right of the store in combat of profound adepts by nomination, where no adept is allowed to directly stand in the ring. If it is successfully defended, the challenger is required to ante up compensation said to make a second grade resource site (where adept clans gather the materials needed for the advancement of psuedo adepts to adepts) seem cheap.

United Adept Association
The eastern region of the Adept Mainland was the territory of the United Adept Association. Nearly all kinds of Adepts could be found in this association. By utilizing a systematic cultivation road map, and a shareable knowledge system, it had attracted many Adepts who possessed powerful abilities. These Adepts had formed an association governed by strict rules, yet emphasizing impartiality.

Unlike the other associations, they are strictly one formed group, rather than tightly scatterd units. Their modus operandi involves scouts travelling the stars in search of planes to invade, whose coordinates are then put on the open market for individuals to purchase. Afterwards the buyers then form an initial assault unit and built a base on the plane. Once the base is built, everyone else is allowed to join the attack on the plane and all the resources of the plane fall under the care of the association and the loot is divided by merit.

Zhentarim Association
Zhentarim Association

Trivia

 * 1 Adept point = 100 Apprentice Adept point.
 * Apprentice Adepts base their measurements off normal creatures while Adepts base their measurements off magical creatures.
 * Levels
 * 13 in 1000 people would have adept talent
 * Out of 13 people, only half would be able to master meditation and become Adept Apprentices
 * Pseudo Adepts would usually have a minimum of 15% to advance to First Grade Adept
 * 70% of Adepts remain at First Grade.