I Was Never Meant to Return

In this world, power is not free. It is bought with suffering, stolen from the damned, or carved from your own soul.

1. The Basics: How Powers Works 

A. The Source of Power

All supernatural abilities come from one of three tainted sources

- Bloodbinding: All supernatural abilities stem from tainted blood, a corrupting force that mutates the body and soul. 

 - Some are born with it (cursed lineages). 

 - Others gain it through rituals (drinking demon blood, surviving a wraith's touch). 

 - The strongest powers require sacrifice of their loved one's life, one's own sanity, or years of lifespan). 

1. The Flesh – Mutations, monstrous strength, or unnatural healing. (Comes from consuming the dead or alchemical experiments.

2. The Shadow – Invisibility, phasing, or controlling darkness. (Stolen from spirits or cursed places.)

3. The Voice – Curses, mind control, or summoning entities. (Learned from forbidden texts or whispered by demons.)

B. The Cost of Power

Every ability demands payment in one of three ways

1. Blood – You must hurt yourself or others to fuel it. 

2. Memory – Each use erases something precious.

3. Physical Corruption: Prolonged use warps the body (blackened veins, hollow eyes, monstrous mutations). 

 4. Soul Degradation: The more power used, the more the user loses their humanity (hallucinations, uncontrollable bloodlust). 

 5. The Hunger: Powers demand fuel—blood, pain, or memories must be consumed to sustain them. 

C. Gaining Powers

1. The Forbidden Rituals

- Find a dark place(a graveyard at midnight, a mirror in a bloodstained room). 

- Speak the true name of something that shouldn't be named. 

- Offer it something irreplaceable (your reflection, your true name, a loved one's breath). 

2. The Stolen Power 

- Kill someone who had abilities— take their eyes, heart, or shadow.

- But beware— their ghost will follow you. 

-Kill the target while they're using their power.

Eat their still-beating heart under a full moon.

Their power flows into you—but so does their final emotion.