From the World of Weave of Ashes
For readers who want to understand the magic system in greater depth
INTRODUCTION
In the world of Doha and the Three Realms, magic is not simply "mana" or "energy" to be shaped at will. Instead, cultivators access essence—fundamental forces of nature that exist in eight distinct types. Each essence type has its own characteristics, applications, and philosophy.
But the system goes deeper than these eight base types. Talented cultivators can refine essences to their purest conceptual forms, or combine multiple essence types to create what are known as branch essences—specialized manifestations that require exceptional skill and understanding.
This guide explains both the base essence system and the advanced branch techniques that separate ordinary cultivators from true masters.
THE EIGHT BASE ESSENCESOverview
The eight base essences form the foundation of all cultivation. They are arranged in a specific order, from outermost (most accessible) to innermost (most dangerous):
Inferno (Fire) - Red
Torrent (Water) - Blue
Verdant (Wood/Nature) - Green
Terracore (Earth) - Grey
Metallurge (Metal) - Silver
Galebreath (Wind/Air) - White
Radiance (Light/Life) - Gold
Voidshadow (Darkness/Void) - Black
Each essence is not merely an element—it's a fundamental force with philosophical and practical applications. Most cultivators spend their entire lives mastering a single base essence. Those who can access multiple base essences are considered exceptionally talented.
INFERNO - The Essence of Fire and Passion
Color: Red
Philosophy: Transformation, destruction, passion, rebirth
Common Applications:
Combat magic (fireballs, flame walls, burning attacks)
Forging and smithing (heating metals)
Purification (burning away impurities)
Speed enhancement (burning Qi for explosive movement)
Nature: Inferno essence is aggressive and consumptive. It wants to burn, to spread, to transform everything it touches. Cultivators who master Inferno learn to harness this destructive force, turning it from wild conflagration into controlled power.
Difficulty: Moderate. Fire is intuitive—everyone understands heat and burning. But controlling fire without being consumed by it requires discipline that many lack.
TORRENT - The Essence of Water and Adaptation
Color: Blue
Philosophy: Flow, adaptation, persistence, change
Common Applications:
Defensive barriers (water shields, mist screens)
Healing (water's cleansing properties)
Movement techniques (flowing like water)
Environmental control (rain, fog, humidity)
Nature: Torrent essence is adaptive and persistent. Water flows around obstacles, finds the path of least resistance, yet can cut through stone given enough time. Torrent cultivators embody this philosophy—adapting to circumstances while maintaining steady pressure toward their goals.
Difficulty: Moderate. Water's nature is familiar but deceptively complex. True mastery requires understanding stillness and flow, yielding and overwhelming force, all at once.
VERDANT - The Essence of Wood and Life
Color: Green
Philosophy: Growth, vitality, interconnection, cycles
Common Applications:
Healing magic (promoting natural recovery)
Plant manipulation (controlling vegetation)
Poison creation (death within life)
Enhancement of natural processes
Nature: Verdant essence connects to the cycles of life—growth and decay, birth and death, spring and winter. It's patient like Terracore but more dynamic, acknowledging that life is constant change within the appearance of stillness.
Difficulty: Moderate to High. Understanding life's cycles requires both scientific knowledge and intuitive connection to nature. Verdant cultivators must balance vitality with mortality, growth with decay.
TERRACORE - The Essence of Earth and Endurance
Color: Grey
Philosophy: Stability, endurance, foundation, patience
Common Applications:
Defensive techniques (stone armor, earth walls)
Construction and shaping (building, tunneling)
Enhancement of physical strength
Connection to planetary spirits
Nature: Terracore is patient and immovable. Mountains endure for millennia. Stone waits without complaint. Earth provides the foundation for all other things. Terracore cultivators embody this steadfastness—they are difficult to move, difficult to break, and provide stable support for others.
Difficulty: Moderate. Earth is straightforward in concept but requires patience many cultivators lack. Quick results are rare with Terracore—it rewards those who think in terms of decades and centuries rather than days and weeks.
METALLURGE - The Essence of Metal and Refinement
Color: Silver
Philosophy: Refinement, structure, conductivity, transformation
Common Applications:
Weapon enhancement (strengthening blades)
Body tempering (hardening flesh like metal)
Conducting other essences (metal as medium)
Precision work (detailed constructs)
Nature: Metallurge essence represents transformation through refinement. Ore becomes steel. Impurities are removed. Structure is imposed upon chaos. Metal cultivators understand that strength comes not from raw power but from removing weakness and impurity.
Difficulty: High. Metal is rigid yet must be shaped. Understanding when to be unyielding versus when to bend requires wisdom that comes only with experience.
GALEBREATH - The Essence of Wind and Freedom
Color: White
Philosophy: Freedom, movement, change, unpredictability
Common Applications:
Speed techniques (moving like the wind)
Pressure manipulation (air compression/decompression)
Sound-based attacks (sonic booms, vibrations)
Flight and levitation
Nature: Galebreath is freedom incarnate. Wind goes where it wishes, touches everything, cannot be grasped or held. Wind cultivators embody this philosophy—they are difficult to pin down, adaptable in the moment, and value personal freedom above nearly everything else.
Difficulty: High. Wind is everywhere yet nowhere, powerful yet intangible. Grasping something so inherently free requires approaching cultivation from a paradoxical mindset most find impossible.
RADIANCE - The Essence of Light and Life
Color: Gold
Philosophy: Illumination, healing, purity, revelation
Common Applications:
Healing magic (the primary healing essence)
Purification (cleansing corruption and disease)
Enhancement (strengthening life force)
Detection and revelation (light reveals truth)
Nature: Radiance essence represents life in its purest form—growth without decay, health without sickness, light without shadow. It is the antithesis of Voidshadow, though both are necessary for balance. Radiance cultivators often become healers, but some develop its destructive aspect—purifying light that burns away impurity through overwhelming vitality.
Difficulty: Very High. Life essence is complex beyond measure. The human body alone contains trillions of cells, all working in harmony. Understanding enough to manipulate life force without causing harm requires extraordinary dedication.
VOIDSHADOW - The Essence of Darkness and Void
Color: Black
Philosophy: Absence, potential, corruption, hidden truth
Common Applications:
Stealth techniques (becoming one with shadows)
Spatial manipulation (understanding the void between things)
Corrosion (entropy and decay)
Concealment and illusion
Nature: Voidshadow is the most dangerous essence because it represents absence—the void between particles, the darkness that exists when light fails, the corruption that eats away at reality itself. It is not inherently evil, but it is inherently dangerous. Voidshadow cultivators walk a razor's edge between control and being consumed.
Difficulty: Extreme. Voidshadow is sealed last for a reason. It offers immense power but demands immense control. Most who attempt to master it too early are corrupted or destroyed. Only those with absolute mental discipline should even consider working with Voidshadow.
BRANCH ESSENCES: ADVANCED CULTIVATION
What Are Branch Essences?
Branch essences are specialized manifestations that go beyond the eight base types. They fall into two categories:
Pure Branches: A single base essence refined to its purest conceptual form
Combined Branches: Two base essences working in perfect harmony
Why Are Branches Difficult?
Most cultivators struggle to master even one base essence in their lifetime. Branch essences require either:
For Pure Branches:
Understanding the deeper nature of an essence, not just its surface manifestation
Refining essence to its purest conceptual form (like distilling alcohol from grain)
Grasping paradoxical aspects (like stillness within flow for ice)
For Combined Branches:
Manipulating TWO base essences simultaneously in perfect harmony
Understanding how different essence philosophies interact and complement
Maintaining precise balance (too much of either ruins the branch)
Only truly talented cultivators can achieve branch essence mastery. Those who do are considered elite—their capabilities far exceed ordinary cultivators of the same tier.
PURE BRANCH ESSENCESINFERNO BRANCHES
Plasma
Description: Super-refined fire essence achieving temperatures that transcend normal combustion
Requirements: Understanding fire at its fundamental level—not burning of fuel but excitation of particles
Applications: Cutting through nearly anything, creating miniature suns, devastating attacks
Difficulty: Extreme. Plasma is fire stripped of impurities, burning hotter than any normal flame.
Embercore
Description: Slow-burning, enduring flames that persist indefinitely
Requirements: Understanding patience within passion—fire that doesn't consume itself
Applications: Sustained burning without fuel, curses that never end, eternal forges
Difficulty: High. Paradoxical nature of "patient fire" confuses most Inferno users.
Soulflame
Description: Spiritual fire that burns concepts rather than matter
Requirements: Transcending physical understanding of fire to affect abstract concepts
Applications: Burning away fear, consuming memories, attacking spiritual foundations
Difficulty: Extreme. Requires philosophical understanding most never achieve.
TORRENT BRANCHES
Glaciem (Ice)
Description: Water's crystalline stillness—frozen without losing water's essence
Requirements: Understanding stillness within flow, water that has ceased movement but retains water's nature
Applications: Freezing attacks, ice constructs, preservation, temperature control
Difficulty: High. Paradoxical nature of "still water" challenges most Torrent cultivators.
Note: This is one of the most common pure branches because ice is conceptually familiar, even if technically difficult.
Mistborn
Description: Water dispersed to near-invisibility—vapor and fog
Requirements: Understanding water at its lightest, most diffuse state
Applications: Concealment, infiltration, widespread poison delivery, environmental control
Difficulty: Moderate. Mist is easier to grasp than ice but harder to control precisely.
Depthcurrent
Description: Deep ocean pressure—water's crushing force concentrated
Requirements: Understanding water's weight and pressure at extreme depths
Applications: Immense crushing attacks, pressure-based defenses, enhancement of physical strength
Difficulty: High. Requires experiencing deep ocean pressure firsthand.
VERDANT BRANCHES
Toxinbloom
Description: Poison essence—death within life
Requirements: Understanding that life creates death, that poison is merely life doing what it does best
Applications: Poison creation, disease manipulation, corrosive attacks
Difficulty: Moderate. The concept is intuitive but requires overcoming moral reluctance.
Vitaeflow
Description: Pure healing essence—life without death
Requirements: Understanding growth and vitality separated from decay
Applications: Advanced healing, life extension, restoration of damaged tissue
Difficulty: Very High. Overlaps with Radiance but approaches from plant/nature perspective.
Decayweave
Description: Rot and decomposition—returning life to earth
Requirements: Understanding that decay is necessary for new growth, part of natural cycles
Applications: Accelerating decomposition, weakening structures, enriching soil
Difficulty: Moderate to High. Requires accepting death as part of life.
TERRACORE BRANCHES
Crystalcore
Description: Crystal and gemstone formation—earth's purest structure
Requirements: Understanding perfect geometric arrangements, earth's ideal forms
Applications: Creating crystalline structures, hardening defenses to diamond-level, light refraction
Difficulty: High. Requires understanding both earth and structure at fundamental level.
Sandshift
Description: Desert sand—earth broken to finest particles
Requirements: Understanding earth's transition from solid to fluid, stone reduced to powder
Applications: Creating sandstorms, flowing through defenses, erosion attacks
Difficulty: Moderate. Sand is conceptually simple but controlling billions of particles is complex.
Graviton
Description: Earth's fundamental pull—gravity itself
Requirements: Understanding weight and attraction at cosmic scale
Applications: Increasing/decreasing gravity, crushing pressure, attraction/repulsion
Difficulty: Extreme. This is theoretical for most cultivators—few ever achieve it.
METALLURGE BRANCHES
Magnetforge
Description: Magnetic manipulation—metal's natural attraction
Requirements: Understanding metal's inherent polarity and electromagnetic properties
Applications: Controlling metal objects remotely, creating magnetic fields, attraction/repulsion
Difficulty: High. Requires understanding physics, which most cultivators lack.
Rustbane
Description: Corrosion and decay of metals—entropy applied to metal
Requirements: Understanding oxidation, decay, the ways metal returns to ore
Applications: Corroding weapons mid-battle, aging metal instantly, weakening structures
Difficulty: Moderate. The concept is straightforward but controlling rate of decay is tricky.
Liquidmetal
Description: Mercury-like flowing metal—solid becoming liquid
Requirements: Understanding metal's transition point, maintaining metallic properties while flowing
Applications: Adaptive weapons, flowing defenses, infiltration through cracks
Difficulty: Very High. Paradoxical nature of "liquid solid" is extremely challenging.
GALEBREATH BRANCHES
Soundwave
Description: Air vibrations weaponized—wind becoming sound
Requirements: Understanding vibration, frequency, how air carries pressure waves
Applications: Sonic attacks, communication over distance, shattering resonance
Difficulty: Moderate to High. Sound is familiar but weaponizing it effectively takes skill.
Voidwind
Description: Vacuum—the absence of air
Requirements: Understanding void within Galebreath, wind that removes rather than flows
Applications: Creating vacuum zones (suffocation, explosive decompression), absolute silence
Difficulty: Very High. Paradoxical nature of "wind that is no wind" confuses most.
Pressureborn
Description: Atmospheric pressure control—air's weight concentrated or removed
Requirements: Understanding air has mass and weight, can crush or lift
Applications: Crushing attacks, flight enhancement, weather manipulation
Difficulty: High. Requires understanding of meteorology and physics.
RADIANCE BRANCHESHolyflame
Description: Divine/purifying light—Radiance at its most aggressive
Requirements: Understanding that healing can burn away impurity through overwhelming vitality
Applications: Purifying corruption, burning undead, cleansing curses
Difficulty: High. Requires balancing the healing nature with destructive application.
Lifeweave
Description: Pure healing energy—Radiance focused entirely on restoration
Requirements: Understanding life force at its most fundamental, growth without destruction
Applications: Advanced healing, regeneration, life extension
Difficulty: Extreme. This is the pinnacle of healing magic.
Lumenshield
Description: Hard-light constructs—light made solid
Requirements: Understanding light can carry force, can be given structure
Applications: Creating shields and barriers of solid light, weapons of light
Difficulty: Very High. Requires physics knowledge most cultivators lack.
VOIDSHADOW BRANCHES
Corruptshade
Description: Active corruption and decay—Voidshadow at its most dangerous
Requirements: Understanding how darkness corrupts, how void consumes
Applications: Corrupting essence, creating curses, spreading decay
Difficulty: Extreme. Highly dangerous—users risk self-corruption.
Veilborn
Description: Illusion through shadow manipulation—hiding truth in darkness
Requirements: Understanding how darkness conceals, how shadow reveals by hiding
Applications: Creating perfect illusions, concealing truth, false realities
Difficulty: Very High. Requires both Voidshadow mastery and artistic skill.
Voidspace
Description: Spatial manipulation through understanding emptiness
Requirements: Grasping the void between particles, the space that isn't space
Applications: Teleportation, pocket dimensions, cutting through space itself
Difficulty: Extreme. This is considered nearly mythical in difficulty.
COMBINED BRANCH ESSENCES
Combined branches require perfect harmony between two base essences. The cultivator must manipulate both simultaneously, maintaining precise balance while preventing the essences from conflicting.
STORMBORN (Torrent + Galebreath)
Description: Lightning and thunder—electricity born from storm
Requirements:
Water vapor from Torrent (humidity, moisture in air)
Air currents from Galebreath (wind, atmospheric movement)
Perfect balance—too much water drowns the charge, too much wind disperses it
How It Works: When water vapor and air currents interact with proper balance, electrical discharge occurs naturally. Stormborn cultivators don't create lightning from nothing—they create ideal conditions for lightning to form and then control its path.
Applications:
Lightning attacks (devastating offensive power)
Thunder (sonic shockwaves from electrical discharge)
Storm manipulation (calling actual thunderstorms)
Electrical enhancement (speeding up thought, enhancing reflexes)
Difficulty: Extreme. This is one of the most sought-after combined branches but also one of the hardest to master. Most cultivators who attempt it end up electrocuting themselves before achieving proper control.
Prevalence: Rare but known. Stormborn users are treated as elite combatants.
MAGMAFORGE (Inferno + Terracore)
Description: Lava and molten rock—earth heated to flow like water
Requirements:
Heat from Inferno (enough to melt stone)
Earth from Terracore (stability within fluidity)
Understanding both solidity and liquidity
How It Works: Stone, when heated sufficiently, doesn't simply burn—it liquefies while maintaining rock's fundamental nature. Magmaforge cultivators create and control this living stone, directing molten earth like water while maintaining its crushing weight.
Applications:
Creating lava flowsVolcanic eruptions
Molten armor (liquid rock coating the body)
Forging legendary weapons (heat + earth = perfect smithing)
Difficulty: Very High. Requires simultaneous mastery of opposing philosophies—fire's chaos and earth's stability.
Prevalence: Moderately rare. More common among dwarven smiths and Titan cultivators.
STEELFLAME (Inferno + Metallurge)
Description: White-hot metalworking—fire and metal in harmony
Requirements:
Heat from Inferno (enough to make metal malleable)
Metal essence from Metallurge (maintaining structure during transformation)
Understanding transformation through refinement
How It Works: Metal, when properly heated, becomes workable—able to be shaped, folded, refined. Steelflame cultivators achieve perfect temperature control, heating metal to exact specifications for forging or combat.
Applications:
Divine smithing (creating legendary equipment)
Weapon tempering (enhancing blade quality)
Metal transformation mid-combat (reshaping weapons on the fly)
Creating alloys (combining metals through perfect heat)
Difficulty: High. Less conceptually difficult than Stormborn, but requires intimate knowledge of metallurgy.
Prevalence: Common among master smiths, particularly dwarven craftsmen.
DUSTBORN (Terracore + Galebreath)
Description: Sandstorms and erosion—wind carrying earth
Requirements:
Earth from Terracore (but pulverized to fine particles)
Wind from Galebreath (currents to carry the particles)
Understanding earth's transformation from solid to dispersed
How It Works: Earth, when broken small enough, can be carried by wind like water droplets in clouds. Dustborn cultivators weaponize this—creating storms of abrasive particles that erode everything they touch.
Applications:
Sandstorm creation (blinding, cutting, suffocating)
Erosion attacks (wearing down defenses over time)
Desert manipulation (controlling sand dunes)
Glass creation (sand + heat = glass)
Difficulty: Moderate to High. The concept is straightforward, but controlling billions of particles precisely is challenging.
Prevalence: Common in desert regions, rare elsewhere.
BLOODTIDE (Torrent + Radiance)
Description: Life-force in liquid form—blood magic
Requirements:
Water from Torrent (blood's liquid nature)
Life from Radiance (blood's vitality)
Understanding blood as carrier of life essence
How It Works: Blood is life's river—liquid carrying vitality through the body. Bloodtide cultivators manipulate this directly, either healing through blood manipulation or drawing power from blood sacrifices.
Applications:
Advanced healing (repairing blood loss, purifying toxins)
Blood manipulation (controlling another's blood if defenses are breached)
Vitality transfer (sharing life force through blood)
Vampiric techniques (corrupted version—stealing vitality)
Difficulty: Very High. Blood is sacred in most cultures—manipulating it requires overcoming both technical and moral hurdles.
Prevalence: Rare and often viewed with suspicion. Healing applications are accepted, vampiric applications are taboo.
Note: Vampiric Bloodtide is considered a corruption of the branch—stealing life rather than sharing it. Most cultivators who go this route are hunted.
SHADOWFLAME (Inferno + Voidshadow)
Description: Black fire that consumes light—destructive and terrifying
Requirements:
Heat from Inferno (fire's consuming nature)
Void from Voidshadow (absence devouring presence)
Understanding destruction at a fundamental level
How It Works: Normal fire consumes fuel and produces light. Shadowflame consumes everything—matter, energy, essence itself—and produces only darkness. It burns without heat (or rather, with cold that feels like burning), devours light instead of producing it, and leaves nothing but void in its wake.
Applications:
Essence consumption (burning away another's Qi)
Reality destruction (literally unmaking what it touches)
Consuming light (creating zones of absolute darkness)
Devouring souls (if the cultivator is willing to damn themselves)
Difficulty: Extreme. This is one of the most dangerous branches in existence.
Prevalence: Extremely rare. Most who attempt it are corrupted or destroyed. Several realms have banned its practice entirely.
Warning: Shadowflame is considered taboo in most civilized areas. Users are often hunted as threats to reality itself.
VERDANT STEEL (Verdant + Metallurge)
Description: Living metal—plants that incorporate metal essence
Requirements:
Growth from Verdant (life's vitality)
Structure from Metallurge (metal's strength)
Understanding life within non-living material
How It Works: Certain rare plants can absorb metal from soil, incorporating it into their structure. Verdant Steel cultivators enhance this natural process, creating plants with metallic properties—wood that cuts like steel, vines with metal thorns, and flowers that bloom into blades.
Applications:
Living weapons (swords that heal themselves)
Adaptive armor (metal that grows with the wearer)
Metal-enhanced healing (using metal's structure to repair damaged tissue)
Creating unique materials (stronger than wood, more flexible than metal)
Difficulty: Very High. Combining life and metal requires understanding both intimately.
Prevalence: Extremely rare. Most common among elven master craftsmen.
BRANCH ESSENCES AND COMBAT TIERS
Branch essence mastery doesn't automatically increase cultivation tier, but it dramatically increases combat effectiveness. Consider:
A Sparkforged cultivator with Stormborn might defeat an Inferno-tempered cultivator with only base essence access, despite being two tiers lower. The lightning user's versatility and power gives them an overwhelming advantage.
A Flamewrought cultivator with Glaciem mastery has defensive and offensive capabilities far beyond their tier suggests. Ice provides tools that Torrent cannot match.
This is why branch essence users are so highly valued—they punch above their weight class consistently.
RARE COMBINATIONS AND THEORETICAL BRANCHES
Some essence combinations have never been successfully achieved, existing only in theory:
Theoretical Combinations:
Voidfire (Inferno + Voidshadow + Radiance)
Three-essence combination—possibly mythical
Fire that both creates and destroys, illuminates and conceals
Would require simultaneous mastery of three opposing essences
Lifemetal (Verdant + Metallurge + Radiance)
Living metal that grows and heals like flesh
Would require understanding life, structure, and vitality simultaneously
True Voidspace (All eight essences in perfect balance)
Manipulating reality itself by understanding all its components
Considered impossible by most scholars
Would essentially make the cultivator a god
These theoretical branches remain unproven. Most consider them impossible. But cultivators continue to experiment…
BRANCH ESSENCES IN DIFFERENT REALMS
Branch essence prevalence varies by realm:
Lower Realm (Doha):
Branch users are extremely rare
Most cultivators struggle with even base essences
Branch knowledge is limited and closely guarded
Those with branch mastery are considered prodigies
RACIAL AFFINITIES
Different races have natural affinities for certain branches:
Silver Dragons:
Natural affinity for any branch involving Torrent, Terracore, and Radiance
Often develop Glaciem (ice) as their first branch
Can potentially create unique three-essence branches
Dwarves:
Natural affinity for Steelflame (Inferno + Metallurge)
Often develop Magnetforge (Metallurge pure branch)
Excel at any crafting-related branch
Elves:
Natural affinity for Vitaeflow (Verdant pure branch)
Sometimes develop Verdant Steel (Verdant + Metallurge)
Excel at any life-manipulation branch
Aetherwing (winged humanoids):
Natural affinity for Soundwave (Galebreath pure branch)
Sometimes develop Stormborn (Torrent + Galebreath)
Excel at any air-manipulation branch
Luminari:
Natural affinity for Holyflame (Radiance pure branch)
Sometimes develop Lumenshield (Radiance pure branch)
Excel at any light-based branch
Demons:
Natural affinity for Corruptshade (Voidshadow pure branch)
Sometimes develop Shadowflame (Inferno + Voidshadow)
Excel at any darkness-based branch
Phoenixes:
Natural affinity for Plasma (Inferno pure branch)
Sometimes develop Soulflame (Inferno pure branch)
Excel at any fire-based branch
Titans:
Natural affinity for Crystalcore (Terracore pure branch)
Sometimes develop Magmaforge (Inferno + Terracore)
Excel at any earth-based branch
LEARNING BRANCH ESSENCES
Branch mastery cannot be taught directly—it must be understood. Teachers can:
Explain the philosophy behind a branch
Demonstrate the branch in action
Provide exercises to develop understanding
Share their own insights
But ultimately, each cultivator must grasp the branch's nature themselves. What works for one person might not work for another. Branch mastery is deeply personal.
Average Time to Master a Pure Branch: 5-20 years of dedicated study
Average Time to Master a Combined Branch: 10-50 years of dedicated study
Note: These are averages. Prodigies might achieve mastery in months. Some never achieve it despite decades of effort.
CONCLUSION
The essence system of Weave of Ashes is deep and complex, with room for endless creativity and innovation. The eight base essences provide foundation, but branch essences are where true mastery shows.
Every cultivator's journey is unique. Some focus on base essence mastery, becoming unparalleled experts in a single domain. Others pursue branch essences, trading depth for versatility. Neither path is inherently superior—both produce legendary cultivators.
The key is understanding yourself, your affinities, your goals, and your philosophy. The essence that calls to you is the one you should pursue.
May your cultivation be fruitful, and your understanding ever-deepening.
This guide will be updated as new information about essence branches is discovered in the Three Realms.
Last Updated: Volume 000000 - Weave of Ashes Worldbuilding Wiki
Author: Compiled from in-universe knowledge and cultivation manuals
Note: This represents current understanding. New branches may be discovered as the story progresses.