The-testament System
A supernatural system that controls reality through Narrative Authority.
The source of power is not talent, nor elements, but the way reality recognizes Your existence.
1. Scriptures (Essential Abilities)
Scriptures incised on reality, awarding powers depending on your intention at the current moment of crisis.
Example:
Scripture of the Undirected Path — strength increases the longer you fail to turn back.
Scripture ofConsume Silence — power increases by destroying others' power.
Scriptures can change, but only if the user also keeps their actions internally aligned.
2. Titles (Existential Weight)
Titles are not ranks—titles are definitions.
Scripture of the Last Man of District Nine
The Survivor of the Redaction
Titles amplify power but trap your action. Doing something against your Title brings Repercussions—losing power or killing yourself.
3. Episode Debt
Each supernatural act brings Narrative Debt.
Cheat-style growth causes instability.
Changing your Fate raises Repercussionsevents.
Power acquired too easily brings Corrections—disasters to "suffit the story."
4. Null (Empty Space)
There is no Scripture to Aren, no Title, no interface. Instead, he has Null Authority:
He cannot absorb power passively.
He is no foreteller.
He is no one the Testament can correct.
To get stronger, Aren must:
appropriative broken Manuscripts
Force unreliable powers toSelf
Live the consequence gods are meant to bear
Each time he gains power, he bears physical, mental, or moral price.
5. Power Progress Rule
Abilities transform not by grinding— but by making irreversible choices. Once an ability is changed, it can no longer regain the same form. Growth = loss.
Why This survives
No wish-gratified shortcuts
No "chosen one" ease
Identity-bound power and repercussions
moral dilemmas baked in growth
heroics who become stronger by rejecting the system, not ruling it