However, when dueling, skills and experience play a key role in duels. The comparison is a simple process a pure blood is stronger than a quarter blood due to having more mage blood in them. The gnostic strength of a mage depends on what rank they are. The final rank belongs to the Ascendants, those who have taken ambrosia, and they are the most powerful of magi. The gnosis is a hereditary ability that grows weaker through continued dilution of the original mage's blood. The Keepers, the magi gifted with Ascendancy by the Rondian Empire for years of loyalty and service, were granted roughly an extra 20 years from becoming Ascendants, which is made more impressive by them being so old as they could barely walk, proving the powerful vitality of Ascendant level gnosis. Justina Meiros was over 150 years old andlooked to be a woman in her late thirties.
Ascendants had immense lifespans, with Selene Corinea living from Y380 to Y930 and beyond, and appearing to be a woman just out of her prime. Those with the gnosis were granted extended lifespans depending on their blood rank. Pure bloods had great difficulty in producing children, even more so when mating with other magi, and Ascendants had even more difficulty, some being essential infertile. The lowest, the one sixteenth bloods, were functionally human and suffered no discernible problems, but moving up the ranks, infertility rates increased. After many years of study, the 16 studies of the gnosis were named and began being taught to the magi.Īll magi suffered with differing levels of infertility due to having the gnosis, depending on their blood rank.
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These original Ascendants used their new found strength to overthrow the Rimoni Empire and install the Rondian Empire in its place. The original 1000 members of Johan Corineus' group each took a measure whereupon 500 of them died, 100 went irrevocably insane, 100 became Souldrinkers, and the remaining 300 gained the gnosis. At that time, the potion was vastly different to the current version, due to decades of study and refinement, and such the success rate was much lower. The gnosis was first created in Year 380 by Baramitus through the use of the ambrosia.
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