Fon Quaal mystics are the plump, flightless birds of the religious world, instantly doomed the moment a land-bridge to a better-adapted theology appears. We last saw one eating a penny.
Fon Quaal mystics are the plump, flightless birds of the religious world, instantly doomed the moment a land-bridge to a better-adapted theology appears. We last saw one eating a penny.
I really think I want to see a summary of everything that Cultivation has to offer; so far, it seems that it makes you strong and fast enough to match nearly anything, it removes most of your bodily needs, and makes you obscenely tough.
So… I’m missing anything?
Cultivation renders you resistant or immune to the weaknesses of flesh and the limitations of the physical world; while intended as an all-purpose “technology substitute” for Yamra’s chosen, in all but the most limited practitioners, it serves mostly do what what you described: practitioners are strong, touch, fast, enduring, and preposterously hard to hurt. Inspiration for Cultivation comes from about a million different sources, from Alcibiades’ description of Socrates’ ability to ignore inclement weather to various legendary internal kung fu techniques.
Maresh hasn’t actually mastered the more impressive tricks yet, though; the few people who could do the really jaw-dropping stuff died or vanished in the war.
LOOOOOL, That was an amusing incident…Wait a sec, if Cultivation was meant as a ‘replacement’ tech for humans, does that mean they never got one ever, and with Yamra being their god/guy supposed to make one for them. it’s pretty much set that humans are gonna die off.
Um, is there any way that Cultivation can be retained as the Human science even after all is done?
Because it seriously matches the rest of the Sciences in coolness.
I guess the deal-breaker is whether or not it’s just Humans that can get Cultivation; if anyone can, it isn’t the Human science.
If only Humans can get it, then maybe it actually is the Human science, and Yamra is just a damn good liar…
But how impressive we talking? Blades shattering on skin? Wire-fu? The Buddha Palm?
“Um, is there any way that Cultivation can be retained as the Human science even after all is done?”
An excellent question!
“I guess the deal-breaker is whether or not it’s just Humans that can get Cultivation; if anyone can, it isn’t the Human science.”
So far we haven’t seen anyone except a human able to master Cultivation–furthermore, we haven’t seen anyone who isn’t a rigid follower of Tamantha able to master Cultivation. (Pleroma like Vish can perform similar tricks, but pleroma aren’t made of regular flesh; the techniques aren’t exactly identical, functionally or ideologically.)
“But how impressive we talking? Blades shattering on skin?”
Maresh effortlessly broke Anthem’s original sword, and that was a long time ago when he was still learning the basics.
“Wire-fu?”
Gravity is just another limitation, though Maresh can’t ignore gravity…yet.
“The Buddha Palm?”
Outside of “just hitting someone really hard,” probably not. Cultivation is mostly internal; it’s not a “chi blast” or anything like that.