Paths to Power was originally going to be a series of OC guidance posts - just a themed set of guidelines for individual themes. Over time, as the project progressed and we came in and out of delay a few times, Paths to Power went on the backburner, and was of course ultimately unshelved as the series I've been posting.

( Paths to Power Philosophy OR What Exactly I'm Doing Here )

The Paths to Power were introduced with a simple edict: Greatness cannot be taken, only received. Something from without, something external, awakens mortal power, and transforms it into the sublime; there is no exception.

( The Road to Glory )

I changed Lineage to Legacy because I realized it was a better term. We're all about making things better around here, even this close ( Read more... )

The paths to power were split into three for purposes of comprehension, but each overlaps the others in various ways. Where artifacts represent items of power, whose continued existence is required for a magical girl to retain her power, contracts represent something more ephemeral - a deal struck between souls, binding one and transforming it. ( Read more... )

There's a number of things one might call artifact on Battle Fantasia - items of power, from the mythical reality-twisting Silver Crystal, to transformation-enabling pens. Such items are an essential item to the mythology of Battle Fantasia, and their ubiquity cannot be ignored. Items are an indispensable part of the power equation in Battle ( Read more... )

On Battle Fantasia, gaining and growing in power are major components of the stories we tell. In most stories about supernatural powers, the rules about attaining power are a constant subtext, even if they don't always matter intensely. On Battle Fantasia, we're trying to stick to a key rule to the Magical Girl genre, which might seem a little ( Read more... )