Essence of the Akashic Grimoire

Essence of the Akashic Grimoire

*You come into possession of a book of supernatural origin that can shapeshift to any kind of "book" format you want, whether it be a tablet or big fat metal tome with bronze plates for pages and seemingly infinite pages or storage capacity. This book is filled with knowledge and secrets large and small. It can give you ways to strengthen yourself through rituals, studying, and summoning.

*The book is soulbound to you and can't be stolen since it will always find its way back to you. It is also completely invulnerable to damage and self cleaning. You can summon and dismiss the book at will. Others who attempt to read it without your consent will not be able to understand the contents of it regardless of whatever special abilities, wisdom, knowledge, or other strange abilities of comprehension they might possess.

*Anything you have acquired with the help of the book will function as intended even divorced from its home reality that it may or may not depend on to work.

*The book can at a great cost of any kind of supernatural energy send you to different worlds and if drawing from your own reserves at a low level of enhancement would leave you near empty of whatever energy you used. Once you have been to a world the energy cost to travel to it is half as much. The method of travel defaults to a portal that lasts long enough for you and any others you want to travel with you to step through it though you may decide to use something different like teleportation. If you wish to transport yourself while in a vehicle, even something as large as a spaceship you may take the entire vehicle with you including any passengers onboard. You can choose the specific world you go to, even going to alternate timelines, "fanfic" versions of that world, or let the book fling you to a random world. The book will transport you to a relatively safe and out of the way location so you don't have to worry about getting jumped when you come out the other side. Once you have been to a world you can decide where you will appear when you visit said world again.

*The book is preloaded with enough 'generic' supernatural energy specifically to send you to another world once and get back home before requiring you to provide more energy from there on. Built in safeties prevent you from using this store of generic supernatural energy for any other purpose. Should you use it all and strand yourself on a world that lacks any sort of supernatural energy and have not undergone any enhancement to let you generate your own supernatural energy the book will still generate a small trickle of the same generic supernatural energy. Enough that you could after waiting a two weeks to a month travel to a previous world or a new world respectively.

*When you travel to a new world the book will attune you to that world and its metaphysics. So you can function without suffering whatever horrible consequences you might otherwise have from being a being from a foreign dimension. None of these attunements will clash with the other or weaken you, even if they might otherwise. You can extend this attunement to any that travel with you or that you summon. You can, with the same energy cost to transport yourself to a new world link two worlds you have been to and seamlessly blend their metaphysics. You may link more than two worlds like this at once and in the future but the energy cost increases for each new world. Once this is done, it cannot be undone. This allows you to create permanent bridges between worlds, meaning anyone with the ability can then transit between those worlds that are linked without use of the book.

*These rituals vary from ways to enhance your mind, body, and soul to granting you supernatural abilities, magical powers, and more. They are unique to the book and give you a way of breaking through your limits in ways that might not be possible in some worlds. These rituals are designed with you in mind, as the holder of the book, and thus cannot be used to strengthen others though through time and effort you may devise your own rituals to strengthen others with the aid of the book's knowledge. The first few rituals to enhance your attributes are rather simple and usually only require a modest donation of supernatural energy and blood to perform. The enhancements available depend on what worlds you have been to. Traveling to the Nasuverse and using an enhancement to gain magic would grant you a few high quality magic circuits that could be improved upon further in quality and quantity for example. The book includes rituals to collect supernatural energy from a given environment to power enhancements and summoning should you lack the ability to generate your own, but it is slow compared to what you might otherwise have if you were naturally generating your own energy with a modest amount requiring a few days to collect unless you happen to have a large source of supernatural energy to tap into.

*The more you enhance yourself the greater the costs become for more powerful enhancements requiring more supernatural energy and more exotic components usually related to the kind of enhancement. Note that lower level enhancements do not become more expensive, only that as you grow stronger you unlock more powerful and more expensive enhancements. No enhancement will lock you out of other enhancements, even if some power or ability would be mutually exclusive normally.

*The book can store supernatural energy and you can donate your own supernatural energies or those energies you have access to and have it act as a battery from you to draw from in times of need. The book can also filter different kinds of supernatural energy and transform it from one kind to another as long as it has come in contact with said types of supernatural energy.

*The book can provide the specific knowledge you might need to make use of these enhancements such as teaching you a sword style or how to cast a certain kind of spell. It can also provide detailed information on different things like supernatural beings, individuals, artifacts, lost magics, and anything else you might want to know.

*This information is limited to whatever universe you are currently in though travelling to a new universe will unlock the secrets of that one as well. Depending on what you are trying to learn it can take more or less time for the book to "find". Getting a well known and practiced style of martial arts would be simple for the book and take little to no time but finding rarer or more obscured things takes longer. Gaining access to a branch of magic that has been extinct for thousands of years or learning the one true weakness of a cosmic entity might take a long time. The book can search multiple things at once but the more you task it and the rarer it is the slower the process becomes. Once the book finds something it can access it at any time then on letting you reference back to anything you have looked for previously.

*Navigating the book is as simple as it has an ever evolving index that will guide you to any information it has collected that you seek. You can have the book either imprint the knowledge into your mind and the requisite skill for basic proficiency in something and train to grow from there or read and train it the hard way from the beginning. The book can also automatically record your experiences, whether they be in a journal, log, illustrations, or multiple forms of media in a format you would find most useful to review or find entertaining.

*It is also capable of giving you the means to summon things to yourself. The strength of these things depends on your overall strength, as an unenhanced human you might be able to summon a handful of very minor supernatural creatures at once or summon a slightly magical blade, lump of gold, or useful resource for crafting as an example. Things you summon require no upkeep as you have simply moved them from one place to another, things that require an external supernatural energy source to persist probably require some upkeep however. You can be as specific or as vague as you want with what you want to summon as long as it is possible for the book to find it in whatever universe and or any alternate or future timelines, even if those timelines have been destroyed. All you have to provide is the cost of supernatural energy to call it to your side. Note some materials might be hazardous if you have not taken the necessary precautions to keep yourself and others safe. The book will not summon hazardous material to you unless you intentionally want to summon said material.

*The stronger you get the more powerful the things you could summon to yourself seemingly with no upper limit as you get more supernatural energy. If you can supply more power then you can generate like with an artifact or ritual sacrifice you could summon things beyond what you would normally be capable of. These summons come from across time and space and normally cannot be traced back to you. You can choose to have the book summon directly from your current world and though they cannot be tracked, someone may end up looking for whatever you "borrowed."

*Anything with a level of intelligence from simple animals or basic magical constructs to sapient artifacts or people is unable to harm you intentionally or unintentionally by lack of control or instability instead simply becoming inert or subdued enough until you are safely beyond the range of effect. They cannot disobey or subvert any commands you give them, you may also layer commands or set triggers for certain commands to take effect. Any items you summon that require a certain set of characteristics or user to be "worthy" will work for you even if you wouldn't otherwise fit the requirements or criteria. You can choose to have your summon be resurrected if they were deceased beforehand or summon just the corpse or spirit if you only need what is left of them.

*Once you have summoned something you can call it to your side instantly whether that be an object or person. You can also store it away in an otherwise unreachable pocket dimension in the book where summons will be kept in perfect stasis with seemingly no upper limit on storage space. You can also store non-summoned things in this pocket dimension. The book will provide you an accurate manifest of all things inside including the condition and any notable traits or history of these things. You can store yourself inside as well, and set triggers for when to release you from the book, if you set no triggers the book will release you automatically once the immediate area is survivable and there are no clear and present threats. You can determine exactly how things exit the pocket dimension, whether that be via portal, it simply appearing in your hand or nearby depending on its size. Things inside an object like passengers on a ship or items in a chest will be brought with the object, this includes for summoning an item to you side, storing it, or retrieving it from the pocket dimension.