Info on the Essence Meta CYOA

This is mainly for people who are unfamiliar with CYOAs or the Essence Meta CYOA that I'm using for this story.

CYOA stands for "Choose Your Own Adventure". They are basically writing prompts that usually allow you to give your OC/SI/whatever character you want superpowers. There are many variations of them, but the one I used is one of the more fleshed-out ones.

The Essence Meta CYOA runs on, you guessed it, essences. Essences are best described as powers in a bottle. How the character actually receives the essence is up to the writer, but they are all pre-defined powers. There's a big google doc that lists all the available essences in the CYOA, but I won't bother linking that. It's easy enough to find if you search "Essence Meta CYOA" or just "Essence CYOA"

The Essences I use for this story are as follows:

Essence of the Breeder

By taking this essence, you become the sexiest thing alive.

Your body is changed to become your ultimate ideal of sex appeal, including tremendous endowment.

Porn physics apply to you.

Members of the opposite sex are inexorably drawn to you. You may toggle this on or off, or set it to target certain criteria.

Your charisma increases to ridiculous levels.

You are guaranteed to impregnate or be impregnated every time you have sex, with however many or few babies you want. This can be toggled on and off.

Pregnancies last up to a third as fast as normal, and your offspring reach sexual maturity in a matter of months.

There are no negative consequences for incest.

Your offspring (which can be any sex you wish) can inherit your abilities, either at full power or weaker.

You can breed with any species, and the offspring will either be a half-breed (with just the right amount of fusion) or purely one of the parent's species. You choose which.

Essence of the King

A body just above the peak of your species in ability, one sculpted to your tastes.

Infinite willpower to tackle any foe, even bloody and broken you will not stop.

Endless endurance, stamina, and immunity to pain.

A signature bloodline with several benefits up to your discretion. Can pass onto your descendants.

Perfect memory with infinite storage

mastery of many weapons and unarmed styles, even just plain old brawling.

Immense skill conducting war on a strategic and tactical level.

Good handle of logistics and how to raise and train a force from a small band of soldiers to entire armies.

A mastery of economics, logistics, politics, and other things needed to run a functional power.

Charisma to bend the will of entire nations and the sheer presence of a monarch that others would describe as divine.

Optionally begin with a kingdom of your own design, from its general people, cultures, customs, military, etc. Its initial size can be up to that of a proper continent. The Kingdom can retroactively insert itself into any new world you visit or be housed in its own shielded pocket dimension. Most entities will be unable to pass to your realm freely unless they are significantly powerful such as gods.

Bloodline of the God-Emperor from 40k universe (alpha-plus level psyker)

Essence of the Binder

By consuming the essence of the binder you gain several boons

Have the ability to mark targets with a sigil of your own design. This sigil manifests wherever you want on their body and may even be full body tattoos should you wish. The Mark can become invisible without active use. At its base lets you telepathically speak to each other and know the exact location and status of whoever marked. This mark is completely immune to any sort of tampering save yourself and is otherwise permanent though you may remove any mark with but a thought.

Those bound by the mark gain access to weaker versions of the essences you have, even this one. You may choose which essences they are empowered with. They may also be granted weaker forms of other powers you may possess at your discretion. If the mark is removed they will retain some but not all of this power just wisps of it.

Marked beings who mark others will give weaker versions of their own powers to their marked

Marked beings have infallibly loyalty hammered directly into their mind, body, and soul. They will not and cannot consciously or unconsciously choose to hurt you or go against your will unless you allow it or outright order them to. This loyalty may be dialed from slight trust all the way to complete and total devotion. This function only rests with you and those you explicitly give it to. You may optionally discard this function permanently this once.

The Binder has the ability to invoke 'commands' which are absolute orders the marked is compelled to follow to the best of their ability even temporarily ramping up abilities or forcing their body to do something it isn't normally capable of to achieve it. This function only rests with you and those you explicitly give it to. You may optionally discard this function permanently this once.

Those marked may be summoned and dismissed by you at will and even stored away in a void inaccessible by all but you for safe keeping when not needed. They will be in a sleep like stasis when in storage and will not suffer from the passage of time or basic needs.

If a marked individual is killed even down to the soul they will instead respawn safe and sound inside your storage. Dead beings can be marked if you have remains, a object heavily associated/meaningful to them, or a soul to interact with, they will reform alive as if they had died as one of your marked.

You and others marked may set conditions and requirements for certain powers or essences, even restrictions that lock down powers should they violate a restriction or other punishment.

those marked can have their appearance, traits, attributes, and mark changed by the binder to anything possible within the limits of their species or abilities. You can reset any changes made or revert to an earlier change.

Essence of the Archmage

By consuming the essence of the Archmage you gain several boons

Perfect memory with infinite storage

Beyond genius level intellect

Capacity to learn any 'magic' even unique ones upon seeing it once or understanding enough about it. This also includes things like Ki, Chakra, soul power, etc.

Possess a supernatural reactor that can adapt to any supernatural energy to fuel spells, enchantments, powers, etc. this reactor provides a steady supply of power that will grow over time, right now you could use high consumption abilities with wild abandon and still not make much of a dent after a few hours.

Can teach others systems even if they previously lacked the capacity.

Manipulate entire systems or combine then with experimentation.

are capable of casting any spell as long as you have the energy not requiring any extra element like a focus or materials. The time required to cast if any remains however.

Essence of the Blank

By taking this essence, you gain but one benefit:

Your potential becomes limitless. You can learn any discipline or skillset, even if you shouldn't be capable of it, without forgetting it and practice them into mastery, no matter how many you learn. Any abilities you have from other Essences will increase where possible and develop in ways beyond their initial purpose