Blessing of the Sun God

The Blessing of the Sun God allows those under its influence to use certain abilities, regardless of prior elemental affinities and outside of the standard magic system, with the exception of water and/or dark-based skills. This allows them to use said abilities so long as the conditions are met, regardless of areas that nullify magic and abilities that dispel magic. Their skills and abilities with aligned elements are also noticeably more effective.
Those Blessed by the Sun God will take significantly increased damage from water-based magic or water-imbued weapons, as well as the same of dark attribute abilities and attacks. Combat efficacy is also reduced at night, which will effectively negate the passive physical increases granted by the blessing.
Being blessed by the Sun God is a prerequisite for being a Dawn Guard
Those blessed may have one or more of the following traits:

• A strong affinity to fire, earth, light, gravity (an extreme extension of earth) and their related magic and skills
• Golden Eyes
• A much less definitive sign is having a 'warm' hair color.
• An inability to use water and dark elemental skills.
• Slightly enhanced physical attributes.

The blessing of the Sun God is also hereditary and may be gained by one's children at birth. It will not skip generations. When this happens, it is also lost by its original posessor. The additional affinities remain, but the passive attributes will vanish.

Transmission & Vectors

One must be chosen by the Sun God to receive this blessing or have it passed down at birth.

Causes

Being deemed worthy by Solumi Terra, otherwise known as the God of the Sun, or being the offspring of one who already has the blessing.

Symptoms

The primary giveaway of someone who has received this blessing is golden eyes. This is however also a trait of the equivalent Blessing of the Moon Goddess Other definitive signs are:

• An affinity to light magi and skills (which may be stared by those blessed by the Moon Goddess)
• A magical affinity that includes more than 2 elements.
• Can use Celestiance

Other less certain signs include:

• relatively bright or vibrant warm hair colors,
• An inability to use water and dark magic and skills
• increased vulnerability to water and dark magic and skills
• Increased magi and physical resistance
• Increased magical and physical attack abilities

Affected Groups

Essentially anyone can be blessed by the Sun God, though he seems to prefer overlooking aquatic based races due to the obviously poor elemental alignment they have with him and his abilities.

Cultural Reception

Those blessed by the Sun God are collectively called Dawn Guards, which is based on the role they perform. They were once revered and treated as lower nobility. When paired with a Moon Guardian they were even able to gain an audience with a region's ruler, assuming they were available.
Nowadays, both Dawn Guards and Moon Guardians are little more than an urban legend, and a large payday for those foolish enough to seek the elusive "golden eyes".
In most regions of the world, the statutes and laws granting free passage and audience rights to guardians still exist, though most guards do not know of them.

Type

Divine

Origin

Divine

Cycle

Chronic, Acquired & Congenital

Rarity

Rare