The Shiva Drishti, the Heavenly Path of Devastation

enables the utilization of Occular-Based Energy Regression (OBER), a technique that targets the innate Magical Energy within living organisms and reverts it to its primal form as Universal Energy—the fundamental constituents of the cosmos.

Created & Written by K. A. Crawford

Effect

Magic combines Mana + Natural Energy, Yin with Yang, creating something new. Mana (Yin) is what the 5th Dimension is made up of and what we would consider Raw Magical Energy. When beings from the 3rd Dimension and lower channel Mana through their Mana Cells, they are passively mixing it with Natural Energy (Yang) a form of otherwise useless energy that all beings emit. Natural Energy acts to dilute the Mana, allowing lower beings of flesh and blood to wield it, called Refined Magical Energy, or just Magic.

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The Heavenly Path of Devastation (Shiva Drishti) is an ocular-based Inherited Magical Jutsu that appears to destroy Magical Energy within any living being. This is a deception, as the Shiva Drishti is doing Magical Energy Fission, the forceful separation of Mana (Yin) and Natural Energy (Yang). This will completely reduce the amount of Magical Energy within a living being to zero, forcing their body to restart the process of Magical Energy Fusion all over again. How much Magical Energy can be depleted and how fast it can be depleted depends on the user of the Shiva Drishti, naturally a target with an immense amount of Magical Energy will typically be at an advantage. Inversely, the Shiva Drishti also allows for Magical Energy Fusion, the forceful joining of Mana Cells and Natural Energy to create Magical Energy. This is most notably used to forcibly restart your own Magical Energy reserves much faster than the body naturally does.

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Magical Fusion and Fission can be done by the Shiva Drishti on any magical application, not just limited to magical energy. In Mahābhūta Transformations, when a Mage turns their Magical Energy into an element, the Shiva Drishti can revert the element into magical energy and then back into Mana Cells and Natural Energy. If a Mage is using their Magic to manipulate an element, the Shiva Drishti can employ Fission to force them to lose control of the element by "destroying" their magical energy. Any magical constructs, structures, and items can be similarly dismantled. Seals and Wards can be dismissed out of hand with their magic depleted. The Shiva Drishti demands the user to keep the target in their line of sight for this jutsu to work. The Shiva Drishti, at its lowest level, can only focus on 1 target at a time per set of eye(s) of the user. However, a fully manifested Shiva Drishti will possess four additional tomoe around the pupil, which allows the user to focus on up to five targets at once. These four additional tomoe only work up to 60% of the main pupil. 

The Ajna Sight

The Ajna is a type of secondary sight or Astra that the Shiva Jutsu allows its user access to. It connects people to their intuition, giving them the ability to communicate with the cosmos or help them receive messages and information from the past and the future. The Ajna is akin to a type of clairvoyance (the power to acquire information using sight outside the normal range of detection) or clairsentience (the power to feel things outside the range of normal perception). The Ajna also allows the user to view the spiritual plane and examine the Soul of other beings. While the Shiva Drishti is a Command Jutsu (a Jutsu which must be manually toggled) the Ajna is classified as a Constant Jutsu (once awakened/gained, it remains active until the user dies). As such, it does not consume magical energy.

The Param Shiva Drishti

The Param Shiva Drishti is the Supreme Vision of Shiva, it is the final form of this jutsu once the user has mastered the base Shiva Drishti. The primary function of the Param Shiva Drishti is Energy creation and destruction. While the awakened Shiva Drishti only flirts with the idea of energy destruction, the Param Shiva Drishti violates the Conservation of Energy Law. Traditionally, it states that the total energy of an isolated system remains constant; it is said to be conserved over time. Energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only moved. Energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only moved. The Param Shiva Drishti allows the user to overcome this disability and allows for the destruction and creation of new energy, no longer limited to just Magical energy. The Param Shiva Drishti also removes the 5-target limit of the base Shiva Drishti by allowing the jutsu to now work at 100% effectiveness on any target within the field of vision of the user.

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The Pashupatastra, the Divine Missile of Devastation

The Pashupatastra is the idea of absolute destruction made manifest, pure energy, and power that only exists to lay waste to all of creation. It cannot be blocked or dodged and once a target has been given, it cannot be changed. The Pashupatastra is an Astra of immense power and is the only one users of the Shiva Jutsu can use, but it is only ever employed as a last resort and never at its full power, lest you wish to destroy all of creation. The Pashupatastra can only be used once a user masters the Shiva Jutsu entire and it demands a portion of the user's life span every time it is cast.

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Once mastered, the Shiva Drishti allows the user to summon an avatar of Shiva which surrounds them and fights on their behalf. The manifestation of a user's Shiva is unique to them. These Shiva Avatars can also be used in a fashion similar to Mantles, and like a Mantle, the amount of Shiva Mantles a Mage can have depends on the specifics of the Mage.

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Summoning the Shiva Avatar typically requires the user to perform the Tāṇḍava Natyam, a cosmic dance to invoke the avatar. However, similar to Formal and Informal activation of jutsu, this is only needed for a Full-Body Summoning. Parts of the Avatar, the power therein, and the Shiva Mantles can be called upon immediately without the dance but the form will be incomplete and significantly weaker. This also consumes a significantly smaller amount of Magical Energy as opposed to a Full-Body Summoning which is not only taxing on the user's energy but also their body, quickly tiring them out.

Manifestation

Source

The Shiva Jutsu is a facet of the Eyes Over Heaven (EOH) Jutsu, obtained by KILL THE GODS AND DEVOUR THEM WHOLE when he waged a war on the gods and ate their bodies. The EOH refers to the five occular Jutsu obtained from eating the flesh of the divines.

Discovery

The Death of the Gods

Miad Fairfield Dogar was an Empyrean born during the Loka-Yuddha, he was the adoptive son of Louis Fairfield IV and Golafsar Dogar, a retired Knight and a Geisha respectively. Miad would eventually enter the Loka-Yuddha and begin his attempt to gain power and become the Second Name of God. He waged a destructive war on the Gods of his Metaverse, a terrible war where he lost himself in the madness, he slew the Gods of his home Metaverse and ate their remains, gaining power from their divine flesh, and earning his new name, Kill the Gods and Devour Them Whole. Namely, the power he gained from the god-flesh was his Inherited Magical Jutsu called Eyes Over Heaven. He conquered his Metaverse, and then his Xenoverse, creating the Miadharma Dynasty to rule his vast holdings.

The Princess of the Shiva Sight

Princess Yudashkina Krasimir the First was one of Miad's daughters by Queen Moskvina Krasimir who inherited one of his new Jutsu, the Shiva Jutsu. By this birthright, she was given a 5th of her father's domain to rule, creating the Yudashkinova Dynasty (composed of Clans Sarkari, Uchimura, Skydancer, Kümmel, Bierwirth, Tshimpaka). Yudashkina mastered the Shiva Drishti and pioneered many internal techniques that her descendants would expand on. She was a pivotal figure during the Loka-Yuddha, serving her Lord Father as commander of his celestial armies, and commanding her private elite death-squad. Yudashkina's Shiva Drishti was exceptionally powerful, capable of destroying energy within picoseconds. So much so that, upon her death, her eyes were taken and placed inside the head of a slain Gorgon warrior, creating the Cursed Magical Weapon Ergknot, capable of destroying one's ability to use Magic at all by destroying their very soul.

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Known Shiva Drishti Jutsu

• The Mrityu ka Netra (Eye of Death)

A jutsu created by Princess Krasimir Yudashkina, the Mrityu ka Netra can kill millions upon billions of people within seconds. Once Princess Krasimir mastered the Param Shiva Drishti, she would combine it with her Ajna, allowing her to now target beings based on their Soul (the Shiva Drishti demands that the user have visual confirmation of the target, and this is normally not possible from orbit. But with the Ajna implemented into the process, this step is circumvented by using the Ajna to "see" the souls, thus allowing the Shiva Drishti to target the beings). She would then use the Illusionary arts to project her Ajna Param Shiva Drishti onto a surface, typically a planet's moon, allowing her jutsu to peer down planet-side and immediately kill any being with a soul that she targeted. The range is only limited by the sphere of influence of the moon visible from the surface. By that, what this means is that any being with a soul on the side of the planet that the moon (planetoid) is on, will be targeted, and will be killed.

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To use this Shiva Drishti jutsu, the user must have mastered their Shiva Drishti, awakened their Param Shiva Drishti mastered it as well, and mastered their Ajna. They must also have mastery or high skill in the field of Illusion and enough Magical Energy to sustain the jutsu until their targets are dead. This largely comes down to the user, and how much and how fast their Shiva Drishti can target and destroy energy. This Jutsi can be highly specialized if the user is also a master of or highly skilled in the field of Soul Magic, as they can distinguish the Souls of their targets more accurately. Alternatively, the user can mark the souls of the beings they want to kill / spare, and account for this exception in their casting.

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Princess Krasimir once used the Mrityu ka Netra on the surface of two planets orbiting each other, Grilles 62ZL and Binniepra Prime, wiping out a little over half of both of their populations in a matter of minutes, forcing a surrender within the hour. One of Krasimir's grandsons once completely shielded a planet and projected his Mrityu ka Netra onto the inside dome of the shielding for a faster result. The biggest drawback of this jutsu is the mastery needed to even pull it off, the prep time and casting time needed to make it work, and the presence of a solid surface to project the Mrityu ka Netra off of.

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The Shiva Drishti, the Heavenly Path of Devastation

The Heavenly Path of Devastation (Shiva Drishti) is an ocular-based Inherited Magical Jutsu that appears to destroy Magical Energy within any living being. This is a deception, as the Shiva Drishti is doing Magical Energy Fission, the forceful separation of Mana (Yin) and Natural Energy (Yang). This will completely reduce the amount of Magical Energy within a living being to zero, forcing their body to restart the process of Magical Energy Fusion all over again. How much Magical Energy can be depleted and how fast it can be depleted depends on the user of the Shiva Drishti, naturally a target with an immense amount of Magical Energy will typically be at an advantage. Inversely, the Shiva Drishti also allows for Magical Energy Fusion, the forceful joining of Mana Cells and Natural Energy to create Magical Energy. This is most notably used to forcibly restart your own Magical Energy reserves much faster than the body naturally does.

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Magical Fusion and Fission can be done by the Shiva Drishti on any magical application, not just limited to magical energy. In Mahābhūta Transformations, when a Mage turns their Magical Energy into an element, the Shiva Drishti can revert the element into magical energy and then back into Mana Cells and Natural Energy. If a Mage is using their Magic to manipulate an element, the Shiva Drishti can employ Fission to force them to lose control of the element by "destroying" their magical energy. Any magical constructs, structures, and items can be similarly dismantled. Seals and Wards can be dismissed out of hand with their magic depleted.

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The Shiva Drishti demands the user to keep the target in their line of sight for this jutsu to work. The Shiva Drishti, at its lowest level, can only focus on 1 target at a time per set of eye(s) of the user. However, a fully manifested Shiva Drishti will possess four additional tomoe around the pupil, which allows the user to focus on up to five targets at once. These four additional tomoe only work up to 60% of the main pupil. The Shiva Drishti also grants the user a secondary sight via the Ajna, a type of Clairvoyance or awareness, with insights into both the past and the future. The Ajna also allows the user to view the spiritual plane and examine the Soul of other beings.

The Param Shiva Drishti is the Supreme Vision of Shiva, it is the final form of this jutsu once the user has mastered it. While the awakened Shiva Drishti only flirts with the idea of energy destruction, the Param Shiva Drishti violates the Conservation of Energy Law. Traditionally, it states that the total energy of an isolated system remains constant; it is said to be conserved over time. Energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only moved. Energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only moved. The Param Shiva Drishti allows the user to overcome this disability and allows for the destruction and creation of new energy. It also removes the 5-target limit of the base Shiva Drishti, allowing any number of targets that the user has sight of to be affected with the jutsu at 100% power. The applications for this are bound only by the knowledge and capabilities of the user, but its most notable usage is the Death Stare. This is a Shiva Drishti Jutsu where the user destroys the life energy of another being, killing someone with a stern look alone. Inversely, it can also be used to give life to beings, though one should exercise caution here. The Shinigami (Death Gods) are not known to tolerate violators of the balance and you may invoke their wrath.

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The Pashupatastra, The Divine Missile Of Devastation

The Pashupatastra is the idea of absolute destruction made manifest, pure energy, and power that only exists to lay waste to all of creation. It cannot be blocked or dodged and once a target has been given, it cannot be changed. The Pashupatastra is an Astra of immense power and is the only one users of the Shiva Jutsu can use, but it is only ever employed as a last resort and never at its full power, lest you wish to destroy all of creation. The Pashupatastra can only be used once a user masters the Shiva Jutsu entire and it demands a portion of the user's life span every time it is cast.

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Once mastered, the Shiva Drishti allows the user to summon an avatar of Shiva which surrounds them and fights on their behalf. The manifestation of a user's Shiva is unique to them. These Shiva Avatars can also be used in a fashion similar to Mantles, and like a Mantle, the amount of Shiva Mantles a Mage can have depends on the specifics of the Mage.

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Summoning the Shiva Avatar typically requires the user to perform the Tāṇḍava Natyam, a cosmic dance to invoke the avatar. However, similar to Formal and Informal activation of jutsu, this is only needed for a Full-Body Summoning. Parts of the Avatar, the power therein, and the Shiva Mantles can be called upon immediately without the dance but the form will be incomplete and significantly weaker. This also consumes a significantly smaller amount of Magical Energy as opposed to a Full-Body Summoning which is not only taxing on the user's energy but also their body, quickly tiring them out.

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Princess Yudashkina Krasimir the First

Related Deity/Higher Power

Kill the Gods and Devour Them Whole

Gestures & Ritual

Formal Activation Of The Shiva Drishti

• Incantation: Om Namah Shivaaya. Rudra Tandava. Kali Maha Pralaya.

"I bow to Shiva." bears the Uruz (ᚢ) - This rune represents strength, courage, and determination. "The Furious Dance of Rudra." bears the Thurisaz (ᚦ) - This rune symbolizes chaos, destructive forces, and transformation. "The Great Dissolution by Kali." bears the Dagaz (ᛞ) - This rune signifies enlightenment, breakthrough, and a new day.

• Gesture: The user takes a stance with their feet firmly planted, legs apart, and arms raised above their head, fingers splayed open like the multiple arms of Lord Shiva in his Nataraja form. This gesture symbolizes their channeling of destructive energy.
• Ritual: The ritual for activating The Shiva Drishti involves a series of movements inspired by Lord Shiva's cosmic dance, the Tandava. The user must perform a graceful and intricate dance that mimics the swirling and destructive forces of the universe.

Effect Duration

Varies. Depends on how fast the target can replenish their own Mana Cells to counteract the effects of the Shiva Drishti

Effect Casting Time

The Shiva Drishti is a Command Jutsu, it only casts once manually done so by the user. The amount of time it takes a user to deplete the Mana Cells of a target varies from user to user.

Range

Line of sight

Applied Restriction

1. Line of Sight: The user must maintain a direct line of sight with their target, making it challenging to use in chaotic or obscured environments.
2. Physical Strain: Harnessing this power puts a significant strain on the user's physical and mental state. Overuse can lead to exhaustion, and it becomes progressively harder to use during extended combat.
3. Limited Duration: The user can only maintain the Clairvoyance state for a limited time before it becomes mentally exhausting. Extended use may lead to mental fatigue or even temporary blindness.
4. Incomplete Information: While they can perceive alternate dimensions and realities, the information they gather is often fragmented or difficult to interpret. They may not always get a complete picture of events or locations.
5. Vulnerability: While in the Clairvoyant state, the user's physical body is vulnerable to attacks, making them an easy target for enemies. They need protection or a safe environment to use this power effectively.
6. Limited Duration: The Avatar of Shiva can only remain summoned for a short period before it drains the summoner's energy or life force. Overusing it can have severe consequences.
7. Risk of Losing Control: Summoning the Avatar carries the risk of losing control over its immense power. It may become uncontrollable, endangering the summoner and allies.
8. Catastrophic Consequences: The use of Pashupatastra has devastating consequences on the fabric of reality. It could cause unintended side effects like rifts in space-time, the release of destructive entities, or damage to the balance of the universe.
9. Absolute Control: The summoner must have absolute control over their emotions and intentions when using this power. Any doubt or hesitation can lead to catastrophic results.
10. Karmic Backlash: Using Pashupatastra could have severe karmic consequences, affecting not only the user but also their allies and even innocent bystanders. It might attract the attention of cosmic forces seeking to restore balance.