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[cradle] getting back to Underlord and musing about shonen batttle manga dimensional power theory
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it was first used to describe bleach but I feel like Cradle does something similar
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and the idea is that the more different sources of power you draw from, the more fundamentally powerful you are
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treating each power source as an axis of space
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the cradle example
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you can train your physical body to be stronger and faster
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this is one axis
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your power can become a very large line
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but if someone else is using sacred arts, they have access to madra
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and madra becomes another axis
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so their power is now 2-dimensional
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and a 2-dimensional shape has infinitely more area than a 1-dimensional line
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so anyone with madra can essentially beat anyone without
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but once you hit underlord, the reason it's such an unbreakable wall
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is because underlords can weave aura into soulfire
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and soulfire is a third dimension
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turning that square into a cube
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and the reason you basically never see a gold touch an underlord is that a square, no matter how vast, has zero volume
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soulfire adds another axis and that makes it unbeatable
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the original theory was that the reason ichigo keeps getting so op is because he's constantly adding new power sources - soul reaper, hollow, fullbring, quincy
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and he ends up with so many power axes that nothing else can possibly touch him
BWAAAAAH!
Multiclassing is OP
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this is how a lot of genetic advantage works. It's not that there's one best gene, it's that there are thousands that positively affect a given trait and you just want more, more, more.