toushin wrote:I didn’t no weather to put this he or in anime but since I plan of using it I figure this would be the safer choice
A major plot point of the manga Veritas is the creation of artificial ki, or natural energy, which could be used to make people more powerful. Despite this however it is never actually expanded on besides stating that a character is using it. They never actually explained exactly how artificial ki is created. Does anyone have any ideas.
If we pull a page from 19th century science (provided in the RPS supplement
GURPS Steampunk) ki is in essence
Elan Vital. It was thought this
Elan Vital could be produced artificially either via chemical means (Pasteur tried his hand at this for a while) or via a particular application of electricity (the basis of the novel
Frankenstein).
Another idea I use in my Saotome Ranma, Wiseman fanfic is that ki obeys the first and second law of thermodynamics:
1) energy cannot be created or destroyed merely changed form one form to another
2) Energy moves from from high state (or concentration) to a low one.
Here places with lots of activity build up ki (sort of like a bucket being filled with water) and the same of true where a lot of death happened (such battlefields). Here artificial ki would be produced by transforming this latent ki into ki a person could use.