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Ascension
Operating out of the state-of-the-art Ascension Labs and pristine clinics, Ascension is obsessed with optimizing mortal life through experimental Exaltium-based enhancements. Their innovations—augmented limbs, cognitive implants, and enhancements that blur the line between human and machine—are powered by Exaltium as both a catalyst and a resource. Led by Professor Elya Varen, a visionary whose brilliance is matched only by her ethical blindness, Ascension controls both the means and the narrative of progress.
Clinics offer “free treatment” to the desperate, but this benevolence is rumored to hide a dark truth: those deemed unworthy of perfection are repurposed as unwilling test subjects. Ascension’s enhancements promise to elevate humanity, yet their disregard for individual autonomy raises chilling questions: do they serve progress or dictate what progress should be? For players, Ascension presents an opportunity to gain unmatched arcanotech enhancements but at the risk of exposing themselves to a faction willing to control life itself.
I. Test Subject: You can now purchase Basic Amps from any Ascension vendor.
II. Prototype: Each member of your party can use an Amp to decrease the number of days remaining on a relative injury. For example, you could use a Basic grind to reduce the remaining days of an Endure based injury by 1.
III. Enhanced: You can now purchase Advanced Amps from any Ascension vendor.
IV. Paragon: Each member of your party can now have up to two Amps active at a time without suffering any consequences.
V. Transcendent: You can now purchase Ultra Amps from any Ascension vendor.