Regarding your Release...

by **Grandkiduchi** Tue Apr 16, 2019 8:48 am

What is a release?

Releases are any Racial unique power. For Shinigami, who are used as the basic example on Damnation, the First Release is called "Shikai," and the Final Release is called "Bankai." The Final Release is significantly more powerful than the First Release for most Races, and as such, requires far more power to maintain.

Race Name	First Release Name	Final Release Name
Shinigami	Shikai	Bankai
Quincy	----	Letzt stil/Vollstandig
Hollow	Unique Ability	----
Fullbringer	Fullbring	Second Level
Arrancar	Resurreccion	Segunda Epta
Humans	Spiritual Power	Ascended Reiatsu
Togabito	----	Hell Power

As you can see, not all Races have both a First and a Final Release. But what does this mean mechanically, that the Final Release takes more power to sustain?

Well, with the exception of Dragons, all beings have a limited amount of energy. How much energy they have is a good estimate of their strength. We call these estimates "Tiers" and the higher one's Tier is, the more energy they have to work with. This is true for Dragons as well. Though the Dragon's pool of energy will never run out, by increasing their Tier, they can use more energy at once. To put that in a real world perspective, say you had five dollars. You can spend that five dollars on anything you want to buy, but it must cost less than five dollars. After you spend it, you're given another five dollars. But, if your 'Tier' increased, you'd get ten dollars to spend instead. So, in this way, it's still worth it to increase a Dragon's Tier.

Tier	First Release Time Lime	Final Release Time Limit
Recruit	5 posts, or 1 hour	1 post, or 10 minutes
Officer	10 posts, or 2 hours	2 posts, or 20 minutes
Lieutenant	20 posts, or 4 hours	4 posts, or 40 minutes
Advanced Lieutenant	30 posts, or 6 hours	6 posts, or 1 hour
Captain	40 posts, or 8 hours	8 posts, or 80 minutes
Advanced Captain	60 posts, or 12 hours	12 posts, or 2 hours
Veteran	80 posts, or 16 hours	16 posts, or 160 minutes
Ascended	160 posts, or 32 hours	32 posts, or 320 minutes

The post where you activate your release does not count towards this time limit. Only subsequent posts do. If your time limit is reached, your power fails and you run out of Spiritual Energy. More often than not, you will lose consciousness. This can be dangerous, because just because you lost consciousness, does not protect you from combat. Therefore, it is recommended you do not exceed your Tier's time limits. Doing so during combat can result in character death.