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Sephiroth
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Star Wars Curse Seal/Mark | Quote: | Orochimaru commonly uses cursed seals on his most powerful followers. To apply a cursed seal, Orochimaru needs to actually bite his intended target. Because he has sharp fangs and an extendable neck, this is a relatively simple task. The seal then appears somewhere on the target's body, and they subsequently lose consciousness. Sometime later, should they survive, they will awaken with the first level of the seal active and be enraged due to the seal's influence. The seals work by forcibly drawing chakra from the user's body, giving the user a chakra capacity beyond what they would normally be capable of, as well as increased physical performance as a result of the increased chakra capacity. The seal has two different levels, and the types of transformations differ from seal to seal. When inactive, the seal is simply a black tattoo on the user's body. Orochimaru has a wide array of cursed seals, so the appearance of the seal will usually vary from user to user. Each seal always has three identical marks arranged in a circular pattern. When first activated, the marks on the seal glow and replicate, spreading over the user's body. This is known as the first level of the seal. The degree to which this occurs is dependent on the user, and the degree to which it spreads is proportionate to the overall effect it has. Normally, the wearer of the seal will also experience slight pains during the activation of this level. The second and final level of the seal causes the black marks to completely envelop the user. This is followed by an unnatural alteration of the user's body, with the only common features being yellow eyes with a black sclera. When in this level, the seal eats away at the user's personality, driving them to madness if used too long. It also takes quite a toll on their body, since they are being mutated by the seal. Aside from the first and second levels of the seal, skilled users of the seal are able to perform partial transformations in which the aforementioned mutation caused to the users body in the level two state can be used without completely altering the entire body. The power of the cursed seal can even synchronize with the user's regular body with extended use (as stated by Sasuke during his second fight with Naruto), increasing the power of his/her natural state.
Because the seals forcibly draw chakra from the user, they will often kill the user when first applied. Orochimaru has averaged a ten-percent success rate when applying these seals. Additionally, even if the user survives, their body will not be able to easily control the power of the seals given to them. To compensate for this, Orochimaru developed the Seishingan drug. The drug forces the user's body to become accustomed to the unnatural increase in power, but also kills the one who takes it. The sealing jutsu Four Black Fog Battle Formation (四黒霧陣, Shikokumujin) and Black Sealing Method (封黒法印, Fūkoku Hōin) are used to keep the drug from killing the user by placing them in a temporary death state. Though the Sound Four were the ones to perform the technique, it stands to reason that they weren't the ones that created it.
Orochimaru developed the cursed seals through experimentation on a prisoner named Jugo, whose body naturally produces an enzyme that triggers a state on which the cursed seal is based. The difference between Orochimaru's seals and the unrefined enzyme are the effect they have: while the cursed seal is controllable, the unrefined enzyme produces uncontrollable rage in those exposed to it, including Jugo himself, and the effects cannot be controlled.
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Is it possible for something like this to exist within the SW universe? I've read up on Sith Alchemy here and there, and it sounds like this kind of a power would most likely come from that area. And it also sounds like some weird version of Force Rage, but that's just my opinion. Any Sith here know about something like this, or maybe Rive's infinite wisdom. Or possibly Xander's?
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Ga'nen
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It's probably possible but that would be a stretch on the possibility of the force and sith alchemy. The force itself isn't defined to certain powers nor is sith alchemy, but I don't think having "seals" on people's bodies would be something that could be incorporated.
Though I am sure you could do creative things with poisons and even use sith torture masks to weaken and break others. So basically I haven't heard of anything specific to what you're bringing up but some of those things could be possible. I don't know if "imbuing" others with more strength should be done as you don't want your enemy to have strength, normally poisons work to weaken.
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Lord Vexen
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I think the closest thing to that is the marks you get from using the Jewel of the Force. But only people who participated in said RP have them, such as me, Xander, Lyn, and a few others.
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