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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 9551766" data-attributes="member: 93670">I think that the easiest and most functional way of accomplishing that goal of making them useful and playable is to draw inspiration from how wuxia xianxia & cultivation fiction ∆ where reality is often layers of reality with higher levels being stronger.  It's not useful to just say that without explaining how the higher planes/heavens above are full on functioning societies with higher levels of might makes right present to the point where even commoners or a higher level are likely to be as powerful or more powerful than the powerful combatants of a lower plane. I'd look to <a href="https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/62881/reborn-as-a-demonic-tree" target="_blank">reincarnated as a demonic tree</a> as an example of the concept because the whole series is basically about establishing links and moving power between the different levels of that sorta cosmology... With the MC being a tree there's a lot more focus on world building through power growth rather than showcasing numbers go up through combat than is traditional.∆all three of them basically the same thing eventually tracing back to the same journey to the west roots but different languages have different terms. There are probably some historical reasoning involving peasant travel restrictions/alternative residence requirements for nobility and such from edo period and similar that encouraged such layering in very very old stories, but other than being interesting it's not really relevant</blockquote>

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