This groundswell of common support became the Brotherhood's bane: Organized nations, harsh rulers, and secret societies resented the Brotherhood's liberating influence on the Masses. Many common people adopted Brotherhood beliefs in everyday life. The Shaolin monasteries of China housed their members, as did the mountain-dwelling hermits of Japan, the cloistered priests of Tibet, and the mysterious mystics of India. Neither Tradition (as a whole) jumps quickly into conflict.Īs the spiritual philosophies of Buddhism, Taoism, Shinto, and similar religions spread across Asia, the Brotherhood followed. Although neither has entirely forgiven the other for the centuries of bloodshed, they've learned from each other. The Brotherhood didn't approve of mages who took into their own hands the power over life and death, and the Brotherhood warred against the death mages - who would later become the Euthanatos - for 300 years. Later, Akashic conflicts expanded to include another group of Awakened humans, a band of mages who saw reincarnation as their duty. These warriors saw the Brotherhood's physical skills as an end, and brought disharmony to the group and its relations with others. Even within the Brotherhood, young students took up the study of Do but failed to understand the relationship between philosophy and physical prowess. Tools encouraged people to focus on only the things they could touch and forget that there was ever anything else material goods became a goal and replaced the natural fulfillment of personal accomplishment. The earliest artificers brought the first vestiges of technology to humanity, thus turning people from their relationship with the immaterial world and strengthening the barrier between the physical and the spiritual realms. Martial arts and exercises perfected the body while rigorous disciplines, chants, and prayers cleansed the mind.Īs the world fractured and people took up dissonant paths, conflict came in several forms to the Brotherhood. The balance between mind and body, motion and stillness, was disturbed, and the ones who would become Akashic Brothers retreated into mountains, caves, and forests to continue their study of balance through Do.
As the earth turned and more people came to live near the All, the All fractured and became dissonant. The first Akashics learned their skill in Do from Dragon and Phoenix, and they disciplined their bodies and their minds through the balance of movement and stillness. The philosophical and historic roots of the Akashic Brotherhood lie in the beginning times when all people lived in harmony. The Brotherhood uses simply tools - exercise, meditation, practice, and study - to refine the simple man into a brother of knowledge. By honing the body, the Brothers make a temple for the mind with the refined mind comes understanding of the spirit. From these philosophical roots came the Akashic Brotherhood. When the individual doesn't resist the universe but moves with it, he embraces his nature. When the mind and body come into harmony, the soul follows. Identity, division, and conflict are illusions. Mind, body, and spirit are all part of the larger whole of the person, just as the person is part of the larger whole of the universe.
#AKASHIC BROTHERHOOD FACTIONS MOVIE#
Konzepte: Action movie star, athlete, explorer, martial arts student, sage, wandering hero. He is a faithful Taoist, attempting to live it's principles in practice as well as in faith.Häufige Foci: Chimes, incense, meditation, prayer sashes or flags, purification rites, weapons. However, people can easily notice that the young man is far smarter than his shyness would lead many to believe and having a fount of knowledge ranging a broad stroke of topics. He is naturally quiet and not one for boisterous actions or overtures. Jun has not had the best history, and due to it has become extremely shy to the point of fretting over words and being hard to socialize with. Maybe Jun isn't out of the running yet for a fitful life. Their principles, their teachings and their spirituality breathed new life into weak bones. Whereas many would say the Dragon Wizards ripped him from his life, he would say they saved him. Not only did he find something to have faith in, but he had the tools to build a better life and world if he wished it. Yun isn't the archetype of social activism.
He was always sick and he was always the last to get picked for sports teams and was bullied in school. He was never the hot kid, and he was never the social blossom. Ever since he could remember his body was just not up to snuff.