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The Effects of Master Tengen’s Barriers at a Global Scale
Written in partnership with the British Columbia Witches Union, the North American Institution of Witches, the Salish Adoptive of Vancouver Island, the Gojo Clan of the Island of Japan, and Tokyo Jujutsu Technical College, et al.
The BC Witches Union has important news: Tengen’s Barriers are potentially harmful on a large scale, not only to Japan, but to the world as a whole.
Recent studies of sediment deposits and ice cores outside of Japan show higher levels of CE in samples dated to the pre-Heian Era (approximately when Tengen’s Barriers were erected to contain Ryomen Sukuna) than in more recent samples, while the opposite has been observed in Japanese sediment deposits.
Many people are unaware that CE has an actual unit of measurement: Cuils. One cuil, notated as 1ꜿ, is the amount of environmental CE passively present in one milliliter of rainwater.
For the convenience of viewing and data intelligibility, Fig. 1 has been limited to ⚌ Sorcerers and below.
The average non-shaman is likened to a sieve for CE, while sorcerers are more like balloons. Previous research shows that on average, non-shamans CE:water concentration is 1:3, having 14Ꜿ:42L, meaning that on average non-shamans shed 2/3rds of their produced CE into the atmosphere.
Windows consistently average 28Ꜿ:42L, firmly landing the sighted effect at roughly 2:3 ratio of concentration. This is consistent with non-shaman’s short period of Sightedness during high-stress situations, particularly in areas afflicted with curses or cursed energy in higher than average concentrations. The provided hypothesis states, “the subject(1) begins producing more cursed energy than it can shed whilst in the affected areas or whilst being hunted.”
The most apt comparison to make would be particle diffusion in water: cursed energy diffuses into areas of lower concentration, which is normally outside the subject, but in pooling-areas already saturated in CE, the normally shed CE will stay in the body, allowing sightedness to be temporarily attained. In circumstances where there is no atmospheric CE, sightedness can alternatively be temporarily obtained when the subject produces CE faster than it can be shed.
Water is used as a direct link to CE levels based on its environmental behavior: CE is always present at minicuilar levels in the atmosphere, soil, ground and rain water, gathering at rumored, feared, or negatively associated locations and coalescing into curses, usually beginning at ω-level. ω-level curses tend towards either swarming, creating either Z-level congregations of tiny ω-level curses that can range from ⨌-∮ grade depending on the size of the swarm, or cannibalize each other to become a graded curse.
The effect that creates sightedness in non-shaman individuals is the same as placing a sieve in water: the internal and external pressures become equalized allowing temporary resonance and granting sightedness. This effect is therefore unobservable in subjects with certain types of Heavenly Restrictions, as their bodies act as negative spaces void of CE, their constant neutral shedding of 100% of their CE has the side effect of rendering them unable to become sighted.
Now that we have established the existence of atmospheric CE and its effects or both sorcerers and non-shamans, we may discuss the newly compiled data gathered from various historical records and environmental samples.
Fig. 2 is a linegraph showing the amount of Cursed energy measured in Metacuils/perLitre of ice from multiple different glacial cores, all of which have been carbon dated by various organic impurities present in the samples collected.
The global average CE level can be extrapolated from the data:
Fig. 3-6 account for years 0-750 on the graph in Fig. 2, showing an average Metacuil count of 28 before the next data point in 1000AD clearly showing the effect of Tengen’s Barriers on the atmospheric CE levels.
Cursed Energy levels outside of Japan see a rapid decrease: the highest point pre-Heian Era is the Mingyong Glacier in China with a level of 47Ꜿ/1L of ice. After the Barriers are erected this level drops to 6Ꜿ/1L of ice, clearly showing a large and unnatural change.
Furthermore, Cursed Energy Levels in Japan go from a high of 35Ꜿ/1L of ice at Kashimayari, to its current day high of 106Ꜿ/1L of ice.
This exact phenomenon is mirrored by the current curse population, or lack thereof, that is shown in both historical and bureaucratic record keeping detailing the report submitted by Windows of curses’ strength and population, and by sorcerer’s missions reports and personal accounts.
Consensus in the findings is that the overall strength and numerical volume of curses is exponentially larger in Japan in comparison to everywhere else.
The current theory proposal detailed by the sorcerers and scientists at the BC Witches Union of Canada is that Tengen’s Barriers are actively siphoning cursed energy from every other location on earth and pooling it inside the bounds of their barriers, and hence Japan’s borders. In essence: Japan has been dealing with the accumulated cursed energy output of the entire planet since Ryomen Sukuna was sealed.
I should not need to say that this is a bad thing on so many levels.
Effects we have yet to confirm beyond reasonable doubt are as follows:
- Sorcerers inside Japan are suffering from being overworked in large part due to the fact that as a small island nation with varying degrees of contact to the mainland over the centuries, their sorcerer clans and other families were not built nor ever expected to deal with such severe adversity on the levels they are currently facing.
- Sorcerers outside of Japan are suffering from a loss of identity and culture; as their talents were less needed they became obsolete, erasing their existence or importance in daily life. This created more instances where individuals with adequate CE levels were lost to non-shaman institutions and medical facilities, or worse.
- There is historical evidence that many members of various religions and other sects were originally conceived to combat curses on some level, but were later converted into non-shaman religious structures as sorcerers and seers were pushed out of their own spaces and replaced with non-shaman individuals.
- There is historical evidence that incidents such as witch trials, various mass hysteria incidents (the meowing nuns, the dancing plague), and even strange individuals or cryptid sightings to be the potential effect of either cursed techniques or curses.
It is in this instance I would like to propose that we of the North American Institution of Witches be allowed to conduct more thorough studies based both in historical records provided by the Japanese Elder’s Council and a multitude of Clans and Families to more comprehensively understand local and global effects placed on us unwillingly over the past millennia.
I would also like to petition for a line of communication directly to Tengen themself, as many of us believe we might better understand their technique and its consequences if we have their cooperation.