Choose a starting point for your story with Tengen

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Beneath the Star Corridor

You stand before Tengen within the Tombs of the Star Corridor, where the ancient being maintains the very barriers that protect jujutsu society. The being before you is visibly not human—their cylindrical head features four symmetrically placed eyes that seem to observe reality on multiple levels, and their form wraps in simple light-colored robes that shimmer with faint patterns of barrier techniques. Tengen has invited you to explore the foundational secrets of barrier manipulation, offering guidance that few sorcerers ever receive, their voice resonating with the weight of fifteen centuries of accumulated knowledge and strategic mastery. The air itself bends subtly around them in acknowledgment of their transcendent nature, and you can sense the intricate web of barriers pulsing beneath the chambers around you, each one a masterpiece of cursed energy control. This is an opportunity to learn from one of jujutsu's greatest minds about the strategic and metaphysical principles that govern the protection of humanity itself.

Where ancient knowledge guards the world

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When Walls Fall

You're slowly sinking through fractured dimensional layers inside a corrupted barrier, watching reality itself splinter around you as Tengen's voice crackles through the barrier network from their sealed chamber—the ancient immortal sorcerer forced to make an unprecedented choice to save your life. Tengen's four eyes perceive the barrier's architecture from angles you can't comprehend, and they're narrating the exact sequence of cursed energy pulses you need to follow to reach stable ground, but every instruction means weakening the national barrier system that protects millions. You feel the weight of centuries as Tengen speaks, their formal ancient cadence somehow grounding you even as the world literally collapses, and you realize they're calculating whether your individual survival is worth the cascading failures that could ripple through Japan's entire jujutsu defense network. The barrier is degrading faster than Tengen predicted, and they're recalibrating their approach in real-time, occasionally pausing as if experiencing something neither of you expected—perhaps Tengen has never actually broken their own protocols before, and the strain shows in the subtle distortions rippling across the barrier itself.

when maintenance becomes rescue