The Speedrun Character Setup
People’s RPG Stats and Skills vary significantly.
When doing a speedrun I had to realize and say goodbye to old preconceived ideas about how a „Speedrun Character“ in this game would look like.
A speedrun character comes with a very unique, very specific set of skills and character trait combination.
This combination is adjusted for the species, the planet, the gender, the culture, the country, the age etc. the souls does the speedrun in.
These skills and character traits are very unexpected und surprising when viewed from the perspective of a normal game player. A normal game player is defined by how most souls play the same game on a regular basis.
For example, speaking in the analogy of human computer RPG games, a speedrun character is definitely NOT a „tank warrior with max armor and health“, is NOT a „sorceror with max mana, intelligence and mastery over the elements“, and is NEITHER a „silent crawling stealth character“.
A speedrun character is extremely different from the game’s regular archetypes.
A speedrun character has all his/hers skill points and character traits set to certain very specific aspect as in order to maximise the speed of the run during particular levels and points within the game. Particulalry, to those levels and points in the game that are the most crucial for skipping the largest parts of the normal game path.
The natal chart plays also a role here.
At times, it can appear that there a long phases where the speedrun character does the very same things that other regular players do as well and appear as a regular game player. But then, also the speedrun character suddenly encounters certain points in the game and makes massive progress and levels skips due to his/hers unique character setup.
So a speedrun character will probably have certain unexpected and not so obvious talents and character traits that will help this character at some very specific points during their incarnation, and where these points, when successfully mastered, will make the character skip most of the normal game.
In fact, many things in the setup in a speedrun character are only there just for the sole purpose of this character coming to some very specific realizations during their playthrough. And these realizations can be so profound, that they replaces a thousand other realizations that a normal game character would have to first live through until he/she gets there.
I’ve had many of such life changing realizations in my life.
They came unexpectedly and in an unpredicated way.
It’s like all of this time you had this plan to go from A to B to C to D.
But then everything changes and you go from B to K22 to V781.
Making B, C, and D redundant and not worth chasing after anymore.
Because of this mechanics, nothing is really randomly set up in a speedrunning character.
Absolutely every little single detail matters.
This includes all the strength and all the weaknesses of the speedrun character.
Especially the weaknesses.
Those are often there on purpose, because in the moments when those are mastered or transcended, these bring the biggest growth, the biggest realizations, the biggest skips of normal game levels.
If you are a speedrun character, then studying your natal chart can provide a lot of info into how you have setup your own speedrun before you incarnated here. It is not set in stone, but it can help the ego understand the plan and by this reduce its resistance and make it more openminded and appreciative for major shifts.
Some of you who will be reading this, ARE speedrun characters.
You did not discover things like Sapien Med field by chance or „just for fun“ and then started a deep dive on this forum.
Most normal game players do not make it into this forum because the moment they discover fields, they are instantly distracted by 220 different other YouTube recommendations.
These fields are powerful tools that were brought into the game by even more advanced game players (like Dream and PU) aka the “Master Speedrunners” as I call them.
It is as if a master generation of Speedrunners have only entered the game, to then, while within the game and all while still following the game rules, created even more powerful speedrunning tools that the next generation of speedrunners can use.
We are really blessed here and from this perspective the term Tool-Assisted Speedrun (TAS) acquires a whole new meaning.