By imbibing this blood red concoction you gain several benefits.
*You gain the biology of a Pillar Man, including immortality, absolute control over your body, the ability to fuse organic beings together, speed and reflexes to track bullets, regeneration, and enhanced strength. However, you are vulnerable to sunlight (both natural and artificial), which causes you to turn into a statue that may only awaken through time or significant amounts of absorption.
*You also gain a set of unique biological abilities based around an element. Examples include Wind, Fire, Light, Electricity, or any other Element you can think of. The manifestation can be literal, metaphorical, or even incidental, but must have something to do with the element in question. These manifestations are unique, but you may develop more over a period of study.
*As an optional bonus, you may develop the powers of Vampire: further enhanced strength, the creation of Zombies, the rapid freezing of your blood and body, and firing a strange, deadly energy from your eyes.
*You gain the knowledge of how to create Stone Masks. However, your masks are capable of creating Vampires or turning the Wearer into a new Pillar Man. Pillar men may automatically have a unique "element ability" at your discretion.
*You are capable of creating a Mask that can remove your weakness to sunlight, allows you to copy the abilities and forms of any creature on earth, and drastically shortens the time it takes to develop your other abilities. However, it requires a massive amount of power in order to be used (about as much as strike of lightning, or the hooking it up to a nuclear reactor. These will be drained of all power to fuel your transformation, and the Mask will be destroyed. Plan carefully.
*As a final benefit of this Essence, you and anyone affected by your Stone Masks do not require sustenance in order to use your abilities. You may still choose to eat like a human, vampire, or Pillar Man should you wish.