From LSWiki

Image: This category is meant to include relatively static, two-dimensional, possibly colored images, the sort of thing typically constructed in a painting. Indeed, some Aligned simply refer to this type of form as the painting form. Among the most common types of image utilized by the Aligned are very similar to those found in sanguiga. A sansuiga is a certain type of Nihonese landscape painting developed some centuries ago on Hanoma. A typical sansuiga consists of some arrangement of water, mountains, and sky, with a foreground of rocks or other natural terrain. Sansuiga forms are actuated by visualizing them, and one's facility at painting is relevant to the quality of the visualization.

Wingspan

Knowledge Requirement

have at least 100 points among 10% of weapon lore skill, 50% of sword skill and painting skill

Actualization Requirement

have at least 200 points among 50% of leximancy skill, 50% of telesma skill, 50% of weapon lore skill and painting skill

Facility Formula

15% of charisma plus 15% of intelligence plus 22.5% of leximancy skill plus 25% of painting skill plus 10% of telesma skill plus 22.5% of weapon lore skill, with diminishing returns on a scaling factor of five

Energy Costs

one hundred points of spiritual energy and twenty-five points of order energy

Process to Actualize Form

visualize a blue heron, wings spread in flight over a still lake

This form is apparently related to the great Hanoman warrior-painter Kensu. It is not known whether he was one of the Aligned. What is known is a famous painting of his serves as the groundwork for this form -- and that the form is also related to his combat philosophy. The painting is of a great blue heron sailing above a quiet lake; Kensu's combat philosophy was to treat the sword like it was a wing, applying the same principles of elegance, turning, and even lift and drag. This form manifests a katana out of the wingspan of the heron. The closer to perfection one gets in one's visualization of its base and the actualization of the magick, the closer the katana will get to perfection. Some Aligned who master this form swear by this weapon, claiming it sharp beyond what any mortal smith could construct. Others use it when needed, but still carry a normal blade, seeing the non-magickal blades it as a worthwhile piece of artisanship in its own right, and even a focus for further magicks. Regardless of exactly how heavily one relies on the blade conjured by this form, there can be no doubt about the worthiness of the manifestation in skilled hands.

Like all Aligned weapon manifestations, it will last either until banished, until one no longer has the order energy to maintain it, or until one disincarnates. To banish a blade, concentrate on returning the form within it to a potential state.