One in Many (Aligned Form)

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One in Many

   It is an underlying principle of all cognition that many can be treated as one: when 

one classifies or judges, one relates the subject to many other objects via a predicate that subsumes them all. This form allows one to leverage this logical principle to metaphysical effect: one can magickally reify an essential predicate of a thing and duplicate the subject token qua predicate type. The operation involves elementary logic, as well as a considerably less elementary esthetic, calligraphic kanji that serves as a door to grasping the relevant essence. A new token created with this form is a manifestation. It will not be able to be retokened, it will not always be a perfect duplication, and it will last only so long as one as incarnate.

   There is a base spiritual cost for actualizing this form at all, and then an 

additional cost in order energy based upon the value of the seed. It also takes order energy to maintain a duplicate token. The energy it takes to maintain a small number of tokens is fairly trivial, but it gets increasingly difficult to maintain the manifestation of each additional duplicate.

   Note also that certain items are not able to be retokened in the first place.  The 

most common sort of resistance one encounters is from artifacts of great power or other items of sufficient uniqueness such that they are essentially individuals more than they are types. It is also generally impossible to duplicate any kind of transient enchantment or manifestation: the seed must be to some degree independently enduring. There are other sorts of exceptions that are not general knowledge that often frustrate Aligned who rely heavily on this power. And, as one might imagine, many Aligned do. This form provides an inexhaustible font of many resources given only a small base quantity: food, fire, clothing, armaments, and even many sorts of restorative potions and other beneficial one- off magickal items.

   To release a duplicated token selectively, concentrate on returning the form within it 

to a potential state. To release them all at once, one may use the form Flux.

Knowledge Requirement

have at least 40 points in calligraphy skill

and have at least 80 points among

philosophy skill and 10% of metaphysics skill

Actualization Requirement

have at least 60 points among

50% of symbology skill and 100% of calligraphy skill

and logic skill of 25 or higher

Facility Formula

15% of intellect plus 10% of ego plus 20% of eideturgy skill plus 15% of symbology skill plus 15% of hylophrasty skill plus 15% of calligraphy skill plus 15% of conjuration skill plus 5% of logic skill

Facility Rating

68 to 505

Energy Costs

50 spiritual

Process to Actualize

visualize the kanji that represents the essential type for which <target> is a token

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