Symbol (Aligned Form Type)

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-	Symbol: There are many types of symbols, such as heiroglyphs, letters, runes, or other kinds of abstract figures. The most common for the Aligned to utilize are kanji. Kanji are figures in Nihonese calligraphy. Typically kanji forms are actualized by visualizing them in their most perfect possible form. One's skills in calligraphy and Nihonese are thus relevant to one's facility with these forms. Other types of symbols require other skills (symbology is often helpful here).	+	Symbol: There are many types of symbols, such as heiroglyphs, letters, runes, or other kinds of abstract figures. The most common for the Aligned to utilize are kanji. Kanji are figures in Kyotsugo calligraphy. Typically kanji forms are actualized by visualizing them in their most perfect possible form. One's skills in [[calligraphy]] and [[Kyotsugo]] are thus relevant to one's facility with these forms. Other types of symbols require other skills ([[symbology]] is often helpful here).
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-	=One in Many=	+
-	==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 100 points among 50% of symbology skill, leximancy skill and 50% of calligraphy skill; and logic skill of 25 or higher	+
-	==Facility Formula==	+
-	15% of intelligence plus 10% of charisma plus 20% of leximancy skill plus 15% of symbology skill plus 15% of telesma skill plus 15% of calligraphy skill plus 15% of conjuring skill plus 5% of logic skill, with diminishing returns on a scaling factor of three	+
-	==Energy Costs==	+
-	fifty points of spiritual energy	+
-	==Process to Actualize Form==	+
-	visualize the kanji that represents the essential type for which <target> is a token	+
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-	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. However, unlike other manifestations created by Aligned, it will not gradually drain your reserves of order energy. Rather, 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. 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 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.	+
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-	=True Name=	+
-	==Facility Formula==	+
-	30% of willpower plus 50% of channeling skill plus 30% of introspection skill plus 5% of leximancy skill, with diminishing returns on a scaling factor of three	+
-	==Energy Costs==	+
-	thirty-three points of order energy	+
-	==Process to Actualize Form==	+
-	visualize the kanji for my name	+
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-	Visualizing a kanji consisting of a stylized approximation of one's name has the effect of converting raw order energy into the most commonly manipulated energy type for symbolic structures -- that is, spiritual energy. This form is something of a reverse operation on the True Self form.	+
	[[Category: The Aligned]]		[[Category: The Aligned]]

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Symbol: There are many types of symbols, such as heiroglyphs, letters, runes, or other kinds of abstract figures. The most common for the Aligned to utilize are kanji. Kanji are figures in Kyotsugo calligraphy. Typically kanji forms are actualized by visualizing them in their most perfect possible form. One's skills in calligraphy and Kyotsugo are thus relevant to one's facility with these forms. Other types of symbols require other skills (symbology is often helpful here).