[Dragaera] Lecture on Amorphia

Tue Apr 17 13:44:49 PDT 2018

Could you gather of few of these stones and use them to adorn an article of clothing?  Perhaps, a gauntlet?

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Subject: [Dragaera] Lecture on Amorphia

Posted to FB Klava Cafe group:

Okay, it's time for another guest lecture at Adrilankha University.

Necrophia exercises some kind of limiting or restraining effect on amorphia.

If you consider amorphia to be a sphere, then you have a poor understanding of what it means to be amorphia.

*silence, punctuated by the isolated muffled cough*

Forgive me my little joke. Let's move on to the lecture.

I will be speaking today about amorphia, the Empire's greatest strength...and its greatest threat. Only a thing of chaos could occupy such contradictory roles without apparent contradiction.

Let's consider amorphia to be the effect caused when many different levels/channels of reality are localized into one specific plane/channel.

There would be, by definition, a potentially infinite number of different channels that might be so localized, and due to their interactions with one another, we would never be able to localize which particular channel you're looking at at any given time. This is why raw amorphia appears to be a swirling mass of indescribable weirdness---our ability to discern individual features, which is to say, our ability to assign certain pieces of information into defined psychic channels would be defeated by the cacophony of information assaulting our perceptual fields.

However, in order to shut down an infinity of possibilities, you don't need an infinity of negating effects unless you're trying to do things the hard way. The smarter way is to realize that you only need to close the door those infinities are using to cross over into your plane. This is why a relatively miniscule amount of necrophia can produce such a powerful limiting effect on the raw matter of chaos.

It is the effect of necrophia upon amorphia that makes me so excited: in its function, it collapses the randomness into a defined state; for example, texts speak of coloured stones that would be used by pre-Empire sorcerors when engaged in their nefarious work.

Instead of being the simultaneity of a cat, a piece of stone, a loud explosion, a ray of light...the possibilities can be collapsed into a contained form; a small purple stone.

Where do these stones come from? What channel? What level of existence?
Yes, obviously they are formed by the criminal minds of those who would risk all of our lives for their own selfish pursuits; but why are the stones the form that craftable chaos takes? Stones are ubiquitous; I would theorize that, in order to become craftable, chaos collapses into stones precisely BECAUSE they are everywhere. Chaos must retain an element of chaos, even in its most defined form; if it did not, it would no longer be chaos.

This would reinforce the idea that, if you have defined a single location, you cannot define an individual pattern; but if you define an individual pattern, you cannot define a single location. These stones not only could have come from anywhere, they MUST have come from anywhere.

And if this theory is true, then I would argue that the inside of such a stone is either an utterly unremarkable rock with extremely curious and powerful properties, or else the purpleness comes from the fact that the sorceror that formed the stone has pulled on a channel that allows the stone's outer surface to become a form of necrophia; a thin film that coats the otherwise chaotic interior of the device. This is why these stones feel hot to the touch, and feel like they writhe or even jump in your hand without actually moving, and how they seem to swirl at the same time as remaining a uniform shade of pinkish/purple. Unfortunately, only the most foolhardy would attempt an experiment to find out if this "necrophia shell"
theory is correct. Who would dare unleashing an amorphia explosion centred on their exact location? Even those precious few who have learned to converse with the Seas would not hazard such an experiment. Their ability to shape the raw stuff of chaos is remarkable; but it is not limitless. We all know of one notable sorceror from history who disastrously proved that very fact.

Our curiosity about these stones must remain just that. Curiosity, and not knowledge. Guesswork, and not certainty. Vagueness, and not definition. For that is the true nature of chaos.

Thank you for your kind attention.

Regards,

Jon Carey, B.A.(Hon), CHRL, CHRP
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