Research paper of Luca Doppel - Second Excerpt {Pyrrhic Incarnation - Incubation}
Locution of a Lifeline
The Etherious, are those gifted with a single impossibility tailor made for their survival. The unintended inclusion of Id into one's ether brings with it new capabilities alongside a few risks.
Primarily it grants a unique ability that emerged from the characteristics of the bearer as well as the circumstance that induced it. The severity of the trigger does not necessarily correlate to the innate strength of an ability as it has been observed that some very powerful abilities have been born from the most mundane provocations. Aside from an ability, it also grants a few innate applications.
That fact that the ether has even tolerated the inclusion of outer, albeit non-foreign, influence means that it has a degree of flexibility towards change, and is thus able to "flow" in a sense. Their ether may now be consciously shifted in both location and degree of physicality, with practice of course. It can flow through target objects, enhancing it physically by taking on physicality of it's own, essentially reinforcing it, as well as any other enhancements brought on by one's ability.
This skill is often employed as the "veil" technique, to defends one's body from physical harm, or sometimes even armament enhancement.
Another, extremely important, ability granted by being etherious are the regenerative and survival capabilities. Ether is somehow able to bolster the body's natural homeostasis by immense degree's. It's capable of blocking out any dangerous temperatures, dullen incapacitating pain or even the repair of physical wounds.
Though, the greatest illustration of this phenomena is ether's ability to regrow organs and appendages that should otherwise be lost permanently. It still remains unknown how ether is able to cooperate and enhance these complex biological mechanisms. Currently it's theorized that the etherious core that develops after one becomes etherious, along with being the apparatus that grants conscious control over one's ether, also contains the continually growing matrix or framework for their respective being including mental faculties such as memories.
When severe or even mortal damage is recognized, ether automatically and unconsciously refers to this matrix and behaves accordingly, even taking on an embryonic cell-like state to regrow or repair what is lost with varying speeds dependent on the severity. The ether doesn't aid in the natural regeneration from the remaining undamaged cells, but instead replacing them. This theory also explains why anything lost prior or after the destruction of a core doesn't come back, even once the core reforms, as the new core has no recollection or faculties to bring back what cannot be naturally.
The Final Misstep
The awakening of a strong ability is often celebrated as an achievement of something great and the opening of many new doors, but it should also be celebrated for one more thing, the extremely narrow escape from tragedy.
The Id reaction that lead to an ability is rather uncommon, but not to the degree that most expect. In actuality there are three outcomes to this Id infusion. One, the cognition is strong enough to destabilize one's ether but is too weak to leave an imprint or the imprint quickly dissipates often leaving the person dazed or even sick, this is the most common outcome, Two, an imprint is left and the proceeding reactions lead to crystalizing a core and awakening into an etherious, the second most common, or three and the least common, the creation of a remnant.
All evidence point to that fact that the process that create abilities and remnants are the same. There is an important threshold for the circumstance that triggers this Id reaction. the ensuing psyche and cognition caused must be strong enough to leave enough of a mark, but if it reaches past this threshold, it means the cognition was strong enough to destroy them. In this unfortunate case, one's ether for any number of reasons could not adapt to this immediate change leading to a lethal degree of destabilization, instead of the psyche imprinting being encoded into their ether, it overwrites it and truly becomes pure Id. The resulting entity is known as a remnant and is often very dangerous whether it intends to be or not.
They often display great power and varying degrees of intelligence, but very little is known of their nature except that they are creatures of pure Id and were born from a person. A certain tragedy lies within this ambiguity in the circumstance behind the person they were born from.
It's unknown if they are still alive, the corruption of their ether is too great to identify any aspects of it that aren't immediately apparent and both potential answers lead to their own tragedies. The first is that if there is even a small piece of them still in there still experiencing all of it but not in complete control if any at all, it must be a unique agony to be one of those creatures. It's also unfortunate to their executioners to know that they are hunting another conscious and feeling entity that was once human.
Many etherious who become arrogant are quickly put back in place after realizing the stronger their ability was, most likely, the closer they were to have being met with a terrible fate.
Cursed victory, or Blessed defeat?
An even rarer instance, and in fact miraculous, were the discovery of the existence of the renaissance. They are blessed and auspicious beings that had retained their identity and sense-of-self even after transforming into a remnant, they somehow and amazingly survived. Despite the entirety ether being completely subsumed by the transformation of Id, they still remain conscious. Etherious are only partially imprinted, the imprinted facet being a very small aspect of the entire mostly stable ether, while renaissance have theirs's intertwined with every single part of their completely destabilized and reformed ether which is now definitively Id.
An interesting aspect of the transformation into a renaissance is simply how subtle it is and how easy it is for it to go unnoticed. The moment is indifferentiable from the awakening of an ability and the the realization that one has become a renaissance is usually by accident. often times it's when they unintentionally demonstrate an ability unique to a remnant. Renaissance retain all of the capabilities of an etherious such as conduction, core creation and a unique ability, though all these are carried out via their Id as technically their ether isn't ether anymore, but they also gain a few capability unique to entities of Id. Although these intriguing few could mostly be considered a blessing, they have a few curses of their own.
The second tragedy brought by the ambiguity, and antithesis to the first, is that the victims of this transformation may be dead and gone, what's left behind being nothing more that an animate shell. This opposing answer brings to question the realty of the renaissance, are they the same being that transformed, or are they an entirely different entity that has simply inherited their deceased predecessor's identity, or perhaps they aren't even alive, a philosophical zombie who display all the proper reactions and qualities of sapience, but have no conscious experiences, a hollow creature with nothing inside to actually feel any of it. Knowledge on whether the original victim is dead or alive doesn't really matter since both outcomes will cause greater suffering than solace. Man or monster, living or dead, not a concern in the eyes of society, just like any other, their existence must be respected, and if necessary, dealt with.
The Etherious, are those gifted with a single impossibility tailor made for their survival. The unintended inclusion of Id into one's ether brings with it new capabilities alongside a few risks.
Primarily it grants a unique ability that emerged from the characteristics of the bearer as well as the circumstance that induced it. The severity of the trigger does not necessarily correlate to the innate strength of an ability as it has been observed that some very powerful abilities have been born from the most mundane provocations. Aside from an ability, it also grants a few innate applications.
That fact that the ether has even tolerated the inclusion of outer, albeit non-foreign, influence means that it has a degree of flexibility towards change, and is thus able to "flow" in a sense. Their ether may now be consciously shifted in both location and degree of physicality, with practice of course. It can flow through target objects, enhancing it physically by taking on physicality of it's own, essentially reinforcing it, as well as any other enhancements brought on by one's ability.
This skill is often employed as the "veil" technique, to defends one's body from physical harm, or sometimes even armament enhancement.
Another, extremely important, ability granted by being etherious are the regenerative and survival capabilities. Ether is somehow able to bolster the body's natural homeostasis by immense degree's. It's capable of blocking out any dangerous temperatures, dullen incapacitating pain or even the repair of physical wounds.
Though, the greatest illustration of this phenomena is ether's ability to regrow organs and appendages that should otherwise be lost permanently. It still remains unknown how ether is able to cooperate and enhance these complex biological mechanisms. Currently it's theorized that the etherious core that develops after one becomes etherious, along with being the apparatus that grants conscious control over one's ether, also contains the continually growing matrix or framework for their respective being including mental faculties such as memories.
When severe or even mortal damage is recognized, ether automatically and unconsciously refers to this matrix and behaves accordingly, even taking on an embryonic cell-like state to regrow or repair what is lost with varying speeds dependent on the severity. The ether doesn't aid in the natural regeneration from the remaining undamaged cells, but instead replacing them. This theory also explains why anything lost prior or after the destruction of a core doesn't come back, even once the core reforms, as the new core has no recollection or faculties to bring back what cannot be naturally.
The Final Misstep
The awakening of a strong ability is often celebrated as an achievement of something great and the opening of many new doors, but it should also be celebrated for one more thing, the extremely narrow escape from tragedy.
The Id reaction that lead to an ability is rather uncommon, but not to the degree that most expect. In actuality there are three outcomes to this Id infusion. One, the cognition is strong enough to destabilize one's ether but is too weak to leave an imprint or the imprint quickly dissipates often leaving the person dazed or even sick, this is the most common outcome, Two, an imprint is left and the proceeding reactions lead to crystalizing a core and awakening into an etherious, the second most common, or three and the least common, the creation of a remnant.
All evidence point to that fact that the process that create abilities and remnants are the same. There is an important threshold for the circumstance that triggers this Id reaction. the ensuing psyche and cognition caused must be strong enough to leave enough of a mark, but if it reaches past this threshold, it means the cognition was strong enough to destroy them. In this unfortunate case, one's ether for any number of reasons could not adapt to this immediate change leading to a lethal degree of destabilization, instead of the psyche imprinting being encoded into their ether, it overwrites it and truly becomes pure Id. The resulting entity is known as a remnant and is often very dangerous whether it intends to be or not.
They often display great power and varying degrees of intelligence, but very little is known of their nature except that they are creatures of pure Id and were born from a person. A certain tragedy lies within this ambiguity in the circumstance behind the person they were born from.
It's unknown if they are still alive, the corruption of their ether is too great to identify any aspects of it that aren't immediately apparent and both potential answers lead to their own tragedies. The first is that if there is even a small piece of them still in there still experiencing all of it but not in complete control if any at all, it must be a unique agony to be one of those creatures. It's also unfortunate to their executioners to know that they are hunting another conscious and feeling entity that was once human.
Many etherious who become arrogant are quickly put back in place after realizing the stronger their ability was, most likely, the closer they were to have being met with a terrible fate.
Cursed victory, or Blessed defeat?
An even rarer instance, and in fact miraculous, were the discovery of the existence of the renaissance. They are blessed and auspicious beings that had retained their identity and sense-of-self even after transforming into a remnant, they somehow and amazingly survived. Despite the entirety ether being completely subsumed by the transformation of Id, they still remain conscious. Etherious are only partially imprinted, the imprinted facet being a very small aspect of the entire mostly stable ether, while renaissance have theirs's intertwined with every single part of their completely destabilized and reformed ether which is now definitively Id.
An interesting aspect of the transformation into a renaissance is simply how subtle it is and how easy it is for it to go unnoticed. The moment is indifferentiable from the awakening of an ability and the the realization that one has become a renaissance is usually by accident. often times it's when they unintentionally demonstrate an ability unique to a remnant. Renaissance retain all of the capabilities of an etherious such as conduction, core creation and a unique ability, though all these are carried out via their Id as technically their ether isn't ether anymore, but they also gain a few capability unique to entities of Id. Although these intriguing few could mostly be considered a blessing, they have a few curses of their own.
The second tragedy brought by the ambiguity, and antithesis to the first, is that the victims of this transformation may be dead and gone, what's left behind being nothing more that an animate shell. This opposing answer brings to question the realty of the renaissance, are they the same being that transformed, or are they an entirely different entity that has simply inherited their deceased predecessor's identity, or perhaps they aren't even alive, a philosophical zombie who display all the proper reactions and qualities of sapience, but have no conscious experiences, a hollow creature with nothing inside to actually feel any of it. Knowledge on whether the original victim is dead or alive doesn't really matter since both outcomes will cause greater suffering than solace. Man or monster, living or dead, not a concern in the eyes of society, just like any other, their existence must be respected, and if necessary, dealt with.
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