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Law of Unity

[...]it is this which allows the Flesh and Breath of the World-Weary to cohere. Without stability, all things are transitory. Without structure, all things are formless, and even if chance were to bring this formless chaos into some semblance of shape, without the influence of the Architect it would soon dissolve.
— from The Body Divine, by Alkeptoros
 
[...]it has been the signature failing of the Aestyvine that they have failed to acknowledge Alkeptoros' greatest mistake. Though indeed spiritual essence does rely on the influence of what he called the Architect not to dissolve into formless nothing, that influence does not necessarily need come from the spirits' internal composition, but may come from relation to something else, be it physical or spiritual, to which the otherwise Structure-less spirit has attached itself. That the Aestyvine have denounced this advancement has heresy will, inevitably, lead to them being surpassed in spiritual engineering. Though I am glad for the opportunity this presents to the Bounteous Empire and its people, I feel no end of frustration[...]
— from the Private Correspondence of an Unknown Scholar, from the Chamber of Letters in the Palace of Sight

Manifestation

Divine Breath coalesces into various arrangements with various properties, but stability is not a uniform property. The simplest means by which a spiritual construction may acquire stability is to include the Breath of Kogrun in its composition. However, a spirit without this may retain existence through indirect association with Kogrun's essence. In the presence of a physical object which contains the Flesh of Kogrun in significant quantities, and which is composed of a significant degree on one of the other World-Weary which is also significantly present in the spirit, said spirit may bond with the object. Such a bond will allow the spirit to derive its structure from the object, thus allowing it to persist as long as the object remains whole.   Non-intelligent spiritual constructions may also benefit from such a bond, but as they are unable to actively take action, they rely either on chance or an external agent choosing to create such a bond.
Type
Metaphysical, Arcane

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