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-===Magic Constructs===
+===Magic Constructs (Anima Mundi)===
-What is the world but what we perceive around us? There is more around you than what you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands. Most people will live out their entire lives believing the simple reality that surrounds them is the extent of all there is. They are content to believe that something exists because they perceive it or that it does not exist because they cannot. The reality that we perceive is only part of a much larger whole. All of the threads that make up the Tapestry of reality weave a pattern intricate beyond comprehension. The wizards divide people into two groups. Those who see the Tapestry and its intricate workings are called The Awakened. Those who are content to live out the mundane life of their sensory perception are The Sleepers--the commoners.
 There have always been those few that labor their entire lives to attain some partial control of the arcane magic that flows unnoticed through their world. Years of study and practice can lead to ground-shattering power and understanding. These are the wizards, the reclusive society that nurtures and manipulates the world around them. More than just awakened, the wizards are students of the Tapestry and learn to control and weave their own patterns into it as it flows. Wizards have no general interest in the doings-on of the sleepers; they are at best useful pawns in a much greater political struggle. The sleepers also pay no great attention to the works of the wizards. Each group exists with little interaction with the other, both believing that they alone control the destiny of the world around them.
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 It's not unusual for wizards to carry a staff. It's a 'free' option to nearly double the amount of Vis they can wield. If someone other than the wizard breaks the object, the Vis is released back into the field flowing through the world. When this happens, the wizard who embedded the object loses that Vis permanently. Objects with bound Vis are identifiable to the awakened who can discern its nature and relative strength by its aura.
-==Binding Katravis==
+===Mord===
-Because Demons are made of Katravis, they can be bound into an object just as regular Vis. The worst torture for a demon is to be bound and slaved to an object. In this state the demon exists in a universe only as large as the object. Although bound demons don’t need Essence to survive, they are in a state of constant pain and torment. A demon-binded object always shows some sign of its state that is obvious to the awakened and can be detected by a sleeper; a constant hum, a fiery blade, intelligible speech. Most of these items also have additional powers under certain conditions. Each time a demon-binded object is passed to a new owner, a battle of wills decides if the demon is able to escape. Once a demon wins a battle of wills, he is freed. Woe is the person holding the object of his torture.
+When essence is separated from tissue, some amount of mord is created. In sanctified post-death ceremonies, the mord itself is deconstructed, but when left to its own, mord is created as tissue rots. You find vast quantities of mord on unsanctified battlefields. While not visible to the unawakened, it can in quantities can be sensed--a feeling of dirty space, possibly sadness or tiredness, sloth. Some forces, like the feeding of a baoreth can destroy mord.
+===Echo===
+A strong emotion, especially one the leads to destruction or death, can stain objects left behind (buildings, land, water, etc.) Examples of echo that can be left behind are love, despair, hatred, fear, anger, and jealousy. Something like a haunted place likely has a high amount of despair, anger, or similar echo left behind.
 ===Avatars===
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 Demons are not to be trusted. They will keep a promise as best they can, but will purposefully mislead the contractors with the wording of the request. When demons are summoned to this world, they are here for a specific purpose and will betray everything else to reach their goal. Often serving powerful evil wizards, they look for every opportunity to break free of that control and take their own path.
-===Dwimmers (rename this)===
+==Binding Demons to an object==
-The nature of a Dwimmer is very much a mystery. There are only a handful of supposed sightings of such entities in the last thousand years. If one were to believe the rumors, the Dwimmers seem to appear from nothingness and disappear just as quickly back into it. The stories generally tell of some mystical human-like being appearing in the middle of an impossible situation, disabling or removing the stronger side, and then simply disappearing. Tales tell of Dwimmers appearing, binding the Katravis of a demon lord into a stone, and jumping back with the stone into the void they emerged from – having never spoken a single word and all in one swift action. Of course, these are just tales told by old drunkards around a campfire.
+Because Demons are made of Katravis, they can be bound into an object just as Vis can. The worst torture for a demon is to be bound and slaved to a mortal object. In this state the demon exists in a universe only as large as the object. Although bound demons don’t need Essence to survive, they are in a state of constant pain and torment. A demon-binded object always shows some sign of its state that the awakened can see. A wizard may bind such a demon so that a specific power of that demon could be called forth by the wielder. The bound demon is compliant to the demand, even if the holder is unaware that they are in possession of a Katravis item.