User:Diarik/Spiritweaving/A New Creation System - First Steps

Weaving the Mundane with the Magical

The ability of resurrection is most likely the most basic form of spiritweaving. The connective property of the Soul Bond creates a pathway down which the soul is brought back into the body, which receives it gently. The critical nature of Breath, the symbol of Life restarted, is the mark of success in the effort. The soul, you see, is a carrier of spirit, and immediately after its return from the Void, it needs to be refilled, and the force of Life distributes the inflow of spirit and revitalizes its various pneumas.

Extension into the Void is likely the single most powerful form of spiritweaving; to reach all the way into Urrem'tier's domain through a compact with him, to bind a spirit, and to bring it back. Being so critical to the continuance of Elanthia, this was the best explored form. The Bridge of Lanival expedites this process to the point of simplifying the weave in such a way that its power is understated.

More minor forms of spiritweaving are those where one manipulates the distribution of spirit within an Elanthian's body. There are more difficult weaves involving objects located outside of the body, involving mundane objects or simply the air around us.

The Nexus Weave

The Nexus Weave is the basis of all spiritweaving. Inside the Elanthian body, it propagates vitality, making it so that blood flows freely and revitalizes the adventurer, and it sets the foundation of the force of Life, separating spirit from spirit. It is the weave, taken outside of the body, that forms the central point from which further weaves can create more complex constructions.

Barbarians recognize it as one's Inner Fire, but it is the Clerical art of spiritweaving that takes it to its next logical level, opening pathways and sending vibrations throughout creation as it manifests as a fresh level of power.

The Brush of the Divine

Just as the Bridge of Lanival expedites the difficult process of spiritweaving into the Void, a tool called the Brush of the Divine expedites the difficult process of spiritweaving into the Plane of Abiding. The brush is, for all intents and purposes, a brush. When a Nexus weave is placed into it, however, it becomes a bridge between the cleric's spirit and any objects or person it touches. This nature can be bound to it by splicing into it the Divyaush weave.

From Weaves to Glyphs

[Again: Glyphs feels like poor word choice, since the term refers to Paladins' abilities. I'm keeping it here because I don't have a good term yet.]

Weaves are vague, immaterial things. They push the spirit around the pneumas, not bothering to maintain themselves except by force of will of the cleric. The glyph is a dedicated representation of one of the 39 Immortals. They are discovered by self-casting Vigil, starting a fire, sanctifying it with holy oil (or Bless?), and placing a weave into it.

Upon perception of this glyph, you will feel a surge of divine inspiration, invigorating your Sight Pneuma. Divyaush must be woven in your own body such that the Immortal revelation is conducted into the Pathway Pneuma, where it is possible to express the glyph itself. At this point, should you wish it, you may also communicate the glyph to another by casting Vigil upon them.

The typical habit, however, is to instead take up one's Brush and mark a page in their phylactery with a symbol communicating the essence of the God perceived.

The Phylactery

Basically, I borrowed the idea of the sigilbook from the moon mages. So sue me. Giving Clerics the ability to utilize sigilbooks (and calling glyphs "holy sigils") isn't a problem for me. Incoporating Aetherie's Book of the Divine (archive) would be brilliant.