User:Reversedragon/Ironblood/FaustrollCanon
Core characteristics[edit]
- pronounced [P] alias (en) [string]
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- QID references [Item] 1-1-1
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- field, scope, or group [Item]
- case of [Item]
- question about whether a concept in one series exists in another
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- super-case of [Item]
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Appearances[edit]
- appears in work [Item]
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Wavebuilder combinations[edit]
- pronounced [P] pronounced Wavebuilder: forms result [Item]
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- along with [Item]
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Wavebuilder characterizations[edit]
- pronounced Wavebuilder: route [Item]
- [M3]Is 'pataphysics canon to Ironblood? (Ironblood) 1-1-1
- along with [Item]
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Prototype notes[edit]
A question that somehow occurred to me only today. Ironblood's magic system (alchemy system) is based on rearranging the basic structures of materials. It is supposed to be rather precise, such that objects with similar chemical structures are easier to transform into each other. But sometimes it can present itself in terms that sound abstract, like "light through darkness". The existence of the alchemy system parallels the existence of ideologies: each ideology has the ability to manipulate the world, and the non-magical ability to organize people, and the forms of the two mirror each other, microcosm and macrocosm. But not all ideologies that have alchemy are "good ones" — there is reactionary magic, or "reversion", which is all about breaking things down instead of building them up. This literally means that some "good" ideologies make minor use of reversion, like Trotskyism and anarchism using it as a weapon against the goals of "Stalinists". (Trotskyists are falsely convinced that some of their reversion spells are forward spells.)
This latter complication raises strange and interesting questions. If alchemy doesn't actually have to be based on reasonable Marxist ideologies like it says on the tin... does this mean there could be an Idealist alchemy? Does this mean somebody could try to do alchemy operating on the abstract qualities of objects to turn a sieve into a boat? Does 'pataphysics accidentally exist in Ironblood?
I guess the first question is how Materiae work. Materiae have been defined as special arrangements of things that only outwardly have qualities, just like regular matter does, as opposed to being made of qualities that make up Fire and Air or wood particles that make up matter, and would be proper Ideas. Materiae can manifest as a Darkness Materia (Ironfang II) or a Soil Materia (Splotchwing) that outwardly behaves particular ways that are stated to be emergent. Sometimes the fictional chemistry is a little pronounced bullshit because fiction. So if you have a "Dr. Faustroll" that wants to operate on qualities what happens...?