☵ Abyss drives things toward depth-seeking flow. It reduces rigidity, smooths gradients (heat, pressure, tension), and turns structure into motion.
Identity: Settling observer
Phase Affinity: Water Phase (carry or modify)
Trigram Story: Absorb then settle carrying. Receives force and guides it downward into depth.
ManifestationsMagical UsesObjects and BodiesThoughts & EmotionsMental ShieldTrigram DetailsTranslations from Benebell Wen
Manifestations
Objects: Newtonian fluids
Body: Blood
Thoughts & Emotions: Philosophical. Adaptive. Erode tension/conflict. Patient.
Conflict management: Listen and reposition yourself.
Magical Uses
Objects and Bodies
Example infusions into objects:
- Sand bag (Ground) Continuous holder now settling. Turns into clay or liquefies depending upon saturation.
- Non-Newtonian fluid (Thunder) Settler that held returns to settling. Turns into Newtonian fluid. No longer "fights back" and instead yields and settles.
- Boulder (Mountain) Holder continuously settles. Continuously erodes as effect is sustained. (Lake can apply Abyss after removing Mountain from another object)
- Bonfire (Blaze) Continuous settling. Extinguish.
- Newtonian Fluid (Abyss) Emerger that held now settles. Moves to a shape then collapses. Fluidkenisis.
- Mirror (Lake) Presser that held now settles. Reactive properties cease. Reduces partitioning and reactive separation.
- Smoke (Wind) Emerger continuously settles. Collapses the smoke.
- Compressed Spring (Tornado) Presser continuously settles. Disarms potential.
Removing ☵ Abyss increases sharp boundaries, rigidity, brittleness, and gradient intensity. Example removals from objects:
- Mud → Dirt. Loss of cohesion through drying. Structure hardens.
- Water → Ice-like brittleness if Ground is high, or vapor dispersal if Wind is high.
- Smoke with moisture → Dries into particulate ash.
- Wet wood → Becomes brittle and cracks.
Example infusions into living bodies:
- Bones lose support (apply over ☷ Ground )
- Contract muscles (apply over ☳ Thunder )
- Erode skin (apply over ☶ Mountain )
- Fatigue, sleepy (apply over ☲ Blaze )
- Move the blood (apply over ☵ Abyss )
- Obscure senses (apply over ☱ Lake )
- Mute voice (apply over ☴ Wind )
- Loosen muscles (apply over ☰ Tornado )
- Diffuse pain. The sharp edge of pain softens.
Example removals from living bodies:
- Bones become brittle
- Muscles slow reaction
- Skin becomes fragile
- Energy increases, difficulty sleeping
- Turn blood to sludge
- Heighten senses
- Amplify voice
- Reduce muscle’s force strength
Thoughts & Emotions
☵ Abyss casters can merge into another mind. This allows them to read minds and feel emotions. They can apply ☵ Abyss to a mind by emphasizing that aspect of themselves. They can effect multiple aspects simultaneously because of the mind merging. They cannot apply an effect without it effecting themselves as well.
Examples:
- Shifting opinions. Open to new experiences. Urge to move on (over ☷ Ground aspects)
- Less reactive. More accepting. Adaptive. (over ☳ Thunder aspects)
- Bend the rules. Destabilize. Open to new ideas. (over ☶ Mountain aspect)
- Disengage. Lose focus. (over ☲ Blaze aspect) This is difficult to do because it causes the caster to also lose focus.
- Wandering throughs. Easier to influence. (over ☵ Abyss aspect)
- Less charismatic. Ideas blend. Less defensive. (over ☱ Lake aspect)
- Less alert. Less attentive. Become self absorbed. (over ☴ Wind aspect) This is difficult to do because it causes the caster to be less attentive.
- Patient. More receptive. (over ☰ Tornado aspect)
☵ Abyss is not able to remove aspects from a mind, only overlay their own onto another mind.
Mental Shield
Erodes and dissolves intrusion. Target feels effects then it erodes away. Persistent intrusion will cause ☷ Ground aspect to grow.
Examples of ☷ Ground increasing through mental aspects:
- TODO
Trigram Details
Wood story: TODO
Fire story: Absorb then settle nourishing. Settle by feeding the system into a stable lowered state. Fast comfort, fast dampening, but it can leave depletion after.
Earth story: TODO
Metal story: TODO
Water story: Absorb then settle carrying. Receives force and guides it downward into depth.
Translations from Benebell Wen
Meaning: Mysteries
Qi quality: Darkest of depths. Danger. Risk. Rushing rivers. Arcane and occult. Flowing, shifting. Shape-shifter.
Qi in nature: Water
Direction: North
Ritual tool: Gourd
Land forms: Bodies of water, coastal terrain, rivers, the sea
Sound: Mantra recitations, minor keys, lamentations
Personality traits: Emotional, intense, headstrong, pensive
Immortal association: Li Tie Guai, The Healer