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<blockquote data-quote="Beefermatic" data-source="post: 8967746" data-attributes="member: 6670757"><p>Nice to have all of them in one place. Each Aspect has an amount of Words of Chaos equivalent to their highlord rank, so Par, who is the Aspect of Water and Healing, has 4 words associated with her.</p><p></p><p>Generally, words of Chaos cannot be learned by PCs they're like balancing tools to make beings the PCs won't just be able to abrogate or infinite stat their way out of, but moreover they represent the Supreme Being’s total control over all aspects of reality and his sharing of that power, a single word from the vast Akashic Libraries, with a being for a specific purpose.</p><p></p><p>That's why, generally speaking besides Actoshen, Solarius and Rei all the Aspects are just that aspects, like divine aspects like what a basic deity can create, parts of Thychen given sentience, life, and modus but for a specific reason. So just random words for no reason <em>can</em> make sense as the Library has more written in it than can be defined, they'd just be very rare or very improbable that PCs would ever access them. The Void Lords have access to the Chaos Language, Thychen has access to it, but generally only the Aspects besides them have access to it, and with them it's only a couple words at a time.</p><p></p><p>There are, however, also Glitch Aspects which are like unintended Aspects created by Thychen’s subconscious, fears, doubts, or worries. The Glitch Aspects are</p><p></p><p>Dural Aspect of Stone</p><p>Gon Aspect of Breakage</p><p>Crystarra Aspect of Crystallization</p><p>Jarren Aspect of Pain</p><p>Tyr Aspect of Entropy</p><p>*Katarov Aspect of Oblivion</p><p></p><p>*Katarov is technically a part of the Akashic, the Root of the Akashic Library, creator of all creations in this world it is known as Gamma Aspect of the Earth, and allows itself to be subservient in some way to Thychen as it wishes to experience Thychen’s reality. Once though, long ago, Thychen and Gamma "fought" Gamma allowed itself to be subject to emotion, Spirit and the physical world to some degree and Thychen attempted to arrest control over Gamma by separating its emotions, soul and physical body. It's emotions became Actoshen, it's body remained seemingly unchanged, and it's soul became a solar system sized dragon growing ever larger that looked like a sandstorm absorbing and Disintegrating everything it contacted, this is Katarov.</p><p></p><p>There are a couple other Glitch Aspects I'm not remembering off the top of my head, I'll try to remember and post the basic idea here.</p><p></p><p>All the Glitch Aspects have Words of Chaos associated with them as well, all of them can use those words just as if Thychen granted it to them. The main difference between them and true aspects is that Thychen keeps these ones sealed away as best he can and their powers tend to have Akashic Seals placed upon them limiting their capabilities significantly.</p><p></p><p>Last note, and I'm really not trying to be an a$$hole here as I really do like a lot of their work, but I try to actually balance my stuff to make it usable in super high level games by DMs, so I wouldn't really put much stock into Apep's work, at least not regarding Words of Chaos. They made some cool stuff, but the majority of it really can't be used at all. Even Thychen is "supposed" to be accessible by a party should they get high enough level, like your party should, theoretically with enough powers be able to beat him, hes designed like that specifically to make him actually usable. Most of Apep's stuff was just numerical masterbation and a plethora of unblockable, undodgable, uncounterable "I Win" powers, so I don't really count any of their works that were just taken off the back of my works without permission. Just putting that out there. <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😒" title="Unamused face :unamused:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f612.png" data-shortname=":unamused:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beefermatic, post: 8967746, member: 6670757"] Nice to have all of them in one place. Each Aspect has an amount of Words of Chaos equivalent to their highlord rank, so Par, who is the Aspect of Water and Healing, has 4 words associated with her. Generally, words of Chaos cannot be learned by PCs they're like balancing tools to make beings the PCs won't just be able to abrogate or infinite stat their way out of, but moreover they represent the Supreme Being’s total control over all aspects of reality and his sharing of that power, a single word from the vast Akashic Libraries, with a being for a specific purpose. That's why, generally speaking besides Actoshen, Solarius and Rei all the Aspects are just that aspects, like divine aspects like what a basic deity can create, parts of Thychen given sentience, life, and modus but for a specific reason. So just random words for no reason [I]can[/I] make sense as the Library has more written in it than can be defined, they'd just be very rare or very improbable that PCs would ever access them. The Void Lords have access to the Chaos Language, Thychen has access to it, but generally only the Aspects besides them have access to it, and with them it's only a couple words at a time. There are, however, also Glitch Aspects which are like unintended Aspects created by Thychen’s subconscious, fears, doubts, or worries. The Glitch Aspects are Dural Aspect of Stone Gon Aspect of Breakage Crystarra Aspect of Crystallization Jarren Aspect of Pain Tyr Aspect of Entropy *Katarov Aspect of Oblivion *Katarov is technically a part of the Akashic, the Root of the Akashic Library, creator of all creations in this world it is known as Gamma Aspect of the Earth, and allows itself to be subservient in some way to Thychen as it wishes to experience Thychen’s reality. Once though, long ago, Thychen and Gamma "fought" Gamma allowed itself to be subject to emotion, Spirit and the physical world to some degree and Thychen attempted to arrest control over Gamma by separating its emotions, soul and physical body. It's emotions became Actoshen, it's body remained seemingly unchanged, and it's soul became a solar system sized dragon growing ever larger that looked like a sandstorm absorbing and Disintegrating everything it contacted, this is Katarov. There are a couple other Glitch Aspects I'm not remembering off the top of my head, I'll try to remember and post the basic idea here. All the Glitch Aspects have Words of Chaos associated with them as well, all of them can use those words just as if Thychen granted it to them. The main difference between them and true aspects is that Thychen keeps these ones sealed away as best he can and their powers tend to have Akashic Seals placed upon them limiting their capabilities significantly. Last note, and I'm really not trying to be an a$$hole here as I really do like a lot of their work, but I try to actually balance my stuff to make it usable in super high level games by DMs, so I wouldn't really put much stock into Apep's work, at least not regarding Words of Chaos. They made some cool stuff, but the majority of it really can't be used at all. Even Thychen is "supposed" to be accessible by a party should they get high enough level, like your party should, theoretically with enough powers be able to beat him, hes designed like that specifically to make him actually usable. Most of Apep's stuff was just numerical masterbation and a plethora of unblockable, undodgable, uncounterable "I Win" powers, so I don't really count any of their works that were just taken off the back of my works without permission. Just putting that out there. 😒 [/QUOTE]
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