Expert Semblance Quirk

[Carina]

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Networking

Carina can create and extend "nodes" with a variety of tools, such as scrivening, negation anchors, objects runeforged for this purpose, or even subtly manipulating the auras of objects or people to extend the range of these nodes. They can be arrayed in proximity with each other, and if done so, they can connect to each other as a network. She is able to use Semblance and "ping" one node, which echoes through her network of nodes and relays the information within the auras within and around the network. She can ping specific nodes within the network from the closest node for specific information, or ping the entire network and retrieve the current status of everything within the radius. The radius of the node depends on how powerful the node is.

Created nodes can be used as positional anchors to teleport to via Traversion, and in the case of physical items scrivened or runeforged to be used as nodes, they can be found, destroyed, or manipulated by others.

If the nodes are created with Lorestone/Mnemnosyte and properly prepared via scrivening or runeforging, these can also store a history of auras and information. Average dragonshards could record themselves and 1 or 2 immediately connecting nodes, while Superior dragonshards could record the activity of a whole network if desired.


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Line of Insight

Carina does not need a line of perception (audible, visual, or otherwise) to semble the aura of something as long as she is able to semble the aura of something touching or near it. She can follow the original aura and jump from it to the aura of something nearby, regardless of whether she can perceive it normally. She can follow walls and vents into other parts of a building, or pipes into a sewer, as well as following the vision line from her journeyman quirk All Eyes On Me without looking directly. When she uses this in combination with All Eyes On Me, she can semble a radius of the building around the person who is perceiving her, getting a general idea of where they are inside that building and more detail the longer she focuses on it, as long as they are also focused on her.

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Thanks! Also sorry if the wording is confusing, I have a specific idea but am having trouble writing it in a way that makes sense.

[Mirage]

Hello!

This quirk is really shaping up. I want to add a few more clarifying notes to this quirk to solidify some of the mechanical details.

1. For this level of the quirk Nodes have to be created by Carina directly. What that means is that Carina has to be involved in their creation. Setting nodes with scrivening and her personal magics are straight forward enough, but in the case of runeforged nodes she has to be brought into the forging process at some point to infuse the node with her quirk in order to turn it into a node. Runeforged or Remembered artifacts cannot be turned into nodes after the fact as it requires her quirk to be fully infused into the artifact in question. Future quirks may loosen this restriction.

2. Nodes themselves have a maximum radius of 15 meters. This requires a bit of strategic placement on Carina's part, but so long as 2 nodes are within 15 meters of one another they are automatically linked with one another unless those nodes are specifically designed not to link up automatically.

3. This quirk requires Carina to be in physical contact with one of her nodes in order to ping the network. This ping is a magical affect which can be detected by various methods, some of which could trace the source back to the origin node of the ping.

4. The level of detail the network can provide is limited by physical distance of the node from the source of the ping. Within 3 nodes, or a maximum of 45 meters, Carina can discern a high level of detail without direct visual with the object's aura, however, this can also result in a rush of information as at its basic level this quirk will not filter the information. How to manage the flood of information is up to Carina to figure out.

5. Outside of this 45 meter radius the level of details diminish greatly, and after 6 nodes (or 90 meters) the information is too vague to glean anything of use. This limitation can be mitigated by physically moving between nodes in the network to mover the search radius between pings.

6. Tying into number 2., when Carina pings a node all linked nodes automatically are pinged as well by default. This can be altered through design of the node, specific placement, or potentially through future development of this quirk.


All of these points are simply clarifications of what you've already established, and points of future improvement as Carina develops this quirk and her own methodologies.

If you have any questions let me know, and if this looks good integrate these points into the quirk description and we will wrap up the approval

[Carina]

Alright, here goes:

Network

Carina can create and extend "nodes" with a variety of tools, such as scrivening, negation anchors, objects runeforged for this purpose, or even subtly manipulating the auras of objects or people to extend the range of these nodes. She has to be involved in the creation of the node no matter what way it was created. Runeforged or Remembered artifacts cannot be turned into nodes after the fact as it requires her quirk to be fully infused into the artifact in question. Future quirks may loosen this restriction. Nodes have a maximum radius of 15 meters, and when 2 nodes are placed within that 15 meter radius they're linked, unless designed not to link automatically.

Carina can ping nodes in the network and receive information from other nodes in the network. This quirk requires Carina to be in physical contact with one of her nodes in order to ping the network. This ping is a magical affect which can be detected by various methods, some of which could trace the source back to the origin node of the ping. The level of detail the network can provide is limited by physical distance of the node from the source of the ping. Within 3 nodes, or a maximum of 45 meters, Carina can discern a high level of detail without direct visual with the object's aura, however, this can also result in a rush of information as at its basic level this quirk will not filter the information. Outside of this 45 meter radius the level of details diminish greatly, and after 6 nodes (or 90 meters) the information is too vague to glean anything of use. This limitation can be mitigated by physically moving between nodes in the network to move the search radius between pings.

Created nodes can be used as positional anchors to teleport to via Traversion, and in the case of physical items scrivened or runeforged to be used as nodes, they can be found, destroyed, or manipulated by others.

If the nodes are created with Lorestone/Mnemnosyte and properly prepared via scrivening or runeforging, these can also store a history of auras and information. These are limited to a range of 15 meters, the same as the radius, unless crafted specifically to interface with each other, which will extend the range of recording up to 45 meters.

[Mirage]

Approved!