What arcane effects can an Awakened entity have?

[+Oltux72 he/him]

Awakening is often seen as just giving animation to objects. In the form it is used in Hallandren that is usually true. But what else is possible and what exactly does animating an object mean?

• sensing: awakened objects are able to process sensory input, hence they must get it. As far as we know they can react to pressure, sight and balance
• processing: to a limit extent they can act according to goals. You tell an object to fetch you something and it propels itself towards that object
• deformation: the object changes its shape and rigidity - this is basically what the Surge of Tension does

We have also seen healing, but that is not the normal healing. It is able to heal somebody who has not spoken a single word in his life. That is not simple restoration to a remembered state

And there is the destructive power displayed by some weapons. Is that the power of Threnodian Shades?

[Honorless he/him]

Good question. We don't really know much about the workings of Awakening. It seems to work in some primal way, given the focus on Commands.

Honestly, I think Awakening might just be an Anything power, bounded only by perception & imagination, and the amount of Breaths required.

[+Oltux72 he/him]

17 hours ago, Honorless said:

Good question. We don't really know much about the workings of Awakening. It seems to work in some primal way, given the focus on Commands.

Honestly, I think Awakening might just be an Anything power, bounded only by perception & imagination, and the amount of Breaths required.

So Awakening is just like AonDor, but hampered by a need for verbal Commands and much rarer fuel?