Honestly, at this piont, I'm leading towards 2. I'm going to steal some of Serack's work from his "On the nature of spirits and hion" topic to explain my reasoning.
Part of Serack's conclusion was
I agree with him the book is constantly using the number two and sets of two:
- The helon is made of two colors
- The spirts separate into two when manifesting into objects
- The story is about two people connected through the spirts manipulation
- Two occupied planets (that we known of) and something is weird about them because one of the plants can pierce the Shroud
- Two white eyes on stable nightmares
- I know there are more, but I don’t have more time to search the pdf
In conclusion, I believe that 2 is a likely number for Virtuosity.
P.S. I could not get the quote system to work.