Greenheart Power Philosophy (Court of Stars)

**DO I EXPECT ANYONE TO APPECIATE THE PHILOSOPHICAL THOUGHT i'M TRYNA PUT INTO THIS? HELL NO, BUT I'M DOING IT FOR MYSELF CAUSE IT'S FUN!**

Silver Cords: An introductory technique of the usage of Anima often initially manifested by Awakened Greenhearts due to its similarities to aura streaming, Evelyn has demonstrated her ability to connect her life force and experiences through a highly specialized linkage she refers to as a life thread, a silver cord, or instinctively as a sutratma. In practice, Evelyn's ability to create sutratma stems for her ability as Greenheart to manipulate Anima, as it represents and is more strongly connected to a higher concept than life, and rather existence. The sutratma Evelyn generates appears to connect to all aspects of an individual as such, connecting the physical body to the etheric body, the etheric to the astral, and the astral to the mental. Seemingly by willing it, as an early manifestation of her Dominion, Evelyn is seemingly capable of warping the expression of the Anima between herself and any other given target within her awareness to forge a sutratma, an ability not unlike that of Taldain Invictus'. This advancement in her ability to stream enables her to substantially increase the range of her sensory perception and ability to root, seemingly predict the attacks of those threaded with her sutratma by detecting fluctuations in the threads, and seemingly utilize her Invasion on a wider scale, as well as seemingly generally expanding the range of her attacks, creating a connection between herself and her opponent that the Anima uses as a channel to attack akin to the ghost-like attacks of Sage Mode's use of natural flux. The sutratma is often the first step for a beginner's harnessing of the Dominion, because in order to alter the expression of the Anima in the environment, one must first begin by comprehending it. As commented on by the Weaver, this is still a quite naive way of viewing the Anima, and stems from thinking like a human and not as a Fey would, though is not too uncommon a technique in Wyldfae who have grown away from their own kind.

Silver Cord/Sutratma/Life Thread/Etheric Cords Conceptualization Rambles (cont.)

Supernatural means of obtaining information about the wider world on a metaphysical level that transcends the typical associations one would draw from a baseline use of one’s Awakening, it grants the Greenheart the ability to understand and connect to all things in existence across all aspects of its existence, whether it be connecting the physical, etheric, astral or mental, and by spreading her awareness out to the wider world, the depth and scale of Evelyn’s “extrasensory perception” is considerably magnified. The world around Evelyn appears to be an extension of her being, becoming one with her surroundings and the connected world, and can leverage this into obtaining an extremely powerful stealth ability by letting the expression of Anima that she is fade into the natural background of her local surroundings, disappearing from even conventional perception by becoming, on a metaphysical level, the same as her surroundings. This connection to the World and her surroundings can also be leveraged to develop an adaptation to her environment, synchronizing with the state of the local Anima around her, passively gaining an immunity to the harsh climate conditions within her region. Through silver cords, Evelyn is filled to some level with an inner tranquility that she can then project outwards to beings connected by sutratma or within her radius, calming them, though the success of this is still dependent on some level on the aggression of the target. If the target acts from self-defence or territorialism, this ability tends to work, but active hostility typically is difficult to counter. However, perhaps the most interesting dimension of depth to her sensory perception magnified by her sutratma enables her to connect to items and locations more deeply and feel the fragmented presence of those who have impressed within the area, feeling it encoded in the expression of the local Anima. For example, if a farmer works hard to till the land to prepare for crops, to the eyes of Evelyn and keen Fey, a signature piece of them is almost scarred onto the land as a result of the action, a piece of them etched into the land that anyone with this level of awareness can read and learn about what occurred there. If someone manages to make a technique after years of training, or a blacksmith finally forging their magnum opus, Evelyn can connect to the imprint of body, heart, mind and soul left on these items and learn about the person themselves. In particular areas of intense impression, such as the battlefield or site of an argument Evelyn can feel out events that have occurred in these areas, from wars, to arguments, to battles or even deaths, and can feel the emotions felt by those who were there before her like rage and hatred. A Greenheart’s first struggle is with their Sutratma primarily, as it’s ability to connect extends to themselves as well, typically tying into their dreams and enabling them to sense areas of particular self-impression. In addition, due to the nature of Sutratma as ‘threads’, it is assumed that this Sutratma are not physical threads in the traditional sense, though typically Evelyn visualizes them as ribbons, or silver coloured threads that connect to the world around her and other people to gain an understanding of who they are.

*Real Philosophical Basis:* The silver cord in metaphysical studies and literature, also known as the sutratma or life thread of the antahkarana, refers to a life-giving linkage from the higher self (atma) down to the physical body. It also refers to an extended synthesis of this thread and a second (the consciousness thread, passing from the soul to the physical body) that connects the physical body to the etheric body, onwards to the astral body and finally to the mental body.

Silver Chords and Subtle Body Theory

The sutratma Evelyn generates appears to connect to all aspects of an individual as such, connecting the physical body to the etheric body, the etheric to the astral, and the astral to the mental. Seemingly by willing it, as an early manifestation of her Dominion, Evelyn is seemingly capable of warping the expression of the Anima between herself and any other given target within her awareness to forge a sutratma. This advanced Anima streaming technique resembles descriptions of the antahkarana as a connecting bridge between higher and lower aspects found within eastern esoteric texts like Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. It also shows parallels to the astral light/prana channel often visualized in yogic/tantric traditions as a central subtle energy pathway.

Sensing Impressions and Genius Loci

The ability of a Greenheart to sense fragmented presences impressed upon locations and objects through intense activity bears similarities to theories of genius loci. According to ancient Roman belief, locales possessed indwelling spirits expressing accumulated psychic energies. Similarly, if repeated rituals, practices or historical events leave aspectual signatures impressed upon the regional Anima fluctuations over long periods, one could view this as landscapes developing a layer of unconscious cultural memory parallel to Jung's concept of the collective unconscious.

Locations tied to events of mass emotion or trauma may exhibit emotional impressions within the local Anima distortions providing insight into broader societal archetypes and myths encoded unconsciously within the environment over generations. Natural sites used for spiritual rituals could increasingly express associated beliefs through this "genetic memory of place."

The use of Anima in the early stages meant to feel very philosophical and coming to terms with small realizations that have pretty big tangible effects. In theory it's based on the fact that all things are a local expression of Anima and thus by producing a distortion in the Anima, a Greenheart should logically be able to create a distortion in all things, whether it be the toughest steel, or the softest cushion. At the moment it goes: Sutratma ----> Unravelling -----> Visualization

Visualization is the process that results in and will eventually strengthen Evie's "Greenheart Mode", with physical reinforcements etc.

Unravelling: *Still considered a relatively primitive expression of the Anima, the technique referred to Evelyn as unravelling is one that has had a multitude of names, with each one of her predecessors referring to the epiphany by its own unique name. However, the nature of the technique remains the same, and is a technique that one can only truly make use of after having gained an understanding of the nature of the Anima, not as a scholarly article would describe it, but based on one's personal experiences of it, and marks the beginning of a Greenheart's exploration with the capabilities of their Dominion. Anima is a fundamental force of the universe, an omnipresent constant that gives life to all concepts that have the ability to possess life, or rather, the arche and apeiron of all things that exist. By understanding the fundamental nature of the material monism one's status as bearer of the Verdant grants them, the Greenheart begins to see not as a mortal, but as a Court Fey, or particularly adept Wyldfae would see the world around them, as all expressions of Anima. But if all things, and all states are manifestations of the Anima, then it stands to reason that the connection between Anima and all things can be warped with those with the authority, the dominion to. Armed with these two facts, Unravelling is the ability to recognize that all things are expressions of the Anima, and that the Anima is a malleable force within a Greenheart's control, that can be weaponized to alter the state of things caught within a Greenheart's warping of a substance's expression. As Anima transcends and shapes the physical, etheric, astral, and spiritual, all aspects of all things are vulnerable to this expression of the Anima, making it an incredibly versatile and potent offensive technique.*

Unraveling and Observable Effects

By recognizing all things are Anima expressions warpable by those with authority over it, "unraveling" denotes a Greenheart's ability to alter a substance's Anima state through focused intention. To avoid an entirely conceptual explanation, one could illustrate tangible impacts of this distortion. For example, interfering with the load-bearing Anima within stone may induce fracturing observable to outside witnesses. Warping a suit of armor's Anima integrity could dent plate links seen by combatants. Manipulating a flame's Anima balance may cause sparks or extinguishment in visible displays. Such concrete sensory examples help bridge the philosophical underpinnings to empirically verifiable outcomes on the physical plane, grounding the technique's proposed abilities.

Visualization general philosophy sentiments: *Stems from awakening to the nature that Anima and it's expressions are rarely static, up to this point one could get away with believing that. But as a Greenheart gets more proficient in the Anima, they begin to question the nature behind strange phenomenon like punching harder when angry, running faster due to fear, and standing up to forces greater than oneself due to stubborness, how could all these conflicting states be encoded in a singular static expression of the Anima. If the Anima does shape all things, then it must also be able to be shaped by all things, even if diluted into its various forms and functions. It marks the beginning of a Greenheart's ability to connect to concepts that "exist", or can exist, and through force of Anima crystallize this essence and manifest it, letting one's being bind to it and invoke the phenomena behind the essence. It is quite literally the manifestation of daring to dream, and by focusing on a given concept, one can invoke the Anima to bring one closer to it. By visualizing thoughts like, "the strongest", or even an idealized version of one's future self, one begins to shape the Anima according to one's will, starting with one's self.*

And with sufficient Visualization, it leads into Dominion, which in essence is the ability to project your visualization outwards. The jump between visualization and full fledged dominion is big though. Dominion stems from finding that core visualization Wyldfae typically dun need to go through these steps, doesnt meant they know how to do the underlying things either but this process is moving from a human mindset to that of the Fey when wielding Anima. A process thats like breathing for Wyldfae is difficult for a Greenheart in the early stages not because of lack of power, but because of the bias to human thought patterns. For example, you're visualizing streaming instead of simply accepting a connection with sutratma. or you might lose sight of the pattern of reinforced items so you struggle to distort it with unravelling.

The flow chart is connect/understand, distort/destroy, restrain distortions and feedback, refine distortions and project outwards again into a warp.