Spirituality

## Definition

The term ''spirituality '' was first coined by Ves Larkinson to describe various metaphysical interactions observed throughout the Mech Touch's Universe. Also called psionics by the MTA, spirituality is quintessential in the progress of high level mech designers and Mech pilots.

Spiritual energy is an energy source unaffected by the laws of physics created from the sentience of living organisms. The toughts and emotions of living beings can be seen reflected in their spiritual energy composition such as love, hate, greed or even the more pure metal, water, fire etc. Spiritual energy resides in a plane or dimension inaccessible to most humans, but some possess the skill or potential to interact with it on a certain level. This can range from detecting a minute change of atmosphere in a room to drawing upon the pure energy to power strong techniques.

### **Spirituality and spellcasters**

Most human spiritual sorcerers are seen associated with the Five Scroll Compact. Some highly developped alien individuals such as Nixie and the Dark Gods are also implied to possess strong spiritualities when they were alive.

Pirates affiliated with the 5 scroll compact were capable of using spirituality to become invisible and blow up people's heads. This happened when the XXX infiltrated the Flagrant Vandals heading to Aeon Corona.

Cynthia Larkinson excels in this area and used her skills to preserve herself after her physical death. She currently resides in the Nyxian Gap, manipulating the anomalous environment to her advantage making it a fortress against the 5 Scroll Compact.

### **Spirituality and mech designers**

Mech designers need spirituality to ascend to Journeymen. Once they gather sufficient experience and a solid design philosophy, they construct a design seed using their spirituality. This design seed is akin to a microcomputer that helps them design mechs, and allows them to infuse mechs they design with supernatural properties reflecting the attributes present in their design philosophy.

### **Spirituality and mech pilots ( from chapter 460)**

Expert mech pilots can use spirituality to activate resonant materials in mechs, performing supernatural feats. A mech pilot needs spirtuality to become an expert. Expert candidates are mech pilots who have shown a small amount of resonance and laveres, and need to break through to freely use resonance.

Resonance creates radiation that can be perceived with specialized equipment. Resonance strength is measured in laveres. The lavere scale goes from 1 to 10.000, and it is not linear.

* A new expert pilot would measure about 1 lavere
* A new ace pilot would exert at least 67 laveres of resonance.
* God pilots start out with 1545

While mech designers can crystalise their design philosophy inwards with a design seed, an expert pilot will manifest their power outwards via the formation of willpower. Willpower and spirituality are not compatible in most cases.

### **Spirituality and Mutated Beasts**

Sometimes when an animal is put in a hostile or dangerous environment, an exobeast can adapt by using their spirituality to produce a variety of phenomenon. Smarter and more intelligent creatures are more likely to manifest their spirituality.

* Ziegra(A*rtificial Crown Cat*)- Causes mech parts to rapidly degrade allowing it to successfully hunt mechs for as a source of exotic materials for consumption.
* Arnold(*Arganid Clisenta*)- Can create 'illusions' of himself, becoming capable of theoretically performing hunts all by himself despite being disabled.
* Qilanxo(S*acred God*)- Due to an anomalous high energy environment, her species were capable of living for centuries giving ample time to grow and develop spirituality. The abilities she could use were varied but were focused on the manipulation of space allowing her to generate energy barriers, The sacred gods could select a 'chosen' modifying their skulls with a built-in interface and, most importantly, elevating them to expert candidates.
* Unnamed Shelled Creature(G*enodin Palma*)- generates water.
* Kalo, the Ghost Chameleon, was the natural design spirit for every stealth-oriented expert mech
* Titania an ancient exobeast excelled at controlling autonomous or semi-autonomous constructs.
* Helena
* Lufa

## **Ves Larkinson's design philosophy**

### **Design spirits**

Ves Larkinson's design philosophy focuses on giving life to a mech. In one of his discoveries, he found a way to add a third party to the mech-mech pilot link. He ties a sentient, spiritual entity that acts as guardian angel tied to a mech design that can guide the pilot. He creates them in different ways, usually using spiritual fragments and ingredients.

The first way is the three way visualization technique. Ves imagines a totem animal, a human figure, and a representation of the mech's role, and combines them.

The second way is by fusing different spiritual ingredients together by using his life-infused spirituality. Such ingredients range from an high tier mech pilot/designer's spirituality, a mutated beast's spirituality, a piece of a spiritual entity or pure spiritual energy of differing element.

Design Spirits

•Desolate Soldier •Arnold •Trixie

• Bravo •Lufa •Ylvaine

•Zeigra • Superior Mother

•Illustratious One •Vescas

•Nxye •Qilaxno •Golden Cat

### **Companion Spirits**

An augment to human minds. They are made from a piece of the host's core spirit, so they are technically a split personality manipulated to specialise in special abilities. The role of these spirits are to assist their specific owners profession using their spirituality.

**Sharpie**-enhances and assimilates forms of sword arts. Provides Ketis assistance in designing mechs.

* Ketis
* Ves
* High Grade Life Prolonging Serum

**Blinky**- can consume many forms of energy and convert it into a form similar to Ves's for his use. An unintentional product of Blinky's abilities is his ability to manipulate the Alshyr energies in Ves's Jutland organ.

* Unending One
* Luffa
* High Grade Life Prolonging Serum
* Illustrious One/Crystal Golem

**Alexandria -** is specialized for creating a spiritual network which can enhance synergy and cohesion during mech design sessions and fabrication runs.

* Aisling Design seed fragment

**Mana** - Provide protection by terrorizing those who protect one from spiritual attacks

* Life, which corresponded to the heart, came from Ves himself.
* Family, which corresponded to the tail, came from the Golden Cat.
* Purification, which corresponded to the brain, came from Lufa.
* Protection, which corresponded to the front paws, came from Qilanxo.
* Light, which corresponded to the eyes, came from the Illustrious One.
* Duty, which corresponded to the abdomen, came from the Solemn Guardian. Aurelia has activated the purification abilities of mana, which is alluded to resisting the being known as Cassandra Breyer attempting to posses her in her infancy

**Yaika -**

**Denny** **-**

**Noah -** Ark's companion spirit a ferocious white lion named had already become good at leveraging Ark's intrinsic advantages with his empowered roar.

**Julius -** Brutus black-and-white tuxedo cat.

### **Spiritual fragments**

Ves Larkinson can hijack spiritual fragments from the spirituality of beings or objects. Then he modifies and augments the fragment using various techniques and makes a design spirit.

This method's advantage is a stronger design spirit, and less use of Ves's spirituality, so long as the fragment is strong.

Ves has used spirit fragments from:

Aliens

* Luminar Cyborg
* Qilanxo
* Ziegra
* Nyxie
* Arnold
* Blinding One
* Unending One

Humans

* Fontain,
* Zoe Plinter
* Cynthia Larkinson

Items

* Prophet Ylvaine's holy food wrapper
* High Grade Life extension serum
* Finger of Saint Cross's Ace mech

Spiritual fragment donors benefit from this practice. The spirituality of the pilots that use their mech boosts them, and it can help them break through.

### **Spiritual products**

Spiritual products are created by deconstructing spiritual fragments and then reconstructing them into an entirely new entity.

Cynthia described this as chopping people into pieces and then sewing them back together and should not be possible.

Designer specialties help with spiritual products, such as Gloriana's correcting flaws when piecing together the product, while Ves provides the spark of life. If two designers use their spiritual projections together to build a product, it is possible to achieve resonance, which is to say, they use their specialties together.

excerpt:

"His first spiritual product was Vescas, the design spirit of the Kinslayer.

His second spiritual product was the Solemn Guardian, the design spirit of the Desolate Soldier and its variants.

His third was bravo, the design of the Adonis Colossus"

### Spiritual Exotics

Some exotics are capable of interacting with spirituality. There are 4 known exotics:

* P-stone: stores and preserves spiritual material.
* F-stone: contains a charge allowing to temporarily add offensive attributes to spirituality, thereby making spiritual attacks stronger.
* B-stone: blocks spiritual phenomenon. The weight of the piece is directly proportional to the strength of the blocking.
* Unending Alloy: similar to the p-stone it can store spiritual energy but is also extremely tough and resilient, comparable to first class exotics.