Entelethean Construct

The Entelethean Constructs are devices designed to augment a being's soul. These devices are among the most commonly used technology in the Weave for beings that possess some form of soul, or consciousness that is not tied to the body.

## History

The Entelethean Constructs are named after their creator, Entele, who had pursued his studies in consciousness and the soul during the aftermath of the Ascension Wars. Made as a way to change and modify a being's soul, Entele wished to create a way where minds could be brought back from complete destruction or erasure, as while certain Exaltations were able to bring back a being from the dead or complete erasure, they were not able to undo the effects of memory and personality wiping, especially for beings such as Old Brethren and Transcends. While Entele did not succeed in this pursuit they managed to make great strides in other areas, resulting in the construction of the first Entelethean Constructs.

The high point of the technology was during the intermission period between the first two Aeon Wars. The Constructs were able to evolve and develop as their users pleased, and works of increasingly powerful soul augmentation were pursued with regularity, up until the event known as the Carolingian Incident. One of Entele's closest friends had created a secessionist group known as the Duarchy, who plotted to steal a Weave Node for themselves by using the original Entelethean Construct made by Entele. A soul was chosen among the Duarchy's members to be augmented, and with the aeons of evolution the Construct had become capable of creating beings that far exceeded the standard beings in the Weave. Entele greatly hesitated to report his old friend, knowing that discovery would lead to them being put on trial and having their mind stripped away via Opal Light.

The Duarchy reserved a place for the soul as a mind for a Weave Node under construction. Hearing of this, Entele eventually decided to report his friend to the greater Aedentide, which sent a covert task force of Shardbearers, Exalts and Old Brethren to apprehend the rogue organisation. The Duarchy, having placed hidden surveillance with Shifts on Entele, became aware of them being reported. In a rush, group took the soul (still not having completed its augmentation) towards the unfinished Weave Node. Due to no completed Weave Node being in range to combat the entity, now titled the Carolingian, the soul was free to use its power and left a trail of destroyed universes in its escape, leaving hundreds of realities as little more than absences in the Void. With the situation out of control, an Outer God was called to deal with the Godling that was escaping towards the incomplete Node. The Carolingian was quickly subdued, and had its mind and personality stripped away before being put into the care of several Godminds running other Weave Nodes.

Following this incident, the existing Entelethean Constructs were confiscated and any new ones being produced had restrictions placed upon them; they were now unable to evolve nor grow in capability, and could no longer produce beings more powerful than the standard beings within the Weave, those being the Transcends and the Old Brethren.

## Mechanism

Entelethean Constructs, are, much like most Transcended technology, shape and size shifting devices and as such have no truly set form. Once the construct is activated via intent, the device attaches itself to the being in question, whereupon it uses Void protoplasm to transmute a soul into its component concepts, and thus can be modified by inserting or removing concepts from the soul. Among the most common procedures done with this item is the removal of concepts such as Death and Mortality from beings. Adding open ended concepts like Power or Infinity to the soul isn't such a simple affair, however, and requires connecting the added concepts to those governing the attributes of the being. For example, adding the aforementioned Power by itself will not do anything, unless it is bonded to those such as Mind or Thought to grant a being psychic powers.

Most Constructs are limited in the concepts they can remove or place into a subject, so as to prevent a repeat of the Carolingian Incident. Most modern Constructs are only able to modify their subjects to slightly above the level of a standard Transcend or Old Brethren. The original Constructs made before the Incident were able to grow and evolve through active use, acquiring acquiring more concepts from subjects and analysing the data gathered from procedures. The Entelethean Construct used in the augmentation of the Carolingian, for example, had undergone several trillion procedures on different powerful beings from varying realities, and thus had a large enough repertoire of data on concepts and their connections to raise a being to effective Godhood. In this way, an Entelethean Construct cannot grant power to a being greater than the most powerful entity it has metaphysically dissected. Notably, the Constructs have extreme compatibility issues with Transcends, Old Brethren and Eternal Elixir users, as all three either are too different in metaphysical makeup or have souls that cannot be modified by outside sources.