Energy absorption

**Energy absorption** is a base power nearly every syphon has, this allows them to absorb their input energy when they come into contact with it in order to store it in their bodies.

## Rules of energy absorption

### "Rule" of contact

One of the main aspects of the system is the absorption of energy (duh), one of the first rules of syphonics is that *you must have direct contact with your input energy in order to absorb and store it*, otherwise known as *the rule of contact*. This means to absorb thermal energy from say a kettle you must have direct skin contact with said heat from that hot kettle, to absorb kinetic energy from say a boulder falling off a cliff you need to physically touch the boulder, to absorb light you must have direct skin contact with electromagnetic waves, to absorb the sonic energy of a sound you must have direct contact with mechanical waves of that sound. Now the mechanic behind this absorption is a syphons *syphonic aura*, and it's very finicky.

#### Syphonic aura

The syphonic aura is like a gravitational field around an object that *pulls*, *not absorbs*, energy towards an object. Typically this aura starts from the center of it's mass and reach only to a little outside the physical outline of the object, so for syphons this means they only a centimeter of aura reaches past their skin and draws energy towards them creating the rule of contact. Once it reaches the physical body of a syphonic object it gets stored in the matter of that object as pure energy, this energy slowly dissipates at a given rate based on the objects energy retention (how well it keeps in energy based on energy level) and energy level (the percentage of energy stored to energy capacity, more energy makes it harder to hold energy)

Now let’s imagine two blocks of similar size spaced one meter away from one another block *A* will be syphonic and block *B* will be completely normal. Now block A is syphonic and has an aura that reaches slightly past it’s physical outline, only about a centimeter or two, this aura as I said before draws energy towards it, but the actual black outline is where energy will be converted and absorbed.

   Now when A and B are distanced close enough that block A’s aura touches and reaches into block B but they are *not* physically touching, block A will start to draw energy from that specific area of block B. due to energy moving towards lower energy areas block B's energy will start to slowly decrease over time.

This means that if you hovered your hand over a hot, vibrating, glowing, kinetic, etc. object you would very very slowly absorb energy from that object, but you'd also absorb energy from the air in between you and that object.

##### Aura size expansion

If we increased the size of block A’s aura to half a meter so that it reaches halfway through block B, the pull of energy towards A will be stronger and B will lose energy faster. The aura of block A will begin to round as it increases in size and start to pull energy from around it.

Now extending you aura sounds like an awesome idea, who doesn't want more range? however there is a caveat, you will *always* get caught in your own aura and it will always extend in a spherical pattern, meaning the in order to reach something a certain distance you need to increase said range on all axis.

This is one of the reasons why the rule of contact has quotations around rule, that is to say it's more of a suggestion and given the right circumstances and gear where it would be safe for you to absorb your own energy. For example thermal and kinetic syphons have to worry much more about extending their aura than sonic and light syphons do. Worst case scenario for sonic and light syphons you become deaf/blind, worst case scenario for thermal or kinetic syphons your arm gets frozen to the core or jerked back forcefully.

### Rule of inheritance

Syphonic inheritance is essentially when a syphonic object has direct physical contact with a non-syphonic object the non-syphonic object becomes syphonic.

If block A and B are physically touching they now share an outline and and therefore an aura and block B now becomes syphonic along with block A. This means that stored energy can be shared between the two blocks and the aura is extended between them.

Typically block B will not be able to absorb or store energy itself and is a dependent of A, A can control the actual radius and when and where absorption happens. B simply becomes an extension of A. For example A could absorb energy that is on the other side of B but B can't absorb energy from the other side of A.

This extension is dependent on the surface area of contact though, when flatly face to face they have a more direct connection and share a complete outline together. If A and B were only touching on the corners of each block then the connection would be extremely weak and the aura would only extend slightly. Now this is still a connection and gives A the benefits of storage capacity and absorption area of effect.

### Rule of disconnection

Now block B is not syphonic itself, it is still technically normal but it's only syphonic due to it's direct connection with block A and if the two are separated block B now become normal again and has no syphonic properties.

This is why some weapons, locks, and technology are only usable by syphons and not by normal people, only syphons have the ability to make something syphonic.

### Rule of connection

The rule of connection states that for the love of god make sure you have a stable and good connection to any object you want to absorb energy into/give energy. This is because if block B still has energy during this disconnection then it will begin to rapidly convert and release energy in the form of sound, heat, and light.

If you were to have a sword and absorb energy into it but then have it knocked out of your hand it would release that energy into it's surroundings as a blast of light heat and sound. Depending on the amount of energy this can be dangerous. This same concept applies to syphons losing their focus, if a syphon holding energy is knocked out or simply becomes too tired they can suddenly release all that energy stored in them as a blast. So if you are

### Rule of scale

the rule of scale is something along the lines of the size of an object directly correlates to the ability of extension.

Now if we made block B smaller than block A then you would need less contact and less power to extend the aura since more of block B is within the aura. This is the idea mainly behind things like clothes, armor, and weapons being able to be used as extensions of a syphon and being able to absorb energy.

If we make block B larger, taller, or longer it gets harder to extend the block A's aura to the full size of block B and instead extends to only a small part of block B.

This is why you don't have the ability to absorb all the energy on earth by using the ground you walk on, or absorbing all the energy from a house or a large creature. Every syphon has a specific "absorption level", this is how many Kilojoules of energy you can absorb in one second, the bigger this absorption level is typically the bigger your radius can get.