Electrica Constructum

**Electrica Constructum** is the ability utilized by Atlanta Tricia.

## Description

Conceptually, Electrica Constructum allows the user to create constructs out of electricity or electric energy.

The extent of the possibilities for what these constructs can be are unclear, as the only known user, Atlanta Tricia, only used it to create electric animals. While this renders the capabilities of solid, lifeless constructions ambiguous, it highlights the likely more complicated aspects of the ability. Atlanta's constructs are fully capable of functioning on their own without help from their conjurer. While she can give them orders, they seem to have a conscious of their own, so it's unclear whether she can control them directly or only influence them.

Regardless of the user's complete influence on their living constructs, the constructs themselves are very capable. They can interact freely with physical objects, such as carrying letters or other objects. However, they still have properties of electricity, and can pass through conducting materials or send shocks through them. The constructs themselves can also directly shock things it comes in contact with, however, the shock applied on contact seems to be selective and not a certain shock, once again subject to the question of whether that is by choice of the construct or the restraint of the user.

### Weaknesses

Despite their capabilities, the constructs themselves are physically weak. It takes very little to adequate force for an attack to dispel them.

The constructs, being made of electricity or electric energy, are also subject to the rules and laws regular electricity is subject to. For instance, when faced with a material that does not conduct electricity very little or at all, they can only interact with it minimally. Those with Fulugumen's blessing or another electricity-related blessing are also less likely to be affected by them as others are, or their energy can be absorbed or countered by an ability that can do so.

Unlike other living construct-creating abilities, like Amicus, the user cannot see through their constructs or keep track of where they are.

Though the user doesn't need to constantly supply energy to sustain the constructs, but the complete toll is on conjuring them in the first place, and the larger the construct, the more energy it takes; if the user doesn't have enough energy, they can't create the construct. However, despite their independence, if the user is incapacitated (like going unconscious, for instance), their constructs will dissipate.

### Effects

Like most of Fulugumen's blessings, this ability passively grants the user a heightened immunity to electricity, though nowhere near the same degree as other blessings that have to do with direct control of electricity. The user also has a slight shock in their touches, though not as much as the ones granted by Static, and are subtle enough to go unnoticed most of the time. Other than that, this ability grants very few passive effects.

## Usage

Fortunately for her, Atlanta was brought to the Pecistu while Micah Perenchos's obsession with tracking down Nyx Vis was at its peak. Due to this, and her sheer confidence in Vale Vinia, the true limits of Atlanta's ability was never tested. Because she always shied away from combat in any form, she never pursued ways to directly use her ability in combat, except when absolutely necessary.

Rather than using it in combat, Atlanta primarily used her ability to communicate with Nyx and the early Skonia, mostly using bird constructs to send letters and messages back-and-forth without communicating directly.

In *Aria of the Blind*, once she was an official member of the Skonia without fear of the Pecistu, Atlanta used her constructs to accompany her allies on missions as a form of backup or emergency communication.

## Named Techniques

* Shock Sparrow
* Shock-Tooth Tiger
* Lightning Lupus

## Trivia

* The name of this ability comes from the Latin words for "electric build" or "electrical build."