The Eightfold Path of the Weave
Summary: a Vanha tome about different flavors of magic
Starting Location: office in keep beneath the sinkhole -- Session 3
Current Location: In Clodagh's possession
Notes
Book Contents
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### **The Eightfold Path of the Weave (Kudoksen Kahdeksan Polkua)**
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> _“To touch the Weave is to walk eight paths. To master them is to understand the soul of the world—and to risk losing your own.”_
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— Sieluhaltija Virel Saarn, Final Archmage of Valonlähde
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### **1. Valokudonta – The Path of Light-Weaving**
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> _“From light came vision, from vision came creation.”_
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> - The art of shaping light into solid form.
> - Practitioners build radiant constructs, forge sunfire weapons, and reveal the unseen.
> - It is the path of clarity, but one that can blind the soul.
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### **2. Varjomuovaus – The Path of Shadow-Molding**
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> _“What light reveals, shadow remembers.”_
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> - The manipulation of darkness as matter and mind.
> - A path of spies, assassins, and those who speak to the void beneath perception.
> - Those who mold shadows too often forget where their own ends.
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### **3. Sielun Arkkitehtuuri – The Path of Soul Architecture**
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> _“To shape a soul is to hold a star in trembling hands.”_
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> - The study of soul-structure, memory, and essence.
> - Used to create kin-bonds, bind spirits to vessels, or rewrite desire.
> - Most feared, and most sacred to the _Sieluhaltijat_.
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### **4. Runoverkko – The Path of the Rune-Weave**
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> _“The world is made of words written before time.”_
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> - Glyphs woven into matter, creating enduring enchantments.
> - Used in infrastructure, defense, and magical programming.
> - Misused, it unravels causality itself.
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### **5. Veriharmonia – The Path of Blood-Harmony**
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> _“In blood, all truth is written.”_
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> - Life essence used not to destroy, but to unify.
> - Binds allies, awakens hidden gifts in lineage, and links will through veins.
> - Forbidden when used to hybridize multiple species.
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### **6. Tyhjyyskuiskaus – The Path of Void-Whispering**
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>_“The silence beyond the stars is not empty. It listens.”_
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> - Communion with the unknowable.
> - Used to gain forbidden truths, fold thoughts across time, or hear the end of all things.
> - Every whisper leaves a scar.
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### **7. Aikakudonta – The Path of Time-Weaving**
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> _“Time is not a line. It is a garden—pruned, twisted, and regrown.”_
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> - Alters time's flow, allowing glimpses of what was or might be.
> - Risky even in controlled forms; failure spawns echoes or paradox.
> - A path that creates ghosts before their death.
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### **8. Elävien Vesi – The Path of Living Water**
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> _“Life flows. Magic flows. Water is the breath between them.”_
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> - The animation and sanctification of water.
> - Used for healing, communion, and forming living guardians.
> - At its peak, it dissolves the boundary between caster and current.
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### **Final Words**
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>_“One may walk a single path and know mastery.
> Two, and know greatness.
> Three, and court madness.
> Four or more, and cease to be Vanha at all.”_
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> — Inscription beneath a shattered mosaic in the ruins of Sieluntuuli