The shawl reacts to even the slightest breeze and will recede from touch with almost fearful motions, as if it was animate and feared the touch of life. It is light and soft to the touch, and feels immensely fragile, as if one could rip it apart with but a touch, yet despite this, even a sorcerer would find his magic ineffective against the veil, for it is warded many times with the magic of that bygone era that breathed it's last sighs long before the birth of the Realm. The technology bent is simply the justification for that narrative, not the purpose of the story anymore than what the details of her Anima banner are.Ĭhiming Minaret has taken to wrapping her sword in her new wonderful shawl of awesome that I won't let anyone take from me:Ī gauzy veil of half-transcluent silk of unearthly make, this silken shawl drifts perpetually on unseen winds, and the light plays in the grey folds of the veil, drawing a rainbow of colours over it's surface. Second side to that is playing up the ' the hero out of time'/' unexpected resurrection' element, much like you see in a lot of the better Captain America stories, because Alchemicals are very much about bringing the baggage and morals of their old lives with them as a stabilizing force to help contextualize an unsteady present. Especially the ones which hew Less towards justifiable technology and more towards 'magic pageantry happens in robot form to set the stage for character drama.' The key thing is to associate the pilot and robot together as one 'character,' because in a sense, the Alchemical and her enlightened soul/engineered body are split much the same way, where you have 'who she is' that drives her and communicates with other characters and the tool everyone else Sees acting as her face, which she uses to change the world around her with industrial miracles. Its pretty forgettable aesthetically, since outside of the infrastructure elements, the Alchemical condition isn't so overtly demanding 'chromed-out magical hypertech is the entire point of the exercise' like you see in most cyberpunkish media.Īs for media, beyond the 1e book fluff giving a closer look at examples how Alchemicals interact with their people and world before they got a bunch of needless 'you should be going to Creation now because Autochthonia is a themepark dystopia' bullshit tacked on later, a fine start is Super Robots, oddly enough. Click to shrink.Do you mean 'reading' by way of interpretation, or relevant media? Because as for interpretation, the thing to bear in mind that while the Alchemical visual cues trend towards complex robotics, and the fandom likes to paint them as mechanical beep-boop logicbots, what they really are is closer to ensouled golems made of clay and waxes, and their Charms can just as easily be justified as layers of magical runes, specialized enchantments and overlays of symbolic metallurgy.

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