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Videre





Astral Videre


Beings with an astral videre include many , any being who has entered the Umbra through Astral Projection , and many Umbrood. An astral videre casts everything in the Umbra in terms of symbols, themes, and metaphors. At its most basic, an astral videre feels at once intensely real and fundamentally surreal. At its most extreme, every metaphor and symbol is composed of other metaphors and symbols, as deeply as a person is willing to delve.


Mortific Videre


Beings with a mortific videre include all and mages with an unhealthy fixation on death. It casts the Umbra as a decayed shadow of reality. The environments within this videre are familiar, but have been subjected to forces of decay, filth, and death. The Mortific Videre is also known as Videre Mortum.


Spiritual Videre


Beings with a spiritual videre include all and its minions. This videre projects the Umbra as an interaction of primal forces such as life and death, order and chaos, and Yin And Yang . The Spiritual Videre is also known as Videre Spiritus.


Technological Videre


The most recently developed videre, the technological videre is held exclusively by the and those mages who have split off from it. It depicts the Umbra either as deep space or as a series of parallel subdimensions. Interestingly, this videre carries with it a serious price - as the Umbral reaches get further distant from Earth, beings with a technological videre find them increasingly toxic. Many Technocrats find themselves requiring respirators or even Space Suit s where shamanistic mages have no difficulty breathing.