Editing SeventhSun:Phasm (section)

== The Nine Formulae ==

These Formulae name permissions, not exhaustive menus. A proposed working belongs when its central change matches the Formula’s governing idea. If two Formulae could contribute, use the one doing the essential work; possessing both may justify a more ambitious result, but never adds their ratings together.

'''Awakening''' — Rouse, question, or command dormant artifacts, constructed minds, and ensouled devices.

'''Binding''' — Restrain movement, seal passages, suppress phasm, or hold an entity within a stated boundary.

'''Mending''' — Close wounds, purge poison or disease, and restore a living body toward its natural form.

'''Motion''' — Exert force without touch: lift, draw, repel, carry, or strike matter and creatures.

'''Shaping''' — Alter the form or behavior of nonliving matter and natural forces without creating substance from nothing.

'''Touch''' — Sense, send, or influence thought, emotion, memory, and dreams; domination is a Profound working.

'''Transformation''' — Alter a living body away from its natural form; every working of this Formula is at least Profound.

'''Veiling''' — Mislead perception, conceal a presence, project an image, or disguise the apparent nature of something.

'''Witness''' — Perceive phasm, distant places, hidden traces, possible futures, or impressions left upon objects and sites.

=== Limits of Phasm ===

A Formula cannot permanently solve a human relationship, erase a central character choice, or make another Skill irrelevant.

Mending aids living bodies; it does not restore the dead or remove the meaning of serious injury.

Touch can press, reveal, distort, or temporarily dominate a mind, but permanent conversion and perfect obedience are not ordinary workings.

Transformation describes a living form; it does not create permanent life or make biological consequences irrelevant.

Witness offers impressions and possibilities rather than an infallible transcript of the Narrator’s notes.

Creating permanent life, returning the dead, crossing vast distances instantly, or remaking a region requires a story event, not a high roll.