Posts tagged as "familiar"

• binding

  The witch stands before its nude familiar-to-be, before the ritual circle inscribed in stone and inlaid with mythril, before the tank of nanomachines that the familiar-to-be is suspended above. At the moment, the intricate machines are static, unearthly-still, surface tension keeping them from moving in the faint breeze blowing through the ritual chamber. They are pitch-black, devoid of color or reflection, seeming almost like an absence in the world rather than a part of it. In the immaterial, they are barely there, a faint hint of possibility-construction-shift the only conceptual weight they possess. They are a blank slate, tabula rasa, an oddity - all things, through the processes by which they come to be, bear an immaterial reflection of their purpose and uses. The nanomachines do not, this presence carefully scrubbed from them by arcanotech and outright magic alike. In time, this will change, eddies and whorls in the immaterial crashing into this emptiness and filling it. In time, the nanomachines could be bent to almost any purpose imaginable by entropy and random chance.

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