## 🌿 **Structure of the Dominion Almanach**

Each **Dominion Category** gets its own section with:

### 1. **Category Overview (1–2 pages)**

A lyrical + mechanical framing for the entire group. Includes:

- **Core metaphysical themes** shared across the dominions
    
- **Typical spirit behaviors**
    
- **Common resonance and corruption patterns**
    
- Notes on **cultural significance**, **ritual flavor**, or how folk treat such spirits
    
- GM tools: _How these dominions shape scenes, settlements, or realms_
    

### 2. **Individual Dominion Entries (2–3 pages each)**

Each dominion includes:

- **Theme**: What this dominion is, what it evokes, what it desires
    
- **Resonance**: What feeds or weakens it in the world
    
- **Corruption**: What happens when it twists under void-taint
    
- **Ability Menu**:
    
    - Passive and Active options
        
    - Sorted by **Power Rating tiers** (PR 1–2, 3–4, 5–6)
        
    - Mechanical clarity with poetic phrasing
        
- **Interaction Notes**: Rituals/offering examples, how traditions handle it
    
- **Example Spirits**: 1–2 sample spirits (PR 2–4) with quirks, goals, and abilities
## 📚 Suggested Dominion Categories


These are flavorful, distinct, and let us organize the almanach in mythic layers:

### 🔥 **Natural Forces**

Spirits born from elements, weather, seasons, and growth.

- **Category Intro:** Spirits of the turning world—untamed, instinctual, tied to cycles. Often honored with offerings, feared in storms or drought.
    
- **Sample Dominions:**
    
    - **Fire** – transformation, hunger, purification
        
    - **Stone** – stillness, memory, permanence
        
    - **Water** – change, emotion, reflection
        
    - **Growth** – fertility, abundance, overgrowth
        
    - **Decay** – rot, ruin, sacred entropy
        
    - **Weather** – wind, lightning, floods
        

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### 🧠 **Conceptual Forces**

Spirits of abstract thought, memory, and emotion.

- **Category Intro:** Born not of earth or sky, but of minds. Spirits of grief, lies, hope, ambition. Often misunderstood. Often dangerous.
    
- **Sample Dominions:**
    
    - **Oaths** – binding, law, promise
        
    - **Memory** – history, trauma, forgetting
        
    - **Fear** – instinct, control, survival
        
    - **Ambition** – will, ascension, obsession
        
    - **Grief** – mourning, longing, hollow presence
        
    - **Joy** – celebration, release, renewal
        

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### 🏠 **Cultural & Societal**

Spirits that grow from custom, tradition, and belief.

- **Category Intro:** Created by generations, rituals, and shared meaning. Most familiar to mortals—household spirits, hearthbound protectors, spirits of names and roles.
    
- **Sample Dominions:**
    
    - **Hospitality** – welcome, boundaries, respect
        
    - **Reverence** – sacred, ancestral, divine echo
        
    - **Authority** – control, obedience, legitimacy
        
    - **Craft** – creation, patience, tradition
        
    - **Sacrifice** – offering, exchange, sacred loss
        

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### 🕳️ **Void-Touched (Corrupted Dominions)**

Spirits whose essence has turned.

- **Category Intro:** These dominions exist in echo—where natural or conceptual spirits have become warped through Overreach, despair, or contact with something beyond the Veil. Not all were born void-tainted; some fell.
    
- **Sample Dominions:**
    
    - **Silence** – suppression, erasure, hunger for meaning
        
    - **Deception** – self-erasure, entropy of truth
        
    - **Ruin** – obsession with collapse and broken systems
        
    - **Hunger** – consumption without end
        
    - **Madness** – fragmentation, delusion, divine rot
        

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## ✨ Optional Bonus Sections

- **Dominion Crossbreeds:** How multiple dominions combine in one spirit—what a Fire + Grief or Memory + Stone spirit looks like
    
- **The Veil’s Influence:** How the spiritual ecology of Vaelora shapes dominions (e.g., isolation, bottlenecked reincarnation)
    
- **Dominion-Based Ritual Tables:** Quick 2d6 or 3d6 prompts for rituals/offenses per dominion