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## 🌿 **Structure of the Dominion Almanach**
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Each **Dominion Category** gets its own section with:
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### 1. **Category Overview (1–2 pages)**
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A lyrical + mechanical framing for the entire group. Includes:
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- **Core metaphysical themes** shared across the dominions
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- **Typical spirit behaviors**
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- **Common resonance and corruption patterns**
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- Notes on **cultural significance**, **ritual flavor**, or how folk treat such spirits
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- GM tools: _How these dominions shape scenes, settlements, or realms_
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### 2. **Individual Dominion Entries (2–3 pages each)**
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Each dominion includes:
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- **Theme**: What this dominion is, what it evokes, what it desires
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- **Resonance**: What feeds or weakens it in the world
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- **Corruption**: What happens when it twists under void-taint
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- **Ability Menu**:
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- Passive and Active options
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- Sorted by **Power Rating tiers** (PR 1–2, 3–4, 5–6)
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- Mechanical clarity with poetic phrasing
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- **Interaction Notes**: Rituals/offering examples, how traditions handle it
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- **Example Spirits**: 1–2 sample spirits (PR 2–4) with quirks, goals, and abilities
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## 📚 Suggested Dominion Categories
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These are flavorful, distinct, and let us organize the almanach in mythic layers:
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### 🔥 **Natural Forces**
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Spirits born from elements, weather, seasons, and growth.
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- **Category Intro:** Spirits of the turning world—untamed, instinctual, tied to cycles. Often honored with offerings, feared in storms or drought.
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- **Sample Dominions:**
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- **Fire** – transformation, hunger, purification
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- **Stone** – stillness, memory, permanence
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- **Water** – change, emotion, reflection
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- **Growth** – fertility, abundance, overgrowth
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- **Decay** – rot, ruin, sacred entropy
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- **Weather** – wind, lightning, floods
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### 🧠 **Conceptual Forces**
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Spirits of abstract thought, memory, and emotion.
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- **Category Intro:** Born not of earth or sky, but of minds. Spirits of grief, lies, hope, ambition. Often misunderstood. Often dangerous.
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- **Sample Dominions:**
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- **Oaths** – binding, law, promise
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- **Memory** – history, trauma, forgetting
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- **Fear** – instinct, control, survival
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- **Ambition** – will, ascension, obsession
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- **Grief** – mourning, longing, hollow presence
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- **Joy** – celebration, release, renewal
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### 🏠 **Cultural & Societal**
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Spirits that grow from custom, tradition, and belief.
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- **Category Intro:** Created by generations, rituals, and shared meaning. Most familiar to mortals—household spirits, hearthbound protectors, spirits of names and roles.
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- **Sample Dominions:**
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- **Hospitality** – welcome, boundaries, respect
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- **Reverence** – sacred, ancestral, divine echo
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- **Authority** – control, obedience, legitimacy
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- **Craft** – creation, patience, tradition
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- **Sacrifice** – offering, exchange, sacred loss
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### 🕳️ **Void-Touched (Corrupted Dominions)**
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Spirits whose essence has turned.
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- **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.
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- **Sample Dominions:**
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- **Silence** – suppression, erasure, hunger for meaning
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- **Deception** – self-erasure, entropy of truth
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- **Ruin** – obsession with collapse and broken systems
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- **Hunger** – consumption without end
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- **Madness** – fragmentation, delusion, divine rot
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## ✨ Optional Bonus Sections
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- **Dominion Crossbreeds:** How multiple dominions combine in one spirit—what a Fire + Grief or Memory + Stone spirit looks like
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- **The Veil’s Influence:** How the spiritual ecology of Vaelora shapes dominions (e.g., isolation, bottlenecked reincarnation)
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- **Dominion-Based Ritual Tables:** Quick 2d6 or 3d6 prompts for rituals/offenses per dominion |