The Shapeling Arts
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"A power of transformation."
The Shapeling Arts are the arts of reshaping flesh and bone, using amber as a catalyst.[1] They were developed by Rubbery Men, but humans can also gain considerable skill.[2] The Starved Men practice the Shapeling Arts with religious fervor.[3] Rubberies, however, see human and Starved imitations as lacking, since humans cannot perceive everything they do about amber.[4] They also use a non-amber vector called Ascended Ambergris[5] to re-shape themselves in a process called Ecdysis,[6] though it is ambiguous if Ecdysis is a form of the Shapeling Arts or something entirely different.
References[edit]
- ↑ Shapeling Arts Items, Fallen London
- ↑ Below-Stairs, Fallen London
- ↑ Peer in the Amber Chamber, Fallen London
- ↑ Flute Street, Fallen London ""He feels.... sorry for them, I think?" An affirmative burble. "Humans do not have the right parts— [...] —the right skin or organs to taste – or feel – the essences of amber." She struggles for an analogy. "It's like they're painting, but can't see colour. Messy.""
- ↑ Ecdysis, Fallen London "Ambergris burns in a brass censer. The fumes are intense, thick [...]"
- ↑ Assert the mind's dominance over the body, Fallen London " Your thoughts are a shape for your body to inhabit. A pattern, a blueprint. Like an architect who draws both the building and the landscape – as if to order the construction of both."
