Editing The Shapeling Arts

''"A power of transformation."''</blockquote>The '''Shapeling Arts''' are the arts of reshaping flesh and bone, using [[amber]] as a catalyst.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Shapeling_Arts_Items|Shapeling Arts Items|Fallen London|}}</ref> They were developed by [[Rubbery Men|Rubbery Men,]] but [[human]]s can also gain considerable skill.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Below-Stairs|Below-Stairs|Fallen London|}}</ref> The [[Starved Men]] practice the Shapeling Arts with religious fervor.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Peer_in_the_Amber_Chamber|Peer in the Amber Chamber|Fallen London|}}</ref> Rubberies, however, see human and Starved imitations as lacking, since humans cannot perceive everything they do about amber.<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Flute_Street|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.""''</ref> They also use a non-amber vector called '''Ascended Ambergris'''<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Ecdysis|Ecdysis|Fallen London|}} ''"Ambergris burns in a brass censer. The fumes are intense, thick [...]"''</ref> to re-shape themselves in a process called '''Ecdysis''',<ref>{{Citation|https://fallenlondon.wiki/wiki/Assert_the_mind%27s_dominance_over_the_body|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."''</ref> though it is ambiguous if Ecdysis is a form of the Shapeling Arts or something entirely different.