✦ Rank F – Imitative Formancy (The Shadow Tier)
"Shadows of shadows, barely grasping the Ideal."
Traits: Weakest, most diluted connection to the Ideal World. These users can mimic the shape or behavior of Forms, but only shallowly.
Magic Quality: Visual illusions, symbolic effects, minor mimicry.
Users: Street performers, charlatans, initiates.
Limitations: Cannot affect the essence of objects, only appearances.
✹ Example: Creating the illusion of fire, but no actual heat.
✦ Rank E – Reflected Formancy (The Surface Tier)
"The world of appearances—surface-level reflections of truth."
Traits: Can affect mundane reality but only through indirect influence.
Magic Quality: Enhances perception, weak manipulations of real-world objects.
Users: Low-tier enchanters, scholars, formancy apprentices.
Limitations: Still reliant on physical objects; cannot affect concepts.
✹ Example: Strengthening a sword's edge temporarily by invoking the Form of Sharpness.
✦ Rank D – Echoed Formancy (The Conceptual Tier)
"The echo of the Ideal—where concepts gain agency."
Traits: Able to manifest small-scale versions of ideal concepts.
Magic Quality: Low-grade conceptual magic (heat, justice, grace).
Users: Traveling sages, cult adepts, minor nobility.
Limitations: Only temporary or localized; exhausting to maintain.
✹ Example: Manifesting a temporary zone where "truth" must be spoken (Form of Honesty).
✦ Rank C – Aligned Formancy (The Archetype Tier)
"True connection begins when self aligns with the Ideal."
Traits: A deeper bond to one Ideal Form. Magic reflects internal values.
Magic Quality: Semi-permanent effects, conceptual manipulations.
Users: Philosophers, elite mages, high-ranking academicians.
Limitations: Can only access one Archetype at a time.
✹ Example: A warrior who cannot fall in battle so long as their cause is just (Form of Valor).
✦ Rank B – Embodied Formancy (The Principle Tier)
"The Ideal lives through you."
Traits: The user embodies a Form, making them a conduit of a universal principle.
Magic Quality: Reality-altering effects within thematic bounds.
Users: Royal guardians, saints, or legendary tacticians.
Limitations: Binding code or personal philosophy required; violating it weakens the bond.
✹ Example: Wielding Form of Order to create binding laws that persist across cities.
✦ Rank A – Pure Formancy (The Essence Tier)
"They do not wield the Form. They are the Form."
Traits: Rare few have reached this level. Their presence warps reality.
Magic Quality: Manifestation of metaphysical truths—laws of physics can be rewritten.
Users: Prophets, divine champions, calamity-class beings.
Limitations: May lose individuality or become bound to the Form entirely.
✹ Example: A Formancer of Form of Time who erases an hour from reality.
✦ Rank S – Platonic Singularity (The Absolute Tier)
"No longer human. They are walking Ideals."
Traits: Mythic beings who blur the boundary between mortal and Form. Their existence shifts fate, history, and truth.
Magic Quality: Universal rewriting. They can create or destroy Forms.
Users: Possibly only one or two exist in history. Gods fear them.
Limitations: Extremely unstable or bound by cosmic rules. Prolonged existence warps the world.