Incorporative Balance

Period 0

Developmental Objects first differentiate themselves from their source in the Incorporative Balance. They are still learning that it is possible to have skills or identity. They apply these questions mainly to others, not to themselves.

Thus, skills at this level are understood as needs, as things which others might be able to do. A single set of seasons should bring them to the point where the need can become an external object, a hunger that one has rather than a need one is.

Elements 3-10

• Lithium
• Beryllium
• Boron
• Carbon
• Nitrogen
• Oxygen
• Fluorine
• Neon

Subject-Object relations

The subjects of the Incorporative Balance are needs. There are no objects per se.

Examples

• An infant which feels extreme "separation anxiety" when parted from the parent with which it identifies its self.
• A guild whose founder is still around, but which is capable of operating without its leader (even though they may not realize it).
• a Stone Age culture.
• a skill at the Incorporative Balance enables a crafter to talk about the artifacts associated with the skill.
• the Incorporative matter tends to be less than useful for actually making things, but may be incorporated in things make of higher matter for specific value (magickal or otherwise):
  • if a gem is needed, a copper hydroxyl can actually be quite useful, like:
    • malachite, or
    • serpentine, or
    • turquoise, or
    • sphene, or
    • lapis lazuli, or
    • blue john or
    • star diopside
  • if a wood is needed, a yeast? or algae?
  • if a metal? is needed, an ultra light metal?, like lithium
• snake? is a FærieMUD language which has reached the Incorporative Balance (so are most communication systems between solitary animals in the non-fae world)

See also

• Period 0
• the Independent dependency
• Prenatal Balance
• Impulsive Balance

— Scotus - 21 Apr 2001