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How to See Spirits / d5x5 intimations of the Spirit of Pyre-Shadows

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This post is for the That We Are So Much More Setting . But it's also for the setting outlined by Magic as Radiation: Enter the Spirit-World , and a new setting I'm creating which incorporates the Spirit-World into it. How do we see spirits? In order to see spirits, you must be a talented semiologist, who believes her signs to be symbols. When the rams raise their heads at a wolf's cry, it is the Epimeliad raising their heads; they pay attention, and the Epimeliad watches too, because when they attend to that which the Epimeliad attends to, the Spirit abides in them. When the sheep encircle the lambs as the wolves circle, the Epimeliad guides their steps and inheres in their geometry; the instinct to protect the young is the motivation of the Epimeliad, and the geometry of the circled flock is a manifestation of that protective spirit, and thus of the Epimeliad. In those ramblings, I named a few signs of the Epimeliad. I'll add a few more at the end of this list: The a