Essence of theTag Cloud

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• This Essence bestows upon you the ability to perceive, add and deleted tags that make up the tag cloud of an item, being or even concept. At its highest level it is possible to effortlessly change the nature of the currently inhabited universe or even reality itself. Expect a minimum of several decades to get even close to that level.

• The ability starts with just being able to sense and identify tags directly attached to the owner of the ability but will gain in power, speed and range through use.

• A tag may be hard to identify if the drinker is unaware of its existence but all tags discovered, examined and/or already known will be added to a mental ‘dictionary’ of tags where they can be further examined.

• An examined tag will reveal all its meanings over a time of repeated examination, which will make it much easier to understand which specific meaning is affecting something or someone.

• Outright creation of a tag is possible but requires a lot of concentration at first, it is possible to fail at creating one if the concentration is broken. This becomes easier to do the more one knows about the possible definitions and meanings of said tag. It is much easier to create a fully understood tag and add it to a tag cloud. With training this too can become effortless.

• Weakening a tag is possible but requires another tag to be strengthened with the removed power.

• Weakening a tag in one tag cloud and using it to empower a tag in a different cloud is an advanced technique that requires a lot of concentration and can easily fail before trained up to competent level.

• After some time it becomes possible to sacrifice a tag to empower another with an equal weight to the sacrificed tag. It is possible to reach a point where a tag can be fully deleted without having to redirect its metaphorical weight.

• Outright swapping tags between tag clouds is an advanced technique and requires a lot of concentration due to having to focus on two tag clouds and tags at the same time. Swapping can fail if the concentration gets disturbed and may even be somewhat noticed by self aware targets if the tags snap back into their respective clouds. Using this technique will also get easier with practice and over time can become effortless as well, much like any other application of the ability.

• The most advanced use of this ability is also the most subtle, shifting the meaning of a tag to a different meaning of itself. This requires literally full understanding of the tag in question and its current expression in the entity or item the tag cloud belongs to. This will require full concentration at first even if some or all other aspects of the power have been mastered. Failing to successfully affect a tag may cause temporary ill-effects on the owner of the tag cloud.

• There is no way to accidentally negatively affect oneself with the ability and it is possible to undo as many changes to tags and tag clouds as a whole as one wants. This specific sub-power is always active and always effortless.

• This ability is absolute and can not be taken, copied or interfered with due to its nature of direct manipulation of the metadata of existence. Even sensing the use of this ability is incredibly hard and near impossible for even beings of the highest order, at least if the use was successful.