Editors
8,480
edits
Difference between revisions of "Father machine"
no edit summary
Niser Resin (talk | contribs) m (→Appearance and Abilities: added a wob) |
Reinhartmax (talk | contribs) |
||
| (3 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown) | |||
|
|books=[[Yumi and the Nightmare Painter]]
}}
{{quote
The father machine itself is large and dominates the exhibit hall it is located in, at thirty feet tall with hundreds of legs used to pile and knock down stones.{{book ref|yumi|40}}
The father machine was given instructions to harvest Investiture from spirits (although this includes souls), to be used as a power source, and to protect itself. The machine's abilities derive from this command and it was [[Awakening|Awakened]] using something other than [[Nalthian]] [[Breath]], but the exact method is unknown.{{wob ref|16178}} The Investiture drawn from the hijo is used to create and power hion lines. The machine grows these hion line stubs up from the ground in the surrounding countryside.{{book ref|yumi|40}}
When threatened, the machine can increase the rate that it works to stack rock, though it becomes more reckless in doing so.{{book ref|yumi|34}} In order to protect itself, the machine uses Investiture to create a transparent barrier around its vicinity which people cannot pass through.{{book ref|yumi|40}} It is also able to repair itself, creating physical parts out of a smokey Investiture drawn from the spirits.{{book ref|yumi|40}} By the time the machine was destroyed, most of the machine had long been replaced in this manner.{{book ref|yumi|41}} The machine is also able to exert influence over the [[nightmare]]s, and uses these as additional tools to defend itself.{{book ref|yumi|40}} Since it was activated, the father machine's level of Investiture endowed it with some level of sentience.{{book ref|yumi|40}}
The machine is able to draw souls from a great distance, apparently due to each human on the planet having some of [[Virtuosity]]'s Investiture within them.{{wob ref|16178}}
==Prototype Machine==
==History==
Scholars of the [[Torio City]] university worked to create a machine capable of using the hijo of the region to produce a power source. Their early prototype was capable of creating simple rock stacks which were adequate to attract spirits at a low but consistent rate. A portion of the spirits' souls could be siphoned off by the machine to allow continued operation and to power auxiliary devices. This invention eventually led to the development of the father machine, which was significantly larger and capable of producing hion lines.{{book ref|yumi|39}}
The machine was activated by [[Gyundok]] and his team of scholars when Yumi was nineteen years old, at the [[Festival of Reveals]]. Due to an oversight in the instructions given to the machine, before working to draw the hijo to itself
The yoki-hijo's souls were too powerful for the machine to permanently destroy. To protect itself from them, the machine set up prisons for these women in the form of fake towns. By altering their memories on a daily basis, it was able to keep these powerful beings unaware of their imprisonment.{{book ref|yumi|39}}
{{complete}}
{{yumi}}
[[es:Máquina padre]]
| |||