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|As always, the stamp sank slightly into the material. A soulstamp left a seal you could feel, regardless of the material. She twisted the stamp a half turn—this did not blur the ink, though she did not know why. One of her mentors had taught that it was because by this point the seal was touching the object's soul and not its physical presence.
|[[Shai]]'s thoughts as she Forges a table{{tes ref|12}}
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When a soulstamp is applied, the stamp sinks slightly into the surface of the object. The Forger "locks" the stamp by twisting it a half turn before removing it, although this does not blur the ink.{{tes ref|12}} If the Forgery is unsuccessful, the seal disappears immediately, and the ink can be easily wiped away.{{tes ref|30}} If the seal is successfully applied, it begins to glow faintly.{{tes ref|98}}{{tes ref|epilogue}} The seal remains indented with a noticeable texture, regardless of the material being stamped.{{tes ref|3}} When a living thing is stamped, the sinking sensation is a bit disconcerting, and the stamp gives off faint wisps of red smoke as the soul resists the change.{{tes ref|30}} Soulstamps can be intentionally broken in order to end a Forgery. The seals actually resist being destroyed, but if they are, the object immediately returns to its former history and the seal becomes mundane ink.{{tes ref|3}}{{tes ref|epilogue}}
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The effectiveness of a Forgery soulstamp is dependent in part on the plausibility of a stamp. This includes both how the object views itself (the object's history) and how others view it.{{wob ref|4055}}
Soulstamps have a glyph of [[MaiPon]] on the back of a stamp, and like other Selish magic, the Forgery gets weaker the further you travel from MaiPon.{{au ref|sel}}{{tes ref|30}}{{wob ref|4680}} It is not possible to simply change the glyph on the back of the stamp to correspond to a new location, it is necessary to be born in MaiPon or have a bloodline connection to the area.{{wob ref|4054}}
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