Shaper Energy lists all cortex entries on Shaper Energy, a type of mysterious energy found when encountering Shaper relics and Shaper ruins.
Collection Details
A total of 7 cortex entries make reference to Shaper Energy.
The following Cortex Entries tell about the interaction and some mechanisms of Shaper Energy.
Conjunction
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Everyone knows what an overload of Shaper energy from a relic looks like—well, maybe not everyone except most Arcanists and many cyphers—but inversions of energy are relatively rare. Such events are referred to as “conjunctions” because to all appearances the energy that normally radiates outward from a Shaper instrument is instead pulled into it and... through to connect some other location.
What location? Where is it going? We have no idea. It may not even be a location within our physical reality. Energy goes in and objects—even living creatures!—come out from wherever it's connecting to. How do conjunctions form? What's their function?
Further study will bring us answers.
— M. Sumner
Elementals
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Unlike chimera, which are fauna transformed by Shaper energies, elementals are sentient beings brought into existence by the clash between Shaper instruments and the violent energies of the Anthem of Creation found at the center of a Cataclysm. While the fire-spewing wyvern is commonly referenced as the example of an elemental, the most notorious and universally feared is the monstrous titan. Pioneering researcher Gelhold Fraf theorized that if we could unlock the secrets of an elemental's formation, we would gain profound understanding of the Shapers' design for this world.
Great Falls Canyon Overlook
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Picking up Shaper energy, but can't see where it's coming from. Going to explore underwater. My cypher says I should wait for back-up here at the grove, but what fun is that?
INVERSE FUNCTIONS
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Troubled after being divided by the Manifold, Matthias begged the Freelancer to help him seek answers. Their search led to Arcanist Aruna Kaule, a specialist in the strange effects of Shaper Energy.
Aruna realized the Manifold's division of Matthias was unstable, resulting in a slow but certain decay of reality around them. If left to run its course, the decay would destroy all three of the Matthiases.
Skirmish at Scavenger Point
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“Don’t like the Scars none, but I have to say: Arcanists went looking for trouble, without a doubt. My guess is Scars were scratching around the area because of all the unnatural Shaper energy. The Arcanists must have heard about those Scars gathering and wanted a piece. They hired me and my strider to bring them to the spot. I would have never agreed to any of it had I been told. Problem is, more Scars started popping up everywhere when we arrived. I tried to get out of there, but something was blocking my strider from moving. I was thinking we were all as good as dead, but a group of Freelancers came along and got rid of whatever was tying up my strider so we could get out of there. I didn’t see much of the scrap, but I know it was bad bloody. We owe those Freelancers our lives.”
— Renny Quint, strider operator
The Cypher Who Wanted To Fly
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Of course there have been cyphers who wanted to be lancers. Take the old story of the cypher who wanted to fly. In Satomi, this is not just a folk tale, but a lesson to be heeded. The story goes as follows:
Benwick Xan, a brilliant cypher in his day, thought he could pilot a javelin whilst ignoring his own heightened awareness. Although his initial tests were encouraging, things were not so simple in the face of genuine danger. He hired a Freelancer to escort him into the wild; they hadn't gone three steps when they were attacked by skorpions. In the heat of battle, Benwick could not focus. He found when one of the beasts attacked, his attention was split: sensing a rise in Shaper energy to the East, picking up Arcanist distress signals, noting the rise in humidity due to recent rain, and dozens of other things that did not help at this moment. He tried to fly, but accidentally fired his cannon. He tried to fire his cannon, but instead punched a nearby rock. He had no control. Tragically, it was he and not the skorpions who killed his escort.
You see, lancer and javelin are connected to the Anthem via gateway… but it's a single connection. Slim and direct. We cyphers are already connected to the Anthem, and for us, the gateway is not direct but… engulfing. Javelins cannot possibly channel our every impulse, because our impulses are too many, too vast. The result is a disaster.
There are whispers, of course, of those in the north experimenting with the "creation" of cypher-pilots, but I have yet to see proof of whether they exist or how. 'Tis a rumor and a wish, not a reality.
— From In The Chair: Interviews with Negan Dell
The Monitor (3)
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Monitor:
We followed the link coordinates, but there are no bodies or equipment. There's also no sign of battle or animal tracks. No sign of Shaper energy, but that does not discount possible relic activity.
Will investigate further.