#vayar

What is catalystry?

Catalystry is the science of analyzing chemical reactions, then replicating them on a larger scale through means of extant power.

What does this mean?

By using up the power that exists naturally around you, as long as you have the right materials and respect the rules, you can make chemical reactions occur without needing the circumstances that usually make the reaction. For example, you can burn things without fire or acid, boil water without heating it, or cause explosions without one of the reactants that cause it.

What do you need to use it?

A script that details what you want to happen, a rainstone (or raineye), and adequate fuel.

What's a script?

A script is a series of glyphs that tell the energy used in catalystry what to do. There are 12 chemical processes, and 3 modifiers; by using these in conjunction with each other, you can make just about any chemical reaction happen.

What's a rainstone?

A rainstone is a pale blue crystal that lets you access the power you want to move around with catalystry, like a circuit. No rainstone, no catalyst, no effect.

What's a raineye?

"Raineye" refers to someone with silver eyes that's able to use catalystry without a rainstone. The raineye gene only ccurs in about 1 out of every 40 people.

What kind of fuel is used in catalystry?

Usually, plants! When catalystry moves energy, it does so by leeching it from the surroundings, turning the object it pulls from into rainstone. Rice, nuts, leaves, and other small plants are most often used, due to their availability and easy transportation.

What happens if you don't have enough fuel?

If you're the only person in the room, nothing. The reaction won't pull from the catalystrist activating it. If there are other people in the room, however, it WILL use their life, and you risk crystalizing a person's extremities. There are HEAVY penalties behind this, legally.

What are the laws of catalystry?

Catalystry has two main laws:

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. To obtain energy is to take it from somewhere else, and to remove energy is to disperse it into your surroundings

Energy conversion is not without loss. When one form of energy is transferred into another, a portion of that energy is used to make the reaction possible.

What are the twelve processes?

In order: calcination, congelation, fixation, solution, digestion, distillation, sublimation, separation, ceration, fermentation, multiplication (also called concentration), and projection. Each of these affects matter in a different way, and can be strung together for more complex effects

What are the three modifiers?

The three modifiers are listed as body, mind, and soul. However, each of these is shorthand for a state of matter:

Body = Solid

Mind = Liquid

Soul = Gas

What is catalystry used for?

In Vayar, just about anything. Sculptors use it to carve blocks with precision, wineries use it to brew their spirits, doctors use it to help heal their patients. Catalystry is fully implemented as a tool of life, though it takes incredible study to perfect.

What's catalystry's range?

Anything that makes contact. When drawing an elaborate script, this means anything that's touching either you OR the script itself. Essentially, while active, the script is part of you

How do you initiate a catalystric reaction?

First two arcs of the plot map