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Argimus Elements

A discription of the Argimus elements:

Solid

Solid is the most immovable and sluggish of elements - the best way to describe it, is like marble pillars: a smooth inner texture that moves, and an immovable form.

Liquid

Liquid Argimus is well known for it's constantly flux nature - and it's constantly flux form. It has a tendency to flow upwards in a fourth-dimensional looping pattern: in less weird terms, it visually looks like it floats upwards, but isn't moving anywhere.

Vapor

Vapor Argimus is just about what it sounds like, appearing anywhere from a vague foggy shape, to a dense cloud of vapor Argimus. It's very easily moved, and often accidentally ingested.

Shadow

Shadow is the flattest and most strange argimus - in terms of appearance. It lays along the ground and attaches to seemingly physical silhouettes. Like naturally produced holograms, these silhouettes have no mass and no physical resistance. They can physically mess with your shadows to mess with you, but the projected "Hologram" gets a little weird at certain angles. It does not require light to appear.

Geomist

TBD

Flame

Flame Argimus looks strikingly like it's namesake, as it's constantly flickering upwards. It has no temperature difference, though, and is not restricted to flickering upwards as usual fire does. Flame argimus also can put off light - though this is not a trait held solely by this element.

Tendril

Tendril is probably the other most odd argimus element when it comes to it's appearance - however the name is an apt descriptor. Small forms mesh together and apart, often ending in small vine-like tendrils. These tendrils can wrap around objects to hold items, and can also combine into other tendrils to combine it's three-dimensional mass - or do the same within the unseen fourth-dimension with no visual change to it's shape. Even without a breeze and without any force, these tendrils will wave and bob back and forth slowly.

These tendrils can also have a fractional variant.

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The Amigus - Volume I

The Amigus and Bonds

Bonds are what keep an Amigus stable in terran geometry and physics. Due to (SOME REASON), they require sapient contact and interaction to remain stable - or fade into painful ghostly apparitions. These sapient lifeforms are referred to as Patrons, examples of what these Patrons do can be: having conversations with the Amigus, offerings and gifts, time spent with the Amigus, and requesting help and aid from the Amigus (even for menial tasks). It's entirely unknown why or how this works, and while it falls into different categories, they seem to differ depending on the individual Amigus(? still figuring out if its dependant on Argimus typing or individuals)

However, interaction can be dangerous and even deadly for these patrons - depending on an Amigus' element and special niche abilities, they can accidentally harm their Patrons if they do not take precautions. These damages can range from mental, to physical harm, or even disfigurement or complete accidental restructuring of bodies and biochemical reactions - which can lead to death, or worse.

In some amigus, some of these "side effects" can start as benign, but quickly escalate into seriously dangerous and deadly territory if not checked - especially since many of these can be addictive for pleasure-seeking individuals, which has caused many Amigus to become reclusive.

All Amigus can somewhat change their form. The detail and extent of which varies based on typing, but in short: any amigus could change entirely if they felt like it, but their original texture would show itself on close examination, and their colors cannot change. A host body (like found in reincarnated individuals, such as the infamous Pantheon) is the sole exception to this, as it is created outside of normal Amigus means; it also cannot be changed.

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The Argimus - Volume I

A Short History

Long ago, thought to be 250 BC, another universe parallel to our own began experimenting with dimensional technology to improve its Civilization. The universe in question, we now call the Argimus; and it's sole inhabitants were the Amigus - beings of pure Argimus (the base 'energy' of their universe) who were sentient and capable of altering their environment.

These entities attempted to explore beyond their universe, and use another dimension to shorten travels, but over a short period of use, it tore a hole into the dimension. This hole spread its way across the entirety of the Dimension, causing it to be completely unraveled into our own dimension.

The only survivors known to Earth, as of this writing, are the seven Amigus known as the Pantheon. In early depictions, they are shown to be often shapeless and devoid of expression - due the extreme difference in our dimensions. The other Amigus had been torn to shreds or shattered when they fell through the threshold between universes, leaving only small parts of themselves that could never be patched together.

Due to the amount of difference in the two dimensions, depictions of what the Argimus Universe could have looked like vary widely. Most agree that it was what we now call a "Hyperbolic Space" - having more area in it than our Euclidean space - to a degree that matter from one space cannot be safely taken into another without completely altering it. The small amount of art that has survived this amount of time - supposedly made by the Amigus or those who were close to the Amigus - depicts very colourful and bizarre landscapes, with what appears to be no horizon, no clear sky, and strange shapes all around.