#technosorcery

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[techno-sorcerer]

Differences between circuit glyphs and program incantations:

Glyphs are far more situated in physical space and physicality and thus work better when dealing directly with the physical objects and hardware (for example, the part of the ka card scanner that latches onto the card and connects to the ka link would be located in the glyphs. Incantations, however, are closer to the gods/spirits/souls so once the connection to the ka link is established, accessing the ka would be better suited for an incantation.

Glyphs are great for connecting various broad energies/concepts and establishing a hold on them. A glyph for light is far more powerful than the incanted words for light. Moreover, glyphs can be arranged in non-linear ways that incantations cannot, so they are great for establishing overarching schema. However, incantations allow you more nuance in expression (simply by giving you a whole language where you have plenty of words and can guild meaning up over time). So once you have a hold of the energies via glyphs, you may want to direct those energies via incantation. Another reason accessing the ka is better done using incantations: You want to scan it, not attack it.

The linearity of incantations can help in turning stuff into algorithms. The spatial non-linearity of glyphs makes them great for single tasks, but incantations can put tasks into a proper order. This connects with the fact that the incantations are literally sitting in the program while glyphs are literally sitting in the hardware. In fact, I think along with the flow of energy through the wires and circuits, incantations could play a key role in controlling when glyph and glyph clusters are activated. (the electricity needs to be running to provide a source of energy, but perhaps getting the energy to go in the right direction is partly done via incantation).

Beyond incantations being better suited for turning tasks into algorithms, because they are sitting in the code, they can more directly interact with it. They can be read and activated as a part of a larger program. They can be the piece that turns the magical scanning of the ka into actual data another program can use. Moreover, glyphs sitting in the circuits and hardware are more likely to- once given instructions- actually bend the light to make a hologram.

Basically this all is just harping on glyphs are hardware magic and incantations are more software magic and to get the duel tech to work you need both.

[techno-sorcerer]

Turns out there are unicode characters for hieroglyphics, but you know what the aux files containing the incantations wouldn’t be in that because 

 when Kaiba wrote them he wouldn’t have been consciously going ‘now I’m going to write an ancient Egyptian incantation, better pull out the proper characters.’ He went, ‘ok, there is a task I need to do that relates to moving this vague energy and information from here to there or unlocking this... thing to gain access to the data we need, and I have an idea that these commands would do it. Just don’t look too closely because I can’t actually remember what programming language this is in.’ I mean using unicode heiroglyphics would mean acknowledging their source. Moreover, incantations are usually spoken (the word even relates to the word to chant) and he may remember more of the words via sound then via the written version (Or even a mixture, where parts of the orthography influence his writing of the file but not determine it) so the incantations are in a transcribed Medu Neter.

There could be various things beyond the text of the incantation itself to get the incantation to ‘compile’. And perhaps the words have to be encrypted somehow,  or there may be extra characters and words thrown in to appropriately flag the incantations. The resulting file may not even be a text file. [Perhaps after years of working with this stuff he writes up a special compiler/lanuage for it for this “unique programming language” and even then it may be nigh impossible for others to use, but at first everything would be very ad hoc and have to be written fairly close to the base level]

[techno-sorcerer]

As a note, I do think that intent and energy (as in personal energy/presence: Ba) count for something in terms of magic for YuGiOh, but for techno-sorcery, I can’t see them working alone. Kaiba doesn’t make all duel disks himself, I needed something concrete for the magic or even his intent to stick to. Hence my choice to also include things like glyphs and incantations (albeit hidden in the circuitry and code) which are longstanding elements of magic

I do however partly dislike the idea of a magical language though. I mean what’s so special about that one? Whenever I daydream and picture myself working at techno-sorcerery I always clarify it as the Ancient Egyptian school. That there could be other systems of magic out there, other glyphs, incantations, even completely different ways of doing things. It's just that my (daydream me’s) current reference point is some tech that contains some inexplicable pieces drawing on Ancient Egyptian tradition since that is where he learned magic. (Kaiba Corp Department of Divination speaking, where we try to divine what the fuck our boss just did)

[techno-sorcerer]

Duel Disk/Technosorcery Collage

[techno-sorcerer]

So I decided to pay extra attention during the Yami vs Kaiba and Kaiba vs Jounouchi Battle City duels... and the holograms are definitely causing shit to blow around even when we aren’t in a shadow game nor are there god cards out. In particular, the ending of the Yami vs. Kaiba definitely as shit (including but not limited to Kaiba’s hair and arm belts) being blown about by the final attack and this way after any god cards were still in play. Kaiba vs. Jounouchi also had dust kicked up in response to a holographic skirmish.

In both of these instances, the holograms acted more solid than they should if they were literally made of light (Solid Vision is a good name for this tech) with no magical enhancements. My guess is that the strength of the hologram and its ability to manipulate the physical world is partially in proportion to the strength of the Ka depicted. The idea behind this would be that an image sufficient in detail and spirit to the thing depicted is almost the thing itself; basically, the image is itself a conduit through with the power flows.

For Ka’s with immeasurable strength such as the god cards this would start to seep through with any depiction, which is what we see of people dying while working with photographs of carvings of the god cards. That said, most Ka’s need a more stable link with this world to begin. Pegasus’s paintings on the cards are the first step in this, sufficiently detailed and through his artistic eye sufficiently in spirit, that they form a link with the depicted Ka. Through this link they could already be used in shadow games such as that played first played between Kaiba and Yami in the manga. The link also provided enough of a hold for Kaiba’s tech to then scan the Ka and, with electricity rather than Ba, produce an even more detailed depiction. This allows more power to flow through. The images still aren’t solid; it's still an almost. But, things start to have effects.

This also means that Shadow Games are even more potent with Kaiba Corp tech, since you don’t have to spend the extra energy to get an illusion. You can spend that energy doing other tricks including removing the almost.

There are probably lots of other instances like these, but I thought I’d catalog this for later so that I’d have a reference that this shit actually happened, since these sorts of things are the sorts of things you usually don’t actively pay attention to.

[techno-sorcerer]

So, with my Kaiba accidentally using magic in his holograms and duel-tech headcanon, I will have you know that Waves of Light by Symphony of science is the techno-sorcery anthem. 

[Please give me a duel monsters and hologram focused amv with maybe dashes of Memory World (’and we have become virtual time travelers’) thrown in. Also:

‘Stars being born in distant realms’= BEWD

‘Alien worlds created by gravity’ = Obelisk

‘Stars that shine with the light of a thousand suns’ = Ra

‘vast swirling galaxies’ = Osiris/Slifer

]