Welcome to a study on the all-powerful Source I have been working on. The original crack-fic that started this is all of chapter 3, but I felt that it warranted an explanation. What I ultimately got was… interesting. It was entirely too good not to share with my awesome group of followers.

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There is a true and undeniable distinction between what is called merely 'the talisman'—the object which you have now completed—and what is called 'the Source'. For while the constructed talisman is an object built by man, and can be rebuilt by any other man, the Source exists only within the man who has built it. Any clever fool may be able to construct the same talisman as any other; but the Source exists in him, and him alone.

By joining the Source with the talisman, this inanimate object becomes, in its own way, animate. It then takes on the characters of the Source that made it, and becomes unique, itself. And while the various attributes of the human soul have been discussed in previous chapters, you may be able to imagine the possibilities a talisman with a soul joined to it may have. Indeed, its every function can be affected greatly by the caliber of the soul within. As a soul gives a man his conscience, his morals, his hopes and doubts, fears and dreams, so the Source does to the talisman.

Hence, as the saying goes: once the talisman has been exposed to the soul of its Source, the results of use may vary from device to device. Therefore, children, use caution when executing any of its functions.

Be it known, however, the three basic functions of the talisman remain neutral to the variances of the human soul, for their purposes are concrete and solid, each meant for one thing and one thing only. All other complex functions of the talisman flow from these first three, which are unchanging in their very nature.

The first is the power of construction, which has been briefly discussed before. This is the power that gives life to other inanimate objects, through the talisman, which itself has been animated by the Source. While the Source himself is like the father, the animated talisman becomes like the mother through which life is projected. This function has a singular purpose, which is unaffected by the soul that has shaped it.

The second power, therefore, is that of deconstruction. Like a mother, once again, as the talisman has the power to give life, so it has the power to take life away. Another power that is unaffected by the Source, the power of deconstruction also has a single purpose, pure and simple in its function: to bring death to any being that lives. This is an incredibly dangerous function of the talisman, and should be used and shared with extreme caution. While the talisman makes such power frighteningly available to any broken heart, such power was not originally made for man to control. Beware of temptation.

The final power, and perhaps even more dangerous than the power of deconstruction, is the power of reconstruction. Like with the hand of death, the dimension of time is restricted from human use for obvious reasons. As if made to save the world from a foolish Source's doings, the power of reconstruction may be used once in the life of a talisman, to turn back time no more and no less than four and twenty hours, leaving the Source with full knowledge of what will happen in the future, and given him time to correct his misstep. But be warned, for the function will only work once. Use this power only under the most extreme of circumstances, weathering them if you can.

The sequences for each of these powers follows in the next pages. Being the basic functions, each sequence is only a combination of three symbols. The combinations become more complex with the functions. However, if any of them are to be remembered, it is these first three. You must guard them with your very life, lest some philistine attempt to hijack your device and your work.

Proceed with an open mind, to the next lesson…

~From The Annuls of Paracelsus