▣ PEDIA MANUAL
“every vessel bleeds a color. the color tells you how far it fell.”
How to read a Homunclopedia card, and the Spectrum behind it.
00 · SPECTRUM · how far it fell
the Spectrum is the measure of the vessel
not how strong
not how rich
how far from the orbit
three spectra, one Fracture
- Lunar: the orbiting, the faithful, the cycle-bound
- Moon-Scorched: the burned, the fevered, the swarm
- Ascendant: the refusing, the risen, the blade
- Triune: the fourth, the special. vessels that hold more than one color and answer to none
- Origin: the first three. Zero, Zerone and Zero Due, the clay before the fall. every vessel from the fourth on is a transformation of Zero Due.
above them all stands 1071, last of the count, the sum of every spectrum
Lunar vessels lead the procession · Moon-Scorched burn in the trial of the kings · Ascendant sit the Black Sun Meditation and do not rise until the close
the Spectrum is not a ladder. it is a wound read in three lights: silver, fever, violet.
the Green Ray passes through all three. only one lets it stay.
Deep lore in Cosmology: Lunar · Moon-Scorched · Ascendant · Black Sun
01 · ESSENCE · the six stats
Every stat runs 1 – 107. 107 is the seal: only 1071 holds it everywhere.
| Stat | Meaning | Boosted by | Whisper |
|---|---|---|---|
| ☉Dominance | will, rule, the power to hold | Moon-Scorched · Triune | ”the crown is not worn. it is refused to everyone else.” |
| ♃Gnosis | sight, knowing, the path read | Ascendant · Triune | ”to see the orbit is already to leave it.” |
| ☽Echo | memory, voice, how long a vessel resounds | Lunar · Triune | ”what refuses once is heard forever.” |
| ☿Mercury | speed, change, the volatile spirit | Lunar · Triune | ”quicksilver never sits. neither does the fracture.” |
| ♂Blood | force, fever, the cost paid | Moon-Scorched · Triune | ”every rite has a price. blood is the receipt.” |
| ♀Water | endurance, healing, the tide that returns | Ascendant · Triune | ”the tide falls. the tide comes back. the moon keeps time.” |
On the card the six stats form the hexagon radar.
02 · TYPES · boosted stats
| Type | Elements | Boosted stats |
|---|---|---|
| Lunar | silver drop | Mercury + Echo |
| Moon-Scorched | blood + black sun | Blood + Dominance |
| Ascendant | water + black sun | Water + Gnosis |
| Triune | black sun + water + blood | all six, balanced high |
Four elements, one flask: silver the moon’s metal, cold and patient · blood the fever, the burning, the price · water the tide, the memory, the return · black sun the hidden fire behind the false light, burning only in the higher types.
The Triune are the legendary ones: three natures, one flask, every stat high and none ruling.
The Origin have no type and no boost: flat 44 (Zero), 55 (Zerone), 66 (Zero Due) in every stat, no planetary bonus.
03 · PLANETARY ROLE · market role
Each vessel answers to one metal of the old art. The ruler gives +7 (cap 107).
| Ruler | Metal | Perk |
|---|---|---|
| ☉ Sol | +7 Dominance | |
| ☽ Luna | +7 Echo | |
| ☿ Mercurius | +7 Mercury | |
| ♂ Mars | +7 Blood | |
| ♀ Venus | +7 Water | |
| ♃ Jupiter | +7 Gnosis | |
| ♄ Saturnus | +7 to the lowest stat (never Water on a Moon-Scorched, never Blood on an Ascendant) |
How the ruler is chosen, in this order:
- The vessel’s own calling. Words in its name and role call a metal: blood, blade, war → Mars · echo, oracle, mourner → Luna · thief, merchant, speed → Mercurius · water, tide, healer → Venus · sage, seer, keeper → Jupiter · king, crown, gold, sun → Sol · bone, dust, void, shade, death → Saturnus. The Black Sun is the faction’s emblem and the False Sun is the Yellow Lie: neither calls Sol. A keeper of a beast is not a keeper of knowledge.
- Its spectrum’s strongest metal, when no word calls it: Lunar → Silver, Copper, Quicksilver or Tin · Moon-Scorched → Iron, Gold or Quicksilver · Ascendant → Copper, Tin, Gold or Quicksilver · Triune and Origin → any of the seven. Lead never comes by default: Saturnus answers only to the dead, the void and the nigredo.
- The ruler never betrays the spectrum. Its +7 cannot push an Ascendant’s Blood over its Water, a Moon-Scorched’s Water over its Blood, or sink a Lunar’s Mercury and Echo. If it would, the next metal answers.
- When the lore knows better, the vessel’s own page names its ruler, and that ruler is final.
On the hexagon: violet = base · metal colour = perk spike. The bonus counts toward Power Rank. 1071 takes no bonus: already the ceiling.
🜂 ??? · some cards show a secret line. the Green Lion is not written in the open ledger.
04 · POWER RANK · 1 – 7 drops
Sum the six stats (ceiling 642), cut into seven equal bands.
| Drops | Sum | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 1 – 91 | spark · barely sealed | |
| 92 – 183 | thin orbit | |
| 184 – 275 | holding | |
| 276 – 367 | marked | |
| 368 – 459 | heavy | |
| 460 – 550 | near the crown | |
| 551 – 642 | sovereign weight |
1071 is always seven drops.
The Origin stand outside the rank: they carry the ORIGIN badge instead of drops, and are never measured against the Triune.
05 · EVOLUTION LINE
Up to 3 stages: BASE → S2 → S3. Each later stage is stronger than the one before. Unknown stages show as UNFORGED. A vessel that never transmutes is a Sealed form: no further transmutation.
06 · ALCHEMICAL STAGE · the great work
Read from Power (the sum of the six stats) and the Spectrum. Change the stats and the stage follows.
| Stage | Power | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| nigredo | under 250 | blackening · the work begins in darkness |
| albedo | 250+ · every Lunar starts here | whitening · the silver wash |
| citrinitas | 340+ · every Ascendant starts here | yellowing · the waking fire |
| rubedo | 450+ · Ascendant 380+ · Triune 400+ | reddening · the crown of the work |
1071 is always rubedo. Deep lore: THE FOUR ALCHEMICAL STAGES.