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-Name: Eco-Material Praesidium

-Type: Aural or Conjuration

-Purpose: Utility

-Short description: Sends a wave forward. Every living body touched by the wave gets covered by a natural, protective veil, while non-natural bodies (Ex: machines) malfunction or even end up disabled.

The veil acts like a barrier, protecting the target from harm. It can automatically gain traits based on the environment around the target, and can self-recover, as long as said environment is sufficiently "natural" (in the eyes of the user); for example, in a street of Vale no traits would be acquired and no recovery would happen, while in a forest the veil would look more "wooden" and become more sturdy.

When it comes to non-natural bodies, they are also covered by a veil, but of a different color. Affected objects show green sparks. Weak (like in a bad state) and simple-enough objects can be disabled outright, while ones in a better state or with more complexity may just malfunction, how much and in what varies.

Veil covering natural bodies lasts until it's taken down or, if there's too much "non-natural" things around the target, after a varying length of time. Veil covering non-natural bodies always has limited duration, from some seconds to some minutes.

-Activation Cue: A green wave with leaves and flowers appears and travels forward until reaching it's max range. Color of leaves and flowers depends on the user's current mood. The veil that covers living bodies is "body-fitting" and light-green with some transparency, while the one that covers non-natural bodies is swamp green and less transparent.

-Range: Medium.

-General limitations: Effectiveness of it's effect on non-natural bodies, and initial strength of the veil, proportional to how much Aura and willpower the user had remaining at the time of use. User cannot use it on themselves: The wave passes through them without doing anything if they somehow managed to make it touch themself.

-Dust interaction: Dust present in the environment can provide traits to the veil covering natural bodies with sufficient amounts. Uncut Dust does this more effectively.

-Reflection of Personality: A hippie or nature-loving person combined with a Luddite. FYI, Luddite is a term used sometimes to refer to people who, back in the Industrial Revolution, opossed fiercely the idea of factories and such, mostly because they left millions+ of people without jobs (and remember: Education wasn't available for everyone). At best, the men were replaced with kids and women, since they were "cheaper", more "replaceable", and their tasks did not demand much. As a result, "Luddites" often attacked machinery and hated tech with a passion.

-Notes: Eco is a prefix used to refer to things related to the environment, usually natural ones. Material is...well, matter. Praesidium is latin, supposedly meaning Protection and Safeguard and similar things.

The idea behind this is related to an idea I had for the leader of an original "background" group: The Luddites, a group located solely in Atlas who opose the government's idea of mass producing robots and unmanned vehicles, since while it would reduce casualties, it also leaves the kingdom more vulnerable to hackers and sabotages, and would leave a lot of soldiers, and eventually citizens without jobs.