Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20160923220030/@comment-27450328-20161105151723

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote:

-I don't remember where, but the idea of someone getting power from their ancestors feels familiar.

-Eh? What now? I mean, I understand that one would leave fingerprints, or a smell....though I doubt both of these last for decades, much less centuries. And would easily get "overwritten" once someone else started keeping said object. - Probably something linked to spirits, totems or something

- Well, it can leave a mark with Aura. From what we know, Aura can be deployed into weapons and Dust to activate them. So when the user writes, he leave a mark of his personality on the book which is then used as a beacon of some sort. Indeed, being inspired by a famous relative is strong, but carrying one of his most precious belongings and feeling his presence at your side at the same time is something else entirely. And for being overwritten, possessing the book and reading it does not leave a bigger mark on it than someone who carried it for most of his life and wrote each and every important moment of his life in it.