>>39224926>https://rentry.org/ekv2ng>The exception is the vile curse of the ash barren womb, for its effect can never be reversed for the bearers.so, i've actually had the thought of a chuubanite "conceptual weapon of mass destruction" for a while, but since we aren't supposed to have easy access to wmds i tried to think of a way to gatekeep it. my method was to make it logistically impossible due to a variety of factors, mainly the imperfection of communication. it is perhaps a bit interesting that you showed up some time after i came up with that idea, granted, i view your methods to be crude, to the point where i don't think you could, would, or should be able or willing to do what you have described, or any variant of, even if it were made to work with our magic system. our magic system operates off of communication with the heavenly realm. the actions you take in a ritual have to be communicated as being synonymous to the effects you are intending to cause.
trying to curse a nation with death and bad luck by connecting the concept to the number 4 because some cultures have negative superstitions regarding that number is meaningless because there is nothing inherent about the number 4 that relates to death or bad luck, especially since some cultures have the opposite superstition. there are two ways of failing to communicate, either failing to sufficiently express (aka, omitting key details of) an idea, or polluting the idea by adding confusing or otherwise irrelevant information along side it. as a result, the number 4 would be a pollution of the concept you are trying to communicate, if that concept was death and misfortune. furthermore, perfect communication is impossible. even if everyone existed in a hivemind, the fact that your mind cannot perfectly communicate with you shows how futile it would be to perfectly communicate a concept over even multiple connected minds. stuttering, or stumbling to remember something, or being overwhelmed by the information your senses pick up are all a result of miscommunication in the mechanisms of the brain. misremembering something as a result of trauma or repeated recollection altering the memory is also a form of miscommunication. it's all a game of telephone.
to make an artificial glyph of a person you must create an artificial concept for every identifiable aspect of their being, from their dna to their personality, to their past, present, and future, from the smallest aspect of their being, to the wholistic view of their entire self. the more detail, the better. if they are born with an artificial glyph tattooed somewhere on their body that carries a representation of all of those things, and that person lives the rest of their life with that tattoo, then that is a way to make a very strong connection between that person, and their glyph, which would make it easier to effect them with magic. such a glyph must either be an embeded glyph that represents all of the things i already described, else it must be made synonymous with an embeded glyph that achieves the same purpose.
theoretically you can create a glyph whose meaning changes based on certain conditions. imagine an artificial glyph designed to identify the head of an organization, let's call it the "boss" glyph. let's say it was a glyph that held the entire meaning of "boss" in it, along with a region of the glyph that would allow any symbol placed inside it to represent the placeholder for the glyph as a whole, and another region of the glyph that would allow any glyph placed inside it to represent the subject of the glyph, who would be identified as "the boss", thus you have created a glyph that can be attached to an arbitrary word or symbol that you can change (the boss, the queen, the emperor, der fuher, xi jingping, winny the pooh, adsfihlbsdfgln, ligma, 1+1=5, etc. it's literally arbitrary) and a glyph that represents a person, thus making that person the subject of that symbol, and therefore that glyph. referencing "the boss" references both the person at the head of the institution, and the head of the institution as a position.
to make an artificial glyph of a nation, you have far less physical stuff to work with, and the concept is far more complicated than a single person, or even the core concept that the nation is based on. for instance, cursing /meat/ the nation with infertility is different from cursing /meat/'s concept, the life cycle, with infertility. one causes only /meat/ to suffer the consequences, and is significantly harder to define or make use of, the other causes the entire concept of life itself to suffer from the consequences, including the people who gave them the curse. that is the risk of such a wmd that operates on concepts, because it is easier to get a general idea of something that a more refined idea of it.
