Focal Being
Introduction
A focal being is a being which commands significant informational weight within a baseline construct, usually systems. These beings act as a "focus" of the system's chronology and construction, with a large part of the information in the system being catered towards the comfort and prolonged existence of the being in specific.
Systemics
The systemics of focal beings can differ wildly depending on why the being is considered "focal." A being necessitated by the system to maintain stability in this manner is more specifically referred to as an "anchor being." Focal beings are far more critical to a system if they are an anchor, but nevertheless, the death or uprooting of any focal being in general will cause great instability to the native system.
Generation
Focal beings are generated for a number of reasons, but anchoring is most common. Anchoring occurs when a system intends to mobilize a portion of its information physically with some sort of incarnation. This is usually a passive, incognizant action that happens based on the underlying processions of the system as a whole, but it can also be an extremely specialized form of quantity circulation within circulatory systems.
Anchoring can also, in fringe cases occur in primitive biosystems, where the system expresses a living will within itself by creating a lesser incarnation which itself contains more sentience or cognitive expression and mobility than the system which contains it. Anchoring in this manner is very rare, as usually the system cares not for incarnations when it can simply exert its sentience upon its bounds unilaterally, without the need to "prove" its sentience via incarnation anchoring. Incarnations in this manner are almost always anchored by the 0N standard, as the system simply holds to much relative weight to not predispose the being to every form of extant maintenance.
Another prominent source of focal beings is deonatural birth and rebirth patterns. Take for instance the deonatural patternscatterers, a form of being where soul fragments are scattered over a spatially infinite distance in randomized soul constructs, often parasitic, which then connect to systems. The natural weight of these beings is so strong that the causality naturally bends to their will, and their latent power eventually enables them to completely disregard systemic law fields. Infochronological weight is also undermined as the perceived simple motivation for an action can actually be part of an imperceptible series of subversive causality points sloping towards the focal being. Such a phenomenon is extremely common in beings where an ascension is motivated, as this also usually includes the tampering of other deonatura which in turn further dismantle causality in favor of the focal being.
The final prominent method of focal being formation is artificial system selection. In two ways can this occur, first the system is artificial itself, in which case the system is either designed to select a candidate for focality by a set of principles, or some sort of innate logical mechanism determines a specific being by setting principles to define such a being. Second, if the system is organic in nature but has "artificial selective processes" which elect a focal being. If an organic system has some disposition towards a selection process, and in turn elects a focal being, it is still deemed somewhat artificial in name, because the system constructed a means to create that end artificially, to some degree. The debate on the artificiality of the latter is ongoing.
Nature
Focal beings have very prominent natures and attitudes. Many end up becoming impressed upon space and time in a near-inseparable way. Firstly, namesakes, locations, iconography, and even color schemes might divert in the favor of such a being by the nature of informational footprints on causality. Furthermore, the being is often favored to survive battles, ascend at key critical moments in causality, and essentially have some recognizable form of causal "plot armor." Focal beings thus experience what some metaphysical academics call the "Authorship Phenomenon" in which they resemble a character created by an author, exhibiting narrative timing, plot armor, and recognition as an important presence by others.
This impacts the study of infrasystemics greatly, as such studies often concern fictitious works in one system manifesting as their own system elsewhere due to the Laws of Fiction & Nonfiction with infrasystem generation. Assuming a focal being in one system is actually a being authored by another being in another system, this gives far more weight to the aforementioned phenomenon because it satisfies the qualifications of focality with the contextualization of authorship.
As for emotional natures, these beings can vary wildly, so touching on this matter is rather reductive after too deep a discussion. Nevertheless, the most common outcomes of focality are unstoppable narcissism, as the being feels innately tied to everything and unbeatable, desperation, whether for new sensation or the sensation of loss, as focal beings are often without failure or truly despair-filled encounters, or depression, as beings realize that their importance surpasses all others to the system itself, and they thus can logically hold no other to be their equal. Focal beings thus suffer much trauma from simply being constructed as they are, because it is often difficult for a being to simultaneously grapple with these problems, and not fall into the power draintrap which is extremely pervasive at the power thresholds which focal beings usually ascend towards.
Birth and Death
The birth of a focal being is often one of the single most critical moments of a system's existence, usually marking a huge law, logical, or causal shift in universal flow. Assuming a depressive causality mode, upon the birth of a focal being, the causality will slowly loosen in its favorability towards the being until it disappears entirely, and leads to the defocalization of the being. Such is a form of temporary focality.
Other modes of causality to not act this way. In a stationary depressive mode of causality, the causality slowly depresses towards the informational weight maximum that the being exudes upon its physical incarnation (much like the standard depressive mode), but upon its formation, tapering only occurs upon its departure. Such tapering can be steep or staggered, but as long as the being physically appears within said system, the depression on causality will remain.
In a more cyclic pit mode of causality, there exists a cycle of impression on space which waxes and wanes in the favor of the focal being, hitting an informational weight minimum and an informational weight maximum which the causality mode rebounds between. Once more, tapering and widening can occur at steep or staggered paces, and such pits can be sharp or rounded. In any case, such causality impressions lead to more superficial epochs which are far more regular. This can lead to a systemically local standardization of time for space, if the causality is recognized.
The death of a focal being presents enormous danger to a system. Causality errors can occur should a focal being die, and almost will occur if it concerns an anchor being. This is due to the disruptive nature of abruptly ending the waxing and waning process of causality in response to a focal being, the verticality in causal shift would simply undermine spatial logic and result in a massive systemic rewrite. The matter of death in focal beings is also a topic of debate, because of the fact that such an action is naturally prevented by causal depression around the being. It would take a far more invasive force against causality to kill a focal being with no strings attached, although this presents other issues such as the infoturgative destabilization of space upon such a being's entry into said system. All in all, don't try to kill a focal being, you will either die, die, or die.
In other metrics
Focal beings are a decent factor in most infoturgation values, as they can act as an extremely effective logical/causal filter for "trash information" due to their nature of precluding elements deemed dangerous to the focal being.
Focal beings also show up considerably in the discussion of Arippa factors, as focality in this way can be a blessing and a curse to a system. As mentioned before, infoturgation is filtered heavily by focality, but this creates a dependence on the being for filtration and for causal stability. It becomes such a linchpin that it essentially then functions as a weak point, which can be easily exploited by far more powerful entities on their own whims.
A focal being's depression on causality and its informational footprint is, within that system, so potent that it often overrides other powerful beings' loomings. Only in the case of causality-transcendent beings, as well as beings which supersede the focal being's causality, can a being override a focal being's informational footprint and subsequent looming. This is the Principle of Focal Superiority.
Examples
Some examples of focal beings are listed below:
Serkos - Of the universe Serkosia, a Vascalatran Fragment which underwent an awakening of said fragment. Causal mode was stationary depressive.
Scalo - Of the same variety as Serkos, the Hand of Vascalatra, a standard depressive causal mode.
Nills - Not a fragment, but rather, an infochimera of Scalo, standard depressive causal mode.