Influence Potency
Introduction
Influence potency' is a metric to describe the strength of a primordial's influence? over a point or region of space. It can be measured when impeded and when unimpeded. Unlike many other potent habits?, primordial influences over a region of space can vary over time depending on the unique qualities of their influence, which can be made more or less potent when in reaction with other societal, cultural, spatial, or cosmic factors. This can mean that for example, the primordial Ouroboros?, with the influence of vengeance, may see a rise in potency if a very large war begins, as wars are breeding grounds for something such as vengeance to take hold. This means that before this supposed war, Ouroboros is less potent in a region, but wherever that war spreads, it becomes more potent.
Influence Measures
Basis
Basis influence potency is the amount of influence a primordial naturally possesses before artificially spreading its influence. There is a radius around a primordial in which its influence is passively spread by the being, but this radius is decently small even for powerful primordials. The largest reason for its existence is that the primordial allocates a large portion of its initial being to mechanisms capable of spreading its influence, which can therefore aggrandize it. This minimizes the amount of energy the being spends on directly manifesting its influence to feed off of. It instead creates a small influence radius and anomalies? which can spread the influence for the being, providing an indirect energy source.
The basis influence potency is therefore how much of the initial energy possessed by the being at birth is allocated to the further spreading of the being's influence.
Raw
Raw influence potency describes the unimpeded potency of a primordial influence. This is how a primordial influences a space with no external first or second range Loomings?, nor local potent habits. Raw influence potency is often only useful theoretically, as very few primordials spread their influences without conflicting with another influence.
Mixed
Mixed influence potency is a metric of how powerful a primordial's influence is in tandem with other present influences. This mixing can have both negative and positive effects, but the extent of these effects can vary on just how much the two or more primordials' [[effective radius|effective radii] overlap.
Negative mixing occurs when two influences naturally cancel or when one influence overtakes the weaker influence, which is often the most common scenario. Often negatively-connotated influences (Malevolence, vengeance, violence, manipulation, isolation, depression) overtake positively-connotated influences (Benevolence, peace, vitality, morality, loyalty, prosperity) due to the natural behavioral disposition towards violent, irrational, and negative tendencies in most beings, cosmic or terrestrial.
Positive mixing occurs when two influences bolster each other, or when one is not affected by another but actively bolsters its potency. Positive mixing usually occurs between similarly-connotated influences, negatives with negatives, and positives with positives. Vitality and prosperity breed each other, violence and hate breed each other.
ambivalence relations are the rarest of all, where two influences coexist seemingly without any interference.
Looming Hierarchies
Illusory Influence
Illusory influence refers to the phenomenon in which a primordial seems to catalyze the occurrence of an event but rather only benefits from it and has no part in its occurrence. Such as if millions of people began to act virtuously and benevolent, we may assume Qalhades? is exerting its will in order to spread benevolence, however it would have no reason to do so as it would likely lose more energy by exerting to spread benevolence than it would gain. This makes it an illusory influence, as Qalhades only benefits from this random event which it did not act as the progenitor of, despite the apparent circumstances.