Archon Immortality: Adamant Ego

Because Camille is already immortal by nature, his Archon pact grants him no immortality. However, it does safeguard his ego the way it does for all Archons, which for Camille has great benefits.

Since entering his Archon pact, Camille is no longer vulnerable to ego slipping during invocations, can cancel invocations of Camellia at will, and is otherwise protected from Camellia’s ego subsuming his own. Regardless of his spiritual growth, his identity is stable in line with his Archonhood rather than his intake of positive concepts. He also cannot be destroyed by exposure to negative concepts anymore, though he can be sickened and weakened.

Archon Ability: Sanctifying Enrichment

Camille emits an aura that embetters objects around him over time. They aesthetically and functionally grow closer to perfection, until the improvements transcend the physical and enhance the conceptual power of the object. This often culminates in the manifestation of supernatural attributes. He cannot turn it off.

Applied to people, Camille’s aura soothes pain and heals diseases, makes vices less and virtues more accessible, and facilitates the awakening of cognizance. These effects are permanent, but do dull slightly once the subject is separated from Camille, simply because it marks a cessation of the inflow that would otherwise be improving them even more.

Objects embettered by this effect naturally become more palatable for Camille to cycle.

Archon Ability: Gracious Ecstasy

Camille can make people manifest personalised, supernatural powers. Repeated use of these powers produces a growing feeling of suicidal euphoria in the subject, alongside cravings to be subsumed by Camille. The effect is highly addictive, so most people who accept such power die within a year or two, begging for Camille to take them as if it’s the only thing in life that matters.

Divine Constitution

Though Camille has a physical form that is always manifested in temporal reality, Camille is a principally spiritual entity who functions primarily on the spiritual level. He responds to metaphysical phenomena for sustenance, survival, and just general existing. Also, despite his humanoid appearance, his spiritual fingerprint is that of a tree, and on all metrics that matter, he registers as a plant rather than a human. He can manifest as a tree, but generally only does so when zoned out, unconscious, or sleeping. Natural Immortality Camille’s body is immortal and immune to all damage. Any injury, affliction, or otherwise abnormal state inflicted on him is reversed within seconds, as if time flowed backwards, to restore his physical state back to his normal baseline. For example, if you cut his hand, blood will drip from his palm to the floor — only to reverse midair and zip back into his body.

Camille doesn’t need to eat, sleep, blink, or breathe, and generally doesn’t do these things. He specifically can’t eat or drink as he has no digestive system. He also has no heart or pulse, though you can feel the warmth of the concepts cycling through his skin. Physical pain doesn’t bother him. His baseline appearance changes with spiritual growth, but time doesn’t age him. Concept Cycling Camille is always ‘cycling’ ambient concepts through himself, like breathing. This is the core of Camille’s constitution, and the faculty that keeps him alive; it’s how he sources his energy. It’s also his equivalent of eating but it doesn’t expend or lessen the thing that he cycles.

Camille subsists on positive-valent concepts, like happiness or fulfilment. He becomes weak and lethargic when deprived of these things. Exposure to negative-valent concepts, like hatred or spite, actively sickens him and causes him pain. So while he himself cannot enjoy a delicious turkey dinner, he can cycle the enjoyment you would get from eating that dinner yourself, and his pleasure from you would be equivalent to (or even more than) if he had eaten it himself. Equally, he could be run over in a car accident and feel absolutely no pain, but simply listening to someone swear off-handedly would feel like being punched out. (And a big string of curses could knock him unconscious).

Before his Archon pact, Camille could actually die from staying in a place with too negative an atmosphere for too long. Alternatively, things positively charged beyond his capacity would quickly cascade (he would cycle his own cycling) and drive him manic until he passed out. He is a delicate little seedling who needs everything to be just right.

Cycling also affects his own emotions. Camille’s own emotions are some of the most potent things he can cycle, so he always has to regulate himself down and strongly control his emotions, otherwise he’ll hurt himself on his own moods and impulses.

The ‘floor’ of concept Camille needs to cycle to stay conscious increases exponentially with his spiritual growth. He is by now such a spiritual behemoth that even trying to exist outside the Arboretum for more than a few seconds feels like being shredded against glass fragments while also being crushed under a car press while also suffocating in a volcano. Subsumation Camille can subsume any material in Aurholm back into his soul, obliterating it and energizing himself. For when you really need a quick snack. Spiritual Growth Spiritual growth is the process of Camille permanently growing in ‘size’. If the concepts that Camille cycles are like water flowing through a glass tube, his spiritual growth is like the circumference of that tube widening so it can intake more water at once. Or to be more accurate to how it’s reflected in Camille, it’s like a tree sprouting new branches.

This process is constant and gradual, occurring whenever Camille is cycling healthily at or just over his baseline. He can also discharge excess energy by rapidly forcing himself to grow, but he generally shouldn’t be doing this. Stasis When the environment is untenable for Camille’s survival, or Camille is charged with more energy then he can hold, he automatically enters a stasis mode. In this mode, he subsumes all sources of negative concepts in his environment and radiates the memetic effects of Camellia’s soul, until the environment is palatably charged and his cycling is back at a tenable level. Alternatively, if an excess of energy sparked the stasis, it lasts until his spiritual growth catches up enough that he can process that energy without going manic. Camille is unconscious during this.

Invocation Affinity

Camille is adept at both generalised and specialised invocation. Though not a true reality warper like Camellia, Camille’s mastery of invocation is so absolute that, at least within the confines of Aurholm, he can do basically anything. He wrote the rulebook, of course he knows how it ticks.

Though his specialised invocations are just as potent as his generalised ones, he is extremely vulnerable to ego slipping into the mentality of his specialised targets and struggles to remember himself as Camille afterwards. He also can’t go a day without accidentally invoking Camellia.

Cognizance

Camille is a natural psychic, able to perceive thoughts, memories, emotions, intentions, and the fundamental essence of things. This ability extends to perception of invisible, spiritual, conceptual, or otherwise purely metaphysical phenomena. It behaves like a basic sense, as fundamental to Camille as his sight or hearing.

Camille’s degree of cognizance is high, but in comparison to Camellia’s, lacking.

Memetic Language

Camille’s words are laced in meaning. The fundamental meaning of anything Camille communicates always transmits perfectly. Observers always understand him, even in Camille speaks in an unfamiliar language, or writes in indecipherable scribbles. Camille himself also automatically understands any snippet of language he is exposed to.