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==Spirit relationships== All spirits that share a quality are related in some way to each other. Therefore, a fire spirit that has the quality “create” is related to the music spirit that also has the quality “create”. These spirits will recognize each other, and will often have preexisting relationships formed in the spirit world. Spirits that have the quality as their primary quality, though, are consider spirits of that type, and are related much more strongly to each other. Therefore, all spirits that have Oak as their primary quality are first and foremost oak spirits, and will have relatively strong relationships with each other. This relationship need not be a friendly one. An Oak spirit with the quality of "Growth" will probably be highly antagonistic towards an Oak spirit with the quality of "Decay". All spirits that share a primary quality can also be considered, to some extent, as aspects of one higher level spirit, a notional spirit called an exemplar spirit. These exemplar spirits have only one quality. For example, all Oak spirits can be considered aspects of THE Oak spirit, whose only quality is “Oak”. As notional spirits, these spirits are believed to exist, and the spirits themselves often act as if they exist, but are apparently impossible to contact by humans; in practice, the simplest spirit that can be contacted is one with two qualities (a noun and a verb) regardless of its power. It could be that spirits with only one quality are simply too alien or esoteric to be brought into contact with the real world. Spirits themselves have a hierarchy, in which “higher” spirits are considered dominant in some way over “lower” spirits. This hierarchy is not always clear, but in general, when two spirits share a quality: * if they have the same number of qualities, the one with the higher Power Pool will be considered dominant * if they have the same Power Pool, the one with the FEWER qualities will be considered dominant Therefore, broad numbers of qualities are not “superior” in spirit society; rather, it is the purer concept that is generally held to be superior. So, for example, a fire spirit with the qualities “create” and “fire” with a power pool of 10 will generally be dominant over a fire spirit with the qualities “create”, “increase”, “fire”, “anger” with power pool of 10, and may even be dominant if that spirit has a pool as high as 15. ===Conceptual hierarchies=== An additional hierarchy of spirits is the conceptual hierarchy. Spirits whose primary quality encompasses another spirits primary quality will generally be considered to be dominant. So, between a Tree spirit and an Oak spirit of the same power, the Tree spirit will usually be the dominant spirit. ===Complexity versus utility=== One important point to make when discussing the hierarchy of spirits is the following; to the shaman, a more complex spirit is often more useful than a simpler one. But the more complex a spirit is, the harder it is to contact for a give level of power. There are certainly very complex spirits (with qualities so diverse that they are almost human-like in their personalities) of great power, but these spirits are VERY difficult to contact, and often occupy very strange places in the spirit hierarchy.
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