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(account deleted)I wish there was information as to what a high concentration of Hume/low concentration of Hume does in its area/the areas around it.
e.g. What would an inversion of 343 (extremely low hume compared to around it) look like, what would it do? If 343 can summon anything or so, does that mean this inversion is capable of negating high-hume related effects? Or does that mean an inverted 343 can "unmake" parts of baseline hume?
e.g. What would an inversion of a typical reality bender (high hume around it, low hume within) look like?
What does an area of high hume look like? What does an area of low hume look like? If humans have hume that fluctuate, is it possible for a regular human to become a reality bender (might be interesting to explore religions that focus on ascension and enlightenment with established enlightened mythology, such as Taoism)? Is it possible for animals to have hume fluctuations as well (reality bending whales? Djoricpls) ?
If reality benders are low hume surrounding with high hume within, what does that mean eldritch entities? What does that make gods?
There isn't enough information here to make me satisfied.
Living the dream, or dreaming the life?
Those are good questions that I'm going to sue to build my headcanon regarding this. And I'll answer that out of fun1:
I feel like reality benders have similarities with Scantron reality anchors. But unlike those, these entities collect humes around themselves instead of a nonessential universe. In the case of 343, he seems to generate humes (and that's why He pretty much keeps an absurd amount of humes within him without taking it from his surroundings). WHile 239 is more like a mini tornado that wildy sucks reality within herself. Also, the less humes, less "real" is whatever within the affected space, so it wouldn't be that easy (unless you manage to break the laws that rules lawbreakers).
Probably a donut, but comparing reality with water, it can be concentrated within a smaller space, but if you try to create a low-density space surronded by high-density space, it'll try to collapse into it. If not, it'd probably look like a donut.
High effect hume could not be easily sensed by bare eye, but probably laws of physics would be more rigid, and reality benders would have a hard time trying to affecting it (and it's a good explanation of why reality benders canot affect themselves). A low effect hume space would be characterized by a lot of bananas flying around your head… Literally. Oh, and didn't you read Star signals? As for non-humans, I was toying around of the idea of a reality-bending Soufflé.
And they probably just suck humes within their individual space2
Well, I can't stress enough how not official my opinion is. Seriously, just wanted to explain a bit. Didn't write it, nor helped.
In a similar fassion, it would be awesome to see Humes explained in terms of Applied Thaumatology: EVE and pitch and all that stuff. I feel like the Foundation is trying to explain in its own terms things that GOC have already documented and have been using for decades.
1/0.2 Hume level is probably a ghost or something incorporeal like that.
5/0.2 is something weird, perhaps dying and radiating itself outwards.
The anomalously high Hume level of 343 probably implies that he's a god and not a RW. Alternatively, gods may have a Hume level similar to 2.0-5.0/50+ : the surrounding has an elevated Hume, because rather than absorbing the outside reality it and then reshaping it while it's weakened, like RW do, gods instead can create new reality as they desire, and because it's more real than the old one (higher Hume level), it overwrites the old reality.
Eldritch entities give off Hume readings that are imaginary numbers.
An alternative is that the difference between a god and a reality bender is that the former doesn't actually give off humes - it is part of base reality. An RB is something that has godlike powers but shouldn't.
Or that exceptionally powerful RBs are indiscernible from gods.
Though gotta shake my head at making 343 powerful in this. i know it's the go to example, but it's still lame.
Perhaps a person who has a low internal Hume count is externally influenced by reality around it. Following with the sand description, if a reality bender uses their excess sand to shape the world around them, a person with a deficit of sand would be easily 'filled in' by the sand surrounding them.
Huh. What if the result was that people in this person's vicinity essentially became reality benders with specific regard to that person? They have a baseline level of internal reality, but because that person's is lower, they can influence him as though they were benders themselves.
Edit: More or less confirmed by the follow up FAQ.
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One's an object and the other's a person?
I do believe the word "tact" in Answer #3 should be "tack".
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