Conceptual Embodiment
The turning of intense thought, feeling and narrative pattern into physical, persistent reality inside the Void.
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The Duviri case
Figures from a storybook, Spirals of emotion and a geography all take on real bodies. The Drifter did not plan every detail like a conscious architect; the Void gave a familiar story the shape of a need for safety.
Echoes on the Zariman
The Holdfasts gaining personality, and memories mixing into the ship's spaces, are other outcomes of the same general force.
Not the same as a dream
That the origin is thought does not make the people who emerge false. The inhabitants of Duviri develop relationships and a continuity independent of their creator.