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A grimoire is a tome of arcane wisdom used by human psykers to study warpcraft. They are typically in the form of codices, palm leaf, or folding-book manuscripts. Most grimoires are protected by a lock and, in some cases, psychic wards and alarms.
Many psykers own a personal grimoire, in which they transcribe their psychic lore. They get their start as an apprentice, copying knowledge from their master, and as they increase in power and experience, they may seek new psychic knowledge, trading it with their fellow psykers for favors.

In the sanctioned esoteric traditions of the Grand West, grimoires are triangular codices in the form of a single tone or as an omnibus. This shape has great significance in the psychic lore of the region.

Ten, the tetrad, is the number of completion. It is a triangular number: one plus two plus three plus four. But it is also the sum of three triangular numbers, six plus three plus one. These three triangles, one over the other, form a tetrahedron, a perfectly triangular pyramid. Ten is also the limit of perfection; irregular numbers start with 11. Three and Nine, in which three times three is of great importance on a planet with three moons (most worlds in the Grand West have these).

One perceives space as triangular. A surface has three dimensions, each at 120° to the other two, so none is separate; movement in one alters one’s position in the other two. In the Grand West, psyker architecture aspires to the triangular.

Each side of a triangle corresponds to three related qualities: active, passive, and neutral; creation, preservation, and destruction; God, cosmic, and individual. The triangle embodies the unity of all these. Great importance lies in the formation of harmony through overlaying two triangles to form a hexagonal star. This is also the formation of completeness in a triad of three triangles.

Triangular symbols permeate all art in the Grand West. Among the more usual connotations are the four universal elements of water, air, earth, and fire—denoted by additional lines on the triangles—and the opposite principles of sulfur (an upright triangle: stable, female, positive, terrestrial) and mercury (an inverted triangle: unstable, male, negative, celestial), which combine to compose all metals. These are sometimes found in equal numbers in a hexagon (balance, gold, unity, creation).

Authors note: The significance of triangles and triangular books was inspired by the Dark Crystal universe

Description

A grimoire is a tome of arcane wisdom used by human psykers to study warpcraft. They are typically in the form of codices, palm leaf, or folding-book manuscripts. Most grimoires are protected by a lock and, in some cases, psychic wards and alarms.
Many psykers own a personal grimoire, in which they transcribe their psychic lore. They get their start as an apprentice, copying knowledge from their master, and as they increase in power and experience, they may seek new psychic knowledge, trading it with their fellow psykers for favors.

In the sanctioned esoteric traditions of the Grand West, grimoires are triangular codices in the form of a single tone or as an omnibus. This shape has great significance in the psychic lore of the region.

Ten, the tetrad, is the number of completion. It is a triangular number: one plus two plus three plus four. But it is also the sum of three triangular numbers, six plus three plus one. These three triangles, one over the other, form a tetrahedron, a perfectly triangular pyramid. Ten is also the limit of perfection; irregular numbers start with 11. Three and Nine, in which three times three is of great importance on a planet with three moons (most worlds in the Grand West have these).

One perceives space as triangular. A surface has three dimensions, each at 120° to the other two, so none is separate; movement in one alters one’s position in the other two. In the Grand West, psyker architecture aspires to the triangular.

Each side of a triangle corresponds to three related qualities: active, passive, and neutral; creation, preservation, and destruction; God, cosmic, and individual. The triangle embodies the unity of all these. Great importance lies in the formation of harmony through overlaying two triangles to form a hexagonal star. This is also the formation of completeness in a triad of three triangles.

Triangular symbols permeate all art in the Grand West. Among the more usual connotations are the four universal elements of water, air, earth, and fire—denoted by additional lines on the triangles—and the opposite principles of sulfur (an upright triangle: stable, female, positive, terrestrial) and mercury (an inverted triangle: unstable, male, negative, celestial), which combine to compose all metals. These are sometimes found in equal numbers in a hexagon (balance, gold, unity, creation).

Authors note: The significance of triangles and triangular books was inspired by the Dark Crystal universe