Other names for Stasis items?
Over the course of my homebrewing I came up with a number of alternative names for stasis items (known simply as stases in the French). Names like bound talisman, anchor, fetich, memorarium, monstrance, stasis item, stasis object, reliquary, etc.
Ex Oculis opted to rename them to "talismans" (a name that was already taken by artifacts that weren't amulets in the Gamemaster's Companion, confusingly enough) as part of their attempt to rewrite Nephilim as maybe-maybe-not enlightened humans. The original name, stasis item or stasis object, was re-flavored as a more technical sounding name used by The Chariot and similarly mechanical minded Nephilim. I guess I can see the logic in that, as it does sound fairly clinical.
Anyway, memorarium is a nonce word I coined myself out of memory and -arium to mean a container of memories. In my campaigns, inspired by ExO, the stasis item or memorarium is what contains or anchors the memories of past lives. It can be replaced if destroyed, but this loss severs the Immortal's link to their past lives. As explained in the Major Arcana's Egyptian-influenced (or vice versa) traditions, the memorarium contains or anchors the Immortal's Ba from their past lives. The Ba is the modality of the soul responsible for individuality: every human being, and thus every past life, has a Ba. Many Arcanum Initiates still believe that achieving Agartha involves merging all of an Immortal's Ba along with their Ka to become the fabled Akh that lives forever among the stars.
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