A Grimoire aspect paired with a technical pattern, the instrument the pairing suggests, and a worked example.
A correspondence
The Magician — build pipeline
An instrument built in stages: each stage does one thing and can be tested.
What it is
The Magician turns will into form through a sequence; a pipeline turns source into an artefact through stages.
At a glance
- Grimoire aspect
- The Magician
- Machine pattern
- Build pipeline
A worked example
A sigil pipeline: read the phrase, reduce it, draw the glyph, stamp the aspect, export the card.
Background
A pipeline you cannot stop at a stage is a black box. Name the stages.
Related entries
Practices
Constructs
Workings
Instrument
One of 110 entries in the Technomancy workshop. How a working is built Is it wrong somewhere?
Mentioned by 2
Every entry that names The Magician — build pipeline, grouped by section.
⚙ Instruments 2
- The Instrument Workshop Correspondences
- The Correspondence Engine Correspondences
More in Correspondences
The entries either side of this one in the same section.
- Aether — canvas The display as the working surface: draw the sigil, the card or the altar.
- The Tower — crash A close that is also a demolition: remove the broken thing and clear the ground.
- Earth — file system A grounded working: named files, a manifest and a place for everything.
- The Hermit — offline A private instrument that works without a server.
- Air — network socket A messenger that needs a live line, not a queue.
- The Lovers — pairing A working that requires two people, and fails closed if one withdraws.
New entries, when they land
Occasional notes when a section of the grimoire is added or revised. No account, no tracking across sites, and one line to leave.