The workshop vocabulary: a short definition and a practical note for each term.
A definition
Instrument
A built thing that performs or supports a working: a sigil engine, a servitor ledger, an oracle, a daemon.
What it is
A built thing that performs or supports a working: a sigil engine, a servitor ledger, an oracle, a daemon.
In practice
An instrument should be usable by someone else from its docs. If it only works in your hands, it is a habit, not an instrument.
Related entries
One of 110 entries in the Technomancy workshop. How a working is built Is it wrong somewhere?
Mentioned by 3
Every entry that names Instrument, grouped by section.
▤ Glossary 3
- Technomancy Related
- Working Related
- Correspondence Related
More in Glossary
The entries either side of this one in the same section.
- Working A complete operation with an intention, a method, a record and a close.
- Correspondence A mapping between a Grimoire aspect and a technical pattern, used to choose the shape of an instrument.
- Construct The general term for a made agency: servitor, egregore, tulpa or daemon.
- Planetary hour One of the twenty-four unequal hours of a day, each ruled by a planet in the Chaldean sequence.
- Daemon A background process, and by extension a working that runs without being watched.
- Digital altar A screen, folder, page or virtual room arranged for attention, offering and return.
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.