I. 🧩 FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENCES

**🕳️ CARD STYLE & VISUAL AESTHETIC

Theme Keywords: Fracture, hollow vessel, memory fog, summoned echoes, sealed lore

** ✒️ Visuals:

• Palette: Bone-white, void-black, dusty gray, faint ethereal violet
• Card Borders: Cracked stone, rune-sealed bindings, wax-stamped corners
• Backs: Hollow rune, faded name, or mask fragment symbol
• Fonts: Grave-etched serif or fragmented rune-glow

• Art Motif:

  • Ghostly outlines of people/items
  • Faded diary entries behind summoning glyphs
  • Occasionally a glowing “soul anchor” glyph at the bottom edge

II. HOW HOLLOW SUIT CARDS WORK

🔐 **Core Mechanic: Memory Binding

Every Hollow Card is either:

1. A Soulbind (calls a creature or person)
2. A Memorybind (summons a past event or action)
3. A Relicbind (conjures or mimics a forgotten item/artifact)

Cards require a Void attunement check to fully manifest — otherwise, they become unstable, partial, or drain the caster.

**📖 Types:

• Summon (Soulbind) – Call a ghost, spirit, or construct to fight beside you
• Possession (Memorybind) – Temporarily let a memory take control (boost stats or override actions)
• Conjuration (Relicbind) – Temporarily access lost items (keys, weapons, scrolls, etc.)

**⚠️ COST & RISKS

Hollow Suit cards always carry something back with them.

Casters often seal Hollow Cards with hair, bone, or true names to ensure stability.

III. 🪞TIES TO VOID, MEMORY, AND DEATH

• Best used by Void-channeled, Death-touched, or Archivist archetypes.
• Memory can be shared, stolen, or traded in combat to activate these cards.
• Advanced users can overwrite their own mind temporarily with a bound entity.

**🕳️ HOLLOW BINDING RITES — Sub-Rules Expansion

“To carry the forgotten is to become part of what was lost.”

**WHAT IS A HOLLOW BINDING?

A Hollow Binding is a Void-forging ritual that transfers the essence of a soul, memory, or item into a card medium. Unlike Fateforged trauma-cards, Hollow Cards preserve what should not have survived — as echoes, phantoms, or possessed imprints.

Each Hollow Card is born of ritual, Void sympathy, and name recognition.

**RITUAL TYPES BY CARD FORM

💡 Each ritual must be done under the eye of Void: during silence, shadow, or starlight.

**TOOLS & MATERIALS

Card Mediums:

• Ghostleaf parchment
• Hollowbone tablets
• Wax-bound memory sheets

Anchor Components:

• True Name glyph (etched or whispered)
• Physical Remnant (bone, lock of hair, rusted item fragment)
• Ritual Circle of Void Salt or Grave Ink

Channel Tools (Optional but enhances success):

• Soul Lantern (for ghost containment)
• Memory Thread or Thought-Stone
• Blood-quill or echo needle

IV. HOW TO PERFORM A RITUAL

**SOULBIND (Echo Spirit)

1. Defeat or commune with a dying spirit.
2. Trace their name in blood or salt around the card medium.
3. Speak the phrase: “You are remembered. You are bound.”
4. Anchor with hair, ash, or item.
5. Seal with breath, ink, or Void pulse.

**MEMORYBIND (Lived or Stolen Moment)

1. Enter meditation with memory fully envisioned.
2. Place card over your forehead or heart.
3. Speak aloud what was lost, surrendered, or relived.
4. Sacrifice a stat, bond, or ability for 1 day.
5. Draw rune of memory spiral around the card to complete.

**RELICBIND (Physical Object)

1. Place relic inside a tri-circle sigil (memory, name, death).
2. Describe its final use, wielder, or purpose aloud.
3. Infuse card medium with item shard or ashes.
4. Burn or bury the original — only the echo remains.
5. Etch a glyph of purpose or trigger word into the card back.

**RITUAL RISKS

Some rare Hollow Cards become Willed Echoes — cards that act of their own volition or bond too deeply to release.