Masks and cards let casters perform at a level beyond breathform or invocation. They refine, distort, or amplify spells based on resonance, trauma, and fate.

Masks and Cards are resonance-bound interfaces — magical tools that shape, unlock, or distort a caster’s power. In Aethros, they’re as important as staves, swords, or spells. Each one channels ancestral memory, emotion, or fate.

• Masks represent identity, trauma, and divine archetypes.
• Cards represent stored fate, echoes, and spell potential.

Masks are bonded personas tied to trauma, divinity, or emotion. They overwrite memory, summon archetypes, and grant unique powers — at a cost.

• The Beast: Sliver – Rage, surge casting
• The Hollow: Void – Null zones, memory shielding
• The Oracle: Light/Void – Prophecy, delayed casting

“Wearing a mask can overwrite memory, suppress selfhood, or call old spirits to the surface.”

Cards are decks infused with ancestral glyphs and emotions. Drawing one mid-combat triggers an effect shaped by resonance and breathform.

• Deck of Threads: Sliver/Void – Chronurgy, glitch-casting
• Hollow Suit: Void – Memory recall, soul-binding
• Blood Pact Cards: Sliver – Emotion-triggered casting

Decks can be pre-built, randomized, or trauma-forged.

Masks and cards sync with breathform and stance. Matching mask + card + source creates a Mask Sync State for bonus effects. Cards may glitch or echo violently if misaligned.

• Forge masks from personal trauma
• Create dual decks with mixed alignments
• Use forbidden masks to bypass normal casting limits