Ordo Velum Mundi · Historical Archives Division
The Codex
The world has rules. The supernatural operates according to documented principles: belief-based power systems, Progenitor lineages, the seven societies, and the mechanisms the Velum Institute has spent seven hundred years mapping.
Selected records have been cleared for external distribution. Additional documentation remains classified pending mandatory review cycles.
Tradition: Mesoamerican (2)
Cipactli
The primordial sea monster whose body became the world in Aztec cosmology: a substrate entity whose presence is distributed throughout the Mesoamerican belief-energy zone as a baseline pressure. The sacrificial system is documented as a self-reinforcing belief-energy maintenance loop.
Nagual
The Nagual does not have a fixed animal form. The transformation follows the individual's tonal animal, which may be a wolf, coyote, jaguar, eagle, or one of many other creatures depending on the cultural tradition and the individual's spiritual path. In regions where wolves are the dominant predator of the belief system, the wolf-form is common. In regions...