Na

An open Na

Position and use on a Vu-Yunu

Third Eye & Telepathy

The Na (third eye) has multiple purposes. What the eye sees is an alternate spectrum that is not reliant on light, but on three elements of being. The eye sees life as green light, spirit as blue light, and magic as red light. For example, a sentient being, which is alive, has a spirit, and is ‘magical’, would appear entirely white through this vision, whereas a magical weapon, possessing neither life nor spirit, would only appear to be red.

Other than this special sight, the third eye is how chromatic both use and consume the three elements. For casting magic, the chromatic must focus the na on their desired target for the duration of the spell, as they channel the elements though the eye for use. Primitive chromatic use this method to tend to the island’s varied greenery.

The eye may also be used for consumption, which is where advanced and primitive chromatic have their largest divergence. When a chromatic chooses to feed on something using their na, the eye must be focused on the desired source of ‘food’. The eye then channels the element from the food, and it gets transferred and stored into the chromatic. Using na, an advanced chromatic could consume an element out of something otherwise inedible (for example, the magic from a sword). This method of ‘eating’ also allows for maintenance of a victim’s intellect, therefore eating a sentient actually makes an advanced chromatic smarter. Doing this from youth even modifies the chromatic’s growth patterns, giving them a shape more similar to what they’ve been eating.

Chromatic may also consume food normally with use of their mouth, as primitive chromatic choose to do. This method is less efficient, and only edible foods can be eaten. Also, the intellect and intelligence of the ‘food’ is not maintained. The sensitive information is easily destroyed by mastication and digestion.

It is important to note that the consumption process is the same process that allows chromatic to speak to each other telepathically. Only beings that do not possess telepathy can be ‘consumed’, as they cannot take back anything equivalent to what they’re losing. At the same time, any race without telepathy cannot hear or be heard by chromatic; only consumed. Even when the na is not open, telepathic communication can be picked up from other chromatic via the ‘ears’ positioned on either side of the eye. Telepathic communication between Chromatic is deliberate, like a spoken voice, not uncontrollable.