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Is this information manipulation? If yes, then which type?
True Names are believed to be what made up the primordial language of gods that all languages derive from and was etched into the very fabric of existence, unlike human languages that were invented, this one is inherent to reality, both shaped by the world and shaping the world. Speaking its words is no different from reshaping the world. That's why to master even the easiest True Names one has to possess innate talent and the sorcery of shaping works via manipulating reality by invoking these fundamental words of power. Noctis also states that everything that exists has a name, and that a thing only starts to exist after it is given a name.
True Name can act as an irresistible anchor that pulled useful things such as skills, fragments of knowledge, insights, and patterns of thought towards the true self of an Awakened. Just like a body had a memory of its own, a soul had one as well. Knowing one's name, the true name, was the key to unlocking it