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So this is description for Canons/Hubris
Canons: Metaphysical codes that usurp the laws of reality while a Heaven is active.

Hubris: Something that a Heaven is explicitly unable to do; a leftover from old scriptures and primal Heavens. Most modern Guild-made Heavens do their best to remove hubris or reduce them.
Here we see it more practically.
DOMAIN OF (MATTER)
CANON: ALCHEMIZATION - THE MASTER OF THIS DOMAIN CAN NOW SUBSUME AND MIMIC THE STRUCTURE AND EFFECTS OF ONE PIECE OF PHYSICAL MATTER; ONLY ONE PIECE OF MATTER MAY BE MIMICKED AT A TIME UNLESS THE CANON IS ALTERED
HUBRIS: ONLY SOLID MATTER CAN BE SUPPED FROM. ANY ATTEMPTS TO MIMIC LIQUID OR GAS WILL RESULT IN THAUMIC BACKLASH
DOMAIN OF (BLOOD)
CANON: HAEMOKINESIS - THE MASTER OF THIS DOMAIN CAN NOW ACCELERATE AND MANIPULATE ALL BLOOD THEY ARE IN CONTACT WITH; SPEED AND FORCE OF THE BLOOD WILL MIRROR THE MASTER'S NATURAL LIMITS UNLESS THE CANON IS ALTERED
HUBRIS: ONLY UP TO EIGHTY TONS OF BLOOD CAN BE MANIPULATED AT ONCE
And Heavens and things related to it are explained like this. Basically conceptual realms while their instances are the domains that serve as their connection to reality.
Heaven: Hollowed vessels of eldritch gods now lobotomized and slain. Each one is shaped by a specific concept or aspect of reality, which serves as its primary Domain or Domains.
Heavens can best be understood as metaphysical vessels for the gods. Something like a body, but also an entire plane unto itself, bridged to base-existence through Domains-forces like fire, materials like glass, or even feelings and concepts like sadness.

Something for the Heaven to emanate into reality.

Ultimately, the only true limitation is how vulgarly the Heaven bends reality, and if the Hell or Hells connected to the Heaven can drain enough Rend to ensure reality remains unruptured.....

-Thaumaturgy: The Scaffolding of Reality

Ch 2. Heavens, Hells, and other Ontologics
Thaumic Mass: The quintessence of a Soul, and that which allows one to manifest and grow Heavens and Hells–which are officially referred to as ontologics. Thaumic mass can best be understood to be ontological capacity--or how complex of an alternate reality a Soul can create and project into reality. Complexity and vulgarity (how deeply they affect the natural laws) cause the mass of Heavens to grow, so the Soul must in turn generate more thaums to support it.

Thaums: Effectively the metaphysical fuel of raw willpower and belief. Claimable only from dead beings capable of self-awareness and worship. In previous ages, thaums were expended entirely to fuse into miracles, necessitating rituals of mass sacrifice in return for the gods to manifest.
In simplicity, thaums can be considered ontological mass–the metaphysical space or capacity a Soul can hold in existence. Indeed, it is the Soul that is the foundation on which our society rests today; the plucked hearts of our former gods powering their corpses which we wield and pilot.

Through its structure, Heavens and Hells can be made manifest, expressing their miracles and twisting the fabric of reality revisions, be it only evanescent.

It is with that in mind that all must beware of facing ontological inertia. For the expenditure of miracles is not eternal, and the weight of reality will revert even the greatest Soul fueling the most efficient of Heavens should there not be enough thaums.

So, keep an eye on how much you're burning. Won't do you much good if your golem suddenly goes empty halfway through a fight.

-Golems: Gods Upon the Machine, Chapter 4
 
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