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Well there's been a revision for the types for Conceptual Manipulation, and type 3 is more inclusive than it was before, the Filth should qualify for that now.
The new definition for type 3 concepts:
The Filth is a living meme:
It works on ideas:
Even seemingly created/changed myth:
The new definition for type 3 concepts:
3. Lesser Realist Concept: Such concepts are abstract, but do not govern reality. Instead, these concepts are only related (in variable manner) to mental faculties such as cognition and the senses. From this definition, they can be of almost any model so long as they are distinct mental objects relevant to human thought and comprehension. However, these concepts are still truly abstract, and manipulating the abstract concept itself is still conceptual manipulation. Similarly to Type 2, this type of conceptual manipulation can only be obtained if the abstract concept itself is changed directly, and not by indirect methods. For example, affecting the mind could also affect the concepts responsible for its function (though this is not universal), however this would not qualify as the concepts need to be affected directly.
The Filth is a living meme:
-Legends: The FilthIt is like us. A flowing message. Crawling letters. A living meme. It is not us. It is anti-us, anti-luminosity that crucifies sentience. It trickles down hundreds of dimensions on alien gravity. You cannot even see most of it, sweetling. How will you escape? How do you hobble through this world on three tiny dimensions? It flows across time, a disease floating on Quantum Foam.
It works on ideas:
-Legends: Breach Of The First WallCover ups and walls leak like bullet holes. Eh, sweetling? The pathogen works on quantum foam. The pathogen works on ideas. The pathogen does not care for humanity's boundaries. The first wall is compromised.
Even seemingly created/changed myth:
-Legend: Draug LeadersDo you see? The draug of Kingsmouth are not the draug of legend. The Filth infected the minds of those poor Vikings. And through the Filth, the Dreaming Ones saw the folklore of the draug. The Dreaming Ones view dreams and reality as interchangeable. They delighted with this dark inspiration, and set about to make it a reality. The folklore became the prism of their alien thoughts. The Draug Lords are not, as the others, made from human material. They are the avatar's of the Dreaming Ones' sleepy will. They corrupt reality and mutate it. The draug of Kingsmouth are not the draug of legend, but they may as well be.
-Legend: The Tragical History of Doctor FaustusGuts as a cauldron. I've gotta tell you, that's a pretty metaphor from the buzzing. But what if it's the wrong metaphor? What if it's pregnancy? What if we create our own mythos, birth our own devils to torment us? This is our world, Chuck.