True Name Manipulation

True Name Manipulation
As the Monk Who Calls the Real Name, Ichibe'e Hyōsube (Bleach) knows and can manipulate the true names of anything.
Power/Ability to:	Manipulate true names.

"LISTEN! Elves, spirits, and whatnot have a secret name they can never tell people! That's your true name! Your true name governs your true form. You went back to this form because you chanted it! And if somebody finds out your true name, it means he'll have control over you! So never tell anyone! Unless it's someone you can really trust!"

― Ivalera (Berserk)

"Anything covered by the ink of my Ichimonji loses its name. That which has no name can hold no power."

― Ichibe'e Hyōsube (Bleach)

"The name is the thing, and the true name is the true thing. To speak the name is to control the thing."

― Ursula K. Le Guin (The Rule of Names)

The power to manipulate true names. Combination of Identity Manipulation and Law Manipulation.

Also Called

• Metaphysical Name/Identity Manipulation
• Original Name Manipulation
• Ren
• Nomenclature (Mummy: The Resurrection)

Capabilities

Users can manipulate 'true names' - an individual's metaphysical essence that sets it apart from everything else. Unlike one's identity, one's true name governs on the most fundamental level, essentially being the basis of everything's uniqueness. From people to individual atoms, each one has a metaphysical identity that creates individuality throughout totality.

By manipulating true names, users can control the very essence of everything, such as stripping them of their characteristics, giving them new ones, etc.

This allows them to alter their own essence, characteristics, and identity at a fundamental level. By doing so, they can change intrinsic aspects of themselves, such as personality traits, physical attributes, and even their metaphysical presence in the world. This self-alteration may empower users to enhance their abilities, redefine their roles in reality, or escape limitations imposed by their current identity.

Applications

• Absolute Erasure
• Absolute Summoning
• Characteristic Removal
• Clairvoyance
• Command Inducement
• Entity Manipulation
• Existence Manipulation
• Existential Distinction
• Freeing
• Identity Manipulation
• Individual Detection
• Concept Creation; limited to true names
• Name Erasure
• Name Evocation/Banishment
  • Cursed Name
• Name Identification
• Name Severing
• Nothingness Removal
• Otherness Manipulation
• Personal Mastery
  • Power Modification
  • Power Augmentation
  • Power Negation
• Reality Modding
• Shapeshifting Negation/Infucement
• True Illusion
• True-Self Projection
• Uniqueness
• Unfreedom Manipulation

Techniques

• Freedom

Variations

• Demonic Name
• Divine Name

Associations

• Identity Manipulation

Limitations

• Nameless Existence/Identity Erasure
• Be careful when using power to apply to yourself, because you may forget the real you.

Known Users

See Also: I Know Your True Name.

• Ichibe'e Hyōsube (Bleach)
• God (Unsong)
• Nedhi (Destiny)
• Ged (Earthsea)
• Powerful magicians (Inheritance Cycle)
• Ajimu Najimi (Medaka Box); via Full Name Notorious and Full Name Mysterious
• Truenamer (Planescape)
• Asmodeus (Planescape)
• Witch Cult (Re:Zero)
• Fae (SCP Foundation)
• SCP-992 - Gaia's Emissary (SCP Foundation)
• Paragon of Names/SCP-5935-1 - Blood and the Breaking of My Heart (SCP Foundation)
• Mr Bliss (Skulduggery Pleasant); limited to when he manipulates Laudigan
• Yubaba (Spirited Away)
• Arren/Lebannen (Tales from the Earthsea)
• Therru/Tehanu (Tales from the Earthsea)
• Vanitas (Vanitas no Shuuki); for vampires
• Isis (The Kane Chronicles)
• YHWH (Judaism)

Gallery

Ichibē Hyōsube (Bleach) possesses dominion over the concept of "true names", having given the names of everything in Soul Society...

...and through his Zanpakutō - Ichimonji, Ichibē can sever the names of anything, reducing its capabilities, like halving the power of Yhwach's arm by slicing the name of his arm in half (Arm -> A), and manifest the power behind a word's meaning...

...With Ichimonji's Shikai, it can release black ink that causes whatever it covers to lose their name, and thus their power...

...and with Shin'uchi - Shirafude Ichimonji, it can release white ink that can give targets new names, like giving someone the name of "Black Ant" and reducing their power to that of a black ant.

After learning the true names of Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn, Galbatorix (Inheritance Cycle) enslaved them to his will.

Ensuring that Sloan would remain punished for everything he's done, Eragon (Inheritance Cycle) used the butcher's true name, so he'd never be able to speak to his daughter, Katrina again.

Arren and Therru (Tales from the Earthsea) both have a true name. Arren is Lebannen, and Therru is Tehanu.