Changes: True Name Manipulation

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"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 ability to manipulate the true names. Sub-power of Linguistic Manipulation.

Capabilities

The user can manipulate true names - the metaphysical representations of sentient being - which grants them certain amount of power over the target being able to find, control, summon and banish them among others.

Applications

Clairvoyance
Command Inducement
Defense Break
Freedom - knowing your own true name can make you resistant to the influence of others.
Identity Manipulation - by changing the targets true name.
Name Evocation/Banishment
Name Identification
Name Severing
Nonexistence - by erasing targets name from reality.
Power Negation - by causing targets to lose their name.
Shapeshifting Negation - speaking a shapeshifted being's true name may restore them to their true form.

Associations

Limitations

Beings with Nonexistent Physiology have no true names.
Beings with Identity Dominance can turn this power against the user.
Beings suffering from Identity Erasure may be immune.
Users of Nameless Existence are immune.

Known Users

See Also: I Know Your True Name.

Ged (Earthsea)
Ichibē Hyōsube (Bleach)
Truenamer (Planescape)
Asmodeus (Planescape)
SCP-992 - Gaia's Emissary (SCP Foundation)
Powerful magicians (Inheritance Cycle)
Isis (The Kane Chronicles)
Mr Bliss (Skulduggery Pleasant); when he manipulates Laudigan.

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-|caption = As the Monk Of Perception, Ichibei Hyosube (Bleach) knows and can manipulate the true names of nearly everything.
+|caption = As the Monk Of Perception, Ichibē Hyōsube (Bleach) knows and can manipulate the true names of nearly everything.
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+{{Template:Quote|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 ability to '''manipulate the true name'''. A sub-power of [[Linguistic Magic]]
+The ability to '''manipulate the true names'''. Sub-power of [[Linguistic Manipulation]].
 ==Capabilities==
-The user can Manipulate true names - the metaphysical representations of sentient being - which grants them certain amount of power over the target being able to find, control, summon and banish them among others.
+The user can manipulate true names - the metaphysical representations of sentient being - which grants them certain amount of power over the target being able to find, control, summon and banish them among others.
 ==Applications==
-*[[Binding Spell]]
 *[[Clairvoyance]]
+*[[Command Inducement]]
 *[[Defense Break]]
-*[[Freedom]] - knowing your own true name can make you resistant to the influence of others
+*[[Freedom]] - knowing your own true name can make you resistant to the influence of others.
-*[[Identity Manipulation]] - by changing the targets true name
+*[[Identity Manipulation]] - by changing the targets true name.
+*[[Name Evocation]]/[[Banishment]]
-*[[Nonexistence]] - by erasing someones name from reality
+*[[Name Identification]]
-*[[Summoning]]/[[Banishment]]
+*[[Name Severing]]
+*[[Nonexistence]] - by erasing targets name from reality.
+*[[Power Negation]] - by causing targets to lose their name.
+*[[Shapeshifting Negation]] - speaking a shapeshifted being's true name may restore them to their true form.
+==Associations==
+*[[Incantation]]
+*[[Linguistic Manipulation]]
+*[[Vocal Augmentation]]
 ==Limitations==
 *Beings with [[Nonexistent Physiology]] have no true names.
 *Beings with [[Identity Dominance]] can turn this power against the user.
-*Beings suffering from [[Identity Loss]] may be immune.
+*Beings suffering from [[Identity Erasure]] may be immune.
+*Users of [[Nameless Existence]] are immune.
 ==Known Users==
-''See Also: [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IKnowYourTrueName I Know Your True Name]''
+''See Also: [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/IKnowYourTrueName I Know Your True Name]''.
-*Ichibei Hyosube (''Bleach'')
+*Ged (''Earthsea'')
+*[[w:c:bleach:Ichibē Hyōsube|Ichibē Hyōsube]] (''Bleach'')
 *Truenamer (''Planescape'')
 *Asmodeus (''Planescape'')
+*[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-992 SCP-992 - Gaia's Emissary] (''SCP Foundation'')
+*Powerful magicians (''Inheritance Cycle'')
+*Isis (''The'' ''Kane Chronicles'')
+*Mr Bliss (''Skulduggery Pleasant''); when he manipulates Laudigan.
+==Gallery==
+<gallery>
+King Galbatorix.jpeg|After learning the true names of Murtagh and his dragon, Thorn, Galbatorix (Inheritance Cycle) enslaved them to his will.
+Shadeslayer.JPG|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.
+</gallery>
 [[Category:Powers]]
-[[Category:Magical Abilities]]
+[[Category:Supernatural Powers]]
-[[Category:Magical Powers]]
-[[Category:Magical Arts]]
 [[Category:Conceptual Powers]]
 [[Category:Fighting Power]]
-[[Category:Non-Fighting Power]]
 [[Category:Rare power]]