For linguistic relationships, see Relationships (linguistics).
The Universal Strata Model defines a relationship as, “the interaction between Real entities and Unreal laws which creates behavior”. Relationships are, at their core, rules which define how entities interact with one another. These rules turn the otherwise inert Real into the active agents of material structure. This phenomenon comes about as a result of the Real’s and Unreal’s interaction with one another.
Unreal, and thus Relationships, are theoretically capable of natural personification into stars, though no instance of this has ever been recorded. The reason for this is unclear and has led to some debate by scholars over the legitimacy of the claim that stars can personify. Stars are written in one of two languages: Starscript or God Tongue. These languages are important because unlike other languages—which have linguistic relationships, capable of being metaphorical, connotative, and implicative—they express relationships through literal relation gates.
Stars are personifications of the unreal, and notably, are able to define new relationships through the use of the aforementioned languages. The study of relationships is the study of relatics. It is a branch of science which often overlaps with astronomy and wizardry.
Relationships are complex and hard to understand, but they are made up of a few key components known as relation gates. Relation gates form the foundation of all relationships and take in one or more binary inputs and then release a binary output based on those inputs. There are only a handful of relation gates:
- Negation Gates: If x, then not y;
- Conjunction Gates: If x and y, then z;
- Division Gates: If x or y, then z;
- Crossing Gates: If either x or y (but not both), then z;
- Death Gates: If x and y, then not z;
- Isolation Gates: If neither x nor y, then z;
- Mirror Gates: If x and y are equal, then z.
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