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 <fc #ff0000>**✘ WARNING**</fc>: This article is almost entirely OOC knowledge at this point in the story.
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+Not much is known about **the Ishvara pathogen** at this point, except that 'pathogen' is not the best word to describe it. 'Symbiont' is a conceivable alternate option, but has similar issues. One can imagine reasons to embrace Ishvara as much as to fight or avoid it, but whatever it is, it's nothing entirely simple.
 ===== Name =====
-The Ishvara pathogen is named after the Hindu concept of Ishvara, chiefly for the juxtaposition of being the same and yet different from creation at the same time. It's to be understood as a partially sarcastic name, given that no matter how overwhelming it may be, it's neither a deity nor anything pleasant.
+The Ishvara pathogen is named after the Hindu concept of Ishvara, chiefly for the juxtaposition of being the same and yet different from creation at the same time. It's to be understood as a partially sarcastic name, given that no matter how overwhelming it may be, it's neither a deity nor anything strictly pleasant.
 ===== Substance and Purpose =====
-Ishvara in its raw form resembles a black liquid, surface pitted rather than smooth, vaguely crystalline in appearance, albeit not in structure. Aside from a tendency to stick together given slight magnetic properties, Ishvara is probably best likened to sand in actuality. It's inert over any amount of time, possessing no life of its own, needing the steady warmth and biological infrastructure of a host to function. It was artificially created, meant to be a base-line neural augmentation with little to no function of its own, but capable of enabling a whole array of sophisticated sub-augmentations.
+Ishvara in its raw form resembles a black liquid, surface pitted rather than smooth, vaguely crystalline in appearance, albeit not in structure. Aside from a tendency to stick together given slight magnetic properties, Ishvara is probably best likened to sand in actuality. It's inert over any amount of time, possessing no life of its own, needing the steady warmth and biological infrastructure of a host to function. It was artificially created by //Deiparous Technologies//, meant to be a base-line neural augmentation with little to no function of its own, but capable of enabling a whole array of sophisticated sub-augmentations.
 It's probably this expected passivity that let Ishvara get terribly out of hand.
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 The Ishvara creature is the result of infected humans networking together telepathically. This distributed consciousness only exerts as much control over individual infected hosts as necessary and does so abstractly, rendering classic 'collective mind' effects such as speaking in unison or collective, identical motion absent.
-Similarly, an Ishvara case isolated from the others might no longer be able to follow the commands of the creature, but is likely to be formiddable on its own, with the creature's agenda having long since infiltrated its nervous system like a memory that cannot be erased.
+Similarly, an Ishvara case isolated from the others might no longer be able to follow the commands of the creature, but is likely to be formidable on its own, with the creature's agenda having long since infiltrated its nervous system like a memory that cannot be erased.
 ===== Abilities =====