Editing Grand Design of Isthekenous (section)

== Overview ==
Created by the gods, the Grand Design copies and distills the capabilities of immortals like [[Sprigaena]] or moments of mastery like [[Erin Solstice|Erin’s]] organic [Immortal Moment] into Skills and allows mortals to perform acts that would otherwise be far out of their reach.<ref name=":1">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/04/20/8-81/ Chapter 8.81]</ref> Known functions of the system include [[Skills]], [[Classes]], [[Spells]], [[Horror Ranks]], [[Miracles]], [[Conditions]], [[Aspects]], [[Synergies]], [[Inheritances]], [[Memories]], [[Songs]], [[Titles]], and [[Quests]] (see pages for more information). The system has functions that no mortal knows, and interconnections that have surprised even its creators thanks to its endlessly adaptive nature, allowing it to takes inspiration from everything it comes into contact with. It can create matter at no cost, which Elves of old could barely do with a speck of dust. However, it does not truly replicate the original source. For example, [Giant's Hammer] was described to be a pale imitation of an actual Giant's blow.<ref name=":1" /> The levelling announcement comes during sleep, and only a few species and, until it recently removed the function,<ref name=":8">[https://wanderinginn.com/2023/10/17/9-61-g/ Chapter 9.61 G]</ref> those with <Religion> classes are allowed to hear the announcement while awake.<ref name=":5" /> It had manual overrides to force a level up without meeting prerequirements, though it later removed that function.<ref name=":8" />

It can recreate an [[Zeladona Ischen|individual]] with their personality, memories, and Skills intact, though it is unknown how closely accurate it is compared to the original, and it refuses to recreate people with corrupted data due to proximity to Rhir's corruption, like the inhabitants of the [[Demon Kingdom]].<ref name=":8" /> Usually, the Grand Design's form of communication with its participants is through announcements of new levels, classes, Skills, etc. However, it has displayed the ability to conceal and suppress any spoken or written knowledge about the [[Trials of Levelling]] from people with classes.<ref name=":4" /> Under certain circumstances, it can also compel people's actions, such as when it forced Erin to drink a Talent Potion to fulfill the conditions of the Heroic Quest she posted.<ref>[[Chapter 9.30]]</ref> It has a function that authorizes it to use magic that had a presence in the world, though it never made use of as of yet.   

The Grand Design classifies everything in the world and its inhabitants internally by tags. All classes are associated with certain tags (and level by performing activities associated with the same tags. For example, [Strategists] can level from playing chess as the activity is tagged with <STRATEGY> and <INTELLECT>. Additionally, tags are used to keep track and categorize the actions of each individual. It can reassign the experience tied to certain actions, such as when it disabled <Strategy>-related experience from chess and assigning it to <Entertainment> instead. or it can modify how much experience is given, later allowing chess to award <Strategy> experience with a 0.1 multiplier.<ref name=":5" /> If something is marked with the <UNACCEPTIBLE> tag, it is erased from existence and its data is purged. However, it is a marker that the Grand Design itself cannot assign, and instead had to be added by a God.<ref name=":8" /> 

The Grand Design is ''not'' omniscient. However, it can access every levelling person's perspective and thoughts, and can bring its attention to anywhere on Innworld, even beyond the [[The Last Tide (location)|Last Tide]].<ref name=":5" /> It can also scan people's bodies non-invasively and without detection, being able to sense the presence of microplastics within the Earthers' bodies. If it cannot analyse something, it can cast a Tier 9 spell available only to it, [The Impartial Gaze of Isthekenous], to reveal everything. It cannot access the data of ghosts while they are possessed by a god.  

Gods are able to judge their own followers for leveling and give the announcement themselves. They can speak to their chosen representatives, though this rule has never been used in the Grand Design’s entire inception.<ref name=":5" /> 

The system is designed to change and account for new things it encountered, as shown when it initially struggled with giving [[Joseph Ortega|Joseph]] the [Coach] class, as that job and role did not exist previously. In similar fashion, it activated the [[Quests|<Quest> function]], [[Titles|<Title> function]], and synergy Skills for all classes. There is a section of rules in the Grand Design to prevent the system from being changed in any way and with no loopholes, but it was never activated.<ref name=":6">[https://wanderinginn.com/2023/07/16/9-54-c/ Chapter 9.54 C]</ref> Notably, the System's extensive lexicon does not include deities or Winter Sprites, to the point that it was unsure what gender Kasigna was.<ref name=":4">[https://wanderinginn.com/2023/01/18/9-32/ Chapter 9.32]</ref> 

In order for new species to gain the ability to level and gain classes, they are challenged to complete the [[Trials of Levelling]]. Upon completion of the trials, the species may be evaluated for induction into the Grand Design.<ref name=":4" /> "Rulebreakers," or classless individuals, can resist certain Skills and auras with strength of will and focus.<ref name=":2">[https://wanderinginn.com/2022/05/03/8-85/ Chapter 8.85]</ref> However, it is implied that Grand Design can still interfere with classless individuals, as [[Teriarch]], a Dragon who is not part of the Grand Design, was unable to comprehend knowledge regarding the Trials of Levelling when [[Ryoka Griffin]] brought it up to him.<ref>[[Interlude – Brewing Sariants|Interlude - Brewing Sariants]]</ref> The fae also hold some sway over it, such as when [[Ivolethe]] told it to leave [[Ryoka Griffin]] alone, it stopped offering classes and level ups to the Runner.<ref>[[Chapter 2.35]]</ref> It is later revealed that Ryoka's entry in the Grand Design was removed and unable to be recreated, forcing it to log her experience as "Ryoko Griffin."<ref name=":8" /> 

In center of the Grand Design, there is a room filled with divine tools, meant to empower it to search and understand. And among those tools is an orb that lets the Grand Design observe a different universe, even if it's one previously destroyed. From this, it's believed that the Grand Design was meant to eventually encompass multiple universes.<ref>{{VERef|Goblin Days (Pt. 2) – The Pilot and The Knight}}</ref><ref>{{VERef|Goblin Days (Pt. 4) – Order, Oddity}}</ref>