Rules

Stabilizing Resonance comes from centered, grounded, and constructive behavior, and so it manifests in turn as centered, grounded, and constructive energies. In its best aspects, Stabilizing energy helps you build, maintain, and preserve the things around you; on a less-helpful note, it can seem Restrictive, Boring or Controlling.

Although the phrase “stabilizing energy” might seem like a contradiction, it’s that energy that holds Creation together. Such Resonance provides the fabric of the Tapestry. It balances random change with calm substance and lasting structure. And so – especially for disciplined scholars, technicians, healers, and martial artists – this can be the most desirable Resonance of all.

• Descriptions: Balanced, Calming, Industrious, Hardworking, Protective, Rigid, Stifling, Preserving, Enduring, Soothing, Healing, and other similar activities.

• Signatures: Air of stability or restraint, healing touch, “green thumb” or “carpenter’s eye,” steady gaze, capable assistants, solid presence, stony skin or eyes, stiff bearing, a pervasive sense of “weight,” and so on. Unlike other, wilder forms of Resonance, Stabilizing energies don’t often disrupt the surroundings; instead, they tend to reinforce whatever structures appear to be in place, calming chaos and reducing random events. (In game terms, perhaps, high levels of this Resonance might add to the difficulty of other people’s Entropy-casting rolls.)