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Sophiological Avatars are avatars composed of ideas made manifest, rather than immortalized flesh. One should note that the sale of custom sophiological avatars means that biometrics such as fingerprinting, voice recognition, eye-scanning and DNA evidence are all less useful than they were in the Old Real. The result is that SAMs like Psychometry or Parcelmaster are heavily employed by police forensic teams.

Psychoneurography
A Psychoneurography is the process of drawing upon a person's self-image to form a type of sophiological avatar called a psychoneurograph by the medical community. The machine used to enact the process is called a Psychoneurogram.

Soulsearching
For all intents and purposes, self-image and the consciousness is the soul. Furthur, a psychoneurography always gives the same results, regardless of a person's age or experience. As a result, a psychoneurograph is said to be the process of shedding a physical body to become a Soul, a process nicknamed "soulsearching".

Souls and SAMs
Superhuman Ability Modules are actually based off of the Traits which psychoneurographs can have. Traits date back thousands of years, back to the end of the First War, and include the abilities that a person expects a biological being, or mythlogical or fictional character, to have. Examples include super-hearing, vampirism, toon physics, lack of a shadow, or immunity to fire. While a Soul or Semblance can have any ability which could be accomplished with technology or biology, true superpowers cannot be enabled by a Trait.

Semblances
A custom sophiological avatar, or Semblance, is extremely expensive, however it is possible to use self-image as input to automatically generate a sophiological avatar.

Waste Products
A Sophiological avatar creates very small amounts of waste, about one liter of liquid waste per year in the form of Heavy Water, as well as a negligible amount of carbon dioxide and water vapor which hasn't been measured because no one wants to keep tabs on people's farts.

Due to the production of heavy water by sophiological avatars, the Omni Processors used on Gaia are equipped with an extra subsystem so that water in the system will undergo deuterium depletion.