Interesting applications of Sensecraft:
- Visimancy: lie detection with infrared vision; making personal hallucinations of references for art; an interior designer helping a client literally see possible layouts
- Gustamancy: making a cheap, flavorless food taste like anything you want; making a target unable to taste something unpleasant, like giving medicine to a child or poison to a victim
- Chronomancy: making someone think you're more interesting than you really are since time went by so fast talking to you
Ways Kaze could use Visimancy in his research work:
- Basically it's not that he's doing things you can't do period, but he doesn't need a bunch of equipment that would otherwise be expensive to acquire and maintain
- Easier to make sure he has a controlled environment by just looking around to see if any wavelengths of light are leaking in where they shouldn't, since different wavelengths can affect cell processes in different ways; can also find sources of problems easily
- There are particular chemicals that fluoresce when exposed to certain strings in DNA, but it gives off UV light which is easiest to see accurately with Visimancy
- Infrared spectroscopy is a technique that involves seeing what infrared frequencies are absorbed to test for different qualities about a molecule; Kaze could just have a way to shine a specific range of infrared frequencies on a sample (like something that gives off heat but not enough to glow in the visible range), and then simply look at a sample to see what frequencies it bounces back/absorbs and get a preliminary read
- When he gets really good, he might be able to use a cheaper microscope to see things at a level you'd need a stronger one for, combining his abilities with the added magnification
Name ideas for the book:
- Serus
- Sense of Humanity