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Mirror Worlds are created by one's deepest desires, but that they still end up reflecting the viewer's deepest positive or negative emotions, as is the case for Nelly and Catherine, who both see only worlds that end in misery. The extraction range of Mephistopheles is said to also be affected by this in some way, as it is stated that the Identities and E.G.O obtained from the engine are typically relevant to Limbus Company in some way, supposedly being affected by the events experienced during the LCB's journey. This seems to imply a viewer might be able to actively affect or interact with the worlds reflected to the Mirror. The Light and the Golden Boughs seem to be closely connected to these concepts, allowing for connections with external Mirror Worlds. The manager of the Limbus Company Bus Department, Dante, who has part of a Golden Bough implanted in their prosthetic head, has been shown in numerous cases to be able to peek into various worlds. Dante is shown to be capable of resonating with the Golden Boughs and utilize them to affect external worlds, as shown in the ending of Canto VI, during which they made use of a Golden Bough to erase Catherine from all Mirror Worlds. Dante also uses the LCB-PDA in their possession to see into other Mirror Worlds, and communicate with Identities of the Sinners they are contracted to. During these interactions, the voice in the Light, Carmen, speaks directly with them, narrating the stories of the Identities selected by Dante. Carmen, from her spot within the Light, seems to be able to see all worlds, and seems to be unaffected by the effects of the Golden Bough on the worlds, as demonstrated by her ability to recall Catherine following the erasure. In the Identity Story of Ishmael's Family Hierarch Candidate Identity, Carmen, as its narrator, corroborates on the concept of worlds being created by one's feelings. In particular, Carmen seems to point at Dante as a source of Mirror Worlds, commenting on the worlds being created by the act of a "wishmaker", and becoming clearer in the presence of an observer. [MIRROR WORLDS [INVOLVED FACTIONS - LIMBUS COMPANY]:] Limbus Company often utilizes Mirror technology, typically the engine of Mephistopheles, for various means, such as the acquisition of Identities and access to the Mirror Dungeon. The company is largely uninterested in how its interactions with the Mirror Worlds cause them harm, seeing them as a source of Identities and ways to strengthen the Sinners and as a point of research. In order to further these goals, the LCA R&D team has developed Takeoff Modules, which are capable of rapidly enhancing an Identity at the cost of disturbing the fabric of the Mirror Worlds. [MIRROR WORLDS [INVOLVED FACTIONS - NEW LEAGUE OF NINE LITTÉRATEURS]:] Hermann created the New League of Nine Littérateurs to research Mirror technology and gain information on the Mirror Worlds and how to destroy them. For this purpose, she recruited several members of the original League of Nine Littérateurs and tasked them with researching this technology. Yi Sang's orders were to learn of a way to destroy the Mirror Worlds, but he ultimately left and was recruited to Limbus Company before finishing this research. Aseah, in his years working under Hermann, has made several large developments in Mirror technology, and has created something similar to Limbus Company's Identity system. He and N Corp. have created a method to transform a human into a 'dough', an empty form over which any Identity can be applied to, regardless of how different or unrelated the Identity is to the original person. This 'dough' is not the endpoint of Hermann's research, however, and the New League seeks to continue this line of research until they reach what Faust describes as "the very origin… the primordial human". In several cases, Hermann has used the Mirror Worlds in order to recruit members to the New League of Nine Littérateurs. Ahab joined the New League after Hermann told her that there was a way to hunt infinite whales, while Nelly was manipulated by Hermann into joining after being shown countless Mirror Worlds in which she was miserable, and became convinced that siding with Hermann was the only way to free herself of that fate. It is currently unknown if other members also have motivations tied with the Mirror Worlds. [MIRROR WORLDS [INVOLVED FACTIONS - THOSE WHO WILL BE SOVEREIGNS OF A STAR]:] Demian has approached Dante several times to discuss his feelings on the Mirror and why he believes it to be a cruel piece of technology. His arguments revolve around the idea that using the Mirror to take from other worlds is a kind of theft, one that robs the stars from other worlds that hurts both the world they were taken from as well as the star itself which is now forced to serve a role it did not have before. Demian has also expressed that he believes the fascination with the infinite Mirror Worlds is hollow, as the people one forms bonds with and learn to care for are unique and based on shared experiences. Therefore, when encountering the same person in another Mirror World, they cannot truly be considered the same person as the one from your own Mirror World. [IDENTITIES:] Identities are an invention making use of Mirror technology, enabling someone to overlay their own body and consciousness with an individual from another Mirror World. They can also be harnessed in a slightly different form through the use of the Glass Window. [IDENTITIES [OVERVIEW]:] Identities, utilized through access to other Mirror Worlds via technological inventions, are a means of temporarily overlaying an individual with the identity of someone from an alternate world. When someone has an Identity applied to them, everything about them is reflected by the person they are taking unto themselves, including appearance, memories, and personality. Though they are only given the ability to exist in another world thanks to someone else, the individual being taken from their original world seems to have full control of themselves when summoned as a Mirror Identity. While further details are known about Limbus Company's use of Mirror-sourced Identities, it is not clear if the technology functions the same way in every case. After all, the Identity system is not exclusive to them, but can be utilized by anyone with access to the right technology and know-how. [IDENTITIES [LIMBUS COMPANY’S USE]:] As utilized by the LCB, Identities are alternate forms of the Sinners borrowed from other Mirror Worlds via the Mirror. This particular system was developed by Faust and Yi Sang, and allows Identities to be found and "extracted" via the engine of Mephistopheles on a random, luck-dependent basis. Mephistopheles' extraction pool is largely limited to Identities from worlds considered "close" to the Sinners' Mirror World, however, the range of Extraction grows in conjunction with their experiences, as the group observes specific possibilities along their journey. This range is said to stretch approximately three years into the past or future of their present day, with the exception of Walpurgis Night occurrences, where it grows up to about ten years. Identities are stored and extracted in the form of Identity Cards: small, rectangular objects depicting the Sinners' alternative selves. Dante carries these around with them, and inserts the cards into their company-issued PDA for use in battle.[10] In order to equip Identities, Dante calls forth the mental image of a particular Identity, and then makes an unspoken agreement with the necessary Sinner, at which point the sound of glass shattering will be heard and the Sinner will be overlaid with the Identity. While the Sinners seem to be able to tell what an Identity does with their body, they are not given extensive or lasting access to the Identity's own memories and knowledge, only retaining fragmentary recollections of the knowledge of the Identities they've donned before. Additionally, the manager can "synchronize" an Identity with the PDA and the bus window, allowing Dante to communicate with them, an ability Dante makes use of to gain information that the Sinners would not otherwise be able to provide, which they record and share with the Sinners. When the manager communicates with them through the PDA, the Identities are able to see into the LCB's world from their own through the opaque window. [IDENTITIES [LIMBUS COMPANY’S USE - UPGRADING AND UPTYING IDENTITIES]:] Identity Uptying is the process of synchronizing an Identity with the LCB's world using Thread, a physical representation of Mirror World possibilities. Uptying helps a Sinner to become one with their Identity, allowing the Identity to better transfer their knowledge and combat prowess to the alternate world, and making the Identity more effective overall. Similarly, use of Identity Training Tickets provides an Identity with certain experiences, leading to physical improvements and enhancements. Identity strength is tied to the mounting effects of the LCB's increasing Golden Bough count. [IDENTITIES [LIMBUS COMPANY’S USE - “MIRRORING”]:] Many of the Mirror Worlds that are accessed by Limbus Company for their Identities have the premise of the Sinners taking on the roles of other characters met during the story. These Identities are typically either Seasonal or Event related, but some Standard Identities appear to do this as well. In some cases, the similarities are limited mostly to sharing an outfit and general role or job, and notable differences in their lives or philosophy are still present. For other Identities, the extent of the similarities goes beyond the typical trends, as seen by Identities that share personal E.G.O with a character from the story, such as Effloresced E.G.O::Spicebush Yi Sang and Dawn Office Fixer Sinclair, and ones were the Sinner is born into an entirely different family like Family Hierarch Candidate Ishmael. Oftentimes the situations that led up to a Sinner taking on that job, having a wildly different ideology, or moving to that District go unexplained by their Identity Story and voicelines, and it has been implied that some of these Identities are an impossibility that was created through the power of "wishing" them into existence. This pattern is referred to as "mirroring" by the game's community as there is no official term to describe these Identities. Due to it being unofficial, the implications of why certain Sinners receive Identities that mirror specific characters is not commented on by the game. [IDENTITIES [LIMBUS COMPANY’S USE - HAUTE COUTURE]:] The Term Haute Couture is used for Identities which take the appearance of characters whose forms are deemed unideal to apply onto an Identity (e.g., a Distortion) and instead take on a much more human-like appearance. The process is compared to that of an actor donning a costume. Despite the visual and physical inconsistencies, within their Mirror Worlds, they behave and are treated as the "actor" whose costume they are donning. For example: an Identity may gain “stilts” and “finger extensions”. [IDENTITIES [NEW LEAGUE OF NINE LITTÉRATEURS USE - GLASS WINDOW IDENTITIES]:] Aseah conducts research on Identity technology through use Young-ji's Glass Window, which has the ability to superimpose an individual with another Mirror World. The device appears to work by generating rifts in the Glass Window which are then concentrated on the subject of interest. This process involves a refraction rate, which is what dictates how many separate worlds are stacked. With this, a subject can have a number of their alternate selves layered on top of them, all fighting for dominance. As a result, unlike Identities supplied by the Mirror, the Glass Window allows an individual to juggle up to thousands of Identities at once. Ideally, someone will be able to withstand the refraction and harness these alternate selves by interchangeably tapping into their variety of memories and abilities. The higher the refraction rate, the riskier the technology becomes, as it grows increasingly difficult for the individual to maintain their mind under the weight of the Identities. Previously, someone who cracked under the pressure of these reflected worlds would simply shatter into pieces. However, after the second passing of the White Nights (Angela's decision to return the Light to the City), subjects instead began to transform into colorful cocoons. At some point after this transformation into a cocoon, the individual will either be "seized by sin" and metamorphosize into one of the seven types of Peccatula, or endure a "process" in order to emerge a Distortion. While there appear to be specific, consistent conditions dictating whether someone becomes a Peccatulum or Distortion in these cases, the details have historically been censored in text and are thus still unknown. [IDENTITIES [NEW LEAGUE OF NINE LITTÉRATEURS USE - MIRROR IDENTITIES]:] N Corp.'s New League has been attempting to create something known as "the primordial human". In the process of achieving this, they have been experimenting with Mirror-sourced Identities in the creation of a "new human"—by making use of what they refer to as "dough". Dough is created by literally melting down human beings into chunks of flesh, which are considered to be the "pure form of humanity". A dough allows for the "safe" and "secure" application of an Identity from absolutely any world; while what this means compared to other Identity application processes is left vague, it may refer to how Identities are traditionally forced out of one's body upon death. An Identity applied to dough is referred to as a "perfected" Identity and is considered fully primed, possessing more power than a typical Identity. Unlike Limbus Company's process of overlaying Identities, this method does not appear to require consent from the individual taking the Identity onto themself. Attempts at superpositioning Identities over dough are not guaranteed to be successful, however, in which case the former humans remain in the form of crawling sacks of flesh. The League has also concerned itself with "fully intact" Identities, which seem to be distinct from perfected Identities. These full Identities do not make use of dough, but require that the individual receiving the Identity be free of consciousness, and demand an immense amount of power for the summoning. With these, the intention is to permanently overwrite the individual with the summoned Identity. It is yet to be described how exactly the New League of Nine Littérateurs uses the Mirror and applies Identities, or how similar their process is to Limbus Company's own methods. [GOLDEN BOUGHS:] The Golden Boughs are mysterious, tree-like branches with the power to actualize the feelings, wishes, and psyches of people. The Boughs are a recent wonder of the City, sought after by many different citizens looking to make their wishes come true. Gathering them is the LCB's primary objective. [GOLDEN BOUGHS [OVERVIEW]:] The Golden Boughs are plantlike branches emitting an alluring golden glow. The Boughs are a potent energy source, and are said to be the essence of Lobotomy Corporation's technology. They stem from the abandoned L Corp. branches scattered across the City, but many have been moved from their original locations as City people snatch up Boughs for themselves. In fact, despite being a recent discovery, the Golden Boughs have caught the attention of many different factions—from private companies, to Syndicates, to Wings—many of whom are interested in making use of the powers lying within them. As they follow the distribution of L Corp. branches across the City, more than one Bough may be found in a single District. While the origin of the Golden Boughs is unknown, it is possible that certain Rivers had some part in their creation. A connection to the Light is also probable, given that the Golden Boughs are an energy source related to Lobotomy Corporation that appear to succeed the White Nights and Dark Days. In their notes, Dante also writes that the Golden Boughs "have something to do with Mirror technology". [GOLDEN BOUGHS [OVERVIEW - LIMBUS COMPANY AND THE BOUGHS]:] Limbus Company seeks to collect the Golden Boughs, and the LCB department was formed specifically for this purpose. For the higher-ups, obtaining and holding on to the Boughs is of the utmost importance, to the point of Faust equating the failure of their mission to the end of the world. When the Sinners successfully retrieve a Bough, it is collected by Limbus Company's After Team and taken to the company headquarters. These Boughs are being grafted together into a singular "sapling" so that it might one day grow into a "tree" and bear an "apple". Dante possesses a Golden Bough shard within their prosthetic clock. Dante has always had this Bough in their head. This Bough grants Dante a number of abilities, such as telling Abnormalities and Distortions apart, creating Dungeons of the Fathoms, using the Sapling of Light powers, and viewing other people's memories. Dante's Bough can resonate with the other Boughs collected along their journey, which enhances the powers of their own Golden Bough, and has ignited greater outside changes like the evolution of the Peccatula. Dante also has the ability to sense the location of nearby Golden Boughs, a trait which the Sinners share when it comes to the Bough relevant to their respective

[GOLDEN BOUGHS [POWERS]:] The Golden Boughs are capable of a very wide variety of things, summed up as the capacity to "realize the thoughts or imaginations of people". They are thought to possess unimaginable power, such as the ability to create new worlds or erase concepts from the universe. Additionally, a Bough "amplifies and releases every feeling, from the hottest emotions to the warmest emotions". As of now, nothing is known about how they work. [GOLDEN BOUGHS [POWERS - FATHOMS OF THE EGO]:] Fathoms of the Ego are places or images of someone's mind made manifest through the power of Golden Boughs. Dante has the ability to peer into other people's Fathoms using the power of the Golden Bough inside of their head. In these cases, Dante is able to get a glimpse of the individual's memories as they recall them. While this has primarily occurred with the Sinners, Dante is also capable of accessing the memories of outside parties. For a long time, these visions were exclusive to Dante and the person whose memories they belonged to. However, advancements in the Golden Boughs gave Dante the ability to share these scenes with the Sinners, and other people relevant to the memories. [GOLDEN BOUGHS [POWERS - DUNGEONS OF THE FATHOMS]:] A Dungeon of the Fathoms, or Mirror Dungeon of the Fathoms, seems to be a form of the Fathoms of the Ego. It appears to refer specifically to when a Distortion's Fathoms produce a Dungeon, and does not apply to every case of the Fathoms manifesting a physical location. The major difference between physically manifested Fathoms of the Ego (e.g. Yi Sang's Reminisced League of Nine Fathoms) and Dungeons of the Fathoms (e.g. Hohenheim's Final Check-up Fathoms) appears to be that Dungeons will produce enemies to be fought within them, while Fathoms of the Ego can only be occupied by whatever real entities enter naturally. However, the recreation of real people as part of the memories seems to be an exception, as depicted in Gregor's Fathoms of the Smoke War. Additionally, all parties who enter a Dungeon of the Fathoms will be able to see the distorted's memories while inside. Dungeons of the Fathoms do not occur spontaneously, but are created by Dante. After a Dungeon is created, a door-shaped portal will appear next to the Distortion, acting as the entrance to the Dungeon. Anyone can enter through this portal. The Distortions have traditionally leapt into the portal themselves, after which the key to destroying the Mirror Dungeon of the Fathoms and bringing the distorted back to their senses is to traverse to the end of the Dungeon and defeat the Distortion in combat. [GOLDEN BOUGHS [POWERS - MISCELLANEOUS]:] Mephistopheles' engine is designed to change as the LCB retrieves new Golden Boughs. For instance, the various doors of Mephistopheles' corridor, leading to the likes of Mirror Dungeons, Refraction Railways, and Walpurgis Night scenarios, spring up due to a connection between the Backdoor and this engine. Golden Boughs naturally emit Qliphoth Deterrence. Qlipoth Deterrence is a force that weakens Abnormalities, once heavily relied on by Lobotomy Corporation. being in the presence of a Golden Bough will counteract the Pallidification effect that the Pallid Whale infects people with upon swallowing them. Golden Boughs are capable of "causing or amplifying Distortions". This seems to have occurred to both Jia Mu and Kromer. Dante has progressively unlocked new battle-helpful abilities collectively labeled Durante, or Sapling of Light. These developments are a result of Dante resonating with the Golden Bough inside of their clock. the Golden Boughs will automatically "connect" individuals who share a link to one. This is why every member of the LCB was brought down to the same base combat level after making their contract with Dante. This is also likely the reason why Dante and Heathcliff were able to retain memories of Catherine after her universe-wide erasure. [GOLDEN BOUGHS [COLLECTED]:] First Bough: To obtain this Bough, the LCB traveled through an abandoned Lobotomy Corporation branch with Yuri, Aya, and Hopkins as guides. During this trip, Gregor resonated with the Bough, showing interactive scenes of the Smoke War to his coworkers. It turned out that this Golden Bough had taken root in an Abnormality, which then ate and killed Yuri during the group's struggle against it. After the Abnormality was cut down by Gregor, Hermann, Gubo, and Jia Huan appeared, making a declaration of war before departing with the Bough. After taking this Golden Bough, the New League would later lend it to Catherine in exchange for her allowing them to make a "dough". While Catherine was already in possession of a Golden Bough, this second one was needed to help power the summoning of Every Catherine. This Bough worked as a lightning rod, transferring power from the rooftop to the other Bough attached to Catherine's coffin. Heathcliff stabbed himself with this Bough in an attempt to disrupt Erlking Heathcliff's plans, and after said Heathcliff was defeated, Nelly took the Golden Bough and returned it to Hermann. Second Bough: The LCB originally planned to obtain this Bough by making their way through the casino disguised as the Tingtang Gang. After these plans fell through, the Sinners proceeded to the top floor of the casino undisguised, where Rodya played a bidding game against Sonya, Aida, and the Tieqiu Boss. This game collapsed partway through after a cheating scandal, allowing the LCB to make their way into the vaults beneath the casino. Eventually, their group encountered Sonya by the Golden Bough, which Rodya immediately resonated with. Her fathoms took the form of a grand ice castle. After a long, personal discussion between Rodya and Sonya, the mines were thrown into chaos by an Abnormality. During the Sinners' confusion, Sonya chose to help by directing them towards the Bough, and he departed as the LCB grabbed their prize and escaped toward the bus. Third Bough: To obtain this Bough, the LCB made their way to the L Corp. branch lying beneath Sinclair's old home. The Sinners faced off against the N Corp. Inquisition during this excursion, who aimed to use the Bough to make the One Who Grips into a god. This opposing group would reach the Bough first, resulting in Kromer resonating with it and creating fathoms stacked with corpses. In these fathoms, the Sinners fought Kromer and lost. They were only saved by the surprise arrival of Demian, who killed Kromer and departed without taking the Bough, allowing the Sinners to claim it. Fourth Bough: K Corp. offered Limbus Company this Golden Bough in exchange for helping them retake their local Lobotomy Corporation branch. While K Corp. staff had once been using the branch as a research facility, it had recently been taken over by the Technology Liberation Alliance, a terrorist organization using the Bough for its Qliphoth Deterrence. After Limbus Company pushed their way through the branch and were about to be allowed to take the Golden Bough, Dongbaek showed up with the Bough in hand, and stabbed Yi Sang with it for associating with Dongrang. She then took with Bough with her as she left. When she encountered the group again later, Dongrang would take it back from her, stabbing Dongbaek with the Bough and ending her life. At this point, the Golden Bough twisted the space around them and reanimated nearby corpses, then resonated with Yi Sang. Yi Sang's fathoms were a recreation of the League of Nine in its heyday, a scenario which the Sinners had to carry out like a play. After Dongrang's death and the destruction of the fathoms, the Bough would fall into Alfonso's hands. The LCB were allowed to take it after having their memories of K Corp.'s Singularity wiped. Fifth Bough: This Bough originally resided in a Lobotomy Corporation branch within U Corp.'s section of the Great Lake. While this was being confirmed by Limbus Company's Before Team, they were jumped by Ricardo and the Twinhook Pirates. However, the Pallid Whale then arrived, lured in by the Golden Bough, and proceeded to scare everyone who could move away from the branch. Afterwards, the Pallid Whale devoured the branch, swallowing the Bough and Abnormalities while leaving the building itself behind. Once the Sinners discovered that the Golden Bough was no longer at the L Corp. branch, they tracked the Bough using Dante's personal estimation of its location. With this, the LCB entered the whale in search of the Bough, kept safe from the Pallidification using the Bough shard inside Dante's head. As it turned out, the Golden Bough was wedged in the Pallid Whale's heart. The LCB would join the members of Pequod Town on their journey to the heart, who were supposedly looking to destroy it in order to escape the whale. Ahab promised the LCB access to the Golden Bough so long as they helped her kill the Pallid Whale, and while this was ultimately an insincere deal, the Sinners managed to claim the Bough after Ishmael pierced the whale's heart and the Indigo Elder gave them a means to escape. Sixth Bough: This Bough originally resided in the District 20 Lobotomy Corporation branch. However, as Catherine fell victim to Mirror technology and set her mind on summoning Every Catherine to her world, she discovered that a Golden Bough would be necessary for the summoning. To this end, she acquired the local Bough by having Linton buy it for her. This Golden Bough was attached to her coffin for the procedure. It gained power through the other Bough on the rooftop, which upon being struck by lightning seven times, would overwrite Catherine with Every Catherine. As described in her will, Catherine intended to leave Heathcliff this Golden Bough after the summoning was successful. In the end, the strain of the summoning left the Golden Bough burnt white. While the LCB managed to retrieve it, it is unclear as to whether this Bough even has any more use. Seventh Bough: Two months before the LCB arrived, Sansón entered La Manchaland with a Golden Bough in hand. He "gifted" this Bough to the Manchegan Bloodfiends by stabbing Don Quixote with it, stating that Sancho would eventually come to collect it from him. While nothing confirms where Sansón obtained this Bough, it's known that La Manchaland happened to spawn on top of the District 16 Lobotomy Corporation branch upon its reopening. Limbus Company staff later contacted Cesara and struck a deal, which allowed the LCB access to this Golden Bough in exchange for them bringing her the creator of La Manchaland. Ultimately, the Sinners defeated the First Kindred Don Quixote, and claimed the Bough without issue after Don Quixote's corpse was handed over to P Corp. Eighth Bough: This Golden Bough was stored in the Daguanyuan treasury, presumably taken from District 8's Lobotomy Corporation branch. Because it was possible to obtain an item from the treasury by placing in the top ten in the Family Hierarch Evaluation, Hong Lu was tasked with ranking high and securing the Bough for Limbus Company. Eventually, he managed second place, and the LCB would arrive at Daguanyuan's Tiekan Temple to claim their Bough and save Jia Xichun from trouble. At one point it was thought that Jia Huan was also competing for the Bough, but this turned out to be untrue. At the temple, Jia Mu presented the LCB with the Golden Bough, but Hong Lu rejected it following the realization that accepting it would mean throwing away Xichun's future. Jia Mu would then challenge them to battle in retaliation, stabbing herself with the Bough to glean power from it. This assimilation would soon result in her distorting. After the Sinners successfully defeated Jia Mu and flooded the temple, they were able to grab the Golden Bough in the midst of the chaos. Ninth Bough: This Golden Bough was stored in the Sisyphe Tower, presumably taken from District 14's Lobotomy Corporation branch. Following the demise of the Giant of Le Rouge and the inability to find a replacement, N Corp was forced to use a Golden Bough to keep the simulation running. As a consequence of this, Carmen, the Voice of the Distortion is able to infiltrate the mental prison and cause its inmate to Distort, including its Architect. Carmen's inner thoughts and musings were also scattered throughout the Grand Magasin Sisyphe. Eventually, Meursault is able to destroy the prison by prying the Golden Bough out from Jeanne's Distorted avatar, reverting her to human and causing her to fall comatose. This winds up having a massive domino effect that is implied to cause the Second Smoke War foretold by A Certain Sinclair. [THE SIGN:] The Sign is a mysterious "mark" which manifests on the bearer's forehead. It is only visible to a select number of people. The mark is considered a powerful symbol of those that are "special" and supplies each of its bearers with a unique power. [THE SIGN [OVERVIEW]:] The Sign is a bright red symbol possessed by only a select few people. Among these individuals, the Sign is considered to be a signifier of laudable traits, such as great potential, specialness, and competent leadership. One can see the mark if they have "what it takes to lead", which is not definitively the same thing as possessing or having the potential to manifest a Sign. As of now, everyone who is confirmed to possess a Sign is shown to see the other Signs, but not everyone who can see the other Signs is confirmed to possess a mark. The Sign is made up of three red strokes, although the design is distinct across bearers. Manifesting all three strokes is considered "fully awakening" to one's Sign, and is the point at which the bearer can utilize its powers. It is revealed that Sinclair's Sign gives him the ability to summon versions of himself from potential futures. The conversation also reveals that the bestowed powers of the Sign differ from person to person. The Sign appears to visibly manifest whenever its user taps into their strengths, however, Sign bearers have also spotted it on one another's foreheads during random, uneventful occasions. The true nature of the Sign is unknown and largely shrouded in mystery. Researchers at the LCE are attempting to understand how the Sign works and where it comes from, but to very minimal success. Their working theory is that the Sign has an origin comparable to Singularities and Relics. [THE SIGN [BEARERS OF THE SIGN - CONFIRMED]:] Demian - Unconfirmed power, possibly related to his ability to wield Shin and Mang. Rim - Unknown power. Sansón - Unconfirmed power, possibly the ability to construct and manipulate "plays" as seen in during the LCB’s mission in P Corp. Sonya - Unknown power. Sinclair - Allows him to call forth a version of himself from a potential future. [THE SIGN [BEARERS OF THE SIGN - IMPLIED]:] Dante - Dante has always been able to see the Signs like Sign-bearers can. Bari - Sinclair's parallels to Bari and reasons for taking on her role in Sansón's plays are both introduced in the context of his Sign. “A few