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Card #c817IR // #c817Verbatim excerpt
Neuro from the nerves, the silver paths. Romancer. Necromancer. I call up the dead. But no, my friend, I am the dead, and their land.

— Source: Neuromancer (William Gibson)

[Use when]

Use when a power introduces itself. Let it claim to be the landscape, not a visitor in it.

[Why it matters]

The AI names itself as both necromancer and underworld. It does not traffic with the dead; it is the place they live. Identity claimed as territory.

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