Carner Institute Inventory Entry: Gankgo ratio and Gestum novultis

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Gankgo ratio
Material: Organic
Purpose: Life
Location of Discovery: Doburty Valley, Talsara
Anomaly Classification: Augmentation Anomaly
Anomaly Variant: Fatidical Intervention

A herb native to the Doburty Valley. Appearance is usually as a small bulb made of smaller leaves, average size ranges between 7-19 mm and they like to grow in tight bunches. Their appearance and texture could have one confuse it for moss if they are not observing it closely.

The herb is high in material that have cognitive assisting properties. When the contents of the herb enter the body, it has direct effects on the cortex and specifically memories. While a small amount may offer some assistance, a large intake is when effects become more apparent. It has been used for millennia in assistance with diseases such as Alzheimers and dementia and is a common dietary supplement once one enters their older years.

The effects of the gankgo ratio plant can alter based on how one prepares the plant. If prepared in high enough doses, it can bring to the forefront particular episodic memories. The drug Nostal is a popular application of the plant and gives users strong and vibrant flashback memories.

Under the right preparations, however, it can also enhance cortex functions in semantic memories and directly improve on pattern recognition. The cortex's ability to access memories and use them in pattern recognition are made stronger and can be like if you have 10 people combining their pattern recognition skills into one person. That allows a user to have much stronger deductive abilities and can make more accurate assumptions based on the information granted to them.

A well known example is the figure of Anya Monohein whom many believed to be a prophet and predicted the future. Through her use of gankgo ratio, her ability to recognize patterns and predict how patterns would play out were more right than not and led people to believe she could see the future.

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Gestum novultis
Material: Organic
Purpose: Life
Location of Discovery: Doburty Valley, Talsara
Anomaly Classification: Augmentation Anomaly
Anomaly Variant: Facsimilic Alteration

A plant native to the Doburty Valley. While the Gestum genus is widespread throughout the north shore, tge species of novultis is quite rare to find beyond the valley. Gestum plants are parasitic and engage in horizontal gene transfer, stealing and incorporating the DNA of other plants into their own to allow for further parasitism.

Gestum novultis' uniqueness comes from its ability to not only steal DNA from its host but inject some of its own DNA into the host. This is used to weaken the immune response of the host, but novultis has been found to be used in another way. When prepared properly, a person can exploit the ability of the plant's injection of its DNA into others for their own purposes. The plant's ability to be exploited in this manner has found use in genetic engineering and has been shown, in at least one case, to induce an (almost) natural process of cloning.

While the genetic engineering is applicable to fully formed organisms, it is most efficient at alteration with undeveloped organisms, this mainly being fetuses and zygotes. If a pregnant organism mixes their DNA with a concoction of gestum novultis and inject it into themselves, they can give birth to what could be seen as a twin of themselves. The serum directly attacks the child's DNA to bring it in line with the serum's DNA, replicating in the child many similar aspects of the host DNA, from bodily functions to physical appearance and even brain structure.

The famous case of this was with Anya Monohein. The original Anya, who was active in the early 1800s, used this meathod to make her daughter a twin to her, who in turn did the same with her daughter and this continued on, stunningly having still an almost identical resemblance and biology today. This practice was kept secret and was used by the family to convince the public that Anya Monohein had discovered a ritual for eternal youth. While many believed that the currently living Anya was the original and was centuries old now, the reality is that the Anya of today is but the 5th twin in a line of ancestral Anyas.

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