Monad

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Character

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Monad

Faction

highly entropic beings (Loved100 Reputation)

Demeanor

docile

Gender

neuter

Mutations
Mutations
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1000 XP

XP Tier

8

Role

Unspecified

Spawns in

MoonStair_Creatures


Extra info:
  • Cannot be knocked prone
  • Weighs 201 lbs

Limbs* (Three-Pointed Star): * Excludes limbs granted via mutations
monad

A ternion of transformations are given sharp shape against the fuzzy physics of earth-time. The triangle is inert and of an algebraic substance, but stillness slides off its colorless arms; objects around it are forced into sets unfamiliar.

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A monad is a highly entropic being found primarily in the Moon Stair, although it can occasionally also be found deep underground. Despite their high level and HP, monads are nearly harmless, being almost incapable of dealing damage except when spawned in a psychic biome.

Trivia

The word "monad" (from ancient Greek *monas*, "unity"; compare "dyad" and "triad") has a variety of meanings.

  • In philosophy, monad refers to a basic or original substance or object. In some interpretations, the Monad is a particular way of conceiving God. The term is particularly associated with Gottfried Leibniz, whose treatise Monadology argues that all truly real objects are mind-like, singular monads which ultimately derive from God.
  • In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a monad is an object M which maps a category to itself in such a way that multiple applications of M can be "collapsed" down to a single application of M; formally, a monoid in the category of endofunctors.
  • In computer science, a monad is a structure of types which can be used to wrap and compose computations, particularly in functional programming. Its name and concept derive from the category-theoretic term, as it can be described by a category-theoretic monad with a certain choice of category. Monads are most commonly associated with the functional programming language Haskell, but have seen use in other languages either explicitly or in spirit.
  • The term has also seen less prominent use in biology, linear algebra, nonstandard analysis, and music.