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+==== Intelligence ====
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+An individual incar is slightly more intelligent than a dog. It can feed and care for itself and although it is more difficult, it can reproduce. Win individual incar come together and bond as The Incar its intelligence increases. A score of incar acting as The Incar are as intelligent as any sentient higher order being ([[creatures:human]], [[creatures:dwarf]], [[creatures:elf]], etc.). An Incar comprised of a hundred incar could challenge the intelligence if the smartest beings on [[atlas:Miranda]].
+An incar is like a very simply machine. If there is only one then the incar must do all of the work. If there are thousands then each incar can contribute to the whole. This works because an incar that stays within The Incar can work in parallel to accomplish tasks. It can operate on many problems at once and reach a conclusion very quickly.
+==== Reproduction ====
+The Incar are fashioned from an alloy of [[wp>Palladium]], Silver, and Gold that nobody has been able to reproduce - even when the Grand Forge Masters watched Nathan make the alloy they could not duplicate his alloy. The Incar themselves can create the alloy; although it requires a great deal of magical energy for them to do so and they use their own body as a catalyst. This is how they reproduce.
+When The Incar have enough magical energy they will begin to search for the necessary materials to increase The Incar. As most of an individual incar is fashioned from Palladium, The Incar must find sufficient quantities of the metal to reproduce. The remaining metals within the alloy all come from the existing Incar. When they gather enough of the metal many of the individual incar will form together, each giving magical energy and metal for the alloy. When it is done a new incar will be formed - and immediately become part of The Incar.
+==== Death ====
+An incar cannot truly die, but they can reach a state where they do not have a sufficient amount of magical energy to keep themselves mobile. Without enough magical energy each incar will enter a torpor state as cold-blooded animals do when they do not have enough sun. If the magical energy continues to fade then individual incar will begin absorbing other individuals so that The Incar may survive.
+The only method to kill an individual incar is to cut it completely off from any source of magic. This would eventually starve the incar until it enters a complete hibernation, instead of the torpor state. Once the incar is hibernating the allow of their body would have to be destroyed - unmade in a very high heat furnace.
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