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Usually, the Genius Loci has [[Shapeshifting|some control over its own form]], and uses that control to communicate with the other characters. [[Mobile Maze|Alternately, it can]] [[Closed Circle|trap them]] in [[Alien Geometries]] and torment them with [[Living Memory|Living Memories]] for [[The Lost Woods|shoots]] and giggles. It can be a [[Hive Mind]] formed from the various organic life-forms that inhabit a place, a nonphysical being [[Demonic Possession|possessing the area itself]], a mythological spirit of a locale, or a computer system laced through the brick and stone. It can be helpful, neutral, or antagonistic.
The name comes from the [[Altum Videtur|Latin]]<ref>Which means the plural is designed to break your mind. For more than one mind of a single place, ''Genii Loci''; for a single mind that covers more than one place, ''Genius Locorum''; for multiple minds, each with its own place, ''Genii Locorum''. Latin is dead because someone took it out and shot it.</ref> for "spirit of a place", originally a location's protective guardian spirit. This definition had become pediantric in modern fiction, where a Genius Loci ''is'' the place itself; for example, if the Genius Loci is a planet, then every part of that planet, including forests, mountains, bodies of water, possibly even plant life and the atmosphere, is all part of its actual body. Whether that means it is a giant [[Elemental Embodiment]], a [[Silicon-Based Life]], or an organic being that resembles inorganic material, is all dependent on the work.
Contrast with the non-tangible but often similar [[Sentient Cosmic Force]]. Compare [[Sapient Ship]], [[That's No Moon]], [[Anthropomorphic Personification]], [[The Lost Woods]], [[Fisher King]], [[Fisher Kingdom]], and [[Smart House]]. May overlap with [[Environmental Symbolism]] or [[Eldritch Location]].
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