Factor

In thaumaturgy, a factor is a spoken word or symbol, which represents a predefined physical action, process or thing. Factors are words which are deliberately meaningless in any human languageplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigLanguages

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. In Rasian thaumaturgy, factors are constructed from a standard set of syllables or morphemes.

Individual thaumaturges can train their prime to associate any kind of word with any kind of thing, but in practice they use a set of standardised factors to prevent confusion.