•	Why is an alternate function necessary?
o	To understand the workings of such tools, both the reader and the writer must understand them.
•	What is the purpose of the existence of any function within that world?
o	To create a parallel in this and that world.
o	To have something that is true both in this world and that other one world, but is amplified in appearance so that it can be more easily recognized even after the reader puts that world down.
o	To inspire fantastical wonder in people when they learn about this world after having learned about that book.
o	The alternate function is not a metaphor, it is a framework for any metaphor.
•	What are ultimate facts that must be true about it?
o	The treatment of such tools must be equal to the treatment of technology in this world.
o	To create and maintain such tools, three things must exist:
	The skill of the craft to create the tool
	The understanding of the portion of the world affected by that tool
	The underlying principles of how these material things are connected via the immaterial
•	To make such a tool is to create something that is closer to the divine state the world yearns for
o	Imitation of usage can lead to imitation of effect, but not reproduction.
	An imitation cannot be expanded upon or altered.
	To expand or alter the tool, understanding must exist in the one doing that.
o	To use such tools, less knowledge is necessary.
o	Any such tool can take any shape, as long as that shape is one of an already existing object.
o	The usage of such a tool mimics the usage of the object.
o	Language is a tool.
o	There is no accidental tool, only recognized tools.
o	The effect's nature is always intended and understood by those crafting such a tool.
o	The effect must be reaffirmed in such a tool through innate association.
	This means that if a tool to control a n element of the world is created using that element, the effect is strengthened.
•	Can a scroll be such a tool? Can a book? What is their normal usage?
o	To record or acquire knowledge. These would then be limited to transfer of information, potentially to communicate over long distances.
o	Alternatively, they can be used to issue commands, such an object could be used for domination. Domination of what? Minds? Would they have their own language?
	Most likely. Language is a tool to externalize thought, therefore, such a tool could be sued to externalize a thought into effect.
	Different languages are capable of different things in different manners.
o	Scrolls and books can be used to store information. Can they be used to store other things?
	That would mean that such tools are not just able to do things in an especially good manner, but also do their job to things not usually associated with it.
•	Could this be the distinction between such a tool and a spell?
o	Absolutely!
•	A spell is a tool that can do things usually not associated with that tool's mundane form
o	A cloak of invisibility is not a spell, since most cloaks can be used to disguise or obfuscate
o	A cloak of flying is a spell, since cloaks cannot grant flight, wings can.
	A cloak of flying would therefore require feathers of wings to be made.