Combat Profile
Unification
merges opposing forces into perfect equilibrium, temporarily granting allies immunity to elemental contradictions and paradoxes.
Hermaphroditic Balance
all damage taken is split evenly between physical and spiritual, and all healing applied affects both body and spirit simultaneously.
Exists only after the Chemical Wedding -- cannot be manufactured, forced, or faked; any attempt to create the Rebis without genuine transformation produces a monstrous parody
“There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” — Galatians 3:28
Lore: The Rebis (from res bina — “double matter”) is the most striking image in alchemy: a single figure with a male and female head, standing on a dragon or a winged globe, holding sun and moon. It is the Philosopher’s Stone in personified form — the result of the coniunctio, the union of every pair of opposites. Masculine and feminine, sun and moon, sulfur and mercury, conscious and unconscious, spirit and matter — all reconciled in a single being. The Rebis is not a compromise between opposites; it is their transcendence. Both principles survive fully, but they no longer oppose each other.
Parallel: Genesis 1:27 — “Male and female he created them” — humanity as originally one, before the separation. Galatians 3:28 — “Neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” The eschatological hope that all divisions will be healed. The coincidentia oppositorum (coincidence of opposites) in Nicholas of Cusa’s theology — God as the union of all contradictions. The New Jerusalem where heaven and earth, God and humanity, finally become one (Revelation 21:1-3).
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Nothing within the alchemical system -- the Rebis is the goal achieved; only the separation of what has been united can destroy it
*Rosarium Philosophorum*; *Splendor Solis*; Heinrich Khunrath, *Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae* (1595)
