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Sila

Inuit Pre-contact Inuit and Yupik tradition across the circumpolar Arctic; attested in ethnographic records from Rasmussen (1921-1924) onward Circumpolar — Canadian Arctic (Nunavut, Northwest Territories), Alaska, Greenland; the concept appears across all Inuit and Yupik linguistic communities
Portrait of Sila
Portrait of Sila
Period Pre-contact Inuit and Yupik tradition across the circumpolar Arctic; attested in ethnographic records from Rasmussen (1921-1924) onward
Power COMMON 9

Attributes

ATK
6
DEF
7
SPR
10
SPD
10
INT
10
CHA
—
WIS
—
END
—

Combat Profile

ATK DEF SPR SPD INT CHA WIS END
Special Move

Breath of Existence

Sila speaks reality into being, reshaping weather and fate with divine utterance that mortals cannot fully comprehend.

Passive

Omniscient Witness

Sila perceives all events across the Arctic simultaneously and exists beyond mortal understanding, granting immunity to deception and illusion.

Spirit | Inuit

The spirit of air, consciousness, and weather in Inuit cosmology; not a personal deity but the animating intelligence pervading all of existence; experienced in wind, storms, and thought. Sila is the closest the Inuit tradition comes to a concept of God as universal ground of being — but it is not personal, not a figure to pray to, only a presence to listen to. The word also means “intelligence” or “awareness” in many Inuit languages.

Parallels: Pneuma (Greek Stoic — divine breath pervading all), Brahman (Hindu — universal ground of being), Tao (Chinese — the Way underlying all things), the Holy Spirit (Christian — divine breath/presence) See also: Raven, Angakkuq, Aningaaq

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Pre-contact Inuit and Yupik tradition across the circumpolar Arctic; attested in ethnographic records from Rasmussen (1921-1924) onward — See in timeline
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