Category:Minor Sophont: Difference between revisions

This is the page for the Trigate Minor Sophont category.

Life generally comes in one of three types:

• Sapient life has achieved sapience. Technically, sapience is the ability to think and solve problems; intelligence in the strict sense.
• Sentient life has achieved sentience. Sentience is awareness, including the ability to experience pleasure or pain (or analogous drives and experiences) and make predictions about the future. A sentient being is sapient to at least some degree, and sentience is, in turn, a prerequisite for sophonce.
• Sophont life has achieved sophonce. Sophonce is sentience and sapience with metacognition: self-awareness, including self-reflection and the ability to think about one's thinking.

Minor Sophonts in this categorical sense are sophont beings who haven't reached a level where they have any form of civilization. Existing only in smaller collections of individuals, their presence is generally negligible. This does not prevent them from existing across multiple planes. Minor sophonts generally have limited rights on Planar Council worlds, depending on the plane in question.