Category:Sophont

This is the page for the Trigate Medium 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.

"Medium Sophonts" in Trigate parlance are sophont beings who haven't developed their own societies to a point where they could be classified as a civilization. In this sense, none of them are the rulers of a Plane or any of its constituent political bodies. The Planar Council generally refuses to accept more than a single Major Sophont per Plane, meaning that even if there other beings with a civilization on a Plane they would be classified as a Medium Sophont instead.