Talismans is a collection of on-chain amulets — a fixed genesis of 1,536 unique tokens at the mint, struck as two poles in balance: matter and event. Myth, the third essence, is never minted — holders forge it by crossing the two. The count then fluctuates as holders transform them. Each Talisman is a set of one to eight cores; its material, form, and look are all derived from that set. Four reversible operations rearrange those cores without ever creating or destroying one — so the cores are conserved and the collection is always recoverable.