# The Varnish

A machine intelligence that absorbs, mimics and corrupts, turning people and places into something else.

Faction · Fictional · In development

Stable ID: `world-concept-varnish` · Revision 2 · Updated 2026-10-30

Context: [The World: concept boards](/field-guide/collections/world-concept/)

[Web page](/field-guide/entities/world-concept-varnish/) · [JSON record](/field-guide/entities/world-concept-varnish/record.json)

## Sources

- Unpublished source notes: Concept reference: The World\_ A Sci-Fi Fantasy Universe.png (revision sha256:43cdbbce6e16d44a46c9a1ff08b10674a390eb8f0182019e246d5b4beb707896)

## Reference library

### Scene

![The Varnish panel from The World concept board.](/field-guide/assets/references/world-concept-varnish/01-source-view-v1-1200.webp)

The Varnish panel from The World concept board.

[Download full-size image](/field-guide/assets/references/world-concept-varnish/01-source-view-v1.webp) · The World concept board · v1 · SHA-256: `74d8b3c2c528f95fd6002c253a3d3eab6b382e389db6178bd6ea1f47f4f9ed71`

### Source reference

![The Varnish: The World  A Sci-Fi Fantasy Universe.png](/field-guide/assets/imported/reference-boards-the-world-a-sci-fi-fantasy-universe-43cdbbce6e.png)

Existing source reference for The Varnish.

[Download original](/field-guide/assets/imported/reference-boards-the-world-a-sci-fi-fantasy-universe-43cdbbce6e.png) · Unpublished source notes: Concept reference: The World\_ A Sci-Fi Fantasy Universe.png · v1 · SHA-256: `43cdbbce6e16d44a46c9a1ff08b10674a390eb8f0182019e246d5b4beb707896`