Editing Ancient

'''Ancient''' or simply '''Old''' is a term for beings, Others or Practitioners, that have been around for a while.

==Particulars==
Being a distinct entity for a long time lends the reinforcement of [[Pattern]]. but it can also be stultifying.<ref>“If I may?” Guilherme rumbled.  He was so quiet, sitting on the corner of the roof, in the dark, it was easy to forget him, even though he was large.<br><br>“Of course, sir,” Rook said.<br><br>“You have fought a hundred of these battles.  The pattern is nearly set.  I know of this sort of thing quite well.  Longevity hardens, and it draws things to a razor point, and the sharpest points are the easiest to break.  But your pattern, it includes another option.  You’ve told us of two wars you won, where those realms and groups fell to pieces soon after the so-called victory.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/03/15 Excerpt] from [[Gone and Done It]]</ref>

Some Others will be old by definition, though as with everything there are exceptions; winter fae are meant to be immortal beings that have nothing more to do, played out all their stories, sometimes though a damaged fae is taken into winter.
==known examples ==
*[[Alabaster Doe]] of Ontario<!--before people came as one of her flock said-->
*[[Mara Angnakak]] of [[Jacob's Bell]]<!--came over in a grass raft.-->
*[[Conquest]] of Toronto<ref>“I wouldn’t imagine Conquest is a great fit for Toronto,” I said.<br><br>“It was, once.  The English presence in North America is young, and Others can be very old.  For some, it wasn’t long ago at all that we wiped out the Aboriginal people and took their land.  It wasn’t long ago that there was war over what European country would claim sovereignty over this land.  Toronto was a site in the war of eighteen-twelve, and Conquest continued to gain power after it was released, with immigrants coming in to reaffirm the invader’s claim to the land.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/03/04  Excerpt] from [[Collateral 4.1]]</ref>
* [[The Beorgmann]]<ref name=blah>[[Left in the Dust 16.y]]</ref><ref>[[Wild Abandon 18.8]]</ref> of the Nipigon region
*[[Talbot]]<ref name=blah/>
*[[Tenmercy]]<ref>She had a sense of who and what he was, because it was adjacent to the standard peddler dealio.  If peddlers were caveat emptor shop owners who sold cursed items that would see the buyer suffer, harvest energies or whatever, then ship it back to the seller, then Toymakers were a similar thing without the shop.  They just made the cursed items and sent them out into the world or planted them to be found.  Simpler.  Maybe older.  Sometimes they sold to peddlers as a business relationship. [...] Let me hang up my hat as a cursewright for good- I do think you seem to know what I do, so I’ll stop pretending. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/12/06 Excerpt] from [[Hard Pass 22.1]]</ref> transient
*[[Ghoul]] Trio<ref>Another set of contestants.  Three female ghouls.  Old.<br><br>“I challenge you not to combat, Anthem Woodward Tedd,” the oldest of the three ghouls said.  “But to questions of history.”<br><br>“And I challenge you to combat,” he answered.  “You can ask your questions, I’ll hack at you with blades and shoot you with guns.  We’ll see who comes out ahead.”<br><br>“You weaken your claim.”<br><br>“I fight well enough I don’t need to worry about that.  Do you accept my challenge of combat?”<br><br>All three shook their heads.<br><br>“Will you stand down, then?”<br><br>“Will you allow us our hunting grounds?”<br><br>“If you’ll work my council and the council of any who succeed me.”<br><br>All three nodded. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/26 Excerpt] from [[Fall Out 14.z]]</ref> near [[Thunder Bay]].
*[[Ted Havens]] of Prince Edward's Island
===Usual examples===
*[[Giant]]s
*[[Trussed]]

==Trivia==
*These entities operate on a scale of [[Wikipedia:Deep Time|deep time]], where it would not be wrong to say they know what continental drift looks like
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