Editing Animus (section)

==Known varieties==
===Challenger===
A hypothetical category for anima that challenges someone with a specific role or profession.

*Champion - Subordinate to the incarnation Battle, all about fighting which means assessment and combat ability and more,<ref>
:'''Aloysius''' takes a Champion for a familiar, Adonis Johnson, a moderate-tier Animus that had spent his prior existence wandering the world to find the best people to fight with. Johnson’s roots are in the incarnate, serving Battle, but he himself is essentially physical and could be mistaken for human. His expression of power is through his innate awarenesses and talents, and should Aloysius feed Johnson with power, the familiar would exaggerate his ability to assess enemies, sense raw fighting potential, would fight better, and would be better able to rise to any challenges. That same conduit of power can flow the other way, serving Johnson’s power by assisting him in his duties even though he is ‘free’ of those duties so long as he is a familiar will give the Animus power. His underlying purpose is to remind the great fighters that anyone can lose, so defeating the powerful will serve to fill the well of power that both Aloysius and Johnson draw on. Should Aloysius require it, he may draw on the connection and express a few Champion powers and abilities like those described above, albeit through the lens of Aloysius as a person. - excerpt from [[Famulus]], quoted in [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/29 Bonus Material: Famulus Text]</ref> a Pugilist who seeks out and defeats powerful fighters would likely be an example.<ref name=":2"/>
**Adonis Johnson, a moderate-tier example.
*[[Keeper]] - While it is unknown if they are anima they certainly oppose the efforts of collectors and other practitioners who work in Magic Items.
*[[Leathermen]] - Those who test the character of people through the offer of certain resources.<ref>[https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/08/07/summer-break-13-2/ Excerpt] from [[Summer Break 13.2]]</ref>
*Nemesis - a theoretical animus that exists to match and counter a specific exceptional person,<ref name=":2" /> brought up during a discussion.
*"Sportsman - races people on vehicles like a snowboard, sometime causing "overconfident types" to get hurt as they push themselves too far to win.<ref>To Verona’s Sight, [Zip] was gauze and gossamer, with no meat… until he pulled his snowboard out of the truck.  The equipment was meaty.<br>[...]<br>“What do you see?”<br><br>“Shards and splatter.  Like people got hurt near or around him.”<br>[...]<br>“Zip.  I race people.”<br><br>“Animus?” Verona asked.<br><br>“I don’t know.  I race people.”<br><br>“And they get hurt?” Lucy asked.  “It’s happened before, hasn’t it?”<br><br>“Sure.  Not my fault though.  Overconfident types, not used to losing, they push things too far, trying to win.  It’s only been a few times, and I’ve been doing this for decades.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/28 Excerpt] from [[Crossed with Silver 19.1]]</ref> Theoretically a subtype of the Challenger Animus.
**Zip, a Snowboarder
===City Personifications===
Tied closely with [[City Mage|City Magic]], such anima are representations of the people and the cities they personify.<ref>When we left that day it was with the added company of Kennet’s Anima Corporeal. The spirit of the city made flesh. <br>[...]<br> I could imagine the city or township spirit taking over the council– many city spirits are in fact Lords and trade on the power of how distinct their city’s image is. <br>[...]<br>At the same time however Ken is our town in totality… including parts I don’t tend to grapple with. I knew those parts existed because of the customer service side of my work at Buckheed but now I face it daily. In lieu of family Ken turns his focus to tiredly minding the spirits of Kennet. He does have a drinking problem. He does have a drug problem. These things are (usually) background.<br><br>If Lis is the average of a small group then Ken is that stretched out to Kennet as a whole. The dynamics and effects are similar but reversed: Lis extends herself out and Ken can (if he wants) divide himself down into rough regions.<br>[...]<br>More than anything however is that Ken cares about the people and well being of the town - [8.7 Spoilers:] [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/02/04 New Other Correspondence]</ref> Useful and diverse they have drawbacks to their use as does everything. Importantly a personification does not have the manifest as an animus, as it can take other forms such as purely spiritual.<ref>Too many bad things happen if an old practitioner f- messes up, and other practitioners don’t know they’re dead or worse, when they had responsibilities we were all counting on them to do. [...] Like the perimeters. Like protecting a population, or a specific object that would be catastrophic in the hands of the wrong Others. Spirits can manifest as representations of a major city. What happens to that human representation of Windsor can be extrapolated out to the city in general. Just imagine what happens if that manifestation becomes regular, and goblins get their hands on it.”<br><br>“Or the wrong practitioners,” Lucy said.<br><br>“Or- yeah. Probably more likely to happen, even.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/12 Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.4]]</ref> They'll generally be ignorant of practice, as they tend to represent [[innocent]] populations.<ref>You call on the city spirit, thinking that your textbooks say that they’re oblivious, preoccupied, average in intelligence.”<br><br>“And you’re not.”<br>[...]<br>“Most are oblivious about practice because they represent towns that are oblivous about practice.  But… here we are.  Two boys go looking for a haunted arcade the teenagers at the high school have been talking about, and find the Trenchcoat Mouse.  Magic creeps in.  Everyone in this town has noticed things.  The weird moon, the row of stone penises by the water, the rumors of haunting downtown, from our big influx of wraiths and spirits.  Something feels ''off'' to them.  The way it was so hard to get back in, easy to leave.”<br><br>“And you represent that increasing awareness.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/21 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.y]]</ref>  
*[[Ken]] of [[Kennet]]
*The [[Alabaster Assembly]] of Ontario

===The Dogs of War===
''Main article: [[Dog of War]]''<br>
Their purpose are to wage/perpetuate/exemplify a particular conflict.<ref name=":0">“The Carmine Beast predated us,” the Aurum said. “But not the Alabaster Doe.”<br><br>“She was an Animus, a walking intent,” the Alabaster said. “Much as your Dog of War is one.”<br><br>“I- I’m not familiar with that.”<br><br>“Forces between spirit and incarnation that exist for purpose. Often malign, but not always. Physical. They are defined by the task they accomplish. The Swordbearer animus exists to find the noble and heroic, equip them, and send them on their path. The Dog of War exists to perpetuate the senselessness of war. Muses inspire art.”<br><br>What did she do?”<br><br>“Before she was the Carmine Beast, she reminded civilized men who had come here why their ancestors were so afraid of the deep night,” the Alabaster said. “Henhouses emptied, livestock slaughtered. Howling that shook hearts, and fangs that took the lives of people who were in the midst of discovering just how dark a forest can be without the torches, candles and lamps of a nearby city.”<br><br>“Was she evil? I know we asked, but- before?”<br><br>“She wasn’t good or evil so much as she simply ''was''. Just as she ''was'' the Carmine Beast. The role precedes all.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/18 Excerpt] from [[Leaving a Mark 4.1]]</ref><ref>[Dogs of War] are technically Animus; spirits with form and motive action, perpetuating war by their manner of being.<br>[...]<br>As Animus, [Dogs of War] are weak to things that are especially effective against incorporeal things, to the extent that battlefield superstitions can delay them or give them cause to move on to other targets - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q8ziRjPoK-8ctEKjdVzq2CNEydvG5IV308l3t1yWPFY Pact Dice Bestiary: Dog Tags]</ref>
===Hangmaiden and Related===
''Main article: [[Hangmaiden]]''

Based around the trope of fate and relationships, variants might tap into other things like poisoned hierarchies or societal rot bringing in exploiters.<ref>[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V0-qY4mGnIEVvIPyroylrCFAl6AT3TyZqDnOvDQqNhE HANGMAIDENS] by Wildbow</ref>
* [[Coiled]]
* [[Fisherwoman]]
==="greater anima"===
Those that are set above common anima
* High Perversions<ref>''“Amusement,”'' Schartzmugel replied.  “''Food.''”<br><br>“So you do feed off of this?”<br><br>''“Others come.  To exploit, to eat, to ruin.  I eat the ones who don’t run from the sight of me.”''<br>[...]<br>“''A High Perversion.'' [...] ''“There are spirits, shapeless, dull.  There are animus, solid spirits, concepts given drive.  To fight.  To collect.  To watch.  To answer.  They relate.'' [...] ''There are greater spirits.  Still shapeless, less dull.  And there are greater animus.  Concepts given more drive.”'' [...] ''I will spend myself to create a new height of perversion.  But that comes later.”'' - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/02/22 Excerpt] from [[Gone and Done It 17.b]]</ref> - They pray on those that would take advantage of the various perversions the innocent create, and will try to raise the level of perversion the universe experiences, spending themselves in the creation of it.
* High Fathoms<ref>- Wildbow on Reddit</ref> - Tied into fear and knowledge but otherwise similar to perversions.
===Hysteria===
A diffuse animus that affects numerous people.<ref>Lauren picked things up again, “He’s not locked to one place.  He can appear and disappear.  My education was limited.  One-note, but the nonsensical part of it, he’s silly, dream-like.  Lost?  Or Anima something?”<br><br>“You might be thinking of Anima Hysteria or something like that. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/09/14 Excerpt] from Break 3</ref>
===Muse===
*Muse - purpose is to inspire art,<ref name=":0"/> able to perform the arts at the highest human tier even if it isn't their "specialty".
===Observer===
Those who watch; who see the events that could become important, have an [[Wikipedia:Observer Effect|effect by existing]], may answer to some [[Greater Power]] depending.<ref name=ob>'''Observers'''<br><br>The Observer is an Animus, a spirit given flesh and drive to singular ends, and is often seen as a harbinger (not [[Harbinger]]) of ill tidings and catastrophe. In truth, however, they take the form of mortals who remain a step away from things, watching from a distance and often from places that are hard to immediately access (such as the far side of a chicken wire fence or a window). They study events by a system that only they truly understand, sometimes focusing on tertiary players in the grand scheme of things, rather than the people or objects closer to the primary event. The primary event, in any case, is a catastrophe, great moment in history, or something important to the ambient spirits that warrants a more focused eye on events than their ambient awareness can provide. The Observer is often neutral, expressionless, and avoids taking actual part in the events, except perhaps to take items of apparent inconsequential value. Because of the nature of the events they observe, those observed are almost always jumpy or aware something is off, so the Observer may end up having small effects in the course of events as they amplify paranoia or serve as red herrings themselves.<br><br>The events can include the formation of non-practice cults and religions (including masonic lodges or fraternities that are breaking new ground), the testing of new science, networks of criminal activity forming in the background of suburbia or broader institutions (such as academia or law), the performance of new major and untested rituals, the subversion of City, Hero, bloodline, or other forms of subtle Order, and freak disasters, natural or manmade. They may or may not have an apparent or obvious supervisor to whom they report, and it may be their role to provide exposition to the group or individuals that higher powers assign to the issue at hand, if they see fit to intervene. - Wildbow on Discord</ref><ref>Others gathered behind.  A crowd of what appeared to be spirits, and people with a weird look to them.  Once Verona connected the thought of spirit and people with very specific styles, she recognized them as Animus spirits.  Like Dog Tags or Librarians.<br>[...]<br>One of the animus spirits stepped forward, looking up.  A little boy with binoculars. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/11/26 Excerpt] from [[In Absentia 21.13]]</ref>

===Predator===
These [[Carmine Beast|Unnamed beasts]] entire purpose is to remind people, the settlers and indigenous both located in [[North America]], of the terrors of the wilderness.<ref name=":0"/>
===Role===
A category meaning those who exemplify a given position or job, may also challenge someone as a challenger animus does,
* Great Teacher<ref>And there are spirits that track broader patterns and labels.  The teacher, the cook, the terrible child, the madman.  And sometimes those broader patterns and labels can make impressions deep enough that the ''animus'' will form, and that leads to the Great Teacher, who ''contrives'' to exist despite having no prior existence, arrives on a scene, imparts a great lesson onto those who need a teacher, and then moves on to other locations and venues, sustaining herself as a ''role''. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/04/12 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.a]]</ref> - Pedagogical savant
*Librarian - concerned with knowledge and words, particularly books, known for searching tomes out and matching people with the right book.<ref name="Lone">“Being an Animus can be a lonely existence.  For a Librarian Animus, life is defined by the search for books, visits to bookstores, meeting people in a moment and giving them that one perfect book.”<br><br>“I wonder how that is for someone like John,” Lucy said.  “Moments of violence?  It feels like he’s moving away from what he is whenever he’s being social and nice.”<br><br>“I don’t know,” Zed replied.  “That’s not me disagreeing, it’s me not knowing. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/24 Excerpt] from [[False Moves 12.9]]</ref> one example is [[Nina Lecerf]].
**An animus that collects comics<ref name=":1" />
*Master Craftsman - skilled at creating (possibly magic) items<ref name=":3" />
===Swordbearer===
Their purpose is to find heroes, equip them, and send them on their path.<ref name=":0"/> The exact way they do this of course varies; examples include being [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Myth/TheLadyOfTheLake the lady] in [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity the lake], the [[Wikipedia:Spear_carrier|Spear carrier]], or a [[w:c:thelaststarfighter:Centauri|truthful-conman]]<ref name=WD/> May have the ability to create artifacts from nothing, depending.<ref name=":3">In '''Chapter Two''' we discuss the Others for whom craftsmanship is tied to their being. The Dwarves of Deep Midgard, Artisan Fae of the Spring court, Master Craftsman Animuses, and some Peddlers (a broad category encapsulating your ‘magic shop’ Other, including those similar to the aforementioned Gnarling). We’ll discuss ways to shape the self and put yourself into your craftsmanship, including titles, signatures, and immersive crafting.<br><br>'''Chapter Three''' will cover Others who create the material from nothing, sometimes with its own properties. Greater powers such as gods may create something from nothing to bestow a gift on a chosen champion, some Animuses for whom giving powerful gifts is a common practice (swordbearers), some goblins I hesitate to attempt to label (the labels intentionally change), and those Others with access to a strong means of translating power between states. - excerpt from '''[[List of Books#Forged Hearts|Forged Hearts]], quoted in''' 4.5 Bonus Material: [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/03 Bedtime Reading]</ref><!--<ref name=WD/>May be a spear career, gift giver, or quest giver who knows-->

===Related Practices===
* [[Hyde]]: The Hyde-self can replicate the skill of an animus if that was part of its construction, it can also evolve it.
** [[Fraward]]: a hyde-self that's achieved independence and likely has more skills.
*[[Heroics]]: Worked with [[Named]] and [[Heroic Figures|Heroes]] who are arguably a combination of anima along with [[Spirit]] and [[Vestige]].