Editing Claim (section)

== Effects ==
Things tend to find their way to the person with the most claim to them.<ref name=":1" /> The strong claim over an [[Implement]] causes it to find its way back to its owner. Claim over a person will cause them to find reasons to stay with you.<ref name=":0" />

Claim also influences the effectiveness of [[magic]]. Claim over one's body is important in resisting [[possession]] or similar.<ref name=":6"/><ref name=":0" /><ref>I basically crawled on my belly through shallow ruins for months to get back to my body.  Found it occupied.  Had to evict the tenant.  Thankfully, only an echo.  ''Thankfully'', I had more claim, I just needed one victory, while she had to fend me off every time- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/27/let-slip-20-b/ Exceprt] from [[Let Slip 20.b]]</ref> Claim over a bound [[Other]] can make it difficult for magic to summon it.<ref name=":2">“If he’s claimed by another, a necromancer or an enemy of yours, Mrs. Casabien, Eloise will handle that as well.  If you’d attended this afternoon’s class on claim-”<br><br>“I didn’t fall asleep until six in the morning.  I thought I should sleep if I could and be sharp,” Jessica said.  “I slept through it.”<br><br>“Not to worry,” Alexander said.  “If you’d attended you’d know what I mean when I say Eloise will use this ritual to make a claim that is almost certainly stronger than what the person holding onto him is using.”  - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/10 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.5]]</ref> The [[Demesne]] ritual generally requires an effective claim to the space it is to be performed in (i.e. owning it.)<ref name=":3">“I was going to ask about the demesne.”<br><br>“What about it?”<br><br>“Any objections?  And do you know of any spaces that are in Kennet, but not already owned?”<br><br>“In the modern world, that gets tricky,” Matthew said.  “If it’s not the province of the city, it’s often Parks Canada.  That’s a hard one.  Normally a practitioner gets around it by owning the space they claim.”<br><br>“I don’t think we’d want to use our parents’ homes.”<br><br>“You’d need the permission of your parents, because their right to the space exceeds yours.”<br>[...]<br>“A lot depends on what we could get, in the way of property the government doesn’t have a claim to,” Matthew said. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/14 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.6]]</ref><ref>
:What if it is in a high rise which gets demolished? Would fate prevent the demolishment of the building?<br>
If you have a demesnes you generally want to actually have a claim to the territory. You don't claim a demesnes in an apartment high rise you don't own, because that leaves you without protections and generally fucks you when you get evicted and the spirits go, "Whelp, yeah, sucks, but poof, demesnes disintegrates, bye." Most rituals are just going to require ownership of the place (or for the place to be sufficiently neutral) as a matter of how they're enacted.<br><br>Outside of the mundane world, if you own the space, have claim to it, and everything else, it's generally pretty darn hard to actually demolish. It's an extension of the practitioner and it's a rare, rare case where you'll actually be able to do substantial damage to the demesnes without also defeating the practitioner who lays claim to it... and once you pick that fight you're fighting a practitioner on their home turf. Explosives aren't liable to work right, fire doesn't kindle, flooding does minimal damage, holes in walls self-repair, yadda yadda, and while you're trying to knock down a building that's resisting the effort, the practitioner gets a heads up and then suddenly appears behind you, having arrived faster than they should've. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/6kpxxn/_/djnxlzk Comment by Wildbow] on Reddit</ref><ref>Once it’s taken, it’s taken, right?  You can’t have something for your demesnes if someone else has already claimed that ground. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/02/18 Excerpt] from [[Breach 3.2]]</ref> Magics that allow one to extend some of your Demesne outward are generally dependent on no other claim being present to oppose them.<ref name=":5">In any event, when these effects take hold, the claim one has over an area is exceedingly important.  Something as simple as an innocent with a deed to the property being impacted is a barrier to entry.  Nature has its own claimants, in beast and in the Others that may reside there.  Many of these effects, additional features of the Demesne, and the routes that may open up are often going to be rooted in lost, forgotten, and abandoned areas.  The nomad may well thread their way through the part of town where houses aren’t occupied and don’t sell, enter their Demesne, and then exit to a place so inhospitable that even the animals don’t dwell there. - excerpt from [[List of Books#Demesnes|Demesnes]], quoted in [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/12 Bonus Material: Demesnes Text]</ref><ref>Forced to deal with the problem, he deals with the ghouls as best as he can, gaining some added protections as he brings the fight closer to his Demesne, as its Sanctuary extends out for him.  This protection only lasts as long as a greater Self, power, or claim to the area doesn’t override it, and the arrival of the original ghoul does so.  - excerpt from [[List of Books#Demesnes|Demesnes]], quoted in [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/12 Bonus Material: Demesnes Text]</ref><ref>His Demesne makes his movements more fluid and flexible; he has a means of accessing it, and with the right key and the right knock, any door without an active claim on it that isn’t being watched can be an entrypoint to his place of power, or an egress.  - excerpt from [[List of Books#Demesnes|Demesnes]], quoted in [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/12 Bonus Material: Demesnes Text]</ref>