Editing Collector (section)

==Methodology==
Since the bulk of most magic items' cost is paid in their creation/acquisition, they can often use their powers without much cost in the moment. The biggest risk is losing their collected items.<ref>Collectors gather and maintain a list of trinkets or items of power that they can use on the fly.  While not necessarily without their risks, the prices paid for these powers is in the item’s finding and acquisition, not typically their use.  As such, a collector with a partially or fully complete collection is versatile and can use their available powers relatively freely.  At the same time, their power can be taken from them or lost. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Od3iu2TXe5r677wHEMCudG5hDUrlM6-E0kgiuvlkuuw/edit# Pact Dice: Collectors]</ref>

They generally focus on a specific type of item.<ref name=":0">Collectors either don’t practice or practice less than the traditional practitioner. Their primary focus is in collecting things of a particular type; such as strictly keys, things relating to water, or say, ghosts. The greater the unification of the collection, the greater the collector, with larger & more coherent collections opening up the ability of each item in the collection; their abilities as a ‘practitioner’ tend to involve being a toolbox, with items for various purposes. Their focus is often in establishing deals or conquering Others to establish a steady supply of new items. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X7moMQUSO72u1Hkswewy15YqF8b-c1ocpxAXiLe8WRQ/edit Pact Dice: The Practices - Wbow Version]</ref> Collectors will often combine their items into a diagram, multiplying their power as their collection grows more complete.<ref>Items are typically placed in vaults, treasure rooms, or are worn in specific places, where they form a kind of diagram; bigger, more powerful, and more accurate diagrams instill a greater overall power and improve the collection as a whole.  The items may then be taken with, though always with the knowledge they are safer in the vault than in the field.<br><br>The chase for items may bring one collector into conflict with another, or into conflict with practitioners of other types, who may be able to use their items for their own practice.  As individuals get closer to a complete collection, other forces may start taking an interest.  And should they complete a collection, some say a Collector may be akin to a deity.  - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Od3iu2TXe5r677wHEMCudG5hDUrlM6-E0kgiuvlkuuw/edit# Pact Dice: Collectors]</ref><ref>Initial practices will let the practitioner start to hunt down more, similar items.  How a practitioner hunts may differ wildly…<br>[...]<br>The initial goal is likely to be the creation of a triad - arguably the most basic set a Collector could make.  They need to get the items and then they’ll draw a diagram and place the items within when the items aren’t on the practitioner’s person.  This creates a ‘Collection’ - a grouping of items, and gives the practitioner greater ownership and connection to the items.  If they then make a ‘set’ within that collection, a streak, straight, flush, four of a kind, or whatever else, the set items improve and the entire collection gets a benefit.<br>
Once a collection is formed, even a minor triad, the practitioner gains increased affinity for the collection and the items in that collection - a better ability to find the items, use them, and unlock their potential.  - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Od3iu2TXe5r677wHEMCudG5hDUrlM6-E0kgiuvlkuuw/edit# Pact Dice: Collectors]</ref><ref>The goal of practitioners trying to complete a true collection is typically to collect a large set of grails, where they are collecting ‘the’ items under a category.  One couldn’t have a sword collection without Excalibur, for example.  These could be Lost items, or Swords, Cups, or Aztec Treasures, to suggest categories.  An example of what one might strive for: items of a suitable category, of power level 1 through 13, with all seven colors represented, as well as treasures representing the off-set colors white, black, gold, silver, colorless, and multicolor, all grails.<br>
The more grail items one has, the more they’ll find themselves wrapped up with Keepers and rival collectors, but they also gain a lot of power, and more overall claim to the rest of the set.  - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Od3iu2TXe5r677wHEMCudG5hDUrlM6-E0kgiuvlkuuw/edit# Pact Dice: Collectors]</ref><ref name="6.1C">“Kass picked up a family practice,” Yadira said, since Kass and Raquel weren’t volunteering anything.  “Collectors pick up magic items and arrange them in tableaus and diagrams, transfer power between them.  But it’s very cutthroat.  A lot of the time, if you need something to complete a set, you have to take it from someone else.  Without getting into details [...] these two became unlikely friends.”<br>[...]<br> I awoke at ten, spent a year with family, got training with him for a year after.  Families as big as mine find it useful to have at least one person with the know-how for magic item handling in-house.  - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/27 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.1]]</ref> These will usually be contained in dedicated rooms but more mobile arrangements are possible.<ref>'''4Jerry''': Ah<br>So do all collectors need a "room" for their collection, or is it just continuing the example?<br><br>'''Wildbow''':Rooms make sense.  I can think of vague examples in media (a Japanese horror anime with a name that escapes me) of someone having a case they carry with them. - [https://www.irccloud.com/pastebin/2LFFg3o7/ Chat archived from IRC]</ref>

Large families will usually have one member dedicated to looking after their accumulated items, not needing to tap an expert.<ref name="6.1C"/>

One notable ritual employed by more powerful Collectors (and some related Practitioners, such as some [[Technomancer]]s) is the "[[Alcazar]]"; which turns an item into an expansive [[realm]] which can be entered, explored & examined.

The Identification of items is a major part of a collectors work,<ref>
 - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/miuzis/_/gt7cylu Collector Diagram]</ref> each family and even individual will have their [[Sequestration|private means]] of carrying this out.<ref>“Every collector will use a different system but they’ll refer to things like this or item ‘colors’ as a shorthand among other collectors, and they like numbering items because numbers have power and make sorting out items really easy.  Some use tarot or card suits, others use other ways of measuring.  However you organize, there’s power in the organization.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/03/25/ Magic Item Identification]</ref>