Editing Essentials (section)

==Contents==
* Chapter One, the introduction, gives an overview on [[Other]]s.<ref>''All of the most foolish and brutish Others have been captured, slain, consumed, driven off, or tricked away.  Recognize all Others for what they are, and know that they, by a process of elimination two thousand and six hundred years in the making, are cunning by nature, they are slave to those who are, or they were made to be cunning to better serve in their duties.  Wit is the greatest defense and the sharpest weapon, on battlefields such as these.''<br>
Essentials, chapter one, the introduction, on Others.  Laying down the ground rules, the most basic stuff we needed to know.  Others were liars.  - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2013/12/30 Excerpt] from [[Bonds 1.4]]</ref>
* Chapter Eight is titled ''Dangers a practitioner faces'', with short alphabetized entries covering various threats.<ref name="1.4">[[Bonds 1.4]]</ref>
* The full [[Awakening]] ritual, including diagrams and pronunciation guides.<ref name="1.3e1"> Read Essentials.  It sits on the book stand.  A novice’s guide to the most basic things, it outlines the steps to awakening yourself. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/category/story/arc-1-bonds/1-03/ excerpt] from [[Bonds 1.3]] </ref><ref name=":0" />
* Advice on how to control your [[Second Sight]].<ref>“The book says you need to learn to manage your extra senses.  If you don’t, they can swallow you up, and you won’t find your way back to reality.”<br><br>“I think I remember.”<br><br>“It suggests techniques, but you have to find what works for you. Closing your eyes, but not moving your eyelids. Or try refocusing them, and find that point you reach to where you’re trying to refocus your eyes but you’re doing something else. It becomes as natural as anything else about your body. Sometimes it’s hard, sometimes it’s easy.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/01/11 Excerpt] from [[Bonds 1.7]]</ref>
* The basic rules for what elements are used to [[bind]] different types of Other.<ref>Like in Essentials, malignant Others are going to react to purifying substances and patterns, like salt and running water.  Fresh wood against dead things.”<br>
“Iron against things that are born from nature,” I said. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/01/11 excerpt] from [[Bonds 1.7]]</ref><ref name="2.5e1" />
* Descriptions of common classifications of Other and their weaknesses, such as [[Faerie]]s and their vulnerability to crude materials.<ref name="2.5e1" />
* A vague reference to the [[Seal of Solomon]].<ref>[[Bonds 1.7]]</ref>
* The fact that some Practitioners would train their [[Second Sight]] to focus on particular things.<ref>With my newly acquired second sight, I could make out the spirits that infused everything.  Just as I might focus my eyes, I could focus this sight.  I could train it.  According to Essentials, some practitioners would train their sight to focus on things better suited to their talents.  Imagery would take hold. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Damages 2.1]]</ref>
* Descriptions of different schools of magic, such as [[Enchantress]]es.<ref>What were enchantresses?  Essentials had filled me in on the basics.  They would be focused on altering relationships.  Influencing people, influencing things.  An object could have its owner reassigned, so it might find its way into someone else’s hands, or be tethered to a location, so it would continually end up there.  On the higher end of things, people could be altered, with an enchantress literally stealing someone’s love.  On the very high end of things, familiars could be claimed by an enchantress that didn’t already have one, among other general bends and twists in more fundamental rules. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/01/18 Excerpt] from [[Damages 2.1]]</ref>
* Examples of [[Implement]]s and their potential meanings.<ref>“A watch.  It’s less direct than the objects Essentials gave as examples.  It doesn’t suggest anything particular.”<br><br>“It’s a… way of seeing how the world works on a fundamental level.  For someone who does the omen thing, I can sort of understand that.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/01/04 Excerpt] from [[Bonds 1.5]]</ref>
* An appendix at the back.<ref>Alexis had the book on protections in her lap, while Ty had the Essentials tome, his attention apparently on the very last few pages.  The appendix? - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/05/03 Excerpt] from [[Subordination 6.3]]</ref>