Editing Hangmaiden (section)

==Abilities==
Their powers and abilities, aside from transformation, vary both between forms and between individuals.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":0" /> In general, their powers play into relationships, [[connections]], and/or [[Fate]]<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> and often involve silk or hair.<ref>Many of the abilities or techniques employed will involve items bound in silk, or hair or silk worked into belongings. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/13PQED3MXbPT1aM_zDpBAcNU3tyDME18tgieUlyzlW4M/edit# Bestiary: Hangmaidens]</ref>

In the course of entrapping their victim, they will repeatedly expose them to fearful "omens" - strange, inexplicable phenomena or hints. Each omen dismissed serves to strengthen their hold.<ref>“And signs, I’d guess?” Luisa asked.<br><br>Alexander nodded.  “Every hint she can give you without you pulling away is another tether, tying you to the fate she wants to hand you.  Dreams about being bound, for example.  Or they’ll even unnerve or reveal glimpses of their true self to neighbors, family, and friends, with the intent that you’ll ignore those hints and be drawn deeper into it.  In the end, she reveals her third form, and it’s half-woman, half-spider, and you look around, realize you haven’t eaten in five days, you’re weak, and you couldn’t go in your kitchen if you did have the strength, because your apartment is filled with dense webs and small biting spiders.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/01/05/gone-ahead-7-x/ excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.x]]</ref><ref name=":4" /> Although they can be fearful combatants in their monstrous form, the final kill is usually by strangulation, being kept bound and slowly eaten, or similar means that play into the motif.<ref>The fight is usually violent, and is often a prolonged and losing contest of strength against a predator much more able than the victim.  Though victims may be clawed or speared with spider legs longer than a man is tall, victims are always killed by strangulation, by being bound in silk like razor wire and left to die slowly, or carted into the spirit world and kept in bondage for a long time while being eaten piecemeal over the course of months. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/13PQED3MXbPT1aM_zDpBAcNU3tyDME18tgieUlyzlW4M/edit# Bestiary: Hangmaidens]</ref>

===Weaknesses ===
Hangmaidens may be bound using their own omens, blades, feathers,  bird feet, or fire.<ref>Once they start to spin a web around a potential feeding, the omens and items they use can be targeted, collected, and turned against them.  As they catch on that their workings are being undone, they tend to turn aggressive and set traps against their binder.  Blades, feathers, and/or bird feet are common binding elements for circles, wards, and barriers, though fire will do in a pinch. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/13PQED3MXbPT1aM_zDpBAcNU3tyDME18tgieUlyzlW4M Bestiary: Hangmaidens]</ref>