Editing Law Magus (section)

=== Methodology ===
These Practitioners are [[Wikipedia:Rules lawyer|Rules lawyering]] reality. If you want to know someone who knows the ins and outs of [[Karma]] find a Law Magus. Firm declarations, oaths, amnesties, pardons and permissions are used and abused by a Law Magi to accumulate Karma, turn the laws of Karma against their enemies, and become institutions with a Law unto themselves.<ref name=enS/>[[Wikipedia:Law of the jungle|Law of the jungle]] for example is a natural law distinct from any human conception of justice or murder. Thus do many laws of magic ignore modern laws.<ref>The practice of law magic is based on working with karma and the base expectations of the universe. If Practice is about [[power]], [[pattern]], and [[establishment]], law magic is heavily based on establishment. Law practitioners focus on the underlying systems of the 'ground level' of the universe and figure out the rules, loopholes, and protections therein. The means by witch[sic] one gets ahead using Law as a practice is in understanding the rules of [[karma]] to the point of being able to build cases, call on provisions, and otherwise abuse loopholes in ways that benefit the user.<br><br>"Law" is easy to confuse with justice or the general concept of doing the right thing, but in the same sense that Karma is about Right and Wrong in a cosmic sense, morally positive actions are not necessarily intertwined in the practice of Law. The universe likes certain establishments like Truth, but other things can play into this: sanctuaries, [[labels]], rules of order for things like warfare or duels, or declarations that establish your future position clearly.
Rituals include forcing opposition to have to deal with you last, if there are other valid targets on the battlefield, gaining karma over time while wounding that of opposition, or spending excess karma in a large ritual to influence the outcome of a major event. Lesser practices include making hurting a specific target impose a karmic penalty, or creating a sanctuary. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/lv9ijy/_/gpb0t7n Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> Some of the Rituals they undertake rearrange the order of a conflict, making it harder to happen or for them to be seen as the victimized and receiving Karma for it.<ref name=blurb2>
:Law practitioners focus on the underlying systems of the 'ground level' of the universe and figure out the rules, loopholes, and protections therein. This is where you deal with karma and ensure you're in the clear there, periodically turning an opponent's karma around on them. Firm declarations, oaths, amnesties, pardons and permissions. Rituals could include forcing opposition to have to deal with you last, if there are other valid targets on the battlefield, gaining karma over time while wounding that of opposition, or spending excess karma in a large ritual to influence the outcome of a major event. Lesser practices include making hurting a specific target impose a karmic penalty, or creating a sanctuary.
:'''Think:''' Being a (rules)lawyer. Building a case, calling on provisions, knowing loopholes and getting to where you can be the exception to certain rules. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/lv9ijy/_/gpb0t7n Trying to write law magic, tips appreciated]</ref> Given their ties into foundational elements of Practice they have some overlap with [[Incarnate]] practitioners,<ref name="phe1">'''Edited to add:''' Because of the heavy lean on '[[establishment]]', you may draw comparisons to collectors or one certain 'collector' from Pale (establishing a collection - kind of like what Verity arranged), and to the pillars of humanity: Death, Fate, etc (which may fall closer to Theobald). It'd be okay to have a Law Mage touch on that sort of stuff. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/lv9ijy/_/gpb0t7n Trying to write law magic, tips appreciated]</ref> as they deal with the [[Pillars of Human Existence]]<ref name="phe1"/><ref>'''Law''' practitioners focus on the underlying systems of the 'ground level' of the universe and figure out the rules, loopholes, and protections therein. This is where you deal with karma and ensure you're in the clear there, periodically turning an opponent's karma around on them. Firm declarations, oaths, amnesties, pardons and permissions. Rituals could include forcing opposition to have to deal with you last, if there are other valid targets on the battlefield, gaining karma over time while wounding that of opposition, or spending excess karma in a large ritual to influence the outcome of a major event. Lesser practices include making hurting a specific target impose a karmic penalty, or creating a sanctuary.<br><br>Think: Being a (rules)lawyer. Building a case, calling on provisions, knowing loopholes and getting to where you can be the exception to certain rules. - [https://redd.it/j3xqzm Wildbow on Reddit]</ref> as well as knowing how to interact with any relevant [[Greater Powers]].<ref name=blurb1/>

As the rules are something that all practitioners agreed to in their [[Awakening]] and what [[other]]s deal with under the [[Seal of Solomon]] invoking these laws is essentially invoking binding.<ref>This was something she’d found out about in the Law texts.  Law was a kind of binding.  Attention to karma.  Protections.  Lots of early beginner practices had to do with truces.  Stalling, postponement.  A good Law practitioner could stall long enough to gather karma and turn the odds.  It was a delicate, careful game, that required careful and detailed knowledge. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/06/28 Excerpt] from [[Crossed with Silver 19.10]]</ref>