Editing Oddfolk (section)

==Abilities==
They can be thought to have all the abilities of the human-animal, cunning strength coordination and similar. With the addition of something else that is a product of their origin which may mean [[magic]] of their own or abilities that resemble certain types of [[Aware]] or even [[Other]]s of some specific category.<ref name=":2">“Twist bloodlines enough, and you get subhumans. I’ve met three of these groups. A little island close to Greenland, the population center small. Toothless, wide-eyed devout worshipers of an opportunist Other they were unwittingly elevating to godhood. This is remarkably common, mind. They are often [[Aware]], which can be fascinating, and they may resemble early practitioners. In this case, it was early worship. [...] The second was a family living in a dilapidated tenement in Europe. Afraid of the outside world, they inbred, moved in and out of various apartments, and subsisted on rats, their sickly, and their rooftop and balcony gardens. Their language had mutated as much as their features- all of them appeared eerily similar, chinless, wide-hipped, and small-eyed, their language a nonsense mishmash of nouns. Civilization found its way to them, they were split up and given care, their existence was hidden by practitioners and a city council that had ignored too many warnings about their existence. I was invited to help at a late stage, but damage had been done, their world unraveled as they were taken from one another, and they died soon after they were separated. [...] The third, I won’t elaborate much on. A group of miners found something dangerous underground. Fossils relating to practices we do not teach about at the [[Blue Heron Institute]]. They coveted them, they occupied the mine and its immediate area, contrived to hide it, and invited families to come to them. They never left. They were twisted by those fossils and by their bloodlines. The reality is that few categories we give Others are tidy. Knotted-up societies do not fit among those few. Whatever drives the knot tends to loom large and influence them. You almost never get a subhuman that is only subhuman.”
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 - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/07 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.4]]</ref> 
 
There are some 'paragon's among them that may have gifts of some kind and then there are those who can operate among humans.<ref name=":3"/><ref name=hero>Where it got fascinating was that in this tangled tableau, there were patterns to be pulled out.  Most members of the ‘tribe’ had fairly severe mental and physical disabilities, but in any Lost Tribe, there were individuals who stood out: monstrously strong, quick, or tough.  The living Warzenberg he had met while backpacking around Europe had been a woman with some physical deformities and partial blindness, but some ability to see the future.  She had started him on this puzzle, when she had casually mentioned she was the eldest daughter of the eldest daughter of the eldest daughter, going back five generations.  The diagramed family tree he had back in his office tracked eldest sons of eldest sons and eldest daughters of eldest daughters.  It also tracked the other ‘rule’ he’d ferreted out, that those with mothers that died in the process of giving birth to them were more intelligent.<br><br>By his best estimation, there were five rules, two he knew and three he didn’t, and whenever someone was born in such a way that a rule applied, that individual was exceptional in some way.  When more rules applied, as they probably had for Gisela, the individual was that much greater.  It was a whole field of practice, and expert Historical practitioners knew that these kinds of patterns came up in any prominent family, ''usually'' because someone in the history had been great or terrible enough to make a mark on history and alter the tapestry that followed.  Finding these histories and tracing family trees to find heroes was a whole ''thing'', wrestling for control over heroic spirits by having a more complete history than the next family. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bPsZs1iPqHAcsJr4N7UgW-W7Ne4OCTtUjfvcxIoBmdI/edit#heading=h.7onrtmkk8mas Excerpt] from [[Poke 3]]</ref>

When they get enough Other-trappings they can be [[summon]]ed, though if they are near enough just talking to them and asking for help might have a similar effect.<ref name=sof/> They are also some of the few Others that can actually have children with humans.<ref name=GP4>“But you made a life with [Gisela].  You did a lot of shit with her.  The blind bitch had a garden at your old place and you watered her fucking ugly plants.  You traveled around.  You did stuff with her you can never do with me because she was ''human'' ''enough''.  You got engaged to the twit.  Gave her a nice ring even though she couldn’t even see it.  Dumbass.” - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bPsZs1iPqHAcsJr4N7UgW-W7Ne4OCTtUjfvcxIoBmdI/edit#heading=h.vfbm49jh9pqb Excerpt] from [[Poke 4]]</ref>

Can be familiars as can almost anything.<!--Mention relation example of being Aware possible what happens to a group of Aware over time-->
===Weaknesses===
As visceral people they can be bound by chains. Presumably human "enough" to count in various rapacious rituals. It's a coin toss whether a given Oddfolk can pass among innocents.<ref name=pd>The dominant denizens of a knotted place are often called Oddfolk or Offspring, though older texts call them Subhuman.  They are often but not always the cannibal rednecks with birth defects - they could just as easily be inbred nobles in a long lost castle or people trapped underground that quickly adapted to not need or have eyes.<br>[...]<br>'''Fitting In:'''[...]Oddfolk come closer to a fifty-fifty or have even less than that who can pass, with the rest deformed or exaggerated. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LZFjFfwxLK1UWS59EY5js8ORYAlQLvLzBmkcqdpTp_0#heading=h.gd7vmmc5gnxw PACT DICE:] Knots</ref>