Editing Visceral Knot (section)

== Common Properties ==
Knotted things tend to be diverted away from "normal", [[Innocent]] society, both by the [[karmic]] rules protecting Innocent set in place by the [[Seal of Solomon]], and because the normal flows of [[spirits]] will tend to move around them to avoid their influence.<ref>This power has a weight but it’s not a physical, real-in-our-world type of weight. It’s about being able to make the rules or influence things. If the spirits pay a lot of attention to you then you can say ‘screw you mother Nature, I’m going to do my thing’ and she’ll say okay, sure. The rules start bending, the spirits start doing the equivalent of walking on the other side of the street instead of messing with you, and the ground basically dips under the weight of your ovaries/cohones. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/15/12-7-spoilers-knots-depressions/ Bonus: Knots & Depressions]</ref> Because there are limited spaces and times where Innocents aren't present, this often leads to them clustering together and bumping into each other.<ref>Because there’s a narrow band of places that fit the bill of being remote enough but not too distant from humans + human sentiment, they tend to cluster. This can give us Founder-inhabited island chains where each island has a rule, or areas with rules that overlap. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/15/12-7-spoilers-knots-depressions/ Bonus: Knots & Depressions]</ref>

Things generally need to be somewhat isolated from the outside world to become Knotted, as the outside infuences would otherwise correct the knot and tie things down.<ref name=":0">“Visceral Knots,” Bristow spoke.  “Visceral, meaning our material practices, tangible, rooted in our world, in solid things, in meat, in stone, soil, nature, and construction.  Items, men, and things like men are visceral.  Bogeymen, goblins.  If it bleeds, it is often in this category.  You, student, are visceral. [...] The Knot, then, is what happens when this visceral thing or process is twisted.  When incarnations such as time, death, violence, or dream run through the visceral, they have processes.  Twist the process in an unnatural way, and you twist that which is solid.  When you twist it enough, you get the Knots.  These can be people, Others, places, and things.  Isolation from the rest of the world is often a prerequisite, or the things that would knot them would be tied down by outside connections.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/07/cutting-class-6-4/ excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.4]]</ref> There also generally needs to be some external magical force allowing things to grow twisted without simply collapsing, which will influence the way the knot develops.<ref>The reality is that [[Classification|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. [...] Again, whatever forces create the isolation needed for these things to happen without self-correcting, they will taint this rapid or distorted evolution.  We rarely find feral variants on humanity who aren’t touched by other categories or other ways of becoming Other. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/07/cutting-class-6-4/ excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.4]]</ref>