Editing List of Others (section)

==[[Ghend]]==
A Ghend is an Other, normally an [[Echo]], that has found a pearls of power or bright emotions in the [[Ruins]] and used it to gain power and clarity.<ref>“That’s a ghend,” Zed murmured.  “Random Other, usually an echo, finds things of power in the Ruins.  Pearls of power and bright emotion in the darkest muck… gets power, clarity, and meaning from tending to it like a flower in a place flowers shouldn’t grow.  Jessica mentioned it.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/05/25 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.z]]</ref><ref name=g2>The Ruins are a slice of the cosmos where the abstract is processed, reduced down to its constituent elements. When there is something abstract but, for lack of a better word, 'precious', the Ghend (drawn from proto-Indo-European 'to take, seize') are the covetous forces that seek to protect them.<br><br>Many Ghend start out as ghosts who are drawn to bright spirits, crystal clear echoes, and the tropes of the incarnate forces of the world. They keep these things, and may nurture them (feeding the living), build protective enclosures, or otherwise attend to them. Through this they draw power from them as a human might warm themselves by the fire. Often the 'fire' in this case will burn away the impurities and abstract, making Ghend gradually more clean, with less rough edges or 'echo' to their echoes. Many are naked (the clothes burned away) with very pale or dark skin with very little dirt or 'mess' on them, or have simple, clean clothing. They are moths that bear their own candleflames. Not especially powerful or influential, some may become merchants or thinking individuals, but they are mostly tracked by Ruins-delvers who know that where a Ghend is seen, their treasure is often hidden close by. - Wildbow on Discord</ref>