Editing List of Others (section)

==Gnarled==
<blockquote>''Main article: [[Gnarled]]''</blockquote>
Wooden Fae-adjacent beings that make and sell magic items,<ref>“Dolls?  A little helper?” a woman made of what looked like tree knots and only tree knots asked.  Fine children’s dolls sat on the arrangement of shelves in front of her, two of them raising hands to wave at Cheryl.  Cheryl waved back at one. - [[Pâté (story)|Pâté]]</ref> which can be [[curse]]d.<ref>Lastly, fairy and Fae markets and crossroads are a common venue to find magic items for sale, some Others make and sell them as their primary stock and trade, such as Gnarled, who are twisted wooden fae-adjacent craftsmen and craftwomen, or fleshmonglers, who turn flesh and meat into objects in the Warrens field of practice, sometimes powerful ones.  Among these, one must be aware, are rapacious Others, including Peddlers (see Rapacious, above), who work through these systems to put cursed or otherwise problematic items out into the world.  Caveat emptor.  - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LZFjFfwxLK1UWS59EY5js8ORYAlQLvLzBmkcqdpTp_0/edit#heading=h.7ydr4e87chyt PACT DICE: Magic Item]</ref> Tess Hager's mother was enslaved to one, and described the being pajoritivly as 'little more than a walking curse'.<ref>My mother was traded to a Gnarling as a slave to make things for sale, in a wayside realm where Others hid, somewhere between the Faerie and Earth.  She created toys and trinkets, enchanting them, and the Other would curse them, before selling them to the unwitting. The curses would do their work, upending lives and casting people to long torments, collect the misery, and make their way back to the Gnarling’s hands.<br>[...]<br>It would be another ten years before she told him that her Gnarling ‘mother’ had thrashed her violently with [[holly]] branches after every one of his visits, for wasting the resources and doing work so poor it wouldn’t hold a curse.<br>[...]<br> And that Faerie-cousin of a thing, already little more than a walking curse, was done and undone three times over by each curse in turn, until she was unmade. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/4-5-spoilers-bedtime-reading/ Excerpt] from [[Bedtime Reading]]</ref>